The Primary Archetypes describe the central ways that humanity wakes up or falls asleep to itself. Whether you’re a Primary or Hexad type, you can learn to embody and integrate these core energies to catalyze your growth and have greater authenticity in your relationships with others.
When you join this program, you’ll receive lifetime access to a rich curriculum of cognitive teachings and embodied experiences, including meditation, breathwork, creative expression, shadow work, music, and more.
Program tuition includes: 15 hours of recorded teachings • over 25 guided creative and experiential practices • powerful and attuned work with the emotions of each center as portals to Essence • monthly live Integration Sessions • a community learning platform.
Change the Way You Experience Yourself and Others
A Nine-Module Self-Study Program for all Enneagram Types
“‘Emerging Through the Triangle’ is a unique and exceptional experience – not just another programme…Nothing compares to the gem that Julie has created.”
– Rudy Kindts, Type 3
“Your course changed my life-and I continue to revisit the recordings over and over. You truly are a master of the art of The Enneagram.”
– Pat Cameron, Type 9
“Perhaps my most favorite part of the course was your invitation to explore the experiential wisdom of the Enneagram. You awakened my creativity while immersing me in profound shifts of perception.”
– Beth Arnold, Type 6
A Unique Immersion into the Transmission of the Triangle
The Triangle holds the core energies of Points 3, 6, and 9, and is an emergent field that creates new manifestation through the Law of Three.
In this program, the Primary Types (Types 3, 6, and 9) will learn how to recognize and integrate aspects of themselves from all three points rather than just endlessly circling around the fixated qualities of each type.
If you are a Hexad Type — and especially if you are a practitioner who uses the Enneagram in your work — this program will help you to understand how the dynamics of the triangle work within yourself and others, so that you can companion these energies with skill and grace. You’ll have direct experiences of your Primary Type wing (and perhaps trifix), and gain a deeper capacity to meet your Primary Type family, friends, colleagues, and clients.
Throughout the multi-dimensional curriculum of Emerging Through the Triangle, you’ll practice widening your ability to be with more of who you are so that you can stop using your energy to defend against yourself,.
You’ll land in a fuller expression of your unique life force — alive in the body that you’ve been given as your home in this world, with a heart that let its authentic light shine through, and awake and supported, confident and ready to meet life as it is.
Studying and practicing with the Triangle opens you to emerging into the next manifestation of your unique being within the field of the collective, regardless of your dominant Enneagram point.
“…I only wish this program would have been available much earlier on in my study of the Enneagram.…As a Type 1 spiritual director with a strong 9 wing, and one who companions many type 9s and 6s, I can attest to the practical value of what Julie has to offer and the quality of her expertise in delivering the material.”
-MJ Kistler, Type 1
About The Primary Types (3, 6, and 9)
People whose dominant point is at 3, 6, or 9 carry the core wounds and gifts of the collective in addition to their personal gifts and challenges. As such, their initial development can be slower as they work to metabolize the weight of the collective shell.
This challenge also comes with a gift and the potential for meaningful influence, because the awakening of these types can have a profound effect on the awakening of the collective. They are truly powerful participants in the shaping of reality.
If you’re a Hexad type, one of your wings is on the triangle. Each of us is connected to these core energies regardless of dominant type.
“Leading from Point 9, I have often felt stuck in those structures and mechanisms, wanting to move forward but not knowing what that would look – or feel – like. The ideas and experiences of this program reveal the inherent movement around the three points of the Triangle. I may have felt stuck, but looking more closely I can now see elements of Point 3 and Point 6 active and influencing my perceptions and behavior. My personality structure isn’t as much of a prison as I thought. There’s a dynamism around the Triangle. With this recognition I feel some space, for curiosity and exploration. This spaciousness is a real gift, for those leading from Point 9, or any other Point.“
– Rose Costello, Type 9
What You Will Receive
- A robust curriculum (15 hours of recorded teachings) that calls upon and synthesizes a variety of Enneagram wisdom teachings, including those from Riso/Hudson, Almaas, and Maitri
- Over 25 creative and experiential practices drawn from somatics, the arts, nature, and breath — practices that you will want to revisit again and again
- Powerful and attuned work with the emotions of each center — Anger, Grief, and Fear — as portals to Essence
- A well-guided self-study program, fully indexed so that you can find what you’re looking for!
- PLUS monthly live integration sessions (optional) on Zoom
- PLUS a private Mighty Networks group where you can share, ask questions, and find study companions
Emerging Through the Triangle weaves a full body-heart-mind-spirit approach to emergence that honors and moves beyond conceptual understanding of the Enneagram. This multi-dimensional, integrative approach is what allows your development to become sustainable.
“When I now enter into meditation, I deliberately “go online” with all three centers, slowing down my awareness and increasing the felt experience of energy dropping into my feet-and-seat, then feeling my heart soften and expand, then my head center fill with spaciousness. The three-centered awareness feels like a harmonic chord. Seated as I am at Point 3, I have a new sense of the Point 6 courage and trust, and a deeper gratitude for my embodied self (which feels like a healing).
All of which is to say: thank you for your guidance through the profound meditations that have carried me into and through the portal to Essence and Presence.”
-Anne Bartlett, Type 3
“Julie Harris is an extraordinary teacher. She is wise, approachable, and adroit at catering to all learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic) so that everyone hears her in their own “language”.
While most teaching is left-brained, Julie engages both brain hemispheres. She is pedagogically “multilingual”. When explaining abstract / esoteric concepts, she speaks the language of nature, symbol, metaphor, and poetry. The result is delightful. The body senses the concept in a felt way; the head grasps the idea; and the heart feels fed. Julie teaches in a way that makes difficult concepts digestible and easy to assimilate. It is the gift of a true teacher.”
Cori Skye Sanders, Type 9
Nine Modules That Open You to Wholeness and Emergence in Self and With Others
Program Curriculum
The curriculum for this program is designed to evoke the spiraling nature of inner work.
As we bring our consciousness to a particular aspect of our experience, we begin to see it more clearly, discerning what is essential within us and what arises from habitual patterning. The next time we encounter that aspect, we engage at a deeper level.
The Rhythm of the Work: Each module contains two classes, The first class is an experiential dive into the module theme, and the second class adds the theoretical understanding that will help you to cognitively integrate your experience. Modules Five and Nine are designed to provide deeper integration through all three centers.
This clip explains why the program is designed with this unique rhythm. Although I refer to Saturday and Wednesday (the days when I taught the program live), this self-study offering allows you to find your own timing in working with the material.
The Nine Modules are pre-recorded and posted in a private Mighty Networks community for unlimited review and self-pacing as desired.
Monthly Live Integration Sessions (optional) are open to all Emerging Through the Triangle alumni and new registrants to enable group practice and provide opportunities for Q+A.
Module One: Opening to The Transmission of the Triangle
This first module will ground you in the dynamics of the Triangle and the process of inner work.
You’ll learn:
- The key Enneagram distinctions that are fundamental to this exploration
- How to assess your current relationship with each of the three points of the triangle
- How to work toward inner Freedom through the spiraling nature of the developmental process
- How to support and resource yourself through all three centers during this program
Module Two: Being in the Belly
Most people have not fully experienced what it’s like to be seated in the body, even if they are athletic or have engaged in yoga or mindfulness practice. When we land in this deep belly contact, we have a real foundation from which to meet the world.
This exploration includes different ways of contacting the intelligence of the belly, and sensing how the Nine in us experiences life from either a contracted or essential state.
Module Three: Radiant Heart
The patterning of Three, Six, and Nine is so skilled at intuiting what others value that the authentic wishes of the heart become obscured. Taking the risk to fully plumb the depths of my own heart’s desire allows me to discover what truly matters to me, not just what seems doable, practical, accepted, applauded, or safe.
This module opens a fuller capacity of the heart through listening, tender attention, and deep rest. We will feel how the Three lives in us in either a contracted or essential state.
Module Four: The Guidance of Imaginal Mind
The Six-fixated mind gets caught in trying to “figure out” what will help it feel safe and certain about moving through the world amidst an overwhelming set of inputs and choices. Attention gets magnetized to finding a person or system who is a reliable source of information, rather than tuning in to the resonance of Inner Guidance — a direct knowing of what rings true.
The awake mind knows that Guidance is available in every moment, if it allows itself to relax into the self-organizing nature of consciousness. Explore how to lean into the freshness and creative potential of this moment and the myriad of ways that Guidance wishes to speak through us. Discover how the Six in us approaches life from a contracted or essential state.
Module Five: First Integration
In this first integration module, see what begins to emerge when you consciously presence what we’ve experienced through the three centers.
We’ll also deepen into the Law of Three, a key aspect of the Triangle that governs how new forms are manifested in the world.
Module Six: Deeper Into the Body
The Nine in us generally represses our anger until it impulsively explodes and is discharged. When caught in this pattern, Nines are out of contact with their essential capacity to stay engaged with whatever life presents.
What if consciously experiencing anger — not repressing or catharting — gives us the fuel to stay on the pulse of what is central to us? Anger is one path into the deep well of physical energy that animates us, and helps us to sense how we can set meaningful intentions and boundaries on behalf of what matters.
Module Seven: Deeper Into the Heart
This module guides us through the portal of grief, an essential and powerful human emotion that is best tended to in community. The Three in us often saves her experience of these deepest emotions for when she is alone.
When we welcome grief together, it warms us and has space to move. We learn that it’s not just “my” grief, but “our” grief — the grief of being human. Being authentically human together dissolves our false images and brings us into deep relatedness with ourselves and others. Grief is inextricably tied to our feelings of love, and so the sacred work of grief is also the work of honoring the preciousness of life.
Module Eight: Deeper Into the Mind
Driving the Six pattern in us is not just fear itself, but the fear of being afraid. This fear of fear keeps us paralyzed, small, hypervigilant, reactive, and doubting our capacity to meet life as it is.
What happens when we let ourselves settle and see what’s inside our habitual pattern of fear? Learning to be more graceful with our experience of fear and anxiety creates the space and stillness for something new to arise.
Module Nine: Second Integration
In this second integration module, we’ll explore how the view has changed from where we started.
This live experience of the spiraling journey will give us a taste of how consciousness emerges over time.
FAQ
Why focus on the Primary Types?
Occupying any of the triangle points comes with a big dose of flexibility and adaptability that can be a beautiful Essential expression or an overly accommodating structure that prevents deep contact with one’s personal core and true desires. Although everyone struggles to be in contact with Essence, the journey of the Primary Types is one that deserves more focus and attention. Helping people on the triangle be grounded, centered, and awake to themselves is an important way to liberate personal and collective energy.
The Primary Archetypes also describe the central ways that humanity wakes up (is oriented from Essential Value, Inner Guidance, and Dynamic Wholeness) or falls asleep to itself (forgetting I’m part of the whole; panicked in polarity; asserting myself as a separate doer). These three points in the Enneagram symbol comprise a field that can be woven together consciously to manifest new individual and shared arisings through the Law of Three.
If you’re a Hexad type, this program will help you to encounter a more precise and expansive experience of how these core energies live within you, perhaps through a wing or trifix, as well as gain a deeper understanding of your Primary Type family, friends, colleagues, and clients.
Does my dominant point need to be Three, Six, or Nine to participate in this program?
No — both Triangle and Hexad types will benefit from this exploration.
Why is it important to work with Anger, Grief, and Fear?
Anger, Grief (+ Shame), and Fear are portals to the flow of our Essential nature. In this program, we learn to BE with these feelings rather than draining our energy through judgment, suppression, or discharge.
I’ve spent the past five years or so being curious about how to approach these emotions in life-affirming ways. When we can do this, we experience ourselves more fully and have more discernment about how to receive the intelligence of feelings.
I don’t see myself as a creative person, or, I don’t have much experience working with the body. Is this program for me?
Yes! Being consciously human is a creative act. It is lovely to be skilled in the arts or with the body, and everyone can enter into these streams of experience regardless of prior practice or expertise.
Part of what we’re up to in this program is using a wide range of approaches so that we can bring ourselves here more fully. There is great value in leaning into different types of explorations than you normally prioritize. A little bit of experimentation with practices that are not normally in your wheelhouse can often create more insight and evolution than staying in the practices that you already know.
What level of Enneagram experience do I need to have for this program?
This is an experiential, immersive program that will bring you into the logos of the triangle in a unique way and meet you wherever you are in your integration of the wisdom of the Enneagram.
- If you are relatively new to this work, it’s an opportunity to discover the Enneagram in a way that it is not always taught (practice + cognitive orientation).
- For people who are experienced in journeying with the Enneagram, you will find new portals that deepen your understanding and more fully integrate how the Enneagram lives in you.
- If you want to learn more about my approach to experiential learning, check out my session at the 2023 Enneagram Global Summit here.
Are there any opportunities for live interaction?
Yes! The core course is pre-recorded, but there are monthly live Integration Sessions that will be open to anyone who has ever participated in Emerging Through the Triangle. These sessions will be opportunities for live group practice as well as a chance for participants to ask questions or receive coaching. You can attend these sessions whenever it fits your schedule:
- March 18, 1 pm ET
- April 15, 7 pm ET
- May 13, 1 pm ET
- June 10, 7 pm ET
- July 8, 1 pm ET
- August 5, 7 pm ET
- September 9, 1 pm ET
- October 14, 7 pm ET
- November 11, 1 pm ET
- December 9, 7 pm ET
In addition, the online Mighty Networks community will have a variety of ways to discuss and share the material as it is emerging for you, including a place where you can find practice partners to work with. I’ll be in the online community frequently if you have questions for me.
How long will the program material be available to me?
Purchasing Emerging Through the Triangle is an investment that gives you lifetime access to the recorded materials. This is a rich curriculum that contains deep Enneagram theory + over 25 creative, visual, and experiential practices drawn from somatics, the arts, nature, and breath. It is also fully indexed to make it easy for you to locate teachings and practices that you’d like to revisit.
What if I’ve already taken the live immersion version of Emerging Through the Triangle? Is this offering for me?
If you’d like to continue to work with this material, you are welcome to join the monthly live Integration Sessions at no additional cost. You’ll find the dates of these live sessions in Mighty Networks. You already have lifetime access to the Emerging Through the Triangle material, so there is no need to purchase the self-study program.
What’s your personal and professional experience with this material?
I have been a student and practitioner of the Enneagram for over 20 years, learning to embody the synthesis that is Point Six more fully. Learn more about my Enneagram credentials and about me in general.
Participant Perspectives
Type 3
“The ‘Emerging Through The Triangle’ is a unique and exceptional experience – not ‘just another programme’
I was introduced to the Enneagram more than 10 years ago (I relate to Type 3) and I have attended numerous programmes and Global/Regional Conferences since then. Nothing compares to the gem that Julie has created. The programme has deeply touched me and made me aware of how all three Types on the triangle are present in my life, instead of my fantasy of having been splitting two of them off. I travel with all three on a daily basis.
Julie brings the Body, Heart and Mind Centres to life very differently from what I have experienced before. I have particularly enjoyed the introduction of various sources into what the Enneagram is teaching us, making the Enneagram the ever evolving source of wisdom. Unique to the programme is the integration of the individual experiential and universal theoretical aspects of the inquiry.
The programme is wise, beautiful, insightful and touching and at times was shaking me at the core (and waking me up). The fellow travellers on the programme formed a community of support, openness and inspiration through authentically sharing insights and opening up their hearts.
Julie is an inspirational guide and brings her wisdom compassionately. This experience will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you.”
Rudi Kindts
“The experience of attending Julie’s “Emerging Through the Triangle” was a wonderful blend of exploring the theory behind the Enneagram, and the experiential activities to help integrate these concepts into all Three Centers, and into my life. This blend of experiential teaching helped me to more fully learn and integrate what I learned into my being. The way the course is structured and the pace worked perfectly, and having access to recordings helped for times when I was unable to participate in the live events. Julie’s knowledge of the Enneagram is extensive, as was evident with how she presented the material, and in how she coached and responded to people throughout the program.”
Sheri Fisher, MA; Certified Enneagram Coach, Yoga Teacher, and Group Facilitator
Type 6
“I continue to be inspired by your wonderful Emerging through the Triangle course. Currently, I am revisiting the theory classes and then will return to the experiential classes. It is so generous of you to keep these classes accessible after the course is over. Hearing your words again is taking me even deeper into a transformational experience.
Your approach to Enneagram wisdom has transformed my understanding in profound ways. As someone who leads with 6, I am grateful to be taken to a new level of understanding of my number. The stereotypes surrounding 6 can be so one-dimensional. Before taking your course, I was feeling deflated and frustrated: there might be kernels of truth in those stereotypes, but they generally did not reflect my lived experience. I now appreciate the rich multidimensionality of my number. It is the same for the other numbers on the triangle as well.
I also now see how my number and my inherent connections to my compatriot numbers on the Enneagram triangle interrelate to support self-development. And by the way, that makes me curious to get a deeper understanding of how the arrows work on the hexad and how they ultimately interconnect with my experience as a 6. I’m looking forward to taking a course like that with you in the future: Part 2!
Perhaps my most favorite part of the course was your invitation to explore the experiential wisdom of the Enneagram. You awakened my creativity while immersing me in profound shifts of perception.“
Beth Arnold, LPC
“Emerging through the Triangle was an immersive embodied learning experience, and Julie is a wonderfully intuitive, somatic and expert guide for a journey into your essence. As a beginner to the full spectrum of the Enneagram teachings, I am grateful to have been able to take a deeper dive into my dominant type, as well as orient myself to the other types on the triangle.
Each class began with a practice to more fully embody our centers, and thus, with each class, I found that I had a deep transmission whether from Julie’s informative content and poignant imagery, my own inner experience and ah-ha’s or from engaging with the other class participants through group sharing or small group exercises. With Julie’s guidance, the class was a safe and supportive container for exploration and learning.
The deepest insights that I took away from the course were what it felt like to embody each type and most importantly, what it is to experience the essence of my dominant type when I’m connected to all three centers. I left the class more embodied with more self-compassion for my personal growth journey and greater clarity of mind.”
Sarah M.
Type 9
“Your course changed my life-and I continue to revisit the recordings over and over. You truly are a master of the art of The Enneagram.”
Pat Cameron
“Julie’s Emerging Through the Triangle course overall was a unique, valuable, and excellent experience. Not only has Julie mastered the theory of the enneagram inside and out, but she is also mastering her delivery as well, exuding kindness, compassion, and patience. It is clear she has done her inner work as I could see her grounding herself when responding to questions and in her impromptu reactions. She practices and models what she preaches.
The comfortably ambient safe space Julie created was so inviting and she was able to hold that space for a community that was supportive, available, and engaging. In her approach of skillfully combining theory and practice, I felt affirmed, respected, hopeful, and inspired. As a Nine, now I feel more confident in how to work with my anger as catalyst for the Nine’s virtue of the self-remembering transformational practice.
My expectations were high going into the experience as I have known and worked with Julie for a while now and she exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend it to anyone on the spiritual journey with the enneagram path. I was happy to attend this course and would happily pay treble!”
Dan O’Connor
The Hexad
“Being on the hexad (4w5), I would particularly recommend this ‘inside look’ at the triangle and the three core energies it represents – in all of us. My initial sense was that I wanted to better understand the different way in which triangle types relate to their own energy within their center of intelligence. This seemed more straightforward for the hexad types, which each have an energy center they belong to, and a center that is repressed (the body center for the Four, for instance). Also, each hexad point has a triangle point as one of its wings. In addition, I happen to have two key figures of impact to my life (not always easily) who lie on the triangle (3 and 9, respectively), as well as several close 6 friends.
All of this, and the fact that I had grown to really appreciate Julie’s profundity during a year-long certification program, led me to gladly sign on. What I received (I should say began to receive) was truly so much more. In the sense that everything I described above was a point of interest – and my interests were definitely met. But what I received and am left with is the beginning of an experience of myself in the context of the triangle – and of the triangle within myself.
One of Julie’s gifts is that she invites us beyond ‘understanding’ to consciousness and embodied experience. A large part of this is her centeredness and presence, and the safe container that this provides for all. I know that I will revisit the recordings and content of this course and, having participated, I am so grateful that there will be a self-study program with monthly integration sessions. The Enneagram will remain a rich ground for me to work for all of my life – a closer understanding of the triangle was essential to this. I cannot imagine a better course than Emerging Through The Triangle to start (or continue) this exploration.“
Justine Johansen, Type 4
“Julie’s Emerging Through the Triangle offering was and is extremely helpful to me in my personal and professional work and I only wish it would have been available much earlier on in my study of the Enneagram. The skill and depth with which the material was presented provided the basis for an experiential understanding. Of particular help were the experiential exercises for working with anger, fear, and shame as portals to Flow.
As a Type 1 spiritual director with a strong 9 wing, and one who companions many type 9s and 6s, I can attest to the practical value of what Julie has to offer and the quality of her expertise in delivering the material.”
MJ Kistler, Type 1