“The ‘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
Supporting the individual and collective emergence of Enneagram types 3, 6, and 9 through:
- Unique combinations of integration practices that include inquiry, breath, body, and the creative arts
- A community learning platform for small and large group interaction to support your emergence
- Optional add-on: One-hour coaching session with Julie to personalize your learning
“”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
A Nine-Week Online Enneagram Intensive For Types 3, 6, and 9
New Cohort in 2025! March 1 – May 3
- Two sessions per week via Zoom: Wednesdays (theory/discussion) and Saturdays (practice) from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET
- All sessions recorded for unlimited review and self-pacing as desired
- Choose the price that accurately reflects your financial resources
- Community-supported ($600): for people whose access to financial resources is limited
- Fair Price ($900): a fair-market price for people with adequate financial resources
- Pay It Forward ($1200): for people with abundant financial resources who wish to help support access to the program for others
- Optional coaching tiers: $150/$200/$250
This program will be offered again in early 2025, with a limit of 50 participants. If you want to be the first to know when registration opens, please sign up for the Riverbend mailing list here:
The inside scoop on Emerging Through the Triangle
Including…the original seed of inspiration for emerging through the triangle • what supports the primary types • my personal journey as an example of triangle work • the individual and collective aspects of the program • what’s the benefit for specific types? • surfing the wave of relationship through connection, rupture, and repair • working with the body • what’s unique about this program
What if you could widen your ability to be with more of who you are, stop using your energy to defend against yourself, and land in a fuller expression of your unique life force?
In this new program for anyone whose primary identity is on the triangle of the Enneagram (Types 3, 6, and 9), you’ll learn how to recognize and integrate aspects of yourself from all three points rather than just endlessly circling around the fixated qualities of each type.
You’ll discover how to be alive in the body that you’ve been given as your home in this world, to let the light of your heart authentically shine through you, and to be awake and supported, confident and ready to meet life as it is.
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.
Learn about the difference between inertia and integration:
What You Can Expect
In this program, we will be calling upon and synthesizing a variety of Enneagram wisdom teachings, including those from Riso/Hudson, Almaas, and Maitri, and exploring with visual and experiential approaches from somatics, the arts, nature, and breath.
We will weave a full body-heart-mind-spirit approach to emergence that honors and moves beyond conceptual understanding of the Enneagram.
“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
Program Curriculum
Overview
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: We will start each week on Saturdays with an experiential dive into the theme. On the following Thursday, I will provide a theoretical understanding to help you to cognitively integrate your experience. There will be a short bit of time for Q+A or live coaching during each session, and more discussion possible in the online group. Weeks Five and Nine will be a deeper integration through all three centers.
All sessions will be recorded and posted in a private Mighty Networks community for unlimited review and self-pacing as desired.
Week One: Opening to The Transmission of the Triangle
This first week 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
Week 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.
Our exploration this week 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.
Week 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.
We will begin the process of creating a relationship with a fuller capacity of our own hearts through listening, tender attention, and deep rest. We will feel how the Three lives in us in either a contracted or essential state.
Week 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. We will 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. We will discover how the Six in us approaches life from a contracted or essential state.
Week Five: First Integration
In this first integration session, we’ll see what begins to emerge when we 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.
Week 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.
Week Seven: Deeper Into the Heart
This week, we’ll step into the heart 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.
Week 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.
Week Nine: Second Integration
In this final integration, 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 keeps you from deep contact with your 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.
Does my dominant point need to be Three, Six, or Nine to participate in this program?
Yes.The intention of this course is to create a field where all of these energies are together so that we can experience the full power of ourselves and support the emergence that comes through triadic energies.
I may eventually offer a version of this course that will be of interest to people of any type, but for now, triangle types, only please!
What if I’m sure that my dominant point is on the triangle but I’m not sure which one?
Come on in! Because of the rapid movement around the triangle, this is not an unusual experience. Participating in the course may help you to get more insight into your dominant point.
I can get really triggered by one or both of the other types on the triangle, or even people of my own type. I’m not sure I want to hang out with them.
It’s normal to feel triggered by people who inhabit the types of your lines, and even people of your own type.
Some of what we encounter in other people is challenging precisely because that material lives within us in a way that we may not yet understand. We can learn to welcome and work with the triggering as an exploration into ourselves.
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.
At a minimum, you need to know enough about the Enneagram to be confident that your primary identity is on the triangle.
What if I can’t make every class? Will the sessions be recorded?
Yes, both Saturday and Thursday sessions will be recorded and posted in a private Mighty Networks community within 24-48 hours after the live Zoom class. So, no problem if you aren’t able to be live for each class (although of course, I would love to see you live!!).
In addition, the online community will have a variety of ways to discuss and share the material as it is emerging for you. Even if you miss a live class, you can post and respond with your fellow participants any time.
What’s your personal and professional experience with this material?
I have been a student and practitioner of the Enneagram for 20 years, learning to embody the synthesis that is Point Six more fully. Learn more about my Enneagram credentials and about me in general.
Perspectives from 2024 Participants
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