courses

Embracing the Soul Child

Join Belinda Gore in a life-changing adventure as you explore the origins of the Soul Child, a somewhat mysterious structure that links us with Essence.

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Belinda Gore

Belinda began studying the Enneagram with Don Riso and Russ Hudson in 1990 and continues as a student of the Diamond Approach with Enneagram writer and teacher Sandra Maitri. A former IEA Board member, Belinda is an IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction. Her book, Finding Freedom: Understanding Our Relationships Using Object Relations and the Enneagram, is a ground-breaking approach to Object Relations and the Enneagram and serves as the text for her training courses for coaches, therapists and Enneagram enthusiasts.

Courses

Embracing the Soul Child

Presented by Belinda Gore

Course Details

Start Date: Thursday February 4, 2027

Sessions:  7 weekly Sessions

Venue:  All sessions are virtual, 

1.5 hours each, and are recorded for later review.

Time:  8:00 am AEST

Price:  $440 including GST

Embracing the Soul Child

Join Belinda Gore in a life-changing adventure as you explore the origins of the Soul Child, a somewhat mysterious structure that links us with Essence. In Sandra Maitri‘s words, “If our soul child is not part of our ongoing conscious life, we feel that part of us is missing…without this structure being integrated within our consciousness, we cannot really speak of true transformation.”

 

Sandra Mairtri’s book The Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram, and specifically Chapter 11, will be the textbook for the course. Belinda has been a student in Sandra’s International Retreat Group since 2006 and has her permission to teach this work.

 

Over seven weeks in this course, you will learn:

 

  • A foundational understanding of the Inner Flow within the Enneagram circle, closely linked with the teachings about the Arrows, but with an important difference;

  • The sequence of the Soul’s emergence into consciousness according to the teachings of A.H. Almaas;

  • To identify the specific characteristics of the Soul Child for each of the nine Enneagram types;

  • Tools for guiding others to recognize, embrace and help in relaxing the Soul Child structure to open the way for more direct access to Essence at its core.

 

Experiential exercises with fellow students, using virtual breakout rooms, give you the opportunity to have a direct experience of this rich material.

 

In this course, as you engage with experiential exercises, you will develop skill in identifying the activity of the Soul Child and how to embrace it’s unique gifts. You will come away with an ability to identify the early indications of the Soul Child that is implicit in the core of every Enneagram type, describing how the Soul Child both creates obstacles in personality development while also offering a portal to full maturation of the Soul.

 

Approved for 10.5 ICF CCE Units.

“If our soul child is not part of our ongoing conscious life, we feel that part of us is missing…without this structure being integrated within our consciousness, we cannot really speak of true transformation.”

Sandra Maitri 
The Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram
What to expect

What You Will Experience on the Course

OBJECT RELATIONS AND THE ENNEAGRAM, PART IV

Tools for Integrating the Soul Child in Coaching.

 

Course Overview

Week 1. Clarifying the “Inner Flow” as the archetypal movement of the Soul around the points of the Enneagram and Identifying the Heart Point as the point preceding the Type along the lines of the Inner Flow, with the Soul Child emerging from the Heart Point.

 

Week 2. Using the Heart Point and Passions to describe characteristics of the Soul Child.

 

Week 3.  Dealing with the SuperEgo and Pseudo-Virtues related to the Soul Child.

 

Week 4. Exploring Passions as a portal to the Soul Child.

 

Week 5. Discovering the Bright Shadow and Idealized Aspects for each Enneagram type.

 

Week 6.  Developing tools for understanding and embracing the dynamics of the Soul Child.

 

Week 7. The Soul Child moves up the Levels of Development.

Testimonials

  • Belinda is a jewel. I think she is a wonderful integrator of psychology, spirituality, and the enneagram.
  • Professionally, I have a much deeper understanding of the Soul Child, our resistance to it, and ways to support my clients to embrace it, accepting and loving their whole selves. Similarly, it is supporting me to deepen my own integration.
  • Belinda expertly facilitates the group and answers questions. She is not afraid to experiment with new material and adapt as the course goes along to meet student needs while honouring the teaching. Truly, much of what she shared felt like a transmission vs. teaching.
  • In my daily life, I am more able to take my own perspective, andI have become far more aware of my ego. I can see it, feel it, and sense it — and from that place of awareness, I have a choice. Becoming conscious of my soul child has given me understanding and clarity around its voice and impulses, and I am now much more receptive to its suggestions.
  • This class opened my eyes to the origins/Soul Child of each type that exists by nature before it was catapulted into the personality structure. It revealed how the Soul Child is the real child and the type is the personality that helped the soul survive and oft times thrive. It was absolutely eye opening and explained and gave access to so much of the "natural nature" aka the Soul Child of each type. It was so helpful to me personally and gave me such peace to SEE that my Soul Child has brought so much of the good into my life, my career, and was driving my choices, mostly good, as it was my "authentic nature". I just LOVED it all. It was break through teaching, in my view.
  • Belinda is one of the most experiences and aware teachers I have maybe ever worked with. Maybe it is her coach training that comes through, and I love the "coaching style" of all styles. Her absolute determination to bring the words, the conversations, the teaching, the coaching, the information to us so we can grasp it, taste it, and walk away with it. AND, she is so experienced in the Enneagram and all of its history, it just makes her an amazing teacher.
  • While the Enneagram has been my personal spiritual path for 14 years, this teaching of the Enneagram as a Wisdom Teaching has fundamentally altered my relationship with the Enneagram. This is one of the most important Electives of DCI. To be aware of the spiritual dimension of the Enneagram in the fashion Belinda represented it is life changing for me... to understand the journey of the Soul in it's evolution during it’s human experience... it all makes so much sense to me. Now I finally feel I can fully represent the Enneagram to the public, the personality dimension alone just wasn't deep enough for me. As a result of this teaching I feel I can throw my whole power behind the Enneagram in relation to being a coach. There is a much bigger reason to be a coach now, I am in service of the Great Soul. Even the so called DEEP COACHING feels a lot more right and justified now.
  • Enjoyed the entire course. The sessions went by fast. There was a nice balance of sharing content, and group report outs. I especially appreciated the breakout sessions and connecting with classmates. I learned a lot from our repeating questions and no problem solving. Thank you for a wonderful learning experience.
who it's for

Who This Day Is For

This event is open to all — Enneagram enthusiasts, therapists, coaches, and anyone with a serious interest in this work. Whether you are new to the Enneagram or have worked with it for years, this is a rare opportunity to encounter it in a new register.

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Presented by The Practitioners Enneagram

The Practitioner’s Enneagram is a partnership between Andrée Evans (Counselling Psychologist) and Mary Ferguson (Executive Coach, Leadership Facilitator, Enneagram Coach Supervisor), dedicated to raising the standard of embodied, relational, trauma-informed Enneagram practice.