Reimagining the Holy Ideas for Greater Personal and Spiritual Freedom
with Christopher Copeland and Renee Rosario
You are invited to reimagine what have been traditionally called the “Holy Ideas” of the Enneagram and explore how these expansive perspectives can serve as a powerful doorway into greater personal and spiritual freedom. While the Greater Knowing of each type are received experiences, not to be grasped by the cognitive mind, exploring them conceptually can give a glimpse into their lived reality. We can understand the Greater Knowing of our type and use it as a guide to help us not be held captive by our default worldview.
In this workshop, we reimagine the “Holy Ideas” and explore the interrelationship between these nine “received knowings” through the perspective of the three centers of intelligence and the harmony triads. Building on the work of A.H. Almaas, we examine how the three centers of intelligence speak to an aspect of the nature of reality: the body center as the view of total reality; the head center as humanity in relationship to this reality; and the heart center as participation in relation to this reality.
We will use the “Greater Knowing” of each Enneagram type to touch the deeper truths that are beyond type.
Christopher T. Copeland (he/they), M.Div., J.D., D.Min. is an educator, spiritual director, and founder of Illuminating Paths, a practice of accompanying people on their paths toward greater awareness, compassion, and freedom. Christopher studied at Wake Forest University, Emory University and San Francisco Theological Seminary, earning degrees in mathematics, theology, law and spirituality.
They have been working with the Enneagram for more than 30 years, becoming a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher in 2014, joining the Core Faculty in 2020, and serving as Certification Director starting in 2022. With colleague and Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher Sandra Smith, Christopher founded Heart of the Enneagram, a podcast and companion book for those who want to dive deep into the transformational power of the Enneagram. A native of North Carolina, USA, Christopher lives in Winston-Salem with his husband, Bernie Newton.
Renée Rosario, MA, LPC, is a Core Faculty member of The Narrative Enneagram. A graduate of Naropa University, Renée is also a transpersonal, body-centered psychotherapist in private practice in Colorado. She has facilitated workshops and classes for over 20 years and loves to teach and learn through the Narrative Tradition, where all are students and teachers of one another. Renée is intensely curious about the workings of the mind, heart and body, embracing the gifts of our type structures and the possibility of greater freedom from its automatic patterns. She has completed a 60-hour Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program, has been a Mindfulness Instructor at Naropa University, and is a Peacemaker trained in contemplative social action and peacemaking through the Peacemaker Institute.
