Modules 1-3  In Person in UK

What You Will Experience

This immersive training combines the complete foundational curriculum of Somatic Enneagram Modules 1–3 with expanded opportunities for experiential practice, inquiry, reflection, integration, and personalized work with Marion and Heather.

Module 1: Foundations of Embodied Awareness

We begin by shifting from understanding type conceptually toward experiencing it somatically.

You will explore how Enneagram patterns show up through sensation, attention, emotion, impulse, and the felt experience of the body. Foundational Somatic Enneagram practices will help you slow down, become more grounded, and recognize type structure as it arises in the present moment.

The invitation is not simply to know your pattern, but to become present enough to experience it.

Module 2: The Defense System and How to Be With It

From this foundation of awareness, we turn toward the body's natural protective responses.

You will explore what happens somatically when you feel threatened, challenged, overwhelmed, or triggered—including the embodied experiences of fight, flight, and freeze.

Rather than treating defenses as something to overcome, we learn to meet them consciously and compassionately, recognizing the protective intelligence within them and creating greater space around automatic reactions.

Module 3: Deepening the Work

As our capacity for embodied presence develops, we can begin turning toward deeper patterns that organize our experience.

Module 3 explores the relationship between our familiar survival strategies and the deeper qualities available when type structure begins to soften. Through somatic practice and inquiry, we develop greater capacity to remain present with difficult experiences rather than automatically returning to the strategies that have historically helped us navigate uncertainty, pressure, loss, or challenge.

Throughout all three modules, you will experience a rhythm of teaching, guided somatic practice, movement, inquiry, reflection, group learning, and integration.

Because we are gathering in person across six days, there is also more opportunity for individualized attention and for Marion and Heather to work directly with what emerges within the group. 

What You Will Gain

By experiencing Modules 1–3 together, you will build a progressive foundation for deeper Somatic Enneagram work.

You will have the opportunity to:

Recognize your Enneagram patterns in the body.
Move beyond intellectual understanding and learn to identify type structure through sensation, attention, emotion, impulse, and embodied response.

Develop greater capacity for presence.
Learn foundational practices that help you remain connected with your experience rather than immediately being carried into familiar reactions.

Understand your defense system.
Recognize the somatic expressions of fight, flight, and freeze and develop more compassionate ways of being with these natural protective responses.

Create more space between activation and reaction.
Practice slowing down automatic patterns so that additional possibilities and choices can become available.

Explore deeper survival strategies.
Begin recognizing the structures beneath familiar patterns and how they shape the way you navigate challenge, uncertainty, relationship, and change.

Strengthen resilience and flexibility.
Develop a greater capacity to remain present with difficult experiences without automatically relying upon habitual strategies.

Bring somatic awareness into your work with others.
For coaches, spiritual directors, therapists, Enneagram teachers, and other practitioners, develop an embodied framework that can deepen how you understand and accompany others.

Build a strong foundation for advanced Somatic Enneagram work.
Modules 1–3 establish essential practices and understanding that support continued study within the Somatic Enneagram curriculum.

The purpose of this work is not to eliminate your Enneagram type.

It is to develop enough awareness and presence that the patterns of type no longer have to determine what happens next.

Heather Brown

Heather is the UK and Australasia Somatic Enneagram Affiliate Teacher, Somatic Enneagram Practitioner, and longtime facilitator of transformational inner work. Originally a teacher, coach, and corporate trainer, Heather began her Enneagram journey studying with Helen Palmer and David Daniels. She has served as co-director of Enneagram Training UK and Ireland since 2017, offering comprehensive personal and professional development programs rooted in the Narrative Enneagram tradition.

Since 2021, Heather has trained closely in the Somatic Enneagram and became certified by Marion Gilbert in 2024. Based near Winchester in the UK, she now teaches Somatic Enneagram coursework and supports clients one-on-one as they navigate their own embodied healing and growth. Known for her grounded presence, clarity, and compassion, Heather brings deep expertise and a steady, attuned approach to this work.

Marion Gilbert

Marion Gilbert is the founder of the Somatic Enneagram and an internationally recognized Enneagram teacher whose work has helped bring embodied awareness into the heart of Enneagram practice.

Drawing from decades of experience in somatic awareness, trauma-informed practice, and the Enneagram, Marion developed the Somatic Enneagram as a way of working directly with the patterns of type as they are experienced through sensation, reactivity, and the intelligence of the body. Her teaching invites students beyond simply understanding personality and toward greater presence, choice, resilience, and access to the deeper qualities of Essence.