Module 3 Online

Moving Beyond Survival Strategies
Toward Essence

June 25–27, 2027 | Live Online | Led by Heather Brown

As we become more aware of our Enneagram patterns, we begin to recognize something deeper than personality.

Beneath many of our familiar ways of thinking, feeling, and responding are strategies that developed to help us navigate life. They shape what we pay attention to, what we avoid, how we protect ourselves, and what we instinctively reach for when life becomes uncertain, painful, or overwhelming.

These strategies have served us. But when they operate automatically, they can also limit the choices available to us.

Somatic Enneagram Module 3 invites us to meet these deeper patterns through the intelligence of the body.

Building upon the embodied awareness and work with the defense system introduced in Modules 1 and 2, Module 3 turns toward the survival strategies of type and explores what happens when we become present enough to experience them without automatically being driven by them.

Rather than trying to think our way out of familiar patterns, we learn to recognize how they are experienced through sensation, emotion, impulse, contraction, attention, and movement. We practice staying with what is happening long enough for something different to become possible.

As these habitual strategies begin to soften, we may also discover greater access to the deeper qualities of Essence—qualities that do not need to be manufactured or achieved, but can become more available as the structures that habitually organize our experience begin to loosen.

Module 3 is an invitation to move beyond simply recognizing your patterns and toward experiencing the freedom that can emerge when those patterns no longer have to determine what happens next.

Online Module Daily Schedule: 

Friday, June 25, 2027
Start Time: 6:00 am UK (London) | 1:00 pm Hong Kong
End Time: 12:00 pm UK (London) | 7:00 pm Hong Kong

Saturday, June 26 2027
Start Time: 6:00 am UK (London) | 1:00 pm Hong Kong
End Time: 12:00 pm UK (London) | 7:00 pm Hong Kong

Sunday, June 27, 2027
Start Time: 6:00 am UK (London) | 1:00 pm Hong Kong
End Time: 12:00 pm UK (London) | 7:00 pm Hong Kong

 

Module 3 Online

$500 USD (Early Bird Rate)
Full rate ($600) begins on May 17

Go beneath familiar reactions and defenses to explore the deeper survival strategies of Enneagram type. Somatic Enneagram Module 3 invites you to recognize these patterns in the body and discover greater access to presence, choice, and the deeper qualities of Essence.

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What You Will Experience

Across three days, Heather Brown will guide participants through teaching, somatic awareness practices, experiential exercises, inquiry, reflection, and integration.

You will explore the ways your Enneagram type organizes experience through the three centers of intelligence—head, heart, and body—and how familiar patterns of thought, emotion, and instinct can become strategies for navigating uncertainty, pressure, loss, and challenge.

Rather than approaching these patterns as problems to eliminate, we will become curious about the intelligence within them.

How have these strategies helped us?

What are they attempting to protect or provide?

What happens in the body when they become activated?

And what becomes possible when we can remain present without immediately returning to them?

Through guided somatic practice, you will have opportunities to slow these patterns down and experience them in real time. This creates space to recognize not only the familiar strategy, but also what may exist underneath it.

Module 3 also deepens the exploration of personality and Essence. As we develop greater capacity to stay present with our embodied experience, qualities that can become obscured by habitual patterns may begin to emerge more naturally.

The work is not about getting rid of personality.

It is about developing enough presence that personality becomes less automatic—and something deeper becomes available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

What You Will Gain

Through Module 3, you will deepen the foundational Somatic Enneagram practices introduced in the earlier modules while developing a greater understanding of the structures beneath your familiar patterns.

You will have the opportunity to:

Recognize your survival strategies as they arise.
Learn to identify familiar patterns not only conceptually, but through their physical, emotional, and attentional expressions.

Understand the relationship between thought, feeling, and instinct.
Explore how the three centers of intelligence interact and how your type may rely upon particular strategies when navigating challenge or uncertainty.

Develop greater capacity to remain present with difficult experience.
Practice staying connected to the body when familiar strategies begin to activate rather than immediately moving into automatic reaction.

Meet your patterns with curiosity and compassion.
Understand survival strategies as intelligent adaptations rather than failures or obstacles that need to be defeated.

Create greater space for choice.
As automatic patterns become visible and experienceable, new responses can begin to emerge.

Explore the movement from personality toward Essence.
Discover how deeper qualities can become more accessible when the habitual structures of type begin to soften.

Deepen your work with others.
For coaches, spiritual directors, therapists, Enneagram teachers, and other helping professionals, Module 3 offers an embodied framework for recognizing deeper patterns while accompanying others with greater presence and compassion.

The invitation of Module 3 is not to become someone different.

It is to become present enough to recognize the strategies you have learned to rely upon—and discover what remains when you no longer have to hold onto them quite so tightly.

 

 

About Your Guide(s)


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.

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