Somatic Enneagram Australasia
Welcome!
I'm Heather Brown, the UK Affiliate for the Somatic Enneagram Association. I’m also the Australasia affiliate. I’m based in Winchester in the UK, and in Lismore, Northern Rivers, New South Wales in Australia, which is the home of my partner John.
I spend part of each year in Australia and recently ran a Somatic Enneagram webinar for the inaugural IEA Australasia chapter, and a 1 day in-person workshop in Melbourne for the Practitioners’ Enneagram. My dream is to offer Somatic Enneagram workshops wherever they are wanted, and in particular to make them available in Australasia – do reach out to me at [email protected] if you’d like to talk!
Experience the Somatic Enneagram in Australasia
Somatic Enneagram Australasia offers opportunities to experience this work for both personal growth and transformation and professional training and certification.
Whether you are encountering the Somatic Enneagram for the first time, looking for a deeper embodied experience of your Enneagram type, or preparing to integrate this work into the ways you accompany others, there are a variety of ways to participate.
Offerings may take place online or in person throughout Australia and the wider Australasia region, with some online trainings intentionally scheduled to make participation more accessible across the Eastern Hemisphere.
Personal Growth & Immersive Experiences
The Somatic Enneagram is more than a way of understanding personality. It is an invitation to experience our patterns through the intelligence of the body and cultivate greater capacity for presence, awareness, and choice.
Retreats and special experiences create space to step away from everyday rhythms and engage this work more deeply. These may include Beginning Inward Turn Retreats, advanced Inward Turn experiences, workshops, and other immersive gatherings facilitated by Somatic Enneagram founder Marion Gilbert and members of the Somatic Enneagram faculty.
Inward Turn Retreats, for example, offer an intimate experience of somatic awareness, grounding, resourcing, and facilitated inquiry within the support of community. Rather than simply learning about the Enneagram, participants are invited to encounter their patterns directly and explore what becomes possible as familiar strategies begin to soften.
These experiences are designed for those who want to deepen their own inner work, reconnect with the wisdom of the body, and discover greater access to the essential qualities beneath personality.
Explore upcoming retreats and Somatic Enneagram experiences (Click Here).
Training & Certification
For those who want to study the Somatic Enneagram method more deeply, our Modules and Certification pathway provide a structured progression of experiential learning and practice.
Foundational Modules explore the core principles of the Somatic Enneagram through teaching, somatic inquiry, and direct experience. Participants develop greater capacity for three-centered awareness while learning to recognize how Enneagram patterns are expressed through sensation, attention, emotion, contraction, impulse, and the nervous system.
For example, the foundational journey begins by developing body intelligence, grounded presence, the Inner Observer, and felt-sense awareness. From there, participants explore the body's defense system and protective responses, learning to meet these patterns with greater awareness and compassion. The work then deepens into the survival strategies and energetic pathways of type, opening greater access to the intelligence of the Head, Heart, and Body and to our essential nature.
Modules may be offered online at times accessible to participants throughout Australasia or through special in-person trainings in the region. Participants who want to bring the Somatic Enneagram into their professional work can continue into the Somatic Enneagram Certification pathway, developing the experience and competency needed to facilitate this work with others.
Explore upcoming Modules, training, and certification opportunities (Click Here).
Wherever you enter, the invitation is the same: to move beyond simply understanding your Enneagram type and toward experiencing your patterns as they arise—cultivating the presence and awareness that make greater freedom possible.
Contact Heather at [email protected] find out more and receive
updates – suggestions for venues are welcome!
