Somatic Enneagram France
I am Jérémy Brossard, and the Somatic Enneagram approach developed by Marion Gilbert has truly been a game changer in my life. The work on ourselves is never-ending, but there is definitely a before and an after experiencing this method. I feel much more aligned with my deeper self and much more able to develop healthy relationships.
As the French representative, and as someone who regularly incorporates the Somatic Enneagram approach into my professional work, it is particularly important to me to make it possible for Marion to come to France regularly, so that we can experience and bring to life the full breadth of her approach here.
My intention is to remain as faithful as possible to Marion’s original approach, while also allowing it to evolve in a way that is relevant to the French cultural context and to the changing ways in which we work and learn.
Somatic Enneagram France
The Enneagram can give us a powerful framework for understanding ourselves. The Somatic Enneagram invites us to take another step: to experience our patterns through the intelligence of the body.
For the leader of Somatic Enneagram France, that distinction became deeply personal.
After years working in engineering, research, and technical environments—and eight years living away from France in Canada—a growing sense of disconnection led to questions about identity, relationships, values, and what it might mean to live with greater alignment.
Discovering the Enneagram in 2019 offered a new framework for understanding many of these experiences. Extensive study through the Centre de l’Étude de l’Ennéagramme (CEE) in Paris, followed by training and facilitation with the Enneagram Prison Project, deepened that understanding and opened a more relational and experiential dimension of the work.
And still, another question remained:
How does what we understand about ourselves actually become embodied?
This question eventually led to Marion Gilbert and the Somatic Enneagram.
Through the body, the patterns described by the Enneagram become something we can experience directly. We can begin to recognize alarm and defensiveness as they arise, notice the ways we contract or disconnect, and develop greater capacity to remain present when we feel challenged, questioned, or rejected.
The movement is from simply understanding ourselves toward embodying who we are.
That experience is at the heart of Somatic Enneagram France and its commitment to making this work increasingly accessible to French-speaking communities.
Experience the Somatic Enneagram in France
Somatic Enneagram France offers opportunities to experience this work for both personal growth and transformation and professional training and certification.
Through individual sessions, introductory programs, group experiences, retreats, foundational Modules, and certification support, French-speaking participants can engage the work at different stages of their journey.
Some experiences are facilitated locally, while others create opportunities to study directly with Somatic Enneagram founder Marion Gilbert and participate in the wider international Somatic Enneagram community.
Throughout these offerings, the intention remains the same: to create conditions in which people can reconnect with themselves more deeply and discover greater presence, choice, and freedom.
Begin Your Somatic Enneagram Journey
If you are new to the Somatic Enneagram, introductory workshops, webinars, and individual sessions offer accessible ways to experience the work.
These experiences introduce the foundational practices of embodied awareness and explore how Enneagram patterns live not only in our thoughts and behaviors, but also through sensation, attention, emotion, contraction, impulse, and the body's natural protective responses.
Individual sessions provide an opportunity to explore these patterns within your own experience, while introductory groups and workshops allow you to discover the method alongside others.
The purpose is not simply to gather more information about your type.
It is to begin noticing your patterns as they are happening and develop a more compassionate relationship with what you discover.
Personal Growth & Immersive Experiences
For those wanting to go deeper, retreats, immersive days, and other special experiences create space to step outside the ordinary rhythms of life and engage the Somatic Enneagram more fully.
Within a group, the work is supported not only by the facilitator but by the presence and attention of the community itself. Each participant contributes to a wider field of awareness in which deeper exploration becomes possible.
Somatic practices help us approach both the resources we already recognize within ourselves and the places that may feel defended, closed, or difficult to access.
Some parts of our experience may have moved into the background as a way of protecting us from what once felt overwhelming. Those adaptations can continue shaping our reactions and relationships long after the original circumstances have changed.
Rather than forcing these defenses to disappear, the Somatic Enneagram offers a way of meeting them with awareness and compassion.
As these patterns begin to relax, we may discover qualities and capacities that have always been present but have become obscured beneath adaptation and reactivity.
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Training & Certification
For those who want to study the method more deeply, the Somatic Enneagram Modules and Certification pathway provide a progressive sequence of experiential learning, personal practice, and professional development.
Somatic Enneagram France creates opportunities for French-speaking participants to engage the foundational Modules 1–5, including opportunities to study with Marion Gilbert through both online and in-person experiences.
The Modules move progressively through embodied awareness, the body's defense system, survival strategies and Essence, reactive patterns, and deeper three-centered exploration of the Enneagram.
The emphasis throughout is not simply on learning concepts, but on developing the capacity to recognize Enneagram patterns through direct experience of the Head, Heart, and Body.
For those who want to bring this work into their professional practice, the Somatic Enneagram Certification pathway provides further training and mentoring. Level 1 develops the capacity to work one-to-one with others using Somatic Enneagram inquiry, with additional levels continuing to deepen the practice.
Somatic Enneagram France also provides mentoring and support for participants pursuing certification.
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French-Speaking Support
An important part of the mission of Somatic Enneagram France is making this work more accessible to the French-speaking community while remaining faithful to the essence of Marion Gilbert's approach.
French-speaking participants can receive support before, during, and after international Somatic Enneagram Modules and retreats, including guidance and, when available, live French translation of Marion's teaching.
This creates opportunities for participants to engage deeply with the work without language becoming an unnecessary barrier to embodied experience.
Growing a French-Speaking Community
Somatic Enneagram France is also helping cultivate a growing community of practitioners, students, and participants who want to practice this work together.
As more people move through the Modules and Certification pathway, new possibilities are emerging for connection, peer support, continued practice, and collaboration among French-speaking practitioners.
This community is part of something larger.
Similar Somatic Enneagram communities are developing throughout Europe and around the world, creating an international network connected by a shared commitment to embodied awareness, compassionate inquiry, and transformation.
Wherever you enter—through an individual session, introductory experience, retreat, Module, or Certification—the invitation is not to become someone different.
It is to become more present to who you already are, develop a different relationship with the patterns that have shaped you, and allow more of your essential nature to become available in the way you live and relate to the world.
