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Module 2 Online
The Defense System and How to Be With It
May 21–23, 2027 | On Zoom
Led by Heather Brown
What happens inside you in the moment you feel threatened, challenged, misunderstood, overwhelmed, or unsafe?
Often, the body responds before the thinking mind has had time to make sense of what is happening. Muscles contract. Breathing changes. Attention narrows. We may feel an impulse to push back, get away, shut down, disappear, or regain control. Before we know it, we are no longer simply experiencing the present moment—we are inside a familiar pattern of protection.
These responses are not mistakes. Our defense systems developed for a reason. They are part of the body's extraordinary capacity to protect us. Yet when these responses become automatic, they can limit our choices and reinforce the familiar patterns of our Enneagram type.
Somatic Enneagram Module 2: The Defense System and How to Be With It invites us to become curious about these reactions rather than trying to eliminate or overcome them.
Led by certified Somatic Enneagram Practitioner Heather Brown, this three-day online module explores the body's natural defense mechanisms through an integrated approach engaging mind, emotion, and sensation. You will learn to recognize the physical contractions and reactions associated with being triggered, become more familiar with the somatic expressions of fight, flight, and freeze, and practice meeting these responses consciously and compassionately.
As we develop the ability to stay present with our defenses rather than immediately acting from them, we create the possibility for something different to happen. What once felt automatic can become something we can witness, understand, and be with.
Online Module Daily Schedule:Â
Friday, May 21, 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, May 22, 2027
Start Time: 6:00 am UK (London)Â | 1:00 pm Hong Kong
End Time: 12:00 pm UK (London)Â | 7:00 pm Hong Kong
Sunday, May 23, 2027
Start Time: 6:00 am UK (London)Â | 1:00 pm Hong Kong
End Time: 12:00 pm UK (London)Â | 7:00 pm Hong Kong
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Module 2 Online
$500 USD (Early Bird Rate)
Full rate ($600) begins on April 5
Learn to recognize what happens in the body when your defense system activates. Somatic Enneagram Module 2 explores fight, flight, freeze, and the embodied patterns of reactivity—offering practical tools for meeting these responses with greater awareness, compassion, and choice.
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What You Will Experience
Throughout Module 2, Heather will guide you through teaching, experiential exercises, somatic awareness practices, reflection, and inquiry focused on the body's defense system.
You will explore how defensive patterns show up not only through thoughts and emotions, but through physical sensation, contraction, posture, breath, movement, impulse, and shifts in attention.
Together, we will slow down the experience of reactivity so that you can begin recognizing what happens in the body when the defense system becomes activated.
You will explore the somatic responses associated with fight, flight, and freeze, developing greater awareness of how these natural protective mechanisms operate and how they may interact with the habitual patterns of Enneagram type.
Rather than approaching defenses as something to defeat, fix, or remove, the Somatic Enneagram offers another possibility: learning how to remain present with the body's protective intelligence with curiosity and compassion.
For those who accompany others—as coaches, spiritual directors, therapists, Enneagram teachers, or helping professionals—Module 2 also offers a deeper understanding of what may be happening somatically when another person's defense system becomes activated.
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What You Will Gain
Module 2 will help you develop practical tools for recognizing and working with defensive responses at the level of the body.
Through the experience, you will have the opportunity to:
Recognize the physical experience of being triggered.
Learn to identify contractions, sensations, impulses, and other embodied signals that may indicate your defense system has become activated.
Understand fight, flight, and freeze somatically.
Explore these responses as lived experiences in the body rather than simply psychological concepts.
Engage your defenses with greater compassion.
Instead of judging or trying to eliminate defensive reactions, practice meeting them as protective responses that carry information and intelligence.
Create more space around automatic reactions.
Develop greater capacity to remain present when activated, opening the possibility of responding rather than simply reacting.
Integrate mind, body, and emotion.
Deepen your ability to recognize how thoughts, feelings, sensations, and impulses interact when the defense system is engaged.
Support meaningful and lasting transformation.
Learn practices that allow defensive responses to be experienced and reconciled rather than simply managed or suppressed.
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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.
