Heart Work: An Enneagram Defence Mechanism - Intensive
IN-PERSON or ONLINE with Dale Bially
10 Tuesday Evenings:
February 17, March 3, March 17, March 31, April 14, April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, June 16, 2026
“For anyone looking to reconnect to their hearts.”
The enneagram helps us recognize the places in our lives where we have adopted patterns for living. We call these compulsions. When we recognizing these patterns, we are able to slow down and choose a different way of meeting life. This helps us in extending kindness and compassion to those we love and to ourselves.
Our patterned way of living runs deep. So deep that we have each developed inner defenses that try to keep us enslaved to our compulsions. These defense mechanisms can look like they are trying to keep us safe, but they may also be keeping us numb to our deeper work.
The defence mechanisms of the enneagram feel like they are protecting our hearts, but are they keeping us from evolving and building resilience?
Over 10 sessions we will shine a light on those times where our unique defence patterns help us skip over our hearts. Can we see where we create inauthentic responses for the people we love? Where are we cutting ourselves off from opportunities to grow.
This study group will:
Help us understand how we avoid connecting with our hearts.
Reveal how we are taken away from exploring and expressing our feelings.
Help us discover fresh ways of listening to self and others.
Teach practices that help us cultivate new ways of engaging the world.
Make you look at your enneagram number in a whole new way
NOTE: This series is taught as an intensive. Classes take place every two weeks over five months to support deep work, accountability and community support.
This event is offered through the Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies
The cost for this event is $60 + GST per session. Fee discounts are available for those in need. Please contact Dale to find out more.
Dale Bially has worked extensively with the enneagram in his professional and personal life since 1993. Under the guidance of my mentors Carol Ann Gotch and David Walsh (students of Bob Ochs), he completed the Enntrain: Inspirited and Embodied Enneagram training program in 2012 and began teaching workshops and study groups with Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies. In 2012 he began working with the leadership team of Prairie Jubilee, to train spiritual directors and help other seekers find the truth of whom they are and how to live differently making our world a better place.
