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Workshop at the Center for Nature-Informed Therapy

Empowering Helping Professionals with Nature-Based Enneagram Insights

The Nature-Informed Enneagram Course is specifically designed for helping professionals, including therapists, counselors, and coaches, who want to deepen their understanding of the Enneagram and explore the healing process therapy through nature immersion. This course offers a transformative approach by combining the wisdom of the Enneagram with nature-based techniques, allowing professionals to access a richer, more immersive experience for both themselves and their clients.

Why is it Important to Connect with Nature in Therapy?

For counselors, coaches, and therapists, immersing in nature can serve as a powerful co-facilitator in the healing process. By integrating nature into the Enneagram, this course offers professionals a unique therapeutic toolset that enhances traditional practices. Nature provides an organic space for clients to engage more deeply with themselves, fostering personal growth and self-awareness in ways that indoor settings may not.

How to Know Your Enneagram and Use Nature-Based Therapy

  • Deepen Client Relationships: Using immersion in nature, you’ll learn how to cultivate stronger, more meaningful connections with clients.

  • Enhance Client Outcomes: Nature-based techniques encourage clients to engage fully in self-reflection, which often leads to quicker and more profound personal insights, especially in understanding the Enneagram's integration and disintegration paths.

  • Expand Your Therapeutic Toolkit: Equip yourself with new strategies that incorporate nature into the Enneagram framework, providing additional pathways for client healing, including nature immersion techniques.

Immersed in Nature: Learning Nature-Based Enneagram Techniques

  • Nature-Based Enneagram Techniques: Gain expertise in applying the Enneagram in outdoor or nature-focused settings at the Center for Nature-Informed Therapy.

  • Client Growth Through Immersion in Nature: Understand how being immersed in nature accelerates client self-awareness and personal growth, enhancing the overall therapeutic experience.

  • Practical Skills for Professional Development: Develop actionable techniques to integrate into your existing practice, focusing on how nature immersion can support the healing process therapy and client outcomes.

Facilitator: Ben Campbell

Ben Campbell is an Enneagram Institute-Certified Teacher and the President of Enneagram Northeast USA. He specializes in integrating the Enneagram with ecopsychology and ecospirituality. Through his business "Wild Enneagram," Ben offers workshops and coaching to help individuals and organizations reconnect with their fundamental wholeness and the natural world, answering the important question: why is it important to connect with nature?

Learning Objectives for Nature Immersion and Enneagram Integration

  • Establish (or expand) a fundamental understanding of the Enneagram system and the nine Types, with a focus on how to know your Enneagram.

  • Experience the power of working with one's primary Type in a nature-based setting.

  • Learn practices for each of the nine Types that practitioners can offer their clients, helping them navigate Enneagram integration and disintegration paths.

  • Empower participants to design their own practices based on their understanding of the Enneagram.

Agenda

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
The Wild Enneagram: Introduction to Key Principles

  • The Body Center and Nature: Teaching and Interpersonal Exercise

  • Types Eight, Nine, One

  • Nature-Based Body Center Practice focused on sensation, healthy boundaries, instinctual intelligence, sensory awareness

BREAK

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
The Heart Center and Nature: Teaching and Interpersonal Exercise

  • Types Two, Three, Four

  • Nature-Based Heart Center Exercise focused on feeling, relationship, affectability, connection, value

(Lunch Break from 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM)

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
The Head Center and Nature: Teaching and Interpersonal Exercise

  • Types Five, Six, Seven

BREAK

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Nature-Based Head Center Exercise

  • Focused on stillness, internal awareness, patterns of thinking, problem-solving, curiosity, direct knowing, inner guidance

5:00 PM
Closing Comments, Next Steps, Resources

Source: https://www.natureinformedtherapy.org/nature-informed-enneagram-course