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Exploring
the Enneagram
from Presence

- John Harper
MEETING DATE
4th Thursday of each month
TIME
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
LOCATION
Zoom - Non-Recorded
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Non-Members $7
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About This Group

Much of Enneagram study focuses on doing—strategies, improvement plans, and ego’s attempts to fix itself. But the truth is simple: the self cannot get out of the self. This peer discussion group shifts the lens from doing to presence.
Together, we will explore the Enneagram not as a set of concepts to master, but as a living doorway into presence. Rather than using type as another identity to reinforce, we will examine how fixation operates in real time and how awareness itself begins to dissolve its hold.
The Enneagram’s deeper value is not in providing more ways to work on ourselves, but in revealing how personality both obscures and reveals the immediacy of essence. By staying close to direct experience through inquiry and presence practices, participants will discover that transformation arises not from effort, but from allowing what is already here to be seen and felt.

What You’ll Experience

Each session unfolds from the living questions that emerge within the group, guided not by a set curriculum or agenda, but by curiosity itself. Through open dialogue, silence, and inquiry, John creates a safe and grounded environment where fixation can be explored as it arises in real time, and where presence gently meets and softens reactivity. This is not work driven by effort or strategy, but an invitation into awareness and natural discovery.
  • Sessions are guided by the living questions that emerge in the group, with no fixed curriculum or agenda—allowing curiosity, presence, and real-time experience to shape the exploration.
  • Curiosity as the primary compass for exploration
  • Real-time exploration of fixation as it appears in the moment
  • Participants explore fixation and reactivity as they arise in the moment, learning how awareness and embodied presence gently meet, soften, and transform habitual patterns.
  • John facilitates through open dialogue, silence, and inquiry, holding a safe, grounded, and spacious environment where insight, learning, and discovery unfold naturally.
  • A safe, grounded environment that supports natural discovery
  • An emphasis on awareness rather than effort or strategy
“Transformation doesn’t come from trying harder. It arises when awareness gently meets our patterns in real time.”
— John Harper

What You'll Gain

An Experience of the Enneagram beyond concepts
through direct sensing and presence
A real conversation
in a space where inquiry-based dialogue and your curiosity shapes the session
A supportive community
to practice awareness together

Who Should Join!

Enneagram students and practitioners
ready to move from concepts into embodied experience
Coaches and guides
eager to bring presence-based inquiry into their work
Parents and caregivers
wanting to meet children from awareness rather than strategy
Spiritual seekers
who sense that “doing” no longer leads to transformation
Anyone curious
how awareness itself transforms fixation in real time
Register for the next session today!
ECG Members: FREE
Non-Members: $7

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Meet Your Facilitator

John Harper
Enneagram & Presence-Based Teacher

John Harper has spent more than fifty years exploring the nature of consciousness, presence, and human unfolding. For the past three decades, he has been a dedicated student of the Diamond Approach, and for over a decade, a teacher of this path—guiding others into the direct experience of essence.

A certified Enneagram teacher for over twenty-five years, John approaches the system as a living portal into being, rather than a method for ego enhancement. He helps participants recognize fixation as it appears and discover how awareness itself gently dissolves its grip.

John is the author of multiple books, including The Enneagram World of the Child, Love Loving Love, and Alone with Alone. His forthcoming book, Nurturing Essence: A Compass for Essential Parenting, deepens his work on presence-centered development.

His invitation is simple:

  • Stay close to your direct experience.
  • Let awareness reveal what is real.
  • Transformation unfolds from presence—naturally.
Email: haj1155@gmail.com
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This group provides a confidential, peer-to-peer forum for reflective practice and spiritual growth. It is designed for collaboration and shared insight—not as a substitute for clinical supervision, spiritual direction training, therapy, or pastoral certification.
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