SOMATIC ENNEAGRAM™ Trainings with Marion Gilbert
Join Marion Gilbert Online via ZOOM for Modules 1, 2, and 3
Join Marion Gilbert In-person for Modules 4 and 5
Cost: $450.00 | Save $50 with Early-bird Registration
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INWARD TURN RETREAT in Minneapolis in July 2025
A VERY SPECIAL INNER-WORK RETREAT, Just before the IEA Annual Enneagram Conference in Minneapolis, JUL 20-23 2025!
Our Enneagram type lives in our body, creating neural pathways that shape how we respond to life. Join Marion Gilbert, developer of the Somatic Enneagram™ and Chelsea Witbrook, author of Blessing My Demons: How to Name, Tame, and Transform Your Inner Critic, for a transformative retreat where we’ll release these patterns and reconnect with our essential nature.
“The total inclusion of the ‘all of you’ begins with that first conscious turn inward. It’s the unpopular proposition that in fact transforms our relationship to self, and to the world.”
— Marion Gilbert
Discover the transformative power of embodied wisdom at our upcoming Somatic Enneagram™ INWARD TURN Retreat.
When: JUL 20–23 2025
Where: Mount Olivet Conference Center in Farmington, MN, 30 minutes from Minneapolis
Tuition: $750.00 (Save $50.00 Early-Bird by MAY 2!)
Accommodations: $705.00 or $540.00 each for double occupancy rooms
Meals: Included in Accommodations fee
PRESENTERS: Marion Gilbert R.P.T. and Chelsea Witbrook
Join us for a transformative three-day Somatic Enneagram™ retreat where we’ll learn to access the wisdom stored in our body and integrate it with our heart and mind wisdom. This retreat is designed for those who have a foundational understanding of the Enneagram and are ready to take their inner work to a more embodied level.
This is a rare opportunity to work directly with Marion Gilbert R.P.T., the creator of the Somatic Enneagram™ methodology, alongside Chelsea Witbrook, Certified Somatic Enneagram Facilitator Level 1, spiritual director, and author.
Why Somatic Processing?
“Type is in the Body.” — Marion Gilbert
Our Enneagram type manifests as patterns of tension, contraction, and energy within our muscles, fascia, breath, and nervous system. These patterns begin forming in the womb and continue developing through our earliest experiences. The defense mechanisms of our type are hardwired into our nervous system and operate throughout the Head, Heart, and Body Centers of Intelligence.
As Marion teaches, “The neuropathways of an Enneagram type are organized to communicate through preferred highways in the human body.”
Through guided Somatic Awareness Practices and work with the Enneagram symbol, we’ll:
- Release old patterns and places of “stuckness”
- Contact your Essence and essential states
- Discover the wisdom our difficult emotions have to share with us
- Develop greater trust in ourselves and the Divine
- Gain freedom from type patterns in a lasting way
- Experience the “Enneagram of Process” in an embodied and impactful way
Olivert Conference Center features:
- Surrounded by beautiful woods
- Full-sized beds and private bath
- Swimming pool
- Whirlpool
- Sauna
- Wholesome, delicious meals
- Numerous trails and sit spots along creeks, prairies, and wetland spaces
What Makes this Retreat Different
“The body carries the structure—the architecture—of our type.”
— Marion Gilbert
The Somatic Enneagram™ method is unique. Unlike other somatic therapies, it is designed to help us work directly with our fears, wounds, and shame without becoming overwhelmed. We’ll be resourced from within ourselves in order to contact pure states of Essence.
Marion’s pioneering work addresses the missing piece in traditional Enneagram study—the Body Center. Through her 25+ years of research and practice, she has developed a comprehensive approach that honors the body’s wisdom and its role in our spiritual awakening.
As your facilitators, Marion and Chelsea will be tracking our type’s defense mechanisms, avoidances, core fears, and survival strategies, helping guide us out of habitual type patterns and into Essential states, free from the stress and tension of our type structure.
MODULES 4–5 | In-Person Training 2025
REGISTRATION IS OPEN for MODULES 4–5 2025 USA
WHERE: Zephyr Point Conference Center, Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, NV
WHEN: WED OCT 08 – TUES OCT 14 2025
We encourage registrants to stay the night of OCT 14 too for integration
COST: Tuition: $1500.00 | $1250.00 Early-Bird thru JUN 30 2025
COST: Group Accommodations & Meals: from $1170.00 (We recommend that you stay the night of OCT 14 for integration: $1330.00) | Includes Lakeside Cabins, all meals, coffee, and snacks
PRESENTER: Program Founder and Developer Marion Gilbert
PROGRAM START: WED OCT 08 – 2:00 p.m. begin Check-in | 6:00 p.m. Dinner | 7:00 p.m. Program Start and Welcome Circle
PROGRAM END: TUES OCT 14 – 6:00 p.m. followed by dinner
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DETAILS about Modules 4-5 at Zephyr Point >>
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Modules 4–5 are the completion modules of a total of five modules of the Somatic Enneagram Foundations Program.
Upon completion of Modules 4–5, participants are eligible to apply for the Competency for Certification Level 1 process, an internship program designed to build skillful means and more deeply practice the Somatic Enneagram Awareness Method for those working with and facilitating others.
WHY ZEPHYR POINT CONFERENCE CENTER?
Always on the lookout for beautiful, serene retreat centers for our in-person programs, we are excited to have found this quaint and unique conference center nestled on the shores of Lake Tahoe in the Nevada Sierras. With Stateline South Shore Tahoe just a few miles up the road, it’s a nature-filled remote get-away as well as a surprisingly dynamic place to visit.
Our group will be staying in one-of-a-kind, individually designed cabins right on the lake. Each features its own kitchen as well as living space, providing a community experience in large cabins that include individual bedrooms for coziness and privacy too.
For more information, please contact Suzanne Dion at Team Somatic >> office@somaticenneagram.com
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Conscious Leadership for All Kinds of Leaders
A Conscious Leadership Program for All Kinds of Leaders
Learn to lead the future with consciousness, self-awareness, and integrity.
WHEN: NOV 7-10, 2025
WHERE: Denmark | Book your hotel directly: Rødvig Kro og Badehotel: www.roedvigkro.dk
PRESENTERS: Karina Dahlmann and Marion Gilbert
Course Language: English
This is a special four-days, intensive program featuring a selected group of leaders that can explore together, share experiences, have support, and grow together. As a leader in today’s world, one needs an honest, emotionally supportive place and community to safely explore doubts and fears, challenges and visions, and to find refuge in reflection and contemplation in order to be the best leader one can be.
Using the Enneagram System as a foundational base, discover your essential strengths, unknown blind spots, and gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your capacities, and your leadership style.
Leaders often find themselves alone at the top, faced with many challenges that are unique to their position, in roles that others greatly depend on. Leaders comes in all shapes and sizes, but they require a type of stamina, resilience, and intrapersonal resolve that can both bear the burden of immense responsibility and the talent for inspiring others.
Building unique communities where leaders can come together to fortify their skills and talents is part of this initiative. A leadership community where openness, confidentiality, and support for one another can be trusted and leaned into builds the communities of tomorrow and the corporations of the next generations.
Register today! Become a part of global network initiatives to build and nurture conscious leaders!
For questions or assistance, email Karina Dahlmann >>
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IN-PERSON MODULES 1, 2, 3! NEXT DATE: MAR 16 – 22 2026 USA
WHERE: Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA
WHEN: 3:00 p.m. MON MAR 16 to 5:00 p.m. SUN MAR 22
TUITION: Tuition: $1350.00 | EARLY-BIRD Registration $1200.00 (save $150.00) through FRI JAN 16 2025
REGULAR RATE of $1350.00 increases to $1500.00 ends FEB 21 2025
ACCOMMODATIONS: Single-occupancy Accommodations (includes three meals a day & facility fees): $1170.00 | Commuter option available.
MODULES 1, 2, 3 IN-PERSON • STAY the NIGHT of MAR 22 for INTEGRATION
We highly encourage you to add the night of SUN MAR 22 to your stay in order to have personal time to process and integrate, something that’s frequently requested both during as well as after one of our trainings.
For those not staying the night of MAR 22, we encourage you to add DINNER on SUN MAR 22 at the end of the program’s 5:00 p.m. conclusion in order to dine as a group before departure.
REGISTRATION TO OPEN SOON
THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF IN-PERSON LEARNING
We are very excited to be offering our first three foundational modules, Modules 1, 2, and 3 IN-PERSON! Led by Marion Gilbert and supported by newly certified Somatic Enneagram Facilitators, in-person modules are something that just can’t be duplicated online, on ZOOM. While we do our very best to provide optimal learning experiences while online, there is nothing that compares to the energetic support and camaraderie of group learning, side by side, across a handful of days. Opportunities for discussion, sharing, and processing with others cannot be underestimated.
These three modules, each spanning two days, will include a multitude of experiences and teachings:
- Didactic learnings of the Somatic Enneagram’s Modules 1, 2, and 3.
- Inner Practices to cultivate the Inner Observer, Grounded Presence, and Placement of Attention.
- Interactive exercises for developing received knowing, feeling, and sensing.
- Breakout groups for sharing conversation and experience.
- Didactic Somatic Enneagram: understanding type structure and our defense system.
- Integration practices and movement.
- Includes guided meditations, guided inner practices.
- Includes labyrinth walks intending to highlight something that may be hidden in our shadow in order to receive new understanding and insight.
Welcome to the serene and beautiful Mercy Center Retreat Environment, In Burlingame, CA:
REGISTRATION TO OPEN SOON
What is Our Capacity?
The “Capacity” for staying present to what is determines how integration can occur. Capacity is developed through witnessing the enactment of the third force of creation: The reconciling force.
The receptive force of creation (the first force), and reactive force of creation (the second force), are balanced and intrinsically connected by a third force of creation called the reconciling force.
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The Body is the Resource…
Everything created and manifested contains a blueprint of the primal source of all things. Deeply imbedded in all material substances is the origin and the energetic presence of the unmanifested, unconditioned reality.
How can it (the unconditioned reality) ever be separate and divided, when it is the very raw essence of all things?
Many spiritual disciplines have body-based practices to bring us back home from being attached to a conditioned reality of two opposites profoundly experienced as separate parts and opposing in nature to something much more subtle and profound, easily overlooked and that which takes us into our undivided nature. We say how can you be both? This makes logical sense to anyone who uses their ordinary mind, their mental processes. You are either good or bad, away or present, here or there, sick or healthy, old or young… From a space-time continuum, this is partially true, and beyond time and space reality this all collapses and becomes one into something different from the unifying as the two opposites. Our body has access to these direct experiences through our subtle centers, which are already fully coded with the experience of an unconditioned self. (more…)
RESILIENCE – Through Relaxing the Emotions in the Body
Listen to the LIVECAST WEBINAR RECORDING of Marion Gilbert and Transcend Egypt’s Islam Abokandil:
RECORDED ON SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2020
12:00 P.M. PDT
2 HOURS
Join Marion Gilbert for a Somatic Enneagram™ Approach teaching. In this webinar, Marion will share:
- What is resilience?
- What is the relationship between emotions and our bodies?
- Learn the Somatic Approach to relaxing the emotions in the body.
Marion has been practicing physical therapy since 1978 and is the owner of a well established physical therapy practice and movement studio in Grass Valley, CA. Marion certified with the Palmer-Daniels Narrative Enneagram Teacher Training in 2005, is a core faculty member with The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), and is a teacher and international presenter, focused on the Enneagram and Somatic Awareness.