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.