The Instinctual Drives are just as essential to understand as the Enneagram Types—yet they remain the most unconscious and vulnerable aspects of our personality. While nearly every Enneagram tradition acknowledges the instincts, there is still a deep lack of understanding about what they truly are, their biological foundations, their role in shaping the ego, and, most importantly, their implications for inner work.

Using brand new distinctions like Instinctual Needs, Instinctual Approaches, and Autonomy Conflicts, this workshop offers a fresh perspective that challenges conventional Enneagram wisdom. Instead of viewing personality as separate from our instincts, we’ll explore how personality is a reaction to them. Instinct comes first—our type is simply a strategy to meet instinctual needs.

What You’ll Learn:

• Discover why the instinctual drives are inseparable from the Enneagram and how they shape our ego and sense of self.
• Distinguish between authentic instinctual intelligence and how identification distorts its functioning.
• Clarify the role of instincts in spirituality and inner work.
• Recognize and overcome the tendency to confuse instinctual satisfaction with Essence—an unconscious mistake that keeps personality in motion.
• Learn practical ways to integrate the transformative power of your Blind Spot Instinct.

Without awareness, our instinctual energies become entangled with the fears of our personality, driving our unconscious patterns. This workshop will illuminate how to bring presence to our instincts and reclaim their role in our spiritual and psychological growth.