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Where contemplation meets the Enneagram
📚 Author of The Enneagram of the Soul
🧘‍♀️ Somatic Enneagram Practitioner
🌍 International Presenter
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Happy birthday, Evolving Enneagram! Seven years ago today—on 9/9/2019—Evolving Enneagram was born. And what better way to celebrate than with the fruition of a year-long dream: our first-ever Enneagram meditation album: 🎉🎧 An Enneagram Immersion for the Awakening Soul This is a 10-track guided meditation album created in partnership with @hemisync. A little over a year ago, their team reached out to explore creating something together—and I’m so grateful they honored my wish to launch it today, on 9/9. Over the course of that year, I wrote and voiced each meditation, while the @Hemi-Sync team brought their artistry and powerful audio technology to help you receive the Enneagram’s wisdom in a deeply embodied way. So much Enneagram work can remain in the realm of information: learning our type, recognizing our patterns, and understanding why we do what we do. All of that can be tremendously valuable. But at some point, understanding alone can take us only so far. We have to experience another way of being. Here, the Enneagram becomes more than a personality framework; it becomes a companion on the wisdom path. These immersive journeys are designed to help you: ✨ Gently recognize the habitual patterns that keep you feeling separate or stuck ✨ Meet those patterns—and yourself—with greater compassion ✨ Awaken the deeper qualities of presence within each Enneagram type ✨ Move beyond personality toward greater freedom, wholeness, and embodied transformation Whether you’re brand new to the Enneagram or have studied it for years, I hope these meditations help you awaken to and embody more fully the sacred truth of who you already are. It is an honor to be your guide. 💙 Rev Nhien, @nhien4unity 🔗 Begin here: evolvingenneagram.com/meditations/awakening-soul #Enneagram #HemiSync #GuidedMeditation #ContemplativeSpirituality #EnneagramOfTheSoul #EvolvingEnneagram by @evolvingenneagram
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This weekend, participants from Ireland, Germany, the UK, Canada, and across the U.S.—from many different faith traditions, spiritual paths, and deconstructing-faith backgrounds—gathered for the final module of Evolving Enneagram’s inaugural Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner Training & Certification Program. 🌎✨ Over this past year, we’ve explored the kind of self-observation that isn’t belly-button gazing, but inner work that makes us less self-conscious and self-absorbed rather than more. This was a co-created space. Cohort members led meditations and contemplative experiences for one another, and we practiced sacred listening together—learning to accompany rather than advise, in a way that honors another’s divinity, inner authority, and freedom. We witnessed the power of compassionate, Enneagram-literate community to nurture the life of the soul and help us release what gets in the way of embodying our whole, holy being. Just as the wounded transmit their wounding, our healing transmits healing, too—from the inside out. Our final module brought us full circle: Coming Full Circle: Walking a Path of Wholeness, Oneness, and Unity. And now, 26 beautiful souls step forward as Evolving Enneagram’s first-ever Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioners. 🎉 Congratulations, beloveds. I’m so grateful for this ever-widening circle . . . one that, in the words of Rilke, “reaches out across the world.” And indeed, it does. 💙 More glimpses from this extraordinary weekend to come. In Sacred Love, Nhien by @evolvingenneagram
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Well, I'm amazed and delighted to finally get to share publicly that, in partnership with my friend, teacher, and colleague, @scott.mcrae , we will soon be launching the Evolving Enneagram Spiritual Direction Program—an Enneagram-informed, interspiritual apprenticeship training and certificate program rooted in wholeness, unity, and contemplative formation. Early Bird registration will open by July 2026 (yes--next month)! Scott has served as a pastor, hospital chaplain, spiritual director, spiritual direction trainer, and Enneagram teacher for decades. He holds an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, was ordained as a Lutheran pastor (ELCA) in 1988, and has companioned others as a spiritual director since 2002. He also co-founded the Sojourners Spiritual Direction Apprentice Program, through which he has helped form and mentor spiritual directors for many years. He has also been my own spiritual director for the past couple of years, and I have deeply appreciated his wisdom, groundedness, generosity, and openness. We actually met through Spiritual Directors International (SDI), where we have both presented, and it has been a joy to watch this friendship and collaboration continue to unfold. I can't say that the journey to this moment has not involved a great deal of hard work, discernment, surrender, and the releasing of old identities and plans. And yet the fruits of that inner and outer labor fall squarely into the realm of grace, awe, mystery, and wonder. More shall be revealed. 💚 Rev Nhien #spiritualdirection #spiritualcompanionship #enneagram #interspiritual #contemplation by @evolvingenneagram
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It's high time for Unity (on so many levels)! ✨ This Friday, we begin Evolving Enneagram's first-ever course on Unity principles. I'm excited for the group that's already beginning to gather—and there's still time to reserve your seat! In a time of increasing polarization, there is also a movement—what we might call a tidal wave of unity consciousness. If you feel called to be part of it, I invite you to join me for Unity Metaphysics & the Enneagram: From Personality to Individuality, a two-day interactive online course. 🌊 For over 20 years, I've been exploring the Enneagram through a Unity lens: not personality as a problem to fix, but as a map of how we forget our fundamental oneness, and how we might live from that deeper truth as embodied knowing. I'll share the basics of the Enneagram, though I imagine many of you already know it well. What may be new is looking at it through an explicitly Unity lens. Whether you're brand new to the Enneagram or Unity or have studied them for years, you're most welcome. This course will also serve as a foundation for Evolving Enneagram's certified teacher training, now in development. 🤍 We'll gather live on Zoom, 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. CDT each day. Both days will be recorded, but if you can join us live, even for part of the time, I warmly encourage it. Our confidential breakout conversations won't be recorded, and they're often where the teaching comes alive. 💫 Sliding scale: $69 / $99 / $139 for both days, including the recordings. Choose whichever is right for you. 🔗 Register: https://evolvingenneagram.com/unitymetaphysics-1 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #unitymetaphysics #evolvingenneagram by @evolvingenneagram
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Where do you seek for love? 💭 But what if the very act of searching for love is one of the primary ways we move away from Love's infinite presence? ✨ This fall, our community is exploring The Enneagram & the Delusion of Separateness, and this week we arrive at Point 9. According to A. H. Almaas, this is where the other eight delusions begin: the sense that love lives in some places and not others. The invitation here is Holy Love, which has no address at all.🍂🧡 🔗 Watch Week 2, Love without an Address: youtu.be/9-0qUdFWP5E Love, Rev. Nhien #enneagram #enneagram9 #holylove #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram #delusionofseparateness #oneness #almaas by @evolvingenneagram
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When I first encountered this teaching from A Course in Miracles over 20 years ago, it was a game changer for me. ✨ Love had seemed like a romanticized fantasy that would forever elude me. This line turned my search around, toward the last place I really believed love could be found. Since then, I've begun to feel a love I once thought was real for others, but never for me. I didn't know how guarded I was against the transformative power of love, against letting myself be touched and changed by it. Not only in the depths of my being, but more and more in the very field that is my life. 🌿💚 I touch on this teaching in this week's contemplative Enneagram talk. 🤲 🔗 Watch Week 2, Love without an Address: youtu.be/9-0qUdFWP5E Love, Rev. Nhien #acourseinmiracles #enneagram #holylove #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram by @evolvingenneagram
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20 hours ago
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Just finished presenting for the Contemplative Enneagram Summit, hosted by Closer Than Breath! 💞🙏 Today we explored the nine practices I share in The Enneagram of the Soul—nine touchstones for coming home, every day. It’s always so lovely to hang out with my sister community at Closer Than Breath. Evolving Enneagram and Closer Than Breath have really grown up alongside each other, and I’m so grateful for the ways our communities continue to journey together. One of the key ideas I explored today is that even before we consider the technique of a spiritual practice, it’s important to remember our intention—and, in particular, our devotion. Our longing. The heart of the practice itself. So I’m curious: Where are you in relationship to your spiritual practices these days? Are they feeling alive and nourishing? A little stale? In need of a jumpstart? Centering Prayer remains my primary practice, but I’ve found that having a diversity of practices to draw upon—as I feel called—is vital to keeping my spiritual life alive and responsive. What about you? What practice is calling? Rev Nhien by @evolvingenneagram
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What if there is truly only one delusion, wearing nine faces? The belief that we are separate. So we try to fix everything. Earn love. Make everything happen. Find what's missing. Figure everything out. Brace for what might go wrong. Chase what's next. Stand against the world. Or disappear to stay connected. (The strategies are endless!) In the Enneagram, the Holy Ideas name nine facets of the Ultimate Reality of oneness that we've lost touch with. I offer these prayers as one way we might remember that what we've been seeking is already here. The soul speaks in poetry and metaphor. So as our community journeys together through a 12-week series on The Enneagram & the Delusion of Separateness, I thought I'd try my hand at crafting a poetic prayer for each type—and pairing each with an image that might help us access these teachings in a different way. Which ones speak most to you? Do the metaphors help shed new light? Which metaphors would you use? Perhaps you might try your hand at this same exercise. Who do you know who might need to hear these too? Follow the Sunday talk series on YouTube: 🔗 Watch Week 1, Nine Faces of One Delusion: youtu.be/fVaz2lP2egs In the Spirit of Unity, 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #holyideas #affirmativeprayer #contemplativeenneagram #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram #awakening #innerwork by @evolvingenneagram
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Our habitual perceptions don't just shape how we see life. They shape what we believe life is, who we believe we are, and how we understand our relationship to reality. Because these beliefs are so familiar, we rarely think to question them. They feel like simply "the way things are." ✨ This is where the Enneagram becomes more than a personality framework. It gives us a way to begin: a way to notice the lens we've been looking through all along, and to wonder what might be true beyond it. What belief about yourself or about life have you never thought to question? 💭 This reflection comes from Week 1 of our Sunday contemplative Enneagram talk series, The Enneagram & the Delusion of Separateness: 🔗 Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fVaz2lP2egs 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram #awakening #innerwork #spiritualgrowth #selfawareness by @evolvingenneagram
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"Until you realize you are asleep nothing else can happen; only then will you want to awake." 🌙 — P. D. Ouspensky The Enneagram is powerful as a map of consciousness because it helps us see how, in everyday life, we are asleep to the deeper nature of existence and of our own being — and don't know it. We come to recognize how our personality type filters and focuses our attention in ways that restrict not only our vision but our decisions. Most of us believe we're choosing freely, but only when we recognize the unconscious drivers leading us can we become truly free. ✨ For a deeper dive into this topic, follow our Sunday contemplative Enneagram talk series, The Enneagram & the Delusion of Separateness, which launched Sept 20th. 🧘🪷 🔗 Watch Week 1: youtu.be/fVaz2lP2egs 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #ouspensky #gurdjieff #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram by @evolvingenneagram
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I'm so honored to be part of this lineup for the Contemplative Enneagram Summit this weekend, hosted by Ahmad Wazir and Logan Jones of Closer Than Breath. 🌊 So much of our Enneagram work begins with understanding—learning our patterns, naming our type. But understanding alone can take us only so far. Contemplation is what lets us actually rest beneath those patterns and touch what was never separate to begin with: our true nature. 🌿 That's the heart of this gathering. Contemplative practice isn't an add-on to the weekend—it's woven through it. Each session is live and interactive, with real-time teaching, dialogue, and shared practice, all on the theme Crossing the Threshold into Presence. I'll be opening Day 2 on Sunday at 10:00 am ET (9:00 am CT) with The Enneagram of the Soul: Nine Touchstones for Coming Home Every Day. ✨ Can't join every session live? No worries—all sessions are recorded for registered participants. I would love to share this weekend with you. 🔗 Save your seat: https://contemplativeenneagramsummit.com/referral/CES26/bQPj8gGmiGgDbOzw 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #contemplativeenneagram #contemplativepractice #spiritualformation #enneagramofthesoul #closerthanbreath by @evolvingenneagram
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The way home is not through making ourselves bad or wrong. It's through learning to see ourselves more clearly, and more compassionately—and giving ourselves permission to rest from our egoic striving, so that the remembrance of our Oneness can emerge. 🕊️ That's how Week 1 opens. Here's the first minute of it. 🔗 Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fVaz2lP2egs 💚 Rev. Nhien #enneagram #contemplativepractice #evolvingenneagram #delusionofseparateness #selfcompassion #oneness #innerwork by @evolvingenneagram
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