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• Nine Paths, One Spirit: How Our Enneagram Types Mirror Nine World Religions & Map a New Spiritual Age

  • When
    01/13/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Nine Paths, One Spirit: How Our Enneagram Types Mirror Nine World Religions & Map a New Spiritual Age

  • Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
  • Time: 6:30-8:30 pm CST
  • Location: Online on Zoom
  • Presenter: Scott McRae, Enneagram Type 9 (he/him)

  The growing interest in the Enneagram parallels what many see to be a new, emerging form of spirituality on our planet. Each is helping to illuminate the other. As we navigate a world marked by overwhelming change and great uncertainty about our future, both the Enneagram and the world’s spiritual traditions offer time-tested mirrors and evolving maps for living with vitality, clarity, and purpose.

  In this class, we’ll explore how each of the 9 Enneagram types resonates with the core values and perspectives of a particular religious or spiritual tradition. For each pairing, we’ll examine a common framing of humanity’s fundamental problem, the solution that addresses it, and a vision for the highest good. For instance, we’ll consider how the Type 1 reflects key values found within Judaism, and their homecoming in serenity and peace (shalom).

  From each of these pairings, we’ll also draw out a spiritual principle that speaks to the emergence of a new spiritual consciousness—one that is personal, communal, and oriented toward planetary well-being.

  Through a mix of presentation, reflection, and both large and small group discussions, this interactive Zoom class invites us to explore how ancient wisdom and emerging spirituality can guide us to meet today’s personal and collective challenges with minds, hearts, and bodies rooted in love.

  Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. We will share a recording of the event with registrants by email.

  

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  Scott McRae has been teaching the Enneagram since 1998 in corporate, educational, and faith settings. His professional journey started in church and campus ministries, and then led him into hospital settings, where he became a department director, ethics lead, and chaplain educator. His Enneagram courses became the most popular leadership offering for over a decade. Since retiring from the health care world, he devotes his time to his Sojourners Institute, which offers spiritual direction and training, and various workshops and groups on personal and spiritual development. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Melanie, and their adoptee, Fergus, the miraculous show dog.

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• Illuminating the Inner Landscape: A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series - First Session

  • When
    02/10/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Spaces left
    66

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  illuminating the inner landscape: a Spring 2026 Enneagram Series

  First Session in our Four-Part Spring Series
  Whether you join us for a single gathering or the full four-month journey, you’ll gain practical insights, deepen your self-understanding, and connect with others in our Enneagram community.
  

  • Topic: Spring Series Overview - Let's Explore Together:  Passion, Fixation, Defense Mechanism, and Focus of Attention
    
  • Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
  • Time: 6:30-8:30pm CST
  • Location: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Presenter: Karen Carlsen, MSW, LICSW, Enneagram Type 6So (she/her)

  This spring, we invite you to explore the deeper patterns that shape our Enneagram types through a four-part monthly series designed to expand awareness, insight, and connection. We frequently reference concepts like passion, fixation, focus of attention, and defense strategy—but what do these truly look like in our day-to-day lives? And how do they influence our relationships, our work, and our overall well-being?

  To guide our exploration, we’ll use the powerful metaphor of Johari’s Window, a framework that helps illuminate how we see ourselves—and how we are seen by others.

  Johari’s Window includes four quadrants:

  • The Open Area – what is known to both self and others
  • The Blind Area – what others notice that we may not
  • The Hidden Area – what we know but keep private
  • The Unknown Area – aspects of ourselves still waiting to emerge

  Each monthly session will dive into one of the four core elements of the Enneagram through this lens, offering a blend of learning, reflection, and community engagement.

  To support different learning styles and facilitation approaches, each month may incorporate a mix of type panels, experiential activities, and large or small group processes.

  In-person events are not recorded.
  
  

  
  

  A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series
  Attend one, two, or all four sessions!
  February | March | April | May

  

  presenter Bio
  
  

  Karen Carlsen, MSW, LICSW, is a longtime Enneagram enthusiast and the current President of the Minnesota Enneagram Chapter. She was certified through Anne Muree’s Full Circle Enneagram Training in 2016 and through the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy in 2021. A psychotherapist, teacher, and coach, Karen integrates the Enneagram as a psychological and spiritual map for deep healing and growth. Trained as a Spiritual Director in 2000, she brings together her background in spirituality, psychology, and the Enneagram to support individuals and groups on the path of awakening.

  Karen enjoys exploring new hiking trails, spending time with her husband and their dog Orzo, and diving into her ongoing Enneagram studies. More Info.

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• Illuminating the Inner Landscape: A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series - Second Session

  • When
    03/09/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Spaces left
    81

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  illuminating the inner landscape: a Spring 2026 Enneagram Series

  Second Session in our Four-Part Spring Series
  Whether you join us for a single gathering or the full four-month journey, you’ll gain practical insights, deepen your self-understanding, and connect with others in our Enneagram community.

  • Topic: What Exactly are the Passions? The Emotional Drivers that Cloud our Clarity
  • Date: Monday, March 9, 2026
  • Time: 6:30-8:30pm CST
  • Location: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Presenter: Kate Jackson, Enneagram Type 9 (she/her)

  This spring, we invite you to explore the deeper patterns that shape our Enneagram types through a four-part monthly series designed to expand awareness, insight, and connection. We frequently reference concepts like passion, fixation, focus of attention, and defense strategy—but what do these truly look like in our day-to-day lives? And how do they influence our relationships, our work, and our overall well-being?

  To guide our exploration, we’ll use the powerful metaphor of Johari’s Window, a framework that helps illuminate how we see ourselves—and how we are seen by others.

  Johari’s Window includes four quadrants:

  • The Open Area – what is known to both self and others
  • The Blind Area – what others notice that we may not
  • The Hidden Area – what we know but keep private
  • The Unknown Area – aspects of ourselves still waiting to emerge

  Each monthly session will dive into one of the four core elements of the Enneagram through this lens, offering a blend of learning, reflection, and community engagement.

  To support different learning styles and facilitation approaches, each month may incorporate a mix of type panels, experiential activities, and large or small group processes.

  March Series Topic: 
  What Exactly are the Passions? The Emotional Drivers That Cloud Our Clarity

  Does a Type 9 clean her house because it needs cleaning or because she is avoiding something else that needs attention? Does a Type 2 offer help to a friend in need for pure altruistic means, or is he doing so to feel a sense of importance?
  
  Without awareness of our passions, the emotional motivations of our types, we behave in ways that are misaligned with our true needs and are left feeling dissatisfied without knowing why. Join us as we shed light on the subtle ways our passions operate unconsciously through panels and small group discussion and discover ways to support new awareness for greater clarity and well-being.

  In-person events are not recorded.
  

  
  

  A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series
  Attend one, two, or all four sessions!
  February | March | April | May

  

  Presenter Bio

  Kate Jackson is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Certified Enneagram Practitioner. She became an integrative health and wellbeing coach after recognizing the limitations of conventional medicine, which often treats symptoms rather than root causes.

  Kate was introduced to the Enneagram in 2015 when Anne Mureé, co-founder of the Minnesota chapter of the International Enneagram Association, taught a class during her coaching program. Since then, the Enneagram has become a core framework in her life and work—supporting her own chronic health journey and serving as an ongoing guide for daily wellbeing.

  Kate is the owner of Enso Wellbeing Coaching and a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher. Drawing on her personal experience with Stage 4 cancer and the Enneagram system, she helps clients cultivate awareness and agency as essential elements of healing. In 2025, Kate completed her certification in sound healing and occasionally tests instruments on her new-ish rescue puppy, Rafa, with mixed (and patient) results. 

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• Illuminating the Inner Landscape: A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series - Third Session

  • When
    04/13/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Spaces left
    82

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  illuminating the inner landscape: a Spring 2026 Enneagram Series

  Third Session in our Four-Part Spring Series
  Whether you join us for a single gathering or the full four-month journey, you’ll gain practical insights, deepen your self-understanding, and connect with others in our Enneagram community.
  

  • Topic: Denial - It's Not Just a River in Egypt. Understanding our Defense Mechanisms
  • Date: Monday, April 13, 2026
  • Time: 6:30-8:30pm CST
  • Location: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Presenter: Beth LaRusso, MD, Enneagram Type 6 (she/her)

  This spring, we invite you to explore the deeper patterns that shape our Enneagram types through a four-part monthly series designed to expand awareness, insight, and connection. We frequently reference concepts like passion, fixation, focus of attention, and defense strategy—but what do these truly look like in our day-to-day lives? And how do they influence our relationships, our work, and our overall well-being?

  To guide our exploration, we’ll use the powerful metaphor of Johari’s Window, a framework that helps illuminate how we see ourselves—and how we are seen by others.

  Johari’s Window includes four quadrants:

  • The Open Area – what is known to both self and others
  • The Blind Area – what others notice that we may not
  • The Hidden Area – what we know but keep private
  • The Unknown Area – aspects of ourselves still waiting to emerge

  Each monthly session will dive into one of the four core elements of the Enneagram through this lens, offering a blend of learning, reflection, and community engagement.

  To support different learning styles and facilitation approaches, each month may incorporate a mix of type panels, experiential activities, and large or small group processes.

  April Series Topic: 
  Denial - It’s Not Just a River in Egypt. Understanding our defense mechanisms

  As a six, have you ever accused someone you love of being angry at you only to realize later that you are actually the one who’s mad?  As an eight, how often do you decline help and insist you’re okay even in the face of a major stressor?  As a four, have you ever come away from supporting a friend through a hard time only to feel that you yourself are carrying their pain? 

  These are three examples of defense mechanisms – projection, denial, introjection – unconscious internal processes that seek to shield us from emotional suffering but actually constitute a form of self-deception that alienates us from ourselves and others.  Often overlooked in Enneagram teaching, defense mechanisms are considered the glue that holds the personality together, or as Claudio Naranjo explains, “selective ways of sustaining unconsciousness.”

  Join us as we peer through the window of personality to see the hidden mechanisms of the psyche and make the invisible visible through a combination of didactics, group discussion, and an invited guest panel.

  
  In-person events are not recorded.
  
  
  

  A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series
  Attend one, two, or all four sessions!
  February | March | April | May

  

  presenter Bio

  Elizabeth LaRusso is a board-certified, practicing psychiatrist, an Enneagram coach, and a writer.  As a psychiatrist, her expertise is in women’s mental health, medical psychiatry, and physician wellness.  As a coach, she primarily works with physicians and other high achievers, using the Enneagram as a tool to cultivate inner curiosity and psychospiritual transformation.  Her writing reflects on existential themes of individuation, connection, and the burden of being human — but in a funny way.  She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the CP Enneagram Professional Program.  She lives in Minneapolis, where she raises teenage children and practices yoga.

  You can find her on Linked In  and Substack.

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• Illuminating the Inner Landscape: A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series - Fourth Session

  • When
    05/11/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Spaces left
    81

  Register

  illuminating the inner landscape: a Spring 2026 Enneagram Series

  Final Session in our Four-Part Spring Series
  Whether you join us for a single gathering or the full four-month journey, you’ll gain practical insights, deepen your self-understanding, and connect with others in our Enneagram community.
  

  • Topic: Seeing How We See. An Exploration of Fixations and Focus of Attention. 
    
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2026
  • Time: 6:30-8:30pm CST
  • Location: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
  • Presenter: Nikki Shultz, Enneagram Type 7 (she/her)

  This spring, we invite you to explore the deeper patterns that shape our Enneagram types through a four-part monthly series designed to expand awareness, insight, and connection. We frequently reference concepts like passion, fixation, focus of attention, and defense strategy—but what do these truly look like in our day-to-day lives? And how do they influence our relationships, our work, and our overall well-being?

  To guide our exploration, we’ll use the powerful metaphor of Johari’s Window, a framework that helps illuminate how we see ourselves—and how we are seen by others.

  Johari’s Window includes four quadrants:

  • The Open Area – what is known to both self and others
  • The Blind Area – what others notice that we may not
  • The Hidden Area – what we know but keep private
  • The Unknown Area – aspects of ourselves still waiting to emerge

  Each monthly session will dive into one of the four core elements of the Enneagram through this lens, offering a blend of learning, reflection, and community engagement.

  To support different learning styles and facilitation approaches, each month may incorporate a mix of type panels, experiential activities, and large or small group processes

  May Series Topic:
  Seeing How We See. An Exploration of Fixations and Focus of Attention. 

  Enneagram teacher, Claudio Naranjo said that the fixation is the mind's way of sustaining unconsciousness. The greatest freedom we have is our freedom to choose our response. We do not have this freedom when we are unconscious. 

  “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” - Anais Nin. Here is how this idea plays out with a few Types: A Type 1 walks into a meeting and notices what’s wrong, but doesn't see what’s working. A Type 7 focuses on what’s possible, but doesn't see what’s painful. A Type 3 locks into what needs to get done, but misses how they actually feel. Our Type structure has a focus of attention that filters the world as it sees it, not as it is and as a result, we see an incomplete, distorted reality. And, where attention goes, energy flows. For example: Why do we see a Type 8 use energy to jump to confrontation with a colleague before checking if there’s actually a problem?

  The answer is fixations: the mental habit that gives meaning to what we focused our attention on. 

  So, join us to see how we see. Through activity, teaching, panels and small groups, we will illuminate more of reality together. 

  In-person events are not recorded.
  
  

  
  

  A Spring 2026 Enneagram Series
  Attend one, two, or all four sessions!
  February | March | April | May

  

  presenter Bio
  
  

  Nikki Shultz is an executive coach, organizational consultant, and founder of Courageous Roots Development. She works with senior leaders and executive teams to expand their consciousness and capacity to lead in complex systems. A certified practitioner through the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy, Nikki integrates the Enneagram, Vertical Development, and spirituality as pathways for both organizational evolution and personal transformation.

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