Radical acceptance: the Path from suffering to freedom

• Date: Monday, December 8, 2025
• Time: 6:30-8:30 pm CST
• Location: Online on Zoom
• Presenter: Jeannine Myrvik,  LICSW, Enneagram Type 1 (she/her)

How the Enneagram can show us our type's habit of rejecting reality and help us on the path to freedom by accepting our present reality with our head, heart and body.

Pain is inevitable - suffering is optional. Human beings have innate instinct to avoid pain. Historically, this was an adaptive survival strategy. In present day times, rejecting a painful reality keeps us caught in an unhelpful cycle that perpetuates suffering and keeps us from thriving. Each enneagram type has it's own habit of rejecting reality. Understanding your type's habit will help you to identify quicker when you are practicing nonacceptance and then shift to the path of accepting reality.

In this class we will focus both on recognizing when we are rejecting reality AND help you to accept painful realities with ALL three centers of intelligence. Accepting pain is HARD. This is why it's called RADICAL acceptance. Acceptance of pain requires that we use the combined wisdom of ALL ways of knowing. In this class we will practice accepting reality with our head, heart and body. As we begin the holiday season many of us have painful realities that keep us stuck in suffering. Join us to learn a new way of being with what has been keeping you stuck in suffering.

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

presenter Bio

Jeannine Myrvik is a psychotherapist in private practice in Mpls. Much of her therapy career has been focused on modalites that center on offering skills to clients. She has been learning the enneagram for the past seven years and is currently most excited about blending what she knows about the enneagram with the skills she has been teaching clients for many years. This workshop is the first of many she plans to offer in the area of what she's calling the Applied Enneagram. As a body type she is of course most interested in the HOW of using the Enneagram.