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!
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