The Enneagram School of Awakening

09/01/2026

🌱On October 17, Join ESOA director Ali McGhee and Jessica Dibb (founder of and codirector of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance) for a 4-hour virtual workshop exploring the Enneagram through breath, embodiment, movement, and creative practice.

🌬️Beginning with a deeper dive into Type 9 and expanding into a guided journey through all nine essence qualities, participants will engage reflective prompts, selected readings, and short-form writing to cultivate a more felt sense of the Enneagram and discover ways to carry the essence qualities into daily life.

Hosted by (members get discounted entry) – virtual *and* recorded if you can’t make it live! Sign up at the link in bio.

Event sign-up link:

Official IEA Event Registration Page

08/12/2026

Working with an Enneagram coach supports huge shifts in communication and relationships – especially with yourself.

Maybe you’re facing a recurring challenge and need a fresh perspective. Or you’re having the same fight with a loved one, again and again. Or, you might be feeling called to align more fully with your soul’s voice in your life and work.

Here’s what coaching with us looks like:
🪶Centering your journey: *You* point the way in every session — starting with specific questions and goals that are supported between meetings through actionable steps and gentle accountability.
🪶Co-creating the experience: Learning, discussion, and discovery lie at the core of this work. Your experiences and questions help create our container.
🪶Offering embodied practices: We won’t just be talking – you’ll uncover wisdom experientially within your own body, through specific, tangible practices.
🪶Honoring mystery: We’ll hold space for the deep, infeffable experiences that come from working with the Enneagram, and bring in other practices, like mindfulness and creativity, to chart new paths into this work.

Curious? Reach out now to schedule a complimentary Insight Call and receive our free guide to the 9 Types and Energetics.

07/23/2026

This August, dive into your creative inheritance through the wisdom of your own body as we explore the Enneagram’s Heart Center – points 2, 3, and 4.

We’ll cover:

💗 How types 2, 3, and 4 channel love, shame, sadness, and image
🫂How empathy opens us up to novel ideas, character arcs, and compassion for our own creative processes
✒️Heartful techniques to inspire your creativity, including exercises to help you tap into emotions and free blocks, prompts to help you mine your creative depths, and practices that add value to your creative routines
🦋Holding space for experiences of beauty, value, radiance, and compassion in your creative routines

You don’t need any knowledge of the Enneagram or any experience with creative writing to join us. Register now for this fully virtual offering from and by clicking the link in our bio. *We meet every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET.*

07/15/2026

How might weaving together the Enneagram, yoga, meditation, and the natural world provide insight and deep nourishment? 🌄 As a participant in Bridge to the Essence of You: Yoga & Enneagram Retreat, Ali and Tara () will support your journey internally—and on the land—at in Old Fort. Over our weekend together, you’ll hear many voices carrying wisdom, including the songs and messages of the ancient Appalachian forest through an experiential walk led by Tara.

Our cabins and glamping pods are now sold out, but camping spots remain for the retreat, taking place from July 31-August 2. Reserve yours now at the link in bio and join us in this sacred pause. 🏕️

07/08/2026

We know there’s a lucrative business in this for someone. 🐶😻

If you’re ready to embark on your new career as a pet typer, a few spots are left in our LEvel 1 Certification, which begins August 15.

Get all the details at the link in the comments.

✨Pet sightings are always celebrated with much fanfare in our virtual cohort✨

07/04/2026

Supporting a student as they deepen their understanding of how the Enneagram can have profound, lasting impacts across their life is one of the greatest honors of doing this work. At the Enneagram School of Awakening, we are committed to supporting every students’ journey through this wisdom tradition and through our practice of Embodiment, which offers an authentic, lived sense of each of the 9 Enneagram types, from fixation to Essence.

We loved having David Schulz as a student in his own Level 1 Certification, then as the apprentice for this year’s cohort. Now, he is part of our Level 2 Certification, a training that helps students bring the Enneagram even more fully into their personal and professional work. We can’t wait to see what David does next. 🌿

If you’re feeling pulled to study this transformational tool—or learn to approach it in a new way—our next Level 1 Certification is enrolling now, and spots are filling up.

DM us or head to the link in our bio to learn more. 🌄

07/01/2026

🌿If you've been mulling a weekend of exploration, rest, and deep connection combining these profound wisdom systems in a lush temperate rainforest, we invite you to step in fully and make this commitment to yourself (come to our "cottage" this summer! 🌞).

The retreat is July 31-August 2. Find all the details in the bio — and reach out if you have any questions. ✨

06/26/2026

Check out our June Newsletter...in it:
✨ Info about Level 1 Cert (starting soon!)
🎤 Director Ali McGhee hosting 2 live Q&A
🗓️ Info for all the events ESOA is hosting/a part of

The Enneagram, Embodied Looking back, looking forward We just wrapped our 2025-26 Level 1 Certification in the Embodiment Tradition. This training is the flagship offering of ou...

06/22/2026

If you’re new here, or just wondering what it would be like to spend a day, a weekend, or almost a whole year with me and the Enneagram School of Awakening, allow me to introduce myself and share a bit of my story.

🌞I’m Ali McGhee, and I’m the director of the ESOA. I run the school with an amazing co-teacher, . We train students in the Embodiment Tradition, a somatic, felt sense of the Enneagram that allows you to access each type, from fixation to Essence, in yourself.

🌿I discovered the Enneagram in a therapeutic context and was lucky to learn from the founder of this tradition and school. As a Type 2 (Helper), asking for help for *myself* often felt impossible, or I denied that I needed it. It took something falling apart to seek that help, and it changed my life. Now I am passionate about teaching the Enneagram to others. Through the school, I co-lead our yearlong accredited certification programs, teach courses on the Enneagram and creativity/character creation, lead workshops, trainings, and retreats (including one coming up July 31-August 2 with !), and support others through individual and couples coaching.

If you work with me, you’ll find that I’m compassionate (and just passionate!), silly, curious, and grounded. You might also get an earful about one or more of the following: plant identification, the horror genre, eating weird things, tarot, travel, being a mom, Heated Rivalry, British Romanticism and the Gothic (I did my PhD on this!), or the time a possum moved into my bedroom. 😱

I’d love to work with you! 🌺Check out all of my—and ESOA’s—offerings at the link in bio.

06/18/2026

Curious what we do in Creative Alchemy to knit the wisdom of the Enneagram into our creative practices? Here’s a short prompt from our Gut-centered writing practice, using the excerpt pictured from Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric.

📖Step 1: Read the excerpt through once aloud.
🧘Step 2: Place your hands on your belly and breathe deeply. Feel heat and power rise up from your core, igniting your sense of inner strength. You are solid, contained, bounded, and ready to take your place in the world. This is the energy of the Enneagram 8: The Challenger.
📖Step 3: Read the excerpt again, noticing the difference in yourself – the tenor of your voice, the way the words feel, etc.
🖊️Step 3: Set a timer for 3 minutes. Write the phrase “I Sing the” and then begin to declare truths that your body knows, that make you feel electric and alive. If you find yourself thinking, just start to write, without judging anything that comes out. Let the form go wherever it needs. Push through uncertainty or doubt, and write with force and power. No hedging (maybe, perhaps, I think).

This exercise opens the way to experience the revelations of the body, its autonomy and its essential connection to power. The body writes before the mind catches up.

Want to immerse yourself in a creative experience like this one? Join us in July, when we’ll meet virtually via on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET. Register at the link in bio.

And if you did the exercise, what’s something your body sang out
to you? Let us know in the comments.