Love and Presence in Relationships Understanding each other with The Enneagram - Deposit
Fri 24 Jan 2025 7:00 PM - Sun 26 Jan 2025 4:30 PM
Avalon Permaculture Gardens, BA6 8TL
Description
Love and Presence in Relationships: Understanding each other with The Enneagram
Helen English and Andy Portman
Love and relationship can lift our hearts! We long for good connection; with intimate partners, family members, friends, colleagues and our social network. Yet nowhere do our patterns show up so clearly as they do here and often with painful consequences.
How can we meet these patterns and be free to relate in loving presence? How might we start to live and relate in new ways? What helps us open to love and healing in relationship? How can we begin to have more conscious and life-affirming friendships?
This weekend workshop is designed to free space within you and around you for more love, compassion and better connection. You may be currently in a relationship or now single. You're keen to understand how you've built relationships throughout your life and how this can become a more positive and life-enhancing experience. It's an exploration of what it means to live together in loving presence. Ultimately, it's about the freedom and healing that can take place when partnership becomes a safe place where we're ever more able to relate from our core presence.
With a Taoist outlook and The Enneagram as energetic guide we will explore how to meet each other in true essence and form, beyond our own and each others' projections and patterns. Learn how to open the space to truly love and appreciate each others' uniqueness. The Enneagram is a uniquely helpful resource for helping us navigate and understand each others' natures in loving relationships.
Book Your Place:
Book your place now by paying a deposit of £80 - see 'Buy Tickets' button top right
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Free Taster Webinar - Find Out More - Tuesday 7 January 7-9 pm
A mini-webinar to find out more about the weekend workshop and help you decide if it might work well for you. Meet Andy, Helen and other participants. Get a feel for our Taoist approach and ways of working: how we explore the rich material of relationships, for deep shared appreciation and growth. Whether you’re in a relationship now or thinking about what’s next, how to better connect with truth of who we are. A chance also to hear about what others’ got from the last workshop and the unique experience of Enneagram mat-work. A taster session where you can sample the methods, with time for dialogue, Q&A. Webinar Zoom link will be shared privately with participants.
To book your free place on the Taster Webinar use this link
About Helen English and Andy Portman
Helen English has over 20 years’ experience of Enneagram work and co-founded Enneagram Alive in 2014 as a community enterprise. Her work centres now – as always - on helping people live well and thrive, building better relationships with those around them and with their environment. She brings a Taoist orientation to the Enneagram, always returning to the symbol as a story of One-ness: a dynamic energy map of movement, relationship, interconnection. Visit www.positivespace.co.uk for more information.
Andy Portman is one of the UK’s most experienced experts in relationship. He brings a lifetime’s experience – 40 years and counting – as a relationship coach, counsellor and workshop leader with an approach grounded in Taoism. Visit www.livingtao.co.uk for information on Andy, his ongoing work and the beautiful ‘Avalon Permaculture Gardens’ healing centre he created with his late wife Ella.
Helen says: ‘Andy and I met in early 2020, both widowed and single after long-term relationships. This February marks our 4th anniversary. In this time we’ve shared the pandemic roller-coaster, cliff-path walks, kayaking and music, alongside so many rich conversations; often, a creative fusion of Andy’s deep understanding of relationship patterns lit up by Enneagram-borne insights. We’ve also dipped a toe into the world of each other’s work. This webinar comes as a natural progression, the fruit of creative relationship, inquiry and conversation.”
Location
Avalon Permaculture Gardens, BA6 8TL