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Why do any of us do what we do?
Enneagram Prison Project (EPP) is on a mission to help people understand why we do what we do, using the Enneagram as a tool for transformation - on both sides of the bars - through self-awareness, self-regulation and self-compassion. We do the work together.
The Enneagram is one of the most powerful and insightful psychological and spiritual frameworks to help us identify the unconscious cognitive, emotional and behavioural strategies that underlie virtually everything we do. This is how we create the "prisons of our own making". At its core, the Enneagram helps us see ourselves at a deeper, more objective level and can be of invaluable assistance on our path to self-knowledge.
EPP Canada invites you to join world renowned author, teacher and EPP Community Advisory Board member Russ Hudson (in-person), EPP Founder and Human Potentialist Susan Olesek (virtual) and EPP Ambassador and Faculty member Sue Lambert (virtual) for an intimate gathering to learn more about the Enneagram and the inspiring ways the Enneagram is being used within the Enneagram Prison Project.
The event will begin with a reception at 4:00 pm and the presentation at 4:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.
This event is organized by Kate Ross-LeBlanc & Sheila O'Gorman, Board Members, and Leah Rowntree, Graduate, EPP Canada. Generously sponsored by the LeBlanc Family Foundation.
Learn More about EPP Canada and EPP's upcoming training programs for the general public.
About Russ Hudson, Co-Founder, The Enneagram Institute
Russ Hudson is one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram personality typology in the world today. Teaching and writing since 1991, he has co-authored five best-selling books on the subject, including the The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types, both of which have been translated into over 15 languages.
About Susan Olesek, Enneagram Prison Project Founder & Human Potentialist
"The people best poised to carry the work of human transformation furthest forward are those who have traveled the furthest depths of themselves."
-Susan Olesek, EPP Founder
Born outside of Boston, Susan spent her formative years in Asia with occasional forays into places of extreme suffering like The Walled City of Hong Kong and the streets of Bombay. These experiences made deep impressions on her Enneagram Type 1, ideological heart. By the time she entered Occidental College to study sociology, Susan’s resolve to somehow make a contribution to the world was embedded in who she was becoming. This determination percolated while she raised three boys and began to study the Enneagram, a process that took her deeply into herself and a life changing trauma suffered in her own childhood when her mother took her own life.
In 2009, Susan emerged hopeful and certified, full of ideals, and with just enough self-belief to accept the challenging invitation to teach the Enneagram to 100 inmates in a little prison outside of Houston, Texas. This decision changed the trajectory of her personal and professional life, forever. With a burgeoning career that moved her from HR to teaching this fascinating system to “any and every one brave enough to admit to having a personality,” Susan delights in the unknown yet vast unfolding of the Enneagram Prison Project. A project with a mission that is now growing her and the lives of anyone it seems to touch.
About Sue Lambert, Ambassador Liaison, The Enneagram Prison Project
Sue Lambert is an EPP Faculty member, Guide and Ambassador. She is also a Life Coach, certified ACE (adverse childhood experiences) trainer and IEA (International Enneagram Association) Accredited Professional. In addition, Sue is a lead guide for EPP’s Guide-in-Training program, mentoring EPP Apprenticing Guides both in-custody and through EPP’s virtual public offerings.
Sue learned about the Enneagram and EPP behind bars and serves as an exemplar for the work, inspiring people all over the world to find inner freedom. Sue’s story includes what she describes as a dark time in her life, where she was also able to find light; one of those light beams was the union she found with EPP, an alliance Sue says has changed her life.
Sue is passionate and driven to support others as they navigate their own personal growth and development, post-incarceration. She finds joy and fulfillment in nurturing others to reach their highest potential.