Carol Ann Gotch, along with her husband, David Walsh, have been studying and teaching the enneagram in Winnipeg for nearly thirty years.

“I use the enneagram symbol to help navigate through the imaginal world (the heart spaces of 2, 3, and 4), contemplative world (the head spaces of 5, 6, and 7) and the cosmic world (the gut spaces of 8, 9, and 1),” says Carol Ann.

Through an exploration of the mystery of Self and Other, the enneagram and the esoteric Christian tradition inform one another. The Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes are a particular focus of mine and come alive through the symbol.

On the Christian path, prayer is an immersion in and devotion to the divine that takes on a personal quality.  The Lord’s Prayer is a way to a soul’s union with the divine currents in the world. In this sense, the enneagram and the Lord’s Prayer inform and call forth each others richness.

The Beatitudes are addressed to the essence of the human person and are meant to stimulate and activate that essence into being. They describe the spiritual activity by which we do not escape the human experience but find new ways of being ourselves.