
A Somatic Approach to the Defense
System of the Enneagram

Date & Time
Apr 24th, 2026 05:00 PM Cairo - 7:00 AM PST
Apr 25th, 2026 06:00 PM Cairo - 8:00 AM PST
Apr 26th, 2026 06:00 PM Cairo - 8:00 AM PST
Early Bird Ends April 8th

Credit Hours
16 Credit Hours

Location
Online Course - Zoom

Learn to use somatic intelligence to recognize our automatic defense mechanisms and the adaptive strategies of our type. This gives us greater freedom and choice in how we respond and react to our life circumstances. Understanding what is driving our reactions and behavior and being able to contact them at the point of arising is the focus of this workshop. Our neurobiology is a hierarchical system and is designed to respond to first-needs first; it determines the automatic reactivity we seem to repeat until we build the capacity of “felt sense” awareness, which builds our resources.



Understand enneagram defense system from the somatic lense
- Defense system for Each enneagram type and somatic lense of perception
- Neurobiology and the defense system
- The three-part defense system
- Types based Panels and practical exercises
Take your Enneagram understanding to a deeper level
Marion Gilbert, R.P.T., has been practicing physical therapy since 1978 and is the owner of a well established physical therapy practice and movement studio in Grass Valley, CA. She has extensive training in Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, and Trauma Resolution. She has been actively using the Enneagram professionally and personally since 2003. Marion emphasizes using somatic experience for the facilitation of personal and spiritual transformation in the Narrative Tradition of the Enneagram and is an Advisory Board member of the Enneagram Prison Project (EPP). Marion is also an adjunct faculty member of the nonprofit, The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), and currently teaches her own proprietary Somatic Enneagram Certification Training. She has co-taught “Deepening Spiritual Awareness,” part of the Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP) and advanced Enneagram curriculum.

"Now I Know My Type"
"Thank you dr Islam for the precious information and for his patience. He knows how to handle questions and he doesn't spare no effort for giving us all he knows. Now I know my type, my strengths, weaknesses, & became more self aware"
- Manal Abdallah

"Would Love To Continue This Journey"
"Great service and supportive team, I learnt a lot from this course and i would love to continue this journey inshallah special thanks to dr islam and noha"
- Meral Mahmoud

"The Course Is Amazing"
"I noticed many changes in my way of thinking and life. Mr Islam is super instructor. With him I noticed the closed doors in mine and i started to open them one by one
Thank you Islam"
- Aydah Alnuman

