Creative Alchemy: An Enneagram & Writing Lab | August (Online)
August: The Head Center
Wednesdays in July from 11:00am-1:00pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
August Membership (The Heart Center) | $75
Includes: weekly themed sessions, teaching and discussion time, curated prompts,, monthly reading, private member space
Workshop Dates/Times
Wednesdays, August 2026 from 11:00am-1:00pm EST
Online
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Gut Center (June) | Heart Center (August) | Head Center (September)
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How does the Enneagram relate to creativity? And how can it fuel our creative process? In this series, we’ll use the Enneagram, a wisdom tradition that has long been employed as a tool for deep personal growth, to engage with and transform our creative practice.
Our sessions together will include a teaching portion, lively discussion time, and prompts and activities to get you exploring how the Enneagram can feed your creativity. Each week will be themed, and you can join us at any time – for one session or the full series.
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Drop into the Heart Triad to connect with your authentic creative depths. We’ll journey into the Heart Center of Intelligence, which brings us into alignment with our emotional depths, as well as our connection to the other – whether it’s a character, a narrative, or a conflict.
We'll explore:
The Heart Types (2, 3, 4): how each type channels love, sadness, shame, image, and identity in the creative process
Heart Center principles in practice: 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
This month includes one-on-ones to support your individual creative work and journey.
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Session themes include:
The Enneagram’s triads (gut, heart, and head)
How your core type impacts your creative practice
How to write from the perspective of another type
The Enneagram of Process and the creative journey
Conflict, desire, and transformation for each type
The Enneagram Instincts (Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social) and their impact on your process and characters
Somatically-rooted creative practices to ignite your creative fire
Sessions are designed to be cross-discipline. Whether you are a writer, actor, director, artist, or simply seeking to integrate more creativity into your life, this course will provide you with a new tool for creative exploration designed to bring depth and joy to your artistic expression and output.
While some familiarity with the Enneagram is helpful, you do not need to know your type to benefit from sessions. I will provide supportive typing tools and resources along the way to ensure you get the most from each meeting.
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Month-to-month membership (no long-term contract)
Join virtually Wednesdays from 11-1 ET
Priority renewal for current members (limited to 8 seats)
Commit to a Three-Month Membership: $200 for 3 months (save $25).
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WHO SHOULD ATTENDCreative writers of any kind! Fiction/non-fiction, long/short-form, playwrights, poets, screenplay authors, or dabblers
People developing a concept and feeling stuck with character or plot development
Creatives curious about the Enneagram, from beginner to advanced
Writers looking for a new tool for their creative toolbox
Creatives interested in human psychology
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Ali McGhee is an International Enneagram Association Accredited Professional and Director of the Enneagram School of Awakening. She completed her Level 1 Certification through the Enneagram School of Awakening in 2015. She has a PhD in English from the University of Rochester. She is the co-founder and Chief Liaison Officer at Appalachian Convergence Lab and is a contributing writer for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines Chronicles. Her work has been published in Dark Mountain, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Atlantic Studies, Scalawag, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Bulletin, and Lucid News, and she has presented on stage at Psychedelic Science, Psychedelic Culture, Story Parlor, Listen to This! Stories on Stage, PechaKucha, and CreativeMornings. She was a recipient of a North Carolina Artist Support Grant in 2025 for her novel in production. She was a finalist for New South‘s and Glimmer Train‘s new fiction contests. She co-hosts CreativeMornings Asheville and Slumber Party, an award-winning weekly radio show, on Asheville FM. Her workshop offerings include the Enneagram and Creative Writing, the Enneagram and Yoga/Meditation, and the Enneagram for Business Leadership and Communication.
TESTIMONIALS
If you are a writer and struggling with character development or inspiration--this workshop is a must have in your writer's toolbox. Ali's teaching style is engaging, fun, and thorough. She enthusiastically shares her insights and knowledge of the Enneagram with infectious passion. I learned an incredible amount in this workshop and my writing has improved. I have taken other Enneagram workshops for writers but this one excels over the others. I highly recommend . . . you won't be disappointed.
– Wendy V.
The way that Ali approaches a concept and sacred art with such care is wildly admirable and the way that she breaks it down to be easily digestible will transform countless lives.
– Tara E.
Two things: Ali’s class is a delight and my characters are way more interesting now. Ali is a deeply knowledgeable Enneagram expert and translates the profile through conversation, art, poetry, and music. A multi-sensory immersion. As a result, the dynamics between my characters are more grounded, more clearly differentiated, and easier to write. Great investment.— Lauren P.
Ali has a deep knowledge of both the Enneagram and of writing. I love both of these arenas but hadn't thought to use the Enneagram in my writing until I took Ali's class. It was inspiring! Ideas and characters emerged easily. Ali used great prompts and made it a safe space in which to share our writing. I'm really glad I took this class.— Madeline R.
Facilitated by: Ali McGhee