Finding Freedom Part 1 : Revealing Hidden Maps In Our Relationships – Understanding Object Relations and the Enneagram. Taught by Lyn Morse-Brown
Description
A 7-week course to find freedom in relationships through understanding Object Relations and the Enneagram
Instructor: Lyn Morse-Brown
Date: Mondays, October 26 – December 7, 2026
Time: 12:30 pm – 2 pm CST* (90 mins)
*Live on Zoom. All sessions are recorded for flexible access.
Unlock a deeper level of your Enneagram journey by exploring the foundations of Object Relations. Open the door to greater freedom in your relationships and gain powerful skills, tools, and practices to guide others.
Belinda Gore’s book Finding Freedom: Understanding Our Relationships Using Object Relations and the Enneagram is our course text. The book distills over a decade of her teaching, exploring how early relational patterns are reactivated in our present-day connections.
This course is for Enneagram practitioners, therapists, coaches, spiritual directors, and highly motivated Enneagram students who want to deepen their own relational awareness and expand capacity and skills to support transformation in the lives of others.
Join us on a powerful seven-week journey to reveal hidden maps in your relational patterns. Through the lens of Object Relations and the Enneagram, you’ll uncover how early experiences shape the way we connect today and how awakening to these patterns leads to more conscious, authentic, and fulfilling relationships.
“This course illuminated how Object Relation patterns—embedded neurologically through childhood interactions and reinforced throughout my life—dictate how I operate in relationships. I experienced the affect of attachment, frustration, and rejection somatically in my body, signaling when I am reacting from those ingrained patterns. I grew in awareness of why I’m triggered and how I can potentially trigger others. Additionally, I’ve gained skills and tools to neutralize these patterns and heal relationships.”
—Sally Knaggs, Enneagram Practitioner and Guide
We’ll explore how three Primary Objects and three Dominant Affects combine in a 3 x 3 matrix that reveals the core structure of each Enneagram Type and how these early patterns continue to shape the way we relate today. Through experiential practices in a supportive virtual space, you will deepen your relational awareness to cultivate more authentic connections and gain practical tools for yourself and clients to recognize and release limiting patterns, moving toward greater freedom in relationships.
“Exploring and understanding how Object Relation patterns show up in relationships is profound. For me—leading with point 7—the ‘affect’ of “frustration” may be strong or subtle. Bringing deeper awareness to the felt sensation is powerful, creating space and building capacity to choose how I respond in relationships and daily circumstances. Additionally, the learning supports deeper work with my coaching clients to experientially know their OR patterns and discover insights to improve relationships!” I highly recommend it!”
—Carrie O’Brien, New Leadership Distinctions
Key Benefits of the Course
Learn a foundational understanding of Object Relations theory and its key principles.
Understand how the nine Enneagram Types reflect three distinct patterns of Dominant Affect and three Primary Objects, formed in the infant’s world as early relationship dynamics take shape.
Cultivate somatic awareness and capacity to recognize each Object Relation pattern within ourselves and then in those around us.
Gain practical tools and skills for working with each pattern and, through increased awareness, soften and release the ways we project onto others and misread behaviors and attitudes.
Create more authentic connections by learning to stay present and open—even when old relational strategies are triggered—to create space for clarity, discernment, and compassionate responses.
Completion of Finding Freedom Part I is necessary to enroll in our 2 advanced Enneagram Courses: Embracing The Soul Child (February 1-March 15, 2027) and Freedom Part II (May 13-June 24, 2027) with Belinda Gore.