What if the seasons were not only happening around us, but within us?
Growth isn’t a straight line; it’s a cycle.
In this eight-week journey, we move beyond ‘fixing’ ourselves and instead learn to read the weather of our inner lives. By weaving together the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, the psychological depth of the Enneagram, and the natural rhythms of the seasons, you’ll discover a map for living that honors mystery and your own innate wholeness.
A Unique Dialogue Between Two Wisdom Traditions
Where the psychological precision of the Enneagram meets the vast, energetic landscape of the Five Buddha Families.
Aligning your personal growth with the natural cycles of the seasons.
Using the Enneagram and Five Buddha Families to see clearly beyond your automatic patterns.
Meeting your inner weather with presence rather than judgment.
Remembering the deeper intelligence that lives within your being.
Catherine R. Bell, Founder of The Awakened Company and best-selling author, Catherine has dedicated her life to awakening the inherent humanity within ourselves and our organizations. With decades of experience in the Enneagram and business transformation, she guides participants with a unique blend of grounded wisdom and fierce compassion, helping them navigate their inner weather to find radical wholeness.
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a senior Buddhist teacher and lineage holder at Tara Mandala who has spent over 20 years teaching at the intersection of spiritual practice and daily life. A master of the Five Buddha Families, she brings a profound ability to make ancient wisdom both accessible and transformative, offering a nurturing yet clear presence for those looking to reclaim their innate intelligence.
Shawna Guiltner is the Founder & CEO of Animage Inc. and NGC Product Solutions Ltd. — a woman whose true passion lies in the relational experience of being human. Through deep listening, shared responsibility, and energetic awareness, she guides transformations in how people live, lead, and relate with themselves and each other.
What if the Seasons Were Not Only Happening
Around Us, But Within Us?
This eight-week course explores transformation through the wisdom of the Five Buddha Families from Tibetan Buddhism, the Enneagram, and the living rhythms of the seasons. Rather than treating growth as a linear project, we’ll approach it as cyclical, embodied, and ever-evolving. Each season reveals different energies, patterns, gifts, and invitations within our psyche, our being and our doing.
Drawing on contemplative tradition, psychological insight, and symbolic teaching, this unique course brings the Five Buddha Families and the Nine Enneagram Points into conversation. The Buddha Families offer a framework for understanding our encumbered patterns and particular forms of wisdom, while the Enneagram helps us recognize our defaults and wake up from automaticity. Together, they offer a compassionate map for transforming neurosis into wisdom and living more fully from our innate wholeness.
Over eight weeks, we explore how the seasonal cycle mirrors the movement of consciousness: spring inspires creativity, summer reveals vitality, fall invites abundance and letting go, and winter opens us to essence, stillness, and presence. This is not a course about fixing ourselves or locking ourselves into fixed types. It is about learning to read the weather of our inner life and to meet each season with greater awareness, compassion, discipline, courage, and trust.
Participants can expect:
By the end of the course, you will have a richer map for living: one that honors timing, respects mystery, and supports a more awakened participation in the cycles of life.
Week One: Course Overview / The Mandala & The Enneagram: Maps of Wholeness
September 17, 9–11 am MDT
An overview of the Enneagram and the Buddha Families through the lens of nature’s seasons.
Integration Session: September 21, 9–10 am MDT
Week Three: Fall/Winter / Let Go, Let Go: Falling into Clarity
October 1, 9–11 am MDT
Releasing from the abundance of autumn into the revealing clarity of late fall.
Integration Session: October 5, 9–10 am MDT
Week Five: Winter/Spring / Turning Point: The Invitation of the Blank Page
October 15, 9–11 am MDT
From the open bareness of winter, we meet the possibility for new beginnings, fresh inspiration, the creativity of new life. At this mid-point in our course, we’ll take stock of where we have been, and realign our intentions moving forward into the creative life energies of spring and summer.
Integration Session: October 19, 9–10 am MDT
Week Seven: Spring/Summer / Action! The Movement of Aliveness
November 5, 9–11 am MDT
As spring opens into summer, potentiality becomes actuality, inspiration becomes movement, beingness expresses its wisdom through action.
Integration Session: November 9, 9–10 am MDT
This course uses a sliding scale investment model rooted in trust and community. We invite you to reflect honestly on your current financial reality and choose the tier that truly fits. Your integrity in this choice helps keep this work accessible to all who are called to it.
All pricing is in USD.
For those for whom cost is a genuine barrier to participation. Your presence enriches the whole.
For those who can pay comfortably without financial strain.
Your generosity helps subsidize others. Deep gratitude.
Scholarships available by request · Payment plans available · Contact us at info@awakenedcompany.com
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. We welcome participants with an open mind and a willingness to explore. Some familiarity with the Enneagram is helpful but not required — what matters most is a genuine curiosity about your own inner landscape and a desire to engage with the cycles of life more consciously.
