Susan Olesek

About Speaker

Susan Olesek is an accredited IEA professional, and certified Enneagram teacher through The Narrative Enneagram (2009) and Enneagram Institute (2011), and also the Founder of Enneagram Prison Project (EPP), a California based global nonprofit, established in 2012. Susan resides in California where she provides visionary leadership for EPP, including the EPP Guide Training Program, and spends hundreds of hours each year teaching in prisons and jails. She also has a private practice teaching the Enneagram at Fortune 500 corporations, to executive leaders, schools, and throughout the community.

About Workshop

With a clear vision for how the Enneagram could be taught in every jail and prison in the United States and in the world, Susan Olesek founded Enneagram Prison Project (EPP) in California in 2012. Since then, EPP has established programming in correctional facilities around the world, including California, Minnesota, Colorado, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and soon to be Australia and Canada.

In this presentation, IEA attendees will engage with and learn from EPP Founder Susan Olesek, as well as EPP Ambassador and guide-in-training, Renee Lopez, who learned the Enneagram while incarcerated. You will hear how the project’s compassionate curriculum is transforming lives; reconnecting us to our shared humanity, as well as our divine wholeness; and what we mean when we say that “we do the work together.”

Attendees will be invited to connect with EPP’s vision to free people - all over the world - from the prisons of our own making, and hear how EPP is using the Enneagram to inspire healing and transformation through greater self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion.