About
Evolving Enneagram
Who We Are
Evolving Enneagram is a contemplative Enneagram school devoted to the integration of committed spiritual practice and the transformative wisdom of the Enneagram. We are less concerned with labeling personality and more oriented toward awakening the deeper awareness that allows us to live with clarity, compassion, and embodied presence.
Through retreats, practitioner training, small groups, and private guidance, we cultivate spaces where inner awakening becomes a shared journey — grounded in curiosity, reverence, and compassion for our vulnerable, messy humanity.
Here, transformation is not an occasional event or distant goal, but a way of life to inhabit — with presence, wonder, and awe.
Mission
To nurture inner awakening through contemplative practice and radical hospitality, guided by the wisdom of the Enneagram.
Vision
A world awakened to its deeper nature.
A map of inner awakening
Our Approach
We approach the Enneagram as a map of inner awakening — a guide to the dynamic patterns that shape our perception, behavior, and relationships: to ourselves, to others, and to the God of our understanding. And we remember that the map is not the territory. No system can fully contain the wonder and mystery of the human soul.
Through dedicated practices of silence, self‑observation, and discernment, we learn to use the map wisely and compassionately — not to reduce ourselves to a type, but to awaken to a deeper freedom beyond the constraints of our personality structure.
Transformation unfolds as a gift of grace — not forced into being, but received through sustained attention, courageous inquiry, and compassionate presence — in both one‑to‑one accompaniment and the sacred container of conscious, contemplative community.
Not forced into being, but received.
Nhien Vuong (she/her) is the founder of Evolving Enneagram and serves as its lead faculty, guiding individuals and communities in contemplative engagement with the Enneagram as a path of inner awakening and spiritual formation.
The vision for Evolving Enneagram emerged while Rev. Nhien was serving as a minister at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. During her time there, she developed an Enneagram educational department and founded an alternative interspiritual evening service called U‑Nite, where she began offering Enneagram Sunday talks. She also developed a model for sacred gathering that integrated Enneagram‑informed contemplative prayer practice in small‑group settings. These “CPE” groups continue to this day.
Over time, it became clear that this contemplative, wholeness‑based engagement with the Enneagram was the most transformative aspect of her ministry. Though she had never previously worked for herself, with the support of the small but mighty contemplative Enneagram community she had helped cultivate, Rev. Nhien stepped beyond church walls to follow a clarion call to offer this work full‑time and internationally.
Evolving Enneagram was founded as a space where the Enneagram could not merely be studied intellectually, but soulfully embodied through the wisdom of our bodies, hearts, and minds. What began with workshops has grown into a contemplative school and eclectic community of truth‑seekers from diverse spiritual and religious backgrounds, now spanning multiple countries around the globe.
What unites this community is not one dogma, but a shared devotion to inner awakening in service of a more loving and awakened world.
What unites this community is not one dogma, but a shared devotion to inner awakening.
Scholarships & Our Circle of Benefactors
From its earliest days, Evolving Enneagram has offered tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, along with programs available to all who need them — irrespective of ability to pay.
Many of these scholarships have been personally funded by our founder, Nhien Vuong; many others have been made possible by the generosity of those who share our vision for a more compassionate and awakened world. We honor these benefactors — the Founders Circle and the e‑Anam Cara Circle — whose companionship continues to shape the life of this school.
If you feel called to help a student receive this work regardless of means, we welcome you into this widening circle.
Our Team
Evolving Enneagram is supported by a small and dedicated team who help steward the life and work of the community.
Faculty & CPE Facilitators
The contemplative life of Evolving Enneagram is sustained through the presence and leadership of trained guides who steward our Contemplative Practices & the Enneagram (CPE) groups and learning spaces. These facilitators help cultivate environments of prayerful presence, compassionate listening, and shared awakening within the community.
Evolving Enneagram Faculty Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner CPE Facilitator
Evolving Enneagram Adjunct Faculty Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner CPE Facilitator
Evolving Enneagram Adjunct Faculty Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner CPE Facilitator
Evolving Enneagram Adjunct Faculty Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner CPE Facilitator
Evolving Enneagram Faculty Certified Contemplative Enneagram Practitioner CPE Facilitator
CPE Collaborators
Evolving Enneagram also partners with trusted colleagues whose wisdom, experience, and leadership help support special programs, initiatives, and offerings aligned with our mission and values.
