Dustin Baldwin

Dustin Baldwin was born and raised in the small town of Gilroy, CA. He currently works and is in school full time majoring in wastewater treatment. Due to his busy schedule, in his free time, you will find him napping if he is not hiking in the Redwoods, riding his bike, or at the gym. 

During his incarceration, he found the Enneagram Prison Project while at Elmwood Correctional. From the age of 18, when he entered San Quentin State Prison for the first time, to the age of 38 he spent approximately a decade in and out of California jails and prisons. Dustin completed EPP’s in-custody course three times and has completed 9P1K and PTF, in addition to courses with TNE. If you have taken 9P1K or PTF you will know Dustin from videos & live panels where he brings humor, hope, and incredible insight. 

EPP and Susan Olesek helped him find himself - his innocence, his essential goodness, and assisted in reconnecting Dustin with his unique divine spark. His path to transformation and healing has been quite the journey - illuminating and clarifying his habituated patterns and the way out. He now understands why he does what he does, can pause and make space when feeling reactive, and has learned how to be consistently emotionally responsible. Dustin understands that the work never ends and it is easy to fall back asleep into one's patterned way of being. He continues to do his work every day with the support of family, friends, his partner, fellow EPP Ambassadors, and the EPP community. 

"When I first encountered EPP] I was serving time for multiple charges [and] I had no ideas that my patterns and thought process was the key to why I kept going into custody to begin with I was completely unaware of who I was or who I was meant to be. I was missing the knowledge of myself and who I am.

The more I stuck with it and dived in, I realized that I’ve been there the entire time. I’ve always been there, I just needed a little bit of guidance, and self awareness and appreciation for myself.

It was very scary for a long time getting to know and understand myself. I remember floods of emotions realizing the impact I had on the world around me…That’s where the transformation began.

I just had to find out what was right about me. As I did that, I realized I’m not a bad person. I’m not what I led everyone to believe I was, which was this hardened person who nothing affected and who was [emotionless]

EPP helped me realize that there’s so much love, joy, happiness, sadness, guilt -- 

All these feelings that were bottled up inside were able to surface and I was able to process them and sit with them…it made me more human, more of a person, and I realized that I am a really good person… 

Being an Ambassador is …an accountability to yourself to stay present to yourself and put into action the tools and the awareness that you gained through doing this work and letting it flow through your everyday life. "

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