The benefit of the Enneagram is that it helps a person understand how they “see” the world, and the core unconscious motivation behind their actions. With this information, we are better suited to consciously respond instead of subconsciously react when “life” happens.

This is of benefit to each and every person. Each team or social group is made up of individuals with unique sets of traits, strengths and areas that need improvement. If each person can more fully understand those areas, they can then know better how to work towards building their team, and contribute to success as a whole.

The Enneagram can be used to help each team member identify those unique areas (and blind spots), and help them develop new ways of communicating and collaborating.

There are many assessments available today. Myers Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Kolbe, DISC, to name a few. Most are effective tools that give the user solid data on understanding how they are “wired”. Most of them measure the “cognitive”, how a person receives, processes, and acts on information.

The uniqueness of the Enneagram is that it helps the user understand not only their “thinking” center, but their “feeling” and “doing” centers as well. Knowing these centers helps the user drive into their core unconscious motivation, which answers the question: Why do I tend to do what I do?

People usually take personality assessments to understand themselves better. Many of the assessments help people to better understand how they think. An Enneagram assessment and workshop can help people understand why they think, as well as why they feel and do. After obtaining this understanding, practical steps can be put in place to think, feel and do in much more productive ways.

You may want to attend an Enneagram workshop to better understand yourself: how you are wired, the natural tendencies you have, and uncover the "why" behind what you do. It can offer invaluable clarity to help benefit your personal relationships and work, leading to success and peace.

Sometimes we think our type is best! Or our type is the worst! The truth is that every type is wonderful, and every type is difficult at times. We are all equal in this way. All nine types are beautiful expressions of the human spirit.

We don’t change our basic type, which is so fundamental to our way of being in the world, but we can change and grow throughout our lives. In this way, our type structure becomes much more flexible. Instead of being stuck in automatic patterns, we have more access to our own strengths and abilities. And we can learn how other types see the world and broaden our own point of view. Our behavior does change as we work on ourselves and evolve.

Enneagram Coaching is meeting in order to identify and discuss your individual type in order to experience transformation and growth as your true self. Through teaching on your type, guided reflection, and practices that facilitate growth, you will see accelerated growth in your personal, spiritual, and work life.

You could, but how much time do you have?

There is a lot of information out there about the Enneagram, and the Enneagram is complicated. Hiring me as your coach will accelerate your understanding of the Enneagram and get you on a growth path much more quickly. It is also very helpful to have the accountability of a coach and someone that has been trained specifically on how to use the Enneagram properly.

No. One of the key aspects of growing through the Enneagram is self-awareness. Kids (under 18) are still developing their personalities and we know that physically their brains aren’t fully developed until their 20’s. Simply, adult brains and kids brains work very differently. Therefore, the Enneagram is a tool best implemented in adulthood. If children are interested in the Enneagram, I suggest beginning around the age of 18.

However, if you are a parent, understanding your type can be of great use in parenting, regardless of your children’s type.

Coaching and counseling use different techniques and have different approaches. Enneagram coaching is future-oriented, meaning that we will be focused on your current state and how to move forward positively into your future. We will work together to look at the hardwiring of your personality and explore why you think, feel and behave in particular ways. Our goal is to get you to get healthiest version of yourself as you move forward.

Counseling or therapy typically looks into a client’s past and brings therapeutic healing techniques to heal past events, wounds, and traumas.

The unique thing about the Enneagram is that it will open your eyes to the box that you’re already in (your autopilot responses) and will show you how to grow in a healthy direction, “out of the box”.

Businesses are struggling to find and retain good employees. One reason is that employees don’t feel they are being developed or invested in. By helping your staff learn the Enneagram, you help them to understand themselves, and their teammates. It’s one significant way to show that you are investing in developing your employees. 

Businesses need the Enneagram for many reasons:

• Self-awareness, which brings better performance to the workplace 

• Healthier staff relationships

• The ability to have more understanding & empathy during conflict resolution

• Awareness of others, which builds positive staff culture

• Common language and terms to use, making it easier to communicate

Business may find these beneficial responses from learning more about the Enneagram:

• Increased retention

• Decreased conflict

• Higher productivity

• A healthy, positive staff culture

• Personal development on-site

• Discover what the Enneagram is and what it isn’t

• Learn the strengths and challenges of your type

• Recognize how the types present in therapy, and how to help each other

• Understand how each type tries to get their needs met within the relationship, and unwittingly creates the “communication problems” they are trying to avoid

• See ways to support each partner, based on recognizable types and behaviors, so couples can have the connection they want

Many people around the world are using the Enneagram to increase their understanding and compassion for the people they love. It's a tremendous tool in relationships: to know where the other person is coming from, what they are most concerned about, how to support them, and how to not take everything so personally! As many people have learned, personality gets in the way even when love is present. Instead of reacting automatically to others via our type structure, we can learn to stay aware and present, and we can take responsibility for the impact of our personality and behavior on those we love. And the Enneagram is a great way to learn how to communicate better with people who are different from us. 

Exploring the Enneagram types help you understand why couples keep repeating the same patterns over and over again, no matter how hard you try to get them unstuck. Using this framework helps clients grow and unite over their differences.

This well-researched system is often the missing key to understanding constantly recurring relationship issues. A huge lightbulb goes off for couples when introduced to this new way of better understanding themselves and their partner. 

Learning the Enneagram can help your couples:

• Clarify their strengths

• Understand different communication styles

• Discover how to best support one another

• Explore potential conflicts of each type and how to navigate them

• Build compassion and understanding through appreciating differences

• Discover tools and insights to help partners grow into their best selves

What is so useful about understanding our Enneagram type is that it gives us a huge amount of information about our personality, character structure, and our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. We have the opportunity to develop our self awareness and make more conscious choices about what serves us and what doesn't. At the beginning level there is a short list of suggestions: "do this, don't do this" which can improve our daily functioning, our performance at work and our communication with others. At a deeper level, there is a map to profound psychological and spiritual growth.