“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”
Don Richard Riso
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Enneagram Teaching & Coaching
The Enneagram is a psychological and personality system that has surged in popularity in recent years. It is a system that has had a profound impact on my life and I have been studying it and engaging with it for 14 years. I taught my first course in 2013.
It is arguably one of the most effective tools for gaining self-awareness, tending to the reality of our unconscious behaviors, healing the patterns that keep us stuck and deepening into presence.
The Enneagram has ancient roots but is also rooted in current psychology and understanding of human development.
All of us have a personality that is unique to us. And each of our personalities are both helpful and hindrances to us in our adult lives. They helped us survive and navigate life in our current cultural context and situation.
But as we grow and evolve our personality can be the same thing that keeps us trapped in redundant behaviors, dynamics and unhelpful coping mechanisms. The Enneagram gives us a tool to observe these behaviors and dynamics with remarkable clarity and a path forward to shedding the layers we’ve needed to navigate this world so we can return home to our most authentic, liberated selves-our essence.
Sounds dreamy-it really is! It’s a powerful tool and I think one of the reasons it has taken off so much is because it really works! In short, I would say that the ennegaram just makes life a whole lot easier and a lot more real. And who doesn’t want that?
My enneagram offerings
I offer Enneagram coaching as a part of my Spirituality services and I teach Enneagram courses in the community.
If you are interested in discussing me leading an Enneagram workshop or retreat for your team or community, please reach out to discuss your desires and goals for this event!
Becuase the Enneagram is used in so many spaces and by a large global community, there are many ways someone can be “trained” in it and a number of different wisdom traditions that influence it.
I have hundreds of hours of training in the Enneagram and hundreds of hours in teaching and providing one on one spiritual support using it.
Most notably, I received a Certificate as a Trained Guide through the Enneagram Prison Project. They are a very powerful organization that began by teaching the enneagram to people experiencing incarceration and have since then launched their unique curriculum to include the larger community and business world.
This was a 78 hour training that included an 8 week Intensive, a 4 day in person practicum and a 10 week teaching apprenticeship.
Additionally, I have attended dozens of trainings and workshops on topics ranging from the Instinctual Biases to learning how to type to healing the Inner Critic.
And of course, some of my most valuable Enneagram education has been from my own Enneagram mentor and Coach, Michael Naylor. He specializes in using the Enneagram as a tool for recovering from addiction and I have been working with him for years.