The Enneagram

For deep awareness, accelerated growth,
and newfound freedom.

The Enneagram is a core system I recommend we use in our coaching.

Why?

The Enneagram wakes you up. Wakes you up to your patterns, their costs, and who you are beyond these.

The Enneagram reveals your patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior. Patterns of attention, motivation, and defense. These patterns form strategies that the personality uses to navigate the world and get its needs met.

With these patterns come gifts and strengths. But they also form blind spots and shadows.

The Enneagram can help you understand how patterns and strategies that protected us in earlier stages of life have become limiting, distorting, and self-sabotaging.

It gives you a map for becoming more present. With greater presence, you gain the freedom to choose, to access a wider range of inner resources, and to act from a fresh perspective and authentic place. 

How I Work with the Enneagram

My Enneagram coaching is rooted in the rigorous approach of Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes. We’ll use the Enneagram as a system that helps strengthen your:

  • Awareness and understanding of what makes you tick.

  • Observation and interruption of patterns without judgment.

  • Awakening to and accessing a greater range of your gifts, qualities, and resources.

  • Acceptance and integration of previously ignored or denied parts of yourself.

This is a core layer of our Inner Game work.

Curious to learn more? 

Enneagram “type” is just a collection of patterns. The Enneagram is not about putting you in a box. It’s about helping you see the box you’re in and showing you a way out.

Here is a brief description of the Nine Enneagram Types.

  • One. The Improver.

    Driven by integrity and the need to improve what’s wrong. Gets stuck in resentment, criticism, and the compulsion to correct.

  • Two. The Giver.

    Driven by pride, connection, and the need to be indispensable. Gets stuck denying their own needs while giving to secure love.

  • Three. The Achiever.

    Driven by success and the image of success. Gets stuck believing they are their performance.

  • Four. The Individualist.

    Driven by depth and authenticity. Gets stuck in envy and identity built around what’s absent.

  • Five. The Investigator.

    Driven by knowledge and autonomy. Gets stuck in withdrawal and withholding energy, time, and contact.

  • Six. The Loyalist.

    Driven by security and the search for certainty. Gets stuck in doubt, anticipatory fear, and a complicated relationship with authority.

  • Seven. The Enthusiast.

    Driven by possibility and freedom. Gets stuck avoiding pain through stimulation, motion, and variety.

  • Eight. The Challenger.

    Driven by strength and autonomy. Gets stuck in excess, control, and the suppression of vulnerability.

  • Nine. The Peacemaker.

    Driven by harmony and wholeness. Gets stuck in merging and self-forgetting.

You might recognize your “type” immediately or you might relate to several descriptions.

Recognition is the starting point, not the finish line.

  • No. You’re already in one. That’s the point. The Enneagram names the pattern you’ve been operating from and shows you how to step out of it. It’s built for expansion, not labeling.

  • Those assessments describe behavior. The Enneagram maps motivation. The why underneath the what. And it gives you a specific path forward based on your pattern, not just a description of it.

  • Self-typing is part of the work. I don’t assign you a type. I help you find it. Most leaders recognize themselves within the first couple of sessions. Tests can point. Discernment confirms.

  • No. Your type is fixed. What changes is your relationship to it. How conscious you are of it. How much range you have around it. How much it runs you.

  • Your type shapes every decision you make. Hiring, strategy, conflict, feedback, what you notice, what you miss. Most executives lead from their pattern without seeing it. Once you can see it, you have a choice.

  • No. You get value in the first session. Depth comes with time. Utility is immediate.

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Ready to meet your patterns and get to work?

The Enneagram is one place to start our coaching partnership.
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