Do you want a fast track to understanding your blindspots, shadows, strengths and character structures?

The Enneagram is a fast way to uncovering the patterns of type that hold us back - and that give us wings to fly.

Book your enneagram typing session, with Jo.

• 2 hours

• Includes email follow-up and resources

Why do I use the Enneagram with clients?

Because…

• It is a fast track for development.

• My clients love it - they “see themselves” and it offers language and actionable strategies that they come back to again and again.

• It offers insight into your specific “shadows” of your type - the kinds of things we find difficult to see and acknoweldge (and be self-compassionate about) but are an important part of our developmental journey.

• It “normalises” - it’s liberating to realise that others share similar struggles. Millions of others identify with each type and it is uncanny how similar the struggles that emerge.

• It helps us understand ourselves and others with more compassion. Our “personalities” are not who we are. Our personalities are the ways we learned to survive in the world as children (a mix of nuture and nature). And so these strategies have been very useful, but as adults, they become limiting when we don’t realise the habits we’ve formed. Yet, by understanding more about why we adopted our coping strategies, I hope that we can also be gentler with ourselves and the journey we’ve travelled. And, hopeful about the journey yet to come.

In summary…

The Enneagram offers a fast-track to “waking-up” to one’s own habits of minds and self-limiting patterns. Some say, “but no, don’t put me in a box” and yet, the enneagram offers you the opposite. We’re all already in a cage of sorts - limited by our own shadows and unconscious patterns of thought. The Enneagram helps us to see the cage, open the door, and offers us courage fly even in the knoweldge of our limitations. We are all human!

The Enneagram is effectively a “map” that shows us nine different personality types, and within each type there lie three subtypes. So, in all, it shows us 27 pathways to growth. The nine core types represent nine different ways of seeing the world.

The Enneagram is a really effective way of helping us see the limitations of our type from which we experience the world. The Enneagram helps us understand our motivations for why we do what we do, what we are paying attention to and how. The Enneagram gives us a way of “waking up” (an infinite journey) and once awake, we can embrace the ability to see more choices and options to help us more successfully navigate our present and paths ahead.

Note: The Enneagram itself is not “owned” by any one school or organisations and as such, there are a vast array of teachers and consultants offering their own particular take. Please be very discerning with who you choose to listen to. Many online “experts” you may find, in reality, lack training, credentials and substance, and most online tests lack validity.