Enneagram Growth Muse
Join us to learn more about the Enneagram, a remarkable resource for greater awareness and growth.
Let's explore foundational concepts and dig deep with application for our lives.
24/12/2022
However you celebrate, enjoy this Saturday and all it holds for you. We cannot always choose the people, places, and events in our life, but we can choose how we show up and respond.
One moment at a time is essential, and remembering to breathe invites us to new spaces for ourselves, others, and the world.
23/12/2022
Within the actual enneagram, two lines connect to each number. Referred to as lines, arrows, and paths, we typically understand that the lines show where a type goes in times of stress and growth (or security).
For example, the lines going from Type 2 go to Type 8 and Type 4. Typically, we understand that one line is the path we go to in stress and the other the path we move to in growth. While this is true, it is important to remember that we can access the more resourceful spaces of our stress path and have a blindspot of the less resourceful spaces of growth path.
Thus, using our Type 2 example, as a person becomes more aware, Type 2 can access the healthier traits of Type 8 or have a blindspot with the unhealthy traits of Type 4.
This is true for each type.
Knowing this offers additional insights into our areas of growth and an awareness around becoming more balanced.
Moving to the less resourceful traits of a type becomes clues -- much like a guardrail -- that we are moving off course. Our awareness of this can redirect us to a more balanced space.
Moving toward the more resourceful traits of a type promotes ongoing growth and illuminates what is possible.
Be aware of movement toward another type in stress or growth. Be attentive to clues in the way you show up, feel, think, respond.
Over the holidays, stay attuned to the paths you are on. If going someone in stress, how can you stretch yourself to tap into the more resourceful characteristics of a time?
22/12/2022
The family gathers,
coming together
from various places and spaces.
We identify with different
types of the Enneagram
and bring a variety of life experiences.
It is a gift being together,
a time of awakening and rest,
and I'm so grateful for all I learn.
It's crisp outside
with snowflakes here and there,
so bring on the hot drinks,
pull out the puzzles,
find the best movies,
and savor these moments!
How are you as the holidays unfold?
Are you checking in with yourself?
22/12/2022
Still look for a gift for a friend?
Ready to YES to invest in yourself?
We'll be weaving Enneagram awareness as we align our words, thoughts, and actions with our goals, values, and vision.
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20/12/2022
The three candles invite me to reflection. I've had considerable time for that in the past week, and I'm so grateful.
There are so many threes and triads within the Enneagram. I look forward to exploring these with you as the new year begins.
For now, let's go back to the basics and consider the Gut Triad (types 8, 9, 1 -- doing), Heart Triad (types 2, 3, 4 -- feeling), and Head Triad (types 5, 6, 7 -- thinking).
We have our primary expression, a supporting expression, and one that tends to be repressed. For example, someone identifying with Type FIVE may have thinking as their primary expression and be supported by action; feeling may be repressed.
As we become aware of this, we learn the work we can do to work toward balance. We have access to all three expressions -- doing, feeling, thinking.
Do you know your primary center of expression?
19/12/2022
The gift of the Enneagram is greater awareness and growth.
It is a gift that keeps giving with profound rippling impact on others.
It is a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility.
Join me as the year ends, in 2023 coaching programs or workshops, or upcoming courses coming later. We'll dig deeper with the Enneagram and gain greater understanding of all we can learn through this remarkable resource.
How would you describe the Enneagram?
17/12/2022
Hi! This week I'm sharing several reminders for times the Enneagram becomes a topic of discussion over the holidays.
As you gather with family and friends, it can be fun discovering Enneagram core types and sharing new insights we've gained throughout the year. The past several years, people have reached out after the holidays, sharing stories, questions, and experiences with the Enneagram after being around the table with family, at gatherings with friends, and at work events. Often there is a peaked curiosity and people want to learn more. Occasionally, people are frustrated or feeling misunderstood.
Thus, reminders for our times together:
First, just because you know a person's type doesn't mean you know the person.
Second, the Enneagram is about awareness and growth, and the awareness always begins with our own.
Third, the Enneagram is not for labeling or putting people in a box. Instead, through greater awareness and growth, it reveals the box we're already in and shows us how to live outside of the box as our authentic self.
We have a tendency to draw from the less resourceful characteristics of the nine types when referring to people and their core type. It is important to notice, name, and shift our conversations to the ways people are showing up in healthy, resourceful ways too! We all can do work around, "At my worst, I..." and "At my best, I..." There is a lot of growth opportunities in that messy middle.
Hold on to these reminders.
Stay open to learning and growing together.
The Enneagram is such a remarkable resource. What would you add as a reminder for holiday conversations and explorations with the Enneagram?
16/12/2022
Oooohhh, the holidays can be so fun, especially when we keep it simple.
This week we're talking about reminders over the holidays when it comes to the topic of the Enneagram.
Yesterday we remembered that just we know a person's Enneagram type doesn't mean we know that person.
Today, a reminder that the Enneagram is about awareness and growth, and the awareness always begins with our own. As we learn more, we gain greater understanding and appreciation of self, others, and the world. This creates pivotal points of growth.
It can be easy to learn about the Enneagram types and dynamics and see areas for greater awareness and growth in others. Yet it always begins with ourself and the opportunity for learning and growing there.
What is one way the Enneagram provided insights for awareness and growth for you in 2022?
15/12/2022
As you gather together with family and friends over the holidays, the Enneagram may be a topic of conversation.
In the next few posts, I invite you to consider three important reminders. Today we'll explore the first:
Just because you know a person's type doesn't mean you know the person.
The nine types provide insights and information into the lens someone experiences life through. The type does not tell you everything about that person. There are so many more layers and dynamics to learn about.
Assuming we know someone because we know their core type of the Enneagram is like assuming we've taken the picture of an iceberg when in reality we've only captured the tip of the iceberg.
Has the Enneagram come up in your conversations over the holidays -- past or present? What was that experience like?
07/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi ONES! You are always striving to make things better. We appreciate the integrity and discernment you bring to the world.
This year, keep setbacks in perspective, reminding yourself what is most important and choosing relationships over being right. Things don't have to be perfect or even improving to be valuable.
ONES, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a ONE who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
07/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi TWOS! You connect with others in so many beautiful, serving ways. We appreciate the ways you approach the holidays with love and care for others.
This year, manage expectations for yourself and others, sincerely connecting with others and allowing interactions to unfold rather be orchestrated.
TWOS, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a TWO who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
06/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi THREES! You are driven, competent, charming, and competitive. We appreciate the ways you inspire us and impact times together.
This year, consider the love and respect others naturally have for you without having to do more to earn it. Stay present, reflecting on the love and support of people and opportunities.
THREES, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a THREE who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
05/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi FOURS! We love your creativity, depth, sensitivity. You bring remarkable meaning and perspective to life.
This year, be aware of deeper issues with people that linger in your mind longer than they do for other types. Allow time and space before responding to obstacles, giving others the benefit of the doubt when you can and permission to pull back when you cannot.
FOURS, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a FOUR who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
05/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi FIVES! You are a knowledge seeker, full of insight, curiosity, and focus. We appreciate your wisdom.
This year, challenge yourself to tell people in your life why you appreciate them, making connections even if you are concerned it will be energy-depleting.
FIVES, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a FIVE who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
05/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi SIXES! We appreciate you and the way you hold things together. You know the value of commitment and loyalty, often being the backbone of families.
This year, use your awareness of loved ones and routines to visualize positive outcomes. Keep communicating without getting caught in your thoughts.
SIXES, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a SIX who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
04/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi SEVENS! We love the energy you have for life. You often bring joy and freedom to situations. At times, your zest for opportunities and options becomes scattered or impulsive for those around you.
This year, be intentional with some quiet moments. Reflect and savor memories, even from mundane moments, and allow them to have value even though they are not as exciting or novel as you may wish.
SEVENS, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a SEVEN who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
04/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi EIGHTS! We recognize you as strong, decisive, and confident. This year, practice having grace for others and empathy for yourself as well. Use your protective instincts to watch out for loved ones. We appreciate your strength more than you may know.
EIGHTS, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag an EIGHT who may benefit from these reminders. Let them know you care!
04/12/2022
In this Reminders for the Holidays series, we explore ways each type may enjoy or navigate this holiday season and all it holds.
Hi NINES! We love your calming demeanor. You bring stability and support to many situations. At times, you may minimize problems that arise to avoid inevitable conflict.
This year, consider leaning into hard conversations or difficult experiences, recognizing that health and healing comes from going through it, not around it.
NINES, what reminders would you add to the list?
Tag a NINE who may benefit from these reminders.
02/12/2022
Balance is always worth seeking...
We can learn from the three centers of intelligence and expression about being grounded, staying connected, and having a quiet mind.
As December begins and we are surrounded by holidays, expectations, events, and more, use this as a loving kindness meditation, breathing in and breathing out as you say each line:
May I be grounded
May I stay connected
May I have a quiet mind
And offer it to others as well:
May you be grounded
May you stay connected
May you have a quiet mind
Which part is most challenging for you?
01/12/2022
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30/11/2022
It's Official!
I'm so excited to share with you!
It has been quite a year, and I'm so grateful for every part, even the challenges. With a commitment to complete this global accreditation out of South Africa, I have invested much time, energy, and resources into learning the depth of the Enneagram. I call this “moving below the tip of the iceberg.” There is a wealth of rich insights, experiences, and knowledge there, inviting us to even greater self-awareness, care and compassion for others, and transformative growth.
Admittedly, I haven't been as consistent with newsletters or social media as hoped or planned throughout 2022. With this huge step accomplished, I look forward to connecting in new ways – online, with group coaching programs, and in person whenever and wherever possible!
Eager to learn more? Exploring someone for a presentation, workshop, or retreat? I'm scheduling now for 2023 and would love to talk with you!
Here's to you as we close 2022 and begin a brand new year in 2023!
09/09/2022
Be who you were made to be before the world told you to be someone else!
This is for you!
Let me know if you have any questions!
07/09/2022
Curious? The Enneagram in an invaluable tool.
Join us!
Discover nine distinct types
Awareness
Growth
Engagement
Register here: https://buy.stripe.com/14k5kvc9T1dj31CdQQ
06/09/2022
Will you be joining us?
Nine Types begins next Tuesday, September 13 at 12:00 pm ET on Zoom.
Know your type
Own your challenges
Embrace your growth
Discover and explore all nine types of the Enneagram.
Why all nine?
We have parts of all nine even though we have a core type.
We live, love, and work with people from all nine types.
I'd love for you to join us!
Questions? Send me a message.
28/08/2022
We start September 13!
Will you be joining us?
Know someone who is interested in the Enneagram?
Invite them as well!
DM for link to register!
"This could change your relationship with self, friends and family, and people you work with!" (past participant)
26/08/2022
Today is International Dog Day--
and I'm here with Sadie, Spencer, and Sophie to say hi!
Have you ever thought about what Enneagram type your dog might be? Obviously we don't fully know their motivations, but... we can guess.
Here's our family's best guess:
Sadie - Type ONE
She like order, structure, routines and is quite insistent when things are not being done "right."
Spencer - Type SEVEN
He wants to experience the world, loves people, gets restless, pushes the boundaries, is uninhibited and fun loving.
Sophie - Type FIVE
She observes from afar, needs time and space away from others, can be shy, curiously gathers information and clues.
SO... Ironically, if we're correct (we will never know!), these three dogs round out our family perfectly as we cover all nine of the points on the Enneagram with the six of us identifying with the other six types.
How about you?
Share a picture and let us know which type your dog may be...
25/08/2022
Curious about the Enneagram?
Ready to get acquainted or dig deeper with the nine types?
Join us on Tuesdays at noon, beginning this fall!
Whether you've taken the original course or not, so much material will be new. I've the course and I'm SO excited!
DM for registration link or any questions!
It is going to be GREAT! I can't wait to connect in September.
Wish it were a different time? Let me know and I'll see if we have enough people for an evening group.
23/08/2022
"The Enneagram invites us to look deep within, to explore why we might feel lost, unsatisfied or stuck, and how we could change those circumstances."
Using this powerful lens, we begin to understand the ways we boxed ourselves in, got stuck or trapped in limiting spaces. Through this tool of transformation, we gain greater perspective and gain inner freedom that ripples into all we are, all we do, and those we connect with.
23/06/2022
Hey ONES and friends of ONES!
This is for you!
What resonates with you?
Tag someone
who is a ONE,
knows a ONE,
works with a ONE,
or loves a ONE.
22/06/2022
Hey TWOS and friends of TWOS!
This is for you!
What resonates with you?
Tag someone
who is a TWO,
knows a TWO,
works with a TWO,
or loves a TWO.