Bringing the Enneagram into the places where life gets complicated
WORKSHOPS, RETREATS & SPEAKING
Under pressure, groups tend to turn up the volume on what they already know. My workshops help people recognize those patterns, understand what each response contributes, and notice what happens when different strategies collide.
Whether the setting is healthcare, a faith community, a nonprofit, a leadership team, or a conference, the goal is the same: creating more room for awareness, compassion, and choice.
More than information.
More than personality types.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
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Story-Based
The Enneagram comes alive through stories, examples, and recognizable human experience.
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Interactive
Participants learn through reflection, conversation, discussion, and application.
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The goal is not understanding the Enneagram better. The goal is recognizing what it reveals about everyday life.
Practical
I use slides to introduce the basic concepts. The learning happens through stories, questions, reflection, conversation, and what people begin to recognize in themselves and one another.
Topics I return to again and again
SIGNATURE TEACHING THEMES
Exploring the Enneagram
A practical introduction to the Enneagram's patterns, motivations, and nine personality styles.
When Our Old Patterns Aren't Enough Anymore
How automatic coping strategies show up during uncertainty, disappointment, grief, burnout, and change.
From Autopilot to Choice
Awareness, mindfulness, and the pause between reaction and response.
The Enneagram and Sustainable Helping
Why the very strengths that make us effective can become sources of exhaustion.
Understanding the
Harmonic Triads
What we automatically reach for when life becomes difficult.
Communication When Different Coping Strategies Collide
Understanding conflict through differing adaptive strategies.
Presence Under Pressure
Remaining grounded when circumstances push us toward automatic reactions.
Emotional Awareness &
The Enneagram
How patterns influence emotional experience and emotional expression.
Meaning-Making During
Difficult Seasons
Enneagram wisdom, spirituality, uncertainty, and life transitions.
Every workshop is built around the needs of the group
While the themes above provide a starting point, every session is adapted to the audience, setting, goals, and level of Enneagram familiarity.
A workshop may include any combination of:
Teaching
Reflection
Stories
Partner or small-group discussion
Practical application
Mindfulness or contemplative practices
Q&A
Available Formats
Keynote presentations
Breakout sessions
Lunch-and-learns
Half-day workshops
Full-day workshops
Retreat experiences
Multi-session learning experiences
Groups that often resonate with this work
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Healthcare Professionals
For people who spend much of their lives caring for others and have learned that being good at the work does not make them immune to its weight.
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Faith Communities
Exploring personality, spirituality, relationships, and the questions that emerge as people continue growing and changing.
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Leadership Teams
Understanding how different strengths, motivations, and communication patterns shape how teams work together.
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Nonprofits
Supporting people doing meaningful work while navigating competing priorities, limited resources, and complex human relationships.
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Helping Professionals
Examining how the patterns that make us effective helpers can also make it difficult to stop, receive support, tolerate limits, or notice what we need.
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Retreats & Conferences
Thoughtful learning experiences that connect Enneagram insight with reflection, conversation, and practical application.
Continuing the Conversation
I've had the opportunity to join several conversations exploring the Enneagram, contemplative practice, and meaning-making.
The Enneagram Journey
with Suzanne Stabile
The Couch Next Door
with Candice Fraser
Words from Silence: A Contemplative Podcast
with Lindsay O’Connor
Early Access (an Around the Circle Podcast)
with Katie Whitlock
Retreat Experiences
Retreats provide more space for reflection, personal exploration, conversation, and contemplative practice than a traditional workshop.
These experiences integrate Enneagram teaching with individual reflection, group discussion, mindfulness, and opportunities to connect the material to participants' own lives.
Formats
Half-day
Full-day
Multi-session
Custom retreat experiences
Let's Start a Conversation
You do not need to arrive with a finished workshop title. Tell me about the group, what has been happening, and what you hope people will leave understanding.
We can build from there.