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Suzanne Dion | Enneagram Teacher and Coach, Speaker and Author

Self-awareness Educator for Personal and Relational Well-being and Self-recovery

A deeply committed proponent of the Enneagram of Personality for personal and professional self-awareness, Suzanne completed the teacher certification process with the Palmer-Daniels Enneagram Professional Training School, now called The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), in 2008. Suzanne is also a certified coach with The Enneagram in Business with Ginger Lapid Bogda and has completed the foundational Part I of the Life Centered Therapy training with Dr. Andy Hahn.

One of her driving aims continues to be to increase the self-awareness and developmental well-being of women—particularly of mothers. It’s Suzanne’s strong conviction that the mental health of society is significantly dependent on the mental health, sense of security, and emotional stability of women, especially as they find themselves on the frontline of raising, nurturing, and developing children—our society’s future contributors, parents, innovators, and leaders. 

Suzanne has also been an advocate of bringing self-awareness Enneagram-focused training—as an original founding board member, curriculum developer, and teacher of the Enneagram Prison Project (EPP)—to the marginalized, particularly those currently and formerly incarcerated. Suzanne worked intensely with both male and female inmates—minimum to maximum security—at institutions such as San Quentin State Prison, San Mateo County Maguire Correctional Facility, Santa Clara County’s Main Jail and Elmwood Correctional Facility.

Suzanne is devoted to the the application of the Enneagram system in order to bring a full and more integrated sovereign self—and a more healthfully vulnerable self—to ourselves and hence, our relationships. She is also experienced and passionately well versed in the destructive issues and resulting complex traumas associated with pathological relational dynamics.

Suzanne is co-author of the book, The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy: Understanding One Another Leads to Loving Better and Living More Fully with her mentor David Daniels, M.D., which marries the wisdom of the Enneagram and David Daniels’ years of experience with Dr. Dan Siegel’s mindful awareness, attachment research, and interpersonal neurobiology. Her focus, as she carries David’s compassionate approach forward, is the bettering of human relationships through intrapersonal healing first, followed by the development of cognitive-emotional-somatic capacity, emotional literacy, defense system recognition and relaxation, and deepening intimacy—with both self and other.

Now a teacher, transformational coach, and educator of the Enneagram of Personality for personal and professional development, Suzanne is currently Enneagram consultant and faculty for the Deep Coaching Institute, adjunct faculty for Crossroads Soul Resources Spiritual. School of Spiritual Direction, creative director for Marion Gilbert’s Somatic Enneagram™ training school, and one of the founders of the newly formed T.A.P.P., The Attuned Parent Project™—Becoming the Parent They Need, established in 2024. Suzanne has presented for the Shift Network, the Enneagram Global Summit, the International Enneagram Association (IEA), and several other online platforms.