coaching

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ENNEAGRAM COACHING BENEFITS

To truly benefit from the transformative potential of the Enneagram, coaching is a great way to get from theoretical study to embodied development. Coaching supports us to put the self-learning into practice. Coaching is a mixture of education and application, which will include didactic, dyadic and socratic work, somatic tracking and sensations-focused practices, journaling, role play, reading and homework assignments, all of which coincide with the learnings shared in session and the objectives that have been established.

Coaching is focused on the learning and growth underfoot and applying the learnings to one’s daily interactions, daily work, the relationship we have with self and those relationships we have with others. Personalized coaching supports the embodiment of our personal and professional development, which leads to bettering each of our interpersonal relationships, including (and so critically) our parenting (for those of us parents).

And for those harder times in our lives, learning the Enneagram, which is such a great “self-awareness” model for enhanced self-regulation, can make all the difference in the world. As the more consciously and compassionately we come to know ourselves and our defense systems, the less fearful and terrorized we may come to be as we face the greater and more overwhelming challenges of a typical and highly complex human life.

IS ENNEAGRAM COACHING THE SAME AS THERAPY?

Enneagram coaching, any coaching for that matter, is not psychotherapy, but it is coordinated and complementary to one’s deeper inner work. Coaching is a powerful way to take our own development into our own hands. Because the Enneagram is just about the most powerful self-assessment, de-shaming, self-empowering “body of learning” available, it surely saves eons of time and struggle trying to figure ourselves out alone!

The Enneagram instead provides an incisive map to understanding ourselves — acceptingly, motivationally, temperamentally — and guides each of us toward our own profound self-insights. With it, we come to learn and own our inherent strengths and gifts, as well as excavate (gently) and intriguingly our identity-controlling, “who I have to be to be worthy” blindspots. The Enneagram sheds light on our internally driven, core motivations, and does so without shaming us. As a result, our habitual defense patterns and well-worn adaptive strategies begin to make sense and become more readily identifiable.

All that said, Enneagram study when combined with coaching is designed to enhance and not replace other clinical therapies that may be necessary and beneficial.

COACHING for INDIVIDUALS, using the Enneagram

Individual coaching always begins with an assessment of desired outcomes and an Enneagram Self-discovery Interview and the coach-with-client determination of one’s fundamental type structure, primary wing, dominant instinctual drive, and level of developmental well-being.

COACHING RATE: $125/60 mins | PACKAGES AVAILABLE

COACHING for RELATIONSHIPS, using the Enneagram

Relationships coaching always begins with a declaration of the issues at hand as well as desired outcomes, and an Enneagram Self-discovery Interview for each individual. The coaching process also includes the coach-with-client determination of one’s wings, dominant instinctual drive, and level of developmental well-being.

Relationships coaching focuses on the challenges caused by each person’s defense system and is custom-designed to meet the needs and challenges of the relational dynamics.

Relationships coaching includes a focus on the adaptive strategies, emotional regulation and dysregulation, and attachment patterns of each individual. 100 out of 100, reactivity, retaliatory reactivity, and the defense system are the critical challenges faced in each relationship and the main source of the suffering and discord experienced. Seemingly immovable defenses can make resolution feel “stuck” and nearly impossible.

COUPLE’S COACHING RATE: $195/90 mins | PACKAGES AVAILABLE

COACHING for PARENTING, using the Enneagram

Parenting coaching always begins with an assessment and dialogue about the issues and hopes as well as an Enneagram Self-discovery Interview for the parent/caregiver as well as for the child/children involved (age appropriate). The coaching process also includes the coach-with-client determination of the wings, dominant instinctual drive, and level of developmental well-being for all individuals involved.

Parenting according to our own Enneagram type, that which may not be aligned with a given child’s temperamental needs, combined with the impacts of our own level of developmental well-being (how wounded and/or how self-aware are we?) are a significant focus of coaching for parenting, using the Enneagram.

PARENTING COACHING RATE: $125/60 mins or $195/90 couples | PACKAGES AVAILABLE

COACHING for RELATIONAL-ABUSE SELF-RECOVERY, using the Enneagram

Individual coaching for self-recovery, after suffering relational-abuse, loss and trauma always begins with an Enneagram Self-discovery Interview and the coach-with-client determination of one’s wings, dominant instinctual drive, and level of developmental well-being.

Self-recovery coaching, particularly after relational-challenge, dissolution, abuses and/or emotional heartache focuses on the Enneagram type structure, the defense mechanisms, adaptive-coping strategies, and defense system of one’s type, with the goal being to return to, recover, and fortify one’s self-love, self-agency and self-sovereignty, and self-empowerment. Whether recovering from co-dependency, highly volatile emotional dysregulation, addictive disorders, or avoidance strategies, it all begins and ends with the self and a caring journey inward.

As Gabor Maté says, “It’s not what’s wrong with me, but, what happened to me?” And how did the structure of my spiritual-neurological being organize itself to survive, cope, and compensate?”

COACHING RATE: $125/60 mins | PACKAGES AVAILABLE

COACHING for ENNEAGRAM COACHES & TEACHERS

I recently read online that it takes 12 weeks of training to become ‘an Enneagram Coach.’ 12 weeks may be enough to create an enthusiast — excited and eager to learn more, but it’s not enough to become a teacher, let alone a coach.

The Enneagram is a multi-layered, highly complex spiritual-neurobiological, “essence that which organizes ego” systemized map that takes years not weeks to learn comprehensively and effectively.

“Outwardly” visible behavioral traits, which is what’s popularized the Enneagram as of late, is a far cry from the self-organizing structures that drive behavior — and our interpretation of self, other, and the world — from within. To take others from learning the “types” to the transcendence of their personal type-predictable suffering requires our own profound work be pursued and mastered first.

Learning the transformative wisdom for self- and other-understanding and the life-enhancing self-development this system has to offer each one of us — mankind as a whole — is a process worthy of reverence, ongoing diligence, and much devoted study.

For those of you currently coaching and teaching, but looking to deepen your comprehensive knowledge and applications of this system, including accurate typing protocol, developmental practices and exercises, and defense system excavation and liberation, “coaching for your coaching” and/or teaching may be highly beneficial.

For those just starting albeit with professional intentions, wanting to learn more about self and other and the multi-complexities of the system as a whole, my Enneagram System and TYPING T.I.P.S. foundational Enneagram didactic courses may also be a great place to start.

COACHING RATE: $150/60 mins | PACKAGES AVAILABLE

For Enneagram Coaching or Teaching, or Relational Abuse Recovery Coaching, please contact Suzanne via email or call 831 359 0332 >>

TESTIMONIALS from Coaching Clients and Students

"I met Suzanne through a mutual friend in 2017 and I was immediately struck by her passion for the Enneagram. I proudly informed her that I had studied the Enneagram 15 years earlier and that I was a Type 3. Over those 15 years, I hadn’t thought much about being a Type 3 – it was just another personality typing system to me.

After Suzanne and I got more acquainted, she offered to take me on an Enneagram Self-discovery Interview. I later found out she saw aptitudes in my character that were much more consistent with another type. Of course, she was right! I am a Type 6 – the one type that I never quite understood way back when (accurately typing really is an art form).

Since that time, Suzanne has illuminated the gifts and shadows of my Type 6 and what I now embrace as my “Six-ness.” That’s how I came to study the Enneagram again but in a whole new way – as a tool for profound personal transformation. Suzanne has been my wise teacher and guide. Suzanne has an enormous wellspring of Enneagram knowledge and shares it in eloquent and meaningful ways.

Her specialty is helping us see how our personal wounds and traumas are informed by our type and how our type can source our mental and emotional transformation; fundamentally, the Enneagram is a powerful pathway to healing and wholeness. Instead of being stuck in patterns of analysis-paralysis and anxiety as a Type 6, I have been consciously cultivating faith and courage, which has been so liberating!

I am deeply grateful to Suzanne for sharing her insightful wisdom about the Enneagram with me. It has been life changing! For those of you on the path of personal growth, you are lucky to have found Suzanne as your teacher and you will love what is in store for you!"

"Suzannes's way of working makes it crystal clear how relationships fail. It's simple and to the point where you find the pain and realize how to work on it, to get to the gain of the work you bring it to yourself and to the people you may know. It's how to reach the best of yourself that you can in the work, from the inside out.

It is really a journey by itself, as you start to travel among the 9 types and the blind spots that causes the pain of the relationship and you end up having a lot of compassion towards each and every one on the beautiful circle of the Enneagram.

Thank you Suzanne for the new angle you revealed in the Enneagram; it opened a lot since I read your and David's book and saw your first presentation in California & Cairo 🙂 "

"Coaching with Suzanne Dion has been a life-saver for me. Literally! I have worked with top-notch Ph.D. therapists for over 15 years, but the insight and skill Suzanne has brought to the coaching process has been illuminating as well as healing for me.

Suzanne has been my coach coming out of an abusive 15-year marriage, I had a lot to learn about myself and a lot to recover from. My childhood abuses combined with my personality style formed patterns of self-defeating choices. I have now gained knowledge and knowing, and have come to understand why I picked destructive relationships that were unfortunately, familiar to me, that seemed instead to be healthy relationships.

I’ve been learning to let go of self-sabotaging guilt and deep shame and to not only learn to forgive myself, but have come to have compassion for the abusers in my life as well. I am.now learning and coming to understand how to set healthy boundaries and have developed the self-agency that has allowed me to accept that there is a time for necessary endings and to confidently set forward and move on with my life."

"Both my husband and I began working with Suzanne when our marriage was at an impasse. After almost 30 years together we were locked into destructive dynamics that we seemingly could not find our way out of. We thought we would try one last "Hail Mary" pass and begin work with another relationship-focused professional. My goals were to either save our marriage or discuss ways to separate with love and compassion. I was convinced that if he could process difficult emotions the way I do, we could find our way back to trust and togetherness.

What I learned from Suzanne and her work with the Enneagram model has completely changed the way I see myself and how I relate to others and the world around me.

I have learned through working with Suzanne and the Enneagram that I was born with a temperament that drives my personality. The process of uncovering my temperament has been key to learning how to accept my instinctual motivations while having compassion for other’s intrinsic temperament styles.

The result of working with Suzanne has been life changing. She has the rare combination of knowledge and deep compassion. She is an amazing communicator and her knowledge of the Enneagram and its practical application to modern life is astounding. I am forever grateful to her."

"When I first met Suzanne speak in a course I was part of, I was very inspired by her talk because what struck me straight away was that it was very well structured and the framework made me feel very secure with her.

There was a lot of very interesting and good useful information. It was not only intellectual but there was also a lot of practical information. I could sense that all of this information wasn't only intellectual but came also from lived experiences.

I feel she has done a huge amount of work making bridges between the Enneagram, trauma and relationships. The fact that the framework was very clear, the information was hugely helpful and that Suzanne is very well trauma-informed made this class super-super for me.

On top of all that, as "la cerise sur le gâteau" she is the most deep loving, heartwarming, extraordinary, non-judgemental and compassionate person I have met, when working with her on an individual level.

I really feel understood by her and somehow she makes me feel that even how bad my life situation is (or has been), yes there is hope!! There are possibilities for everyone to heal and get out of our defense mechanisms that we have put into place in our life in order to survive.

Thank you so much Universe for having put Suzanne on my life path, she is a true shining light.”

"Just before our encounter I was very low, asking Source for help as I couldn’t go on longer with so much pains I was throwing on my friend and loved one… And my friend told me a lot about the amaaazing woman with whom she just had an interview for her typing and that she thought could help me. I was wondering how enneagram could be of any help but I sent an email without really believing to ever get an answer… Our first session happened only few days after my email! Suzanne has such an open, humble and respectful presence, without any judgment in her, so that I feel secure. From the first hour, I trusted her and opened my heart to her with total truth.

I never met so much kindness, patiently waiting for the moment I would be able to express painful memories that are hard to put in words. Her capacity of compassion, of total presence to me, listening with respect, attention and interest, helping me and guiding me on the Path of healing. For sure, understanding myself through the Enneagram has been absolutely amaaazing!"