coaching

"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 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!"