ENNEAGRAM CHARLESTON
SERVICES
WHAT WE DO….
We offer professional coaching and teaching to individuals, couples, businesses, small groups, and teams to develop greater self-awareness, happier and healthier relationships, and more successful work relationships. The Enneagram can help teams make better decisions and work together in a healthier way. We work with couples to help you understand your relationship in more intentional and enjoyable ways, and with small groups and individuals to promote self-awareness and transformation. The Enneagram helps each of us cultivate a path for both emotional and spiritual growth.
WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM?
The name enneagram comes from the Greek words “ennea” meaning nine and “gram” meaning written or drawn. The symbolic representation of the enneagram consists of a circle with 9 points, each representing a personality type which are numbered one through nine. No personality type is better or worse than any other type. Our dominant personality type is the method we chose at a very, very early age to allow us to cope with the world around us.
Unfortunately, we all limit ourselves by allowing our personalities to dictate or take control of how we respond and react to life. Some personality type models put us in a box and have us believe that “this is just who I am.” The Enneagram provides us with the opportunity to move out of our box of personality and return to our Essence, which is our true self.
The Enneagram shows us that life is a journey of self-exploration, growth, and transformation. As we learn to develop our inner observer while we silence our inner critic, we become more aware of our personality traits, thereby allowing ourselves to learn about the healthy and instinctive gifts we offer the world. Change and transformation can only occur if we are aware of the changes we need to make. Without self-awareness, there can be no self-improvement.
The Enneagram enables us to discover which one of the nine (9) distinct personality types is our dominant lens through which we view the world. We also learn to recognize the healthy and unhealthy habitual traits of our personality that keeps us “asleep to ourselves.” As we learn how to recognize and put aside our unhealthy coping, we learn how to bring out our gifts and live into our truest selves, our Essence. When we see the Truth of our Essence, sometimes for the first time, we begin to experience the joy of living as our True Self.
Enneagram Coaching in Business….
(Building the culture of the business and helping all employees reach their full potential)
Effective leaders strive to find and utilize accurate information on how to best communicate with others, how to inspire others around them to develop and share their vision and goals, and how to provide clear and useful feedback. Accomplishing these goals through developing the business emotional intelligence approach promotes not only the ability to recruit and retain the highest quality employees but encourages and allows these employees to use their gifts to strive for and achieve their goals in relation to the organizational goals.
The Enneagram is an amazingly effective tool to help people understand why we do what we do in both our work and personal realms. Learning about the nine basic personality types helps us to see why and how our worldviews are formed and how we relate those views in all aspects of our lives, including our work environment. Learning how each type has their own unique and essential gifts to share with the world promotes a goal of changing from the inside out. This transformation is fostered through self-development which directly translates to increased awareness and recognition of our habitual patterns of behavior.
When using the Enneagram with individuals, we learn to see both the why and how of our decision-making process. Through development of increased self-awareness, individuals can learn to let go of the decisions and actions that no longer serve them. This allows them to operate more effectively, more compassionately, and in a more satisfying way.
When using the Enneagram to develop teams, team members and managers learn to work more effectively with colleagues, co-workers, clients, and team members. Teams begin to reach decisions in a more creative, cohesive, and productive manner. They also work together more willingly and with reduced conflict allowing the team members to enhance their satisfaction in all areas of both their work and personal lives.
