Enneagram Offerings
Gain understanding, empathy, and appreciation for why you and your team members think, feel, and behave in the way you each do,
so you can work together better.
ENNEAGRAM LEARNING
Do you ever find yourself wondering why your team members, partner, family, etc. are the way they are?
Do you struggle with your manager’s communication style, or the pace of work, or feeling like there is too much or not enough structure?
Are there members of your team that everyone feels intimidated by or others who never speak up in meetings?
Or maybe others who never share personal information and still others who won’t stop going on and on about what they did last weekend?
Equally as importantly, how aware are you of why YOU do the things you do? Show up the way you show up? Don’t do the things you wish you would?
Each of these ways of being are connected to our Enneagram types.
The Enneagram is a personality typing system that describes 9 archetypes of human personality. It provides insight into the engrained patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that influence much of how each of the 9 types show up in the world.
It goes far beyond most other personality assessments that primarily describe HOW a person is and explains WHY a person is that way, including the core beliefs, worldview, and ego structure that underlie the characteristics and ways of being a person embodies.
As a result, the Enneagram is a powerful and transformative tool for expanding self-awareness and understanding others. It illuminates a unique growth path for each type to maximize productive tendencies and transcend less productive, habituated ways of being. It provides a framework and shared lexicon through which to:
Engender curiosity and empathy for self and others as we learn about the 9 fundamentally different ways of viewing the world and our place in it.
Gain awareness of our own and others’ core beliefs, feelings, and resulting actions and behaviors.
Enhance communication and optimize team collaboration as we use our new awareness to choose more conscientious, inclusive, and thoughtful ways of engaging with ourselves and others.
ENNEAGRAM OFFERINGS
The Enneagram has countless applications ranging from relatively straightforward to deeply complex.
I bring each client on a journey that starts with their team learning each of their types and the foundational aspects of the Enneagram, and then equips the leader and team to integrate the Enneagram into the fabric of their culture.
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Your Enneagram type is based on your deepest beliefs and motivations.
A typing interview is one of the best ways to accurately ascertain your Enneagram type because it goes beyond the identification of behaviors and characteristics to the “why” behind your ways of being.
During each 1-hour typing interview, Jessica asks the participant a series of questions related to each type, and their responses help narrow down which type they likely are.
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For leaders who desire to use the Enneagram with their team, Jessica facilitates half-day, virtual or in-person workshops that include the following segments:
1) Why it’s important to understand self and others.
2) An overview of the fundamental aspects of the Enneagram system.
3) A detailed overview of each type to facilitate deeper understanding of both self and team members.
4) Insight into the unique way each type communicates.
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Teams that desire to integrate the Enneagram into the fabric of their organizational culture will benefit from ongoing (e.g., quarterly or semi-annually) learning opportunities, which I call Integration Modules.
During Integration Modules, teams expand their awareness of how each team member's type influences the way they show up and engage at work and learn how to:
1) Optimize the productive tendencies of their type.
2) Mitigate the less productive tendencies.
3) Integrate effective practices into their leadership/work style that may not be as intrinsically accessible to their type.
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During Enneagram-based coaching, Jessica teaches clients the core elements of their type's ego structure (e.g., worldview, defense mechanisms, leadership style, core fears, etc.) and helps them understand the ways in which these elements are both serving them and holding them back.
Leveraging Enneagram knowledge in coaching significantly accelerates self-insight and increases a client's capacity to create uniquely tailored action steps to breakthrough self-limitations into limitless possibility.
Jessica expertly facilitated an all-day session with two teams at our workplace and I so enjoyed it, I hired her to do a session with my friends/neighbors. Jessica does a really great job demonstrating through stories that stick in your head and help you understand the power of the Enneagram. Highly recommend her workshops!
— Christine Garofoli, Client Experience Leader
The 9 Enneagram Types
Below is a very high level overview of what each type believes. You can read more about each Enneagram type at The Enneagram in Business or Integrative Enneagram Solutions.
Type 1: The “Good” Person
Believes the world is an imperfect place and it is their responsibility to correct that fact whether by perfecting themselves, serving as the perfect model of behavior, or improving systems and other people.
Type 2: The “Loving” Person
Believes the world values people for what they give, not for who they are. Also believes the world is full of suffering and need, and it is their responsibility to help alleviate the suffering and meet the needs.
Type 3: The “Effective” Person
Believes the world values people for being successful and productive, not for who they are. Believes there is a lack of order/flow to how things work, and they must organize/ plan to make things happen and get results.
Type 4: The “Original” Person
Believes they came into this world missing something everyone else seems to have. Also believes there is a profound despair that comes from our lack of deep connections and they must find what is missing and re-establish these connections.
Type 5: The “Wise” Person
Believes the world is unnecessarily intrusive, resources are scare and finite, and they must conserve all their resources, time, energy, knowledge or they will be entirely and irreparably depleted.
Type 6: The “Loyal” Person
Believes the world an unstable, unpredictable, and dangerous place and they must anticipate potential danger and stay safe by finding meaning, stability, and support.
Type 7: The “Joyful” Person
Believes the world lacks a bigger plan full of possibilities and unnecessarily limits people so they must generate possibilities and avoid limits.
Type 8: The “Powerful” Person
Believes the world is an unjust place where they powerful take advantage of the weak and that they must stay strong to avoid being taken advantage of and protect those who can’t protect themselves.
Type 9: The “Peaceful” Person
Believes everyone deserves to be heard and respected and it's their responsibility to enable this for others but also believes there's not enough space for them to be heard and respected.
Teams that integrate the Enneagram into the culture’s fabric are more effective overall.
The “Enneagram in Organizations Global Survey 2022”, conducted by global thought leader The Enneagram in Business Network (EIBN), found individuals and teams that use the Enneagram experience the following 7 key benefits:
Increased self-knowledge, including having a sense of purpose, emotional intelligence, and decreased reactivity.
Improved relationships, both at work and outside of work.
Increased empathy.
More effective communication.
A greater sense of well-being.
Increased respect and trust on teams.
A greater sense of empowerment.