TypeWorksFor coaches and therapists
Stop guessing what your client needs.
An eight-week programme in using the Enneagram in your own practice – so you are working from how someone is actually built, rather than inferring it from the outside.
Learning the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition is all about conversation. In these courses, you’ll learn by hearing real people describe their lived experience, not by reading descriptions in a book.
The Enneagram for Coaches & Therapists
An eight-week online programme for coaches, therapists and practitioners who want to use the Enneagram in their work – properly, and ethically.
This isn’t a lecture series. Each week you learn through the method the Enneagram was designed for: hearing people describe their inner world in their own words, and discovering what that reveals about yours. The programme follows the Narrative Tradition, the same approach taught by Helen Palmer and David Daniels at The Narrative Enneagram, where I trained and certified.
Before you join:
You need to arrive knowing your own type. If you haven’t already done it, that means completing the typing exploration, taking the extended report and sitting down with me for a debrief beforehand – booked separately. This isn’t part of the course, and there’s a reason for that: eight weeks spent learning to work with other people’s patterns is no time to be working out your own.
What it covers
The full session-by-session outline is being finalised and will follow. Broadly, the programme moves through three stages.
Grounding. What the Enneagram is and what it isn’t, why it describes motivation rather than behaviour, the three centres of intelligence, and where the Narrative Tradition comes from. Enough that you can explain it accurately to a client without reaching for a book.
The nine, through panels. The heart of the programme, and the reason it runs live rather than as recordings. You learn to recognise a pattern from the inside – from how someone speaks about their own experience – rather than by matching them against a description.
Grounded in the neuroscience. Running underneath is the Patterns of Developmental Pathways model (PDP), developed by Dan Siegel, David Daniels and the PDP Group, which arrives at the same nine patterns from interpersonal neurobiology rather than from the tradition. I trained with Dan Siegel in this work. For a practitioner it matters twice over: it sharpens what you are actually looking at, and it gives you somewhere to stand when a client or a colleague asks whether any of this is real. There is more on the model here.
Using it in your practice. Your own type and how it shapes the way you work, because your structure is in the room whether you have noticed it or not. Type in the working relationship and where the friction reliably sits. What movement actually looks like. And how to work with someone’s pattern without telling them what they are – which is the part most practitioners get wrong, and the part that does the most damage.
After the programme:
An individual check-in to reflect on what you’ve discovered and talk about where to take it in your own practice.
What’s included
- Eight live sessions of three hours
- A one-to-one call with me before we start
- A one-to-one call afterwards, to talk about applying it in your own practice
- All session recordings
- Workbook and resources
- A private group for the cohort
£200 secures your place, with the balance due by 31 December. If paying in instalments across the autumn would make it easier, say so – that can be arranged.
Who it’s for
Coaches, therapists, facilitators and practitioners who want a working knowledge of the Enneagram they can actually use. Some prior familiarity helps but isn’t required – several people have arrived having read a little and wanting to go properly into it.
Learning the Enneagram for Yourself
This programme assumes you already know your own type. If you don’t yet, or you want to keep exploring it alongside other people, that happens at Enneagram Café – an ongoing community with fortnightly sessions, panels and in-person days.
Questions about any of these? Get in touch.