Recognizing & working with basic personality patterns through an integrative model of personality: The Enneagram


OVER 100 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HAVE DONE THIS COURSE!

Gain a better understanding of the patients/clients you work with to inform your approach and facilitate the best possible outcome. This comprehensive training program equips therapists and coaches with the knowledge and skills necessary for ethically incorporating the Enneagram into their practices, fostering a client-centred and responsible approach to personality exploration.

The Enneagram offers professionals deep insight into their patients’ personality functioning, including their mental, emotional and behavioural patterns. Learning about the Enneagram personality typology provides a framework for professionals to identify the defensive mechanisms and the implicit assumptions that clients may have about themselves and the world.  As an essentially transpersonal model, the Enneagram incorporates theories of psychological development, grounding the origins and structure of one’s personality in one’s past experiences, especially childhood. It is a helpful tool to identify what keeps clients stuck in detrimental behaviour al, feeling, or thinking patterns.

The learning objectives of this online course focus on:

  • A good overview of nine basic personality patterns and the underlying motivation which directs people’s behaviour.  
  • The three main conflict styles people present with in stressful or challenging situations.
  • The three main social interaction strategies people may use in their approach to life and other people.
  • A depth understanding of the underlying emotions of anger, fear, shame and how it drives people’s response to the world around them. 

Course outline:

  • 4 recorded webinar modules (with Multiple Choice Questionnaires)
  • 2 readings (with MCQ’s)
  • A downloadable information booklet with summaries of each Enneagram personality types
  • 18 Continuing Professional Development (CBD) points (3 points per recording/article plus multiple choice questionnaire)
  • R2400 for full course OR R450 per individual module/article
  • Email denisegrobbelaar@gmail.com to purchase course or modules

Modules:

Module 1 - Article: “The Enneagram: A Primer for Psychiatry Residents”

In this article, the authors provide a summary of the Enneagram theory, review its history, and examine literature validating its use. Additionally, they suggest various applications in psychiatry, including diagnosis and psychotherapy.

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Module 2 - Video Lecture: Introduction, history, overview and synopsis of the nine Enneagram personality patterns

Introduction to the Enneagram; Overview of the Nine Personality Types; Synopsis of Personality Patterns

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Module 3 - Book Chapter: “The Enneagram: Social and Conflict of Styles”

In this book chapter (used with permission) from "Integrative Enneagram for Practitioners," Dirk Cloete explores the Enneagram's perspective on social interaction styles and conflict resolution tactics.

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Module 4 - Video Lecture: Conflict Styles and the Impact on Interpersonal Relationships

Introduction to Conflict Styles; Enneagram Types and Conflict; Recognizing Patterns; Building Self-Awareness; Adaptive Strategies

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Module 5 - Video Lecture: Understanding Social Interaction Styles and how we attempt to influence our environment

Introduction to Social Interaction Styles; Enneagram Types in Social Contexts; The Art of Environmental Manipulation

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Module 6 - Video Lecture: Intelligence Centres & core underlying emotions driving behaviour

Understanding Intelligence Centres; Exploring Core Emotions; Integration of Intelligence Centres and Core Emotions

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Denise is affiliated to Integrative Enneagram Solutions with whom she underwent in-depth training in the use and application of the Enneagram, both for personal growth as well as for team and leadership development in corporate business. She also attended advanced Enneagram training with Jeromy Wagner, psychologist, and international Enneagram specialist.

What previous participants says:

Marina Boshoff (Clinical Psychologist)

It was hands-down the most detailed course on the Enneagram that I have ever attended. This course more than met my expectations in content. The course is very well designed, and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed Denise’s calm and centred approach. Denise’s style is ideal for the complexity of the Enneagram. She spoke with confidence and expertise. The knowledge gained will enhance my clinical practice, while I also find it useful as a tool for self-exploration and parenting. The Enneagram allows for a very nuanced understanding of a client.

Elna Harmse (Independent publishing specialist, InnerLifeSkills International ® Master Life & Business Coach, Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner)

As part of my training as a coach, I attended several courses on the Enneagram. I have also read many seminal works about the system. Denise’s course was pivotal in letting everything I have learnt so far, fall into place. The way in which she presented the content felt organic in a sense and made the overall picture of the Enneagram clearer than ever before. Instead of a rigid working through one to nine, she built the course around well-chosen focal points. I suddenly started seeing many of the patterns she explained in my everyday life and work. She maintained an excellent balance between providing some of the intricate content and explaining and clarifying how everything fitted together as she went along. I would recommend this course for beginners – to get you thinking and learning more about the intricacies of the Enneagram, as well as for experienced Enneagram practitioners – to perhaps allow new pennies to drop, as it did for me!

Ms Cheryl Sol (Clinical Psychologist)

I don’t think I realized that the Enneagram was so complex and interesting. I didn’t realize the value of the Enneagram as a therapeutic tool, but this course has shown me the full depth and potential of the system.

Lisa Michelson (Psychologist)

The Enneagram is a complex topic. I enjoyed the way the course was structured. It gave me a sense of the Enneagram’s depth and wisdom. To me, this is just the beginning.