The Enneagram: your coaching edge
The Enneagram is a dynamic system that helps coaches understand the core motivations, patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, and pathways for growth to unlock meaningful transformation in themselves and their clients.
The 9 Enneagram types & motivations
Coaching at the level of motivation is a doorway to coaching the whole person - and coaching from our whole self. We teach you how to do that in InsightOut.
Type 1 - The Improver
Motivation: To reform and improve, to be good and right.
Type 2- The Giver
Motivation: To receive affirmation by meeting the needs of others.
Type 3- The Performer
Motivation: To be seen as successful, to accomplish goals and tasks.
Type 4 - The Individualist
Motivation: To have deep connection with oneself and others, to be unique.
Type 5- The Observer
Motivation: To understand the world, to conserve resources and energy.
Type 6- The Loyal Skeptic
Motivation: To be safe and secure, to ensure certainty and predictability.
Type 7 - The Enthusiast
Motivation: To live a life free of pain or constraints, to seek possibilities.
Type 8 - The Protector
Motivation: To protect oneself and others from injustice and vulnerability.
Type 9 - The Peacemaker
Motivation: To have harmony in life, to maintain inner and outer peace.
5 good reasons for coaches to learn the Enneagram…
The Enneagram helps people…
Uncover the hidden motivations that drive our choices and actions.
Build self-awareness to overcome unconscious self-limiting beliefs.
Develop the courage, agility, and resilience to navigate change.
Be in better relationships with ourselves and those in our lives.
Free ourselves from the invisible box of our personality.
…best of all, the Enneagram helps grow us and our clients.
“Know thyself.” - Inscription at the Temple of Apollo often ascribed to Socrates