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What does it really mean to do deeper coaching work? In this video, I use a set of nesting dolls as a visual metaphor to explain how transformational coaching helps us peel back the layers of our personality and discover what’s underneath. Each layer represents a part of us—our public face, our coping strategies, our hidden beliefs, and ultimately, our true self. Many of us operate from patterns formed in childhood, and while they’ve helped us succeed or stay safe, they can also hold us back—leading to stress, burnout, and disconnection from who we really are. Through a relatable example, I’ll show how coaching can go beyond surface-level problem solving and invite us into a deeper, more honest inquiry: – What’s really driving me? – What am I avoiding? – And who am I beneath all the layers? I use the Enneagram Growth Model to help my clients make sense of their inner structure and begin a journey toward lasting personal growth and wellbeing. Curious to find out more about yourself and what might be holding you back in life? Check out my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages 🔔 Subscribe for more insights on personal development, coaching, and the inner journey. _______________________________________________________ WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagam Coach London: How deep coaching can help you find your true self
Your leadership shadow could be sabotaging your success without you even realising it! We ALL have a leadership shadow. It comprises the unconscious patterns of our personality —behaviours, attitudes, and blind spots—that impact our team, relationships and overall effectiveness. The question is: How well do you know YOUR leadership shadow? In this video, I explain what a leadership shadow is, why it matters, and how you can start managing it more effectively. Using a simple yet powerful backpack metaphor, I’ll show you how unseen leadership patterns can cause unnecessary obstacles, tension or even harm. As an executive coach and Enneagram coach in London, I work with leaders who are committed to their personal growth. I help them deepen their self-awareness, sharpen their leadership impact and create high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams. The Enneagram growth model is a powerful tool in this process. It helps us quickly establish your strengths and your blind spots and identify the most relevant growth opportunities for your leadership that will transform how you lead and communicate. The better you understand and manage your leadership shadow, the more you can lead with confidence, clarity and purpose. READY TO UP YOUR LEADERSHIP GAME? ➡️. Read more about Enneagram for Leaders: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-for-leaders ➡️. Check out my Enneagram Team Events: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-for-teams 📅 Book a free discovery call to discuss your leadership goals and challenges: https://Hans-Schumann-Booking.as.me/strategy-call #LeadershipShadow #ExecutiveCoachLondon #EnneagramCoachLondon #LeadershipDevelopment #SelfAwareness #EmotionalIntelligence #EnneagramForLeaders #EnneagramForTeams #PersonalGrowth #LeadershipSkills
Enneagram Coach London: How to Manage Your Leadership Shadow
In this video, I talk about the core motivations of the 9 Enneagram types and how they are related to the defence mechanism we created in our childhood. Don't know your type? Let's change this! Check out my Enneagram Starter Package here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Core Motivation of 9 Enneagram Types
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 9: THE ADAPTIVE PEACEMAKER Type 9s are driven by a desire to maintain peace and harmony in their environment. Subconsciously, they yearn to re-create the perfect union and comfort we all once experienced when we were one with our mothers. One of their core fears is to be in conflict with other people, as they regard this as a threat to peace and harmony. This makes Type 9s avoid conflicts and refrain from speaking up about their own wants, needs and opinions. In fact, they often don’t even know what they want. Like Type 2s, they focus too much on other people. The Type 9 trap is that this strategy does not help create genuine peace and harmony. Conflicts cannot be resolved by avoiding them. If we don’t speak up about the things that don’t work for us, the issues do not go away; and the more we subordinate our needs to those of other people, the more conflicts we create. Underneath the superficial perception of harmony, resentment builds up. The only way to achieve genuine peace and comfort is to embrace the momentary discomfort of engaging in difficult conversations. This allows issues to be resolved rather than being swept under the carpet. Type 9s will benefit from appreciating the positive effects of healthy conflicts and how they can create deeper and more harmonious relationships in the long term, both at home and work. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 9
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 8: THE ACTIVE CONTROLLER Type 8s believe that they must be strong and in control to get through life. They assert their strength to protect themselves and others from injustice. Behind this pattern is a fear that others might take advantage of them if they could see their vulnerabilities. For this reason, Type 8s unconsciously take a pre-emptive defence stance in life. They make themselves appear bigger than they are and apply excessive energy to everything they do. The first part of the trap of the Type 8 pattern lies in their over-assertive communication pattern that others can easily perceive as intimidating or hostile. If you always turn up in full battle gear, you are likely to create more battles than necessary. Indeed, Type 8s often tell me about a long history of conflicts in their lives. There is a common narrative where the Type 8 perceives themselves as the only one who understands what needs to be done and they are frustrated that others don’t get it. Whilst they always have good intentions, their strong energy can turn them into a bull in a China shop. They may be ignorant of the damage they cause in situations where they believe they are simply direct and say what needs to be said. The second part of the Type 8 trap is their denial of vulnerability. We all have vulnerabilities, and if we don’t acknowledge them, they may become our Achilles’ heel. Achilles is a hero in Greek mythology who was invulnerable except for a spot on one of his heels. He failed to protect this body part and died from an arrow piercing it. I love it when I see Type 8s owning their soft and vulnerable core behind the external battle gear. When they do, they find that it takes genuine strength to do so. This strength is quite different from the superficial strength they show the world when they try to hide their vulnerability. When Type 8s are confident enough to share this softer side of them, they will enjoy deeper and more fulfilling relationships. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 8
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 7: THE ENTHUSIASTIC VISIONARY Type 7s normally like their Enneagram type. They enjoy hearing that they are fun-loving and adventurous, always looking for new opportunities. What they don’t always realise is that their focus on new ideas and possibilities is escapism. It is a life strategy they started to cultivate as a child to avoid dealing with negative experiences. At one point in their childhood, a Type 7 would have subconsciously decided that the best way to deal with negative or boring things in their life was simply not to deal with them at all. They started distracting themselves by focusing their attention on other things; for example, fun activities, work, projects or socialising, to name just a few. The trap is that you cannot outrun problems or negative feelings. We may be able to brush them under the carpet for a short period, but they will build up and eventually hit back. Type 7s will argue that they simply desire to live to the full, but if we try to grab every opportunity in our fear of missing out, we might actually be left with very little. The constant focus on the future can lead to missing out on life in the present. And if you want to keep all of your doors in life open, you may actually not really go through any of them, or not engage deeply with anything at all. The Type 7 trap reminds me of the TV game show The Crystal Maze. In this show candidates were put in a translucent dome structure with the task of catching golden paper snippets falling from the ceiling. To make things difficult, ventilation in the dome made the paper snippets swirl around in random directions. Contestants had to capture as many golden snippets as possible. A good strategy in this game was to focus on one golden snippet at a time and follow its path through the air until you capture it. If your attention constantly moved from one snippet to another, you wouldn’t actually capture any of them. If a Type 7 wants to break out of the prison of their personality, they need to stop running and face the issues they have been trying to avoid. They will benefit from a paradigm shift that acknowledges that aiming for more can leave them with less or even nothing. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 7
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 6: THE QUIET SPECIALIST Type 6s are driven by a desire to ensure that they are safe. They tend to screen their environment for potential risks and threats so that they can anticipate and avoid them. Type 6s can’t help looking for threats, and the more they look the more they find. This can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. It also creates more perceived evidence confirming that they need to be on guard. The trap is that Type 6s never really do feel safe, although all their efforts are focused on safety. As soon as one issue is resolved, their attention moves on to the next risk. Their ego tries to protect them by ensuring that they always doubt and remain on alert. It doesn’t want them to feel safe or be certain about anything, as this could make them let their guard down and expose them to risks. Part of an Enneagram Type 6 growth journey is to learn to live with fear and risks rather than trying to avoid them. Ultimately, living comes with risks. Complete safety is impossible. We do better in life if we learn to dance with our fears rather than conquer them. This requires Type 6s to practise courage and step into action, even if they have not yet considered all eventualities and there remain risks. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 6
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 5: THE QUIET SPECIALIST Type 5s place a high focus on conserving their resources, whether that’s energy, time or space. They feel most comfortable in their introverted bubble, where they can be at peace to pursue what they most enjoy: gathering information and making sense of the world. Quiet Specialists tend to be a bit stingy with the attention they give to other people and how much they open their hearts to them. Whilst they can and do enjoy connections with other people, they experience them as depleting their energy. This drives them to withdraw so that they can recharge after being in contact with others. Part of the Type 5 trap is that their fear of being depleted by connections with other people is in itself depleting. It’s their own mind chatter and the effort of defending the gates to their inner castle that drains their energy. By withdrawing too much into their Type 5 bubble, they cut themselves off from nourishing support and access to resources they could receive from other people. They may also miss that other people have solutions and information for some of the things they are trying to figure out by themselves. An Enneagram growth journey for a Type 5 would entail, amongst other things, opening up more to other people, processing and expressing emotions (rather than just thinking them), and staying in contact for a little bit longer. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 5
FIND YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE and receive your PERSONALISED REPORT today with my Enneagram Starter Package: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages THE TRAP OF ENNEAGRAM TYPE 4: THE INTENSIVE CREATIVE Type 4s want to be seen. They have this in common with Types 2 and 3, but go about it differently. They try to gain attention by being authentic, individual or special. Ultimately, this is about a desire to be loved, but this is where the trap starts: the more we try to be special, the more we remove ourselves from others. I once met somebody who had his face full of extreme piercings. He shared that he was depressed because of the way that people looked at him in public. The piercings were an expression of his desire to stand out, but they removed him from something else that was also important to him: being loved and connected. Enneagram Type 4s experience a constant push and pull, wanting to be a part of groups or relationships, but then pulling back because they feel they don’t belong; and as much as they want to be seen, they are also scared to be seen with all their imperfections. This game of back and forward is part of a never-ending search to find something that Type 4s perceive as missing. Yet, as soon as they get hold of what they thought they wanted, they often devalue it as lacking after all. Their attention moves on to the next object of their desire. By craving what they don’t have and devaluing what they do have, they are stuck in the Type 4 trap. Part of a growth journey for an Enneagram Type 4 is to move their attention from what’s missing to all the beautiful things they already have. They do well appreciating that, at one level, we are all the same and connected. At the same time, we are also uniquely different and special without needing to try to prove it. If you found this video interesting, subscribe to the channel for more deep content on the Enneagram. And if you do not yet know your Enneagram type, check out the post to this video where you will find information on how I can help you find your type. WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM? The Enneagram is a personal growth model based on archetypes of personalities. It explains the subconscious patterns that determine how we act, feel and think. Taking an Enneagram test will help you understand your personality structures, how they were created and how they can sometimes hold you back in life. This can become the starting point of a powerful Enneagram Growth Journey that will help you live and act more consciously so that you can improve your career, relationships and life generally. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/what-is-the-enneagram/ WHAT IS AN ENNEAGRAM GROWTH JOURNEY? Many people use the Enneagram solely as a typing tool to establish personality traits. This only scratches the surface of what an Enneagram Growth Journey has to offer. The circular Enneagram diagram is a map for a growth journey. Rather than simply acknowledging your personality pattern, it invites you to overcome the limitations of your type. Enneagram coaching will help you wake up and notice how you keep playing out the same reactive patterns of personality over and over. Once you understand which archetype resonates with you most, there is a type-specific growth path for you. You can learn how to react differently to life situations and cultivate new ways of being. The lines that connect the 9 types across the Enneagram wheel point to the most potent growth opportunities for each type, and there are many others. An Enneagram practitioner like me can explain what this means for you and guide you through a journey that is bespoke to you. We call this an “Enneagram Growth Journey”. Read more here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-growth-journey/ HOW CAN I FIND MY TYPE? The best way to find your type is to take an Enneagram test, followed by an assessment and debrief with a certified Enneagram practitioner like me. If you work on your own or take free Enneagram tests, you are likely to be mistyped or receive shallow information. It may not resonate with you or help you understand how to apply the information. It might also take you down a completely wrong track. I offer several Enneagram Packages, depending on whether you want just a taster of the Enneagram or embark on a longer Enneagram Growth Journey. You can check them out here: https://enneagramgrowthjourneys.com/enneagram-packages/ You can also book a FREE Discovery Call on which can discuss your situation and how an Enneagram Growth Journey might help you achieve your career and life goals: https://hans-schumann-booking.as.me/EnneagramDiscoveryCall.
Enneagram Coach London: The Trap of Enneagram Type 4
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