Individual Mentoring

*A typing interview with us is required before receiving this guidance.

You’re pretty confident of your type, and you want to implement the system as a potent tool for your growth and evolution.

First, we help you design awareness practices to increase your seeing and feeling of what you’ve always been (mostly unconsciously) up to. This involves amplifying your awareness of the emotional passion of your type, your cognitive fixation/distortions, your dominant instinct, your subtype manifestations, etc. We help you to see how your type manifests in your life, permeates everything, and perpetuates a vicious cycle. And if you happen to be mistyped (by yourself, by an online test, or even by us), this will likely begin to surface here.

Once you’ve had some time observing all of this, we introduce practices that help you to expand beyond these deeply engrained patterns. For example, initial practices for tempering your subtype, balancing the centers of intelligence, really feeling how bound you are to your type’s grip, etc.

Next, now that you’re landing more in your practice and path, we take things a step deeper. Work may include the taming of your dominant instinct, arrow work, and an introduction to the virtues and holy ideas that are most often obscured by your type’s passion and fixation.

Higher levels of practice then come into the fold, with focus on more drastically interrupting these patterns - very disruptive, uncomfortable, and essential. Here’s the work of breathing life into your repressed instinct, head-on deconstructing your subtype, working the shock point, etc.

Practice beyond this is of a more rarified nature. We more frequently contact our essential nature. We begin to live more often from our higher emotional and mental centers (virtue and holy idea). Our three centers continue to come into a more simple and profound balance. We are landing in the Wholeness of who we really are.

Cost: $150/session; $575/4 session bundle

Group Work

Are you a group member or facilitator wanting to take it to the next level in personal and collective development? We’d love to support you. It happens in two parts, and this is what it looks like:

1. Individual Work: Each member of the group completes the following: 
   - Takes an online 30 min. adaptive enneagram typing test 
   - Engages in a 1 hr comprehensive typing interview with us
   - Receives a 30 min. findings follow-up

2. In the Group: After each member is typed, we all come together for a 2 hr group session. This is where we deep-dive into individual personality and group dynamics using the enneagram as our map. The content is tailored to your specific group needs as well as your enneagram knowledge.  

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Our intent in this work is to provide concrete and actionable insights into how the group can support each individual’s journey toward their highest potential - and how each individual can contribute toward creating a vital and resilient group. We’ll get into practical ways to cultivate an environment that is rooted in an understanding of each individual, the importance of a shared ethos that champions support and challenge, and the significance of an evolutionary perspective.

The cost for this group work is dependent upon the number of members in the group.

How I Came to the Enneagram

When I was first introduced to the Enneagram, I was both drawn to it and also had some resistance. Whereas for some people it’s about not wanting to be boxed into some typology, for me it was about trusting the veracity of the system (Is the Enneagram legit? Is it real?).

What I’ve come to learn is that the Enneagram illuminates the box we’re all already in. And its real power not only shows us the precise nature of that box, but also the way to true freedom.

Typing Confusion & Clarification

There was a lot of confusion when I started my research into the Enneagram to figure out my type. The primary book I was sourcing from — considered the go-to book here in Boulder where I live — was published in the late-90s, and global understanding of the system has evolved since then. Type suggestions from online tests were also offering variable results, only adding to my confusion. It wasn’t until studying with Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes that I was introduced to a far more potent and clarifying way of discerning one’s true Enneagram type, including ways of untangling common misidentifications (using, for example, the latest in subtype understanding).

Prior to Bea and Uranio, I had mistyped myself three times. The reasons for this are understandable to me now because my subtype (sexual 4) has look-alikes (all subtypes have look-alikes!). But the deeper cut is that I was avoiding my type. Yet, when I owned that I am a sx4, I could feel the good ahead. I started to see my subtype’s unconscious patterns and behaviors everywhere. And this is where the real work began.

My Type Journey

Becoming aware of what the personality is doing is very uncomfortable, no matter what type we are. In my experience, if the path is only easy, then we’re not doing the real work.

It takes great courage to use the Enneagram as a tool for growth. It’s not a self-flattering system, not at the level of deconstructing personality. It shakes our attachment to core emotions, perspectives, and even our own identity.

The Enneagram has shown me how I can both run away from and indulge in my suffering and — specific to my subtype — blame others for my pain. By following the unique path for my subtype I am finding an emotional equanimity and a depth of relaxing in myself, and an opening to simpler and truer connection with myself and others.  

Bryce’s Type Journey

I was introduced to the enneagram in 2000 by a neighbor, who promptly stated that I “seemed to be a seven”. Thus kicked off years of investigatory study, during which I soon debunked my neighbor’s theory, re-typing myself as a sexual nine. 

This made a decent amount of sense for over twenty years (while even implementing the growth strategies of the nine, primarily working to cultivate and strengthen an inner sense of self-value) - until my whole world cracked open with Victoria’s observation that my nine-ness continued to not add up for her. She suggested I consider the four. But the four had never made sense as a type I would consider for myself - that is, not until learning a different slant on the type via Beatrice Chestnut’s description of the self-preservation four, the “countertype” of the type four. 

Beatrice’s approach states that all types have a countertype - a mixing of the type’s passion and dominant instinct (self preservation, social, or sexual) that gives us a blend that doesn’t look like the other two subtypes, because the type’s passion and instinct are working in opposition to one another. And this is a major reason why it can be so difficult for some of us to find our type, while others of us straight-up mistype ourselves - for years, or even (like me) decades. 

Now, landed in the type/subtype (sp4) that fits me best, I am able to do the real work: seeing what my personality is most fundamentally up to, and rolling up my sleeves to liberate myself into something more Essential. And it’s a great joy to assist others on their own type journeys (with solid results typically coming in under the 20 year mark;)