Move Beyond knowing your number to changing behavior
SOMATIC ENNEAGRAM COACHING
“The Enneagram is a tool for deepening our self-awareness and understanding our core motivations, enabling us to make conscious choices."
—Christopher L. Heuertz
Somatic Enneagram Coaching proposes a holistic approach to self-discovery and metamorphosis, asserting the deep connection between our physical bodies, minds, and spirits. It suggests that our characteristic Enneagram type, or type structure, is not just a mental construct but is also deeply embedded in our bodily experiences.
The Enneagram's type structure delineates our individual, unique blend of mental, emotional, and behavioral predispositions. These habitual patterns often display rigidity and resistance to transformation. Nevertheless, the Somatic Enneagram Coaching provides tools to work directly with the body, allowing us to gently untangle these entrenched patterns, thereby paving the way for increased adaptability, authenticity, and liberation.
Somatic Enneagram Coaching serves as an influential route to personal development and transformation, urging us to dive into our physical experience. It's a way of easing our type structure and embracing a more present, engaged existence.
By heightening our awareness of our somatic patterns and initiating changes, we start to reconfigure our instinctual neural pathways effectively. This can foster enduring shifts in our patterns and behaviors, augmenting our self-insight and compassion.
In Somatic Enneagram Coaching, I partner with you to rewire your neuropathways for change and spiritual transformation.
The Path to Embodied Self-Awareness through Somatic Enneagram Coaching
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Spirituality of the Enneagram
The path to living embodied is to increase our capacity to be receptive.
Doing for God is not the same as being open to receiving from the Divine. When was the last time you were open to receiving love, forgiveness, wholeness, joy, and peace?
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Psychology of the Enneagram
The path to living embodied is loosening our type and personality patterns that are both mental and emotional.
Behavior patterns go automatic and become compulsive when we fall asleep to ourselves. Behaviors, patterns, and defense mechanisms were our bodies protecting us, but over time they no longer serve us.
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Somatics of the Enneagram
The path to living embodied is to relax the type structure.
Through self-awareness, mindfulness, and growing awareness of felt sensations in our bodies, it’s possible to rewire the instinctual neural pathways creating change in patterns and behaviors.
FAQs
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The ideal client is anyone that wants to start the journey to self-work and wants to learn about themselves.
Things you will learn:
What motivates you internally
The primary way you understand the world, gut, emotions, or information?
The compulsive patterns and behaviors that can get you in trouble
Understand your relationship to emotions
What do you do when you’re stressed
What are your blind spots?
How does anger, anxiety, or sadness show up in your life?
What does growth look like for your specific type
Where you focus your attention, also known as where all your energy and time goes.
What is your defense mechanism? What do you idealize? What do you avoid at all costs?
Learn self-awareness tools that allow you to re-train the neural pathways that lead to change and personal growth
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Each session is 50 minutes. Sessions vary by the client, but 6-8 sessions are normative. Sessions can be scheduled weekly, bi-weekly, or whatever works for the client's schedule.
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Enneagram sessions look more like coaching/teaching sessions. I will work through different aspects of the type, such as passions, virtues, defense mechanisms, the focus of attention, motivation, behavior patterns, etc. There will be aspects of teaching and then talking through how this might show up in your life through targeted questions.
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Much of growth and transformation has a strong spiritual component. With the consent of the client, there can be different contemplative practices shared and done together to help with some of the growth sides of the enneagram. Also, much of our patterns and behaviors can be addressed from a spiritual perspective. So if the client is spiritual and comfortable, some of the questions might be spiritual in nature, possibly contmeplative.
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Absolutely. Alicia is trained in the Narrative Tradition, which has a somatic component. From the start, Alicia will teach basic self-awareness principles, a somatic principle for paying attention to the body. The goal of our time together is that you will be able to rewire your neural pathways to create the ability to change your behaviors that are in auto-drive. After our sessions, you will have the tools that allow developing more significant levels of self-awareness so that you can pause to make a different decision. The compulsive behavior is now in your control to choose differently.
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The Narrative Enneagram is an educational nonprofit and membership organization co-founded by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, MD, and dedicated to advancing human consciousness through our pioneering curriculum, which integrates psychology, spirituality, and somatics. Their core values are compassionate curiosity, grounded presence, worth and belonging, collaborative creativity, and individual, collective, and structural transformation.
Panel-driven teaching sessions are a crucial feature of the narrative tradition. The 9 Types are ideally taught through panel discussions, allowing each member to speak about how their type shows up in their life. A personal story is significant because often, the enneagram is taught in a very restrictive way. Allowing individuals to share their own experiences with their type allows for nuance, curiosity, growth, and the uniqueness of how each type shows up uniquely, despite sharing the same type.
One-to-One Sessions
Each session is 50 minutes on Zoom (in-person optional)
Rebalancing Access is $150hr, Fair Access is $125hr, and Supported Access is $85hr
I offer individual sessions, and couple/partner sessions.
Typing Interview to start the journey to discovering your type
Corporate & Non-Profit Services
Minimum of 2-hour sessions
Rebalancing Access is $850hr, Fair Access is $500hr, and Supported Access is $250hr
Individual & Team Leadership Coaching & Workshops Available
In Person and Virtual Retreats and Team Building
Panels, Workshops, and Type Cohorts
Panels are the signature tool of those certified in the Narrative Tradition. Learning takes place by facilitated conversation around various aspects of the type.
Workshops vary in time and content and will be offered ad hoc.
Type Cohorts are 4-6 weeks in length and comprise cohort members from the same type through a panel discussion.
Testimonials
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"My team has been raving about your session. In multiple conversations, people have been bringing up that it was their favorite part of our time together, that people feel they know themselves better and gained valuable insights on our teammates."
Liz Botts, Director of Events and Experiences, World Vision, USA (non-profit client at out-of-state retreat).
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"I took part in an Ennegram 8 cohort led by Alicia in the spring of 2021. Understanding who I am through the lens of the Enneagram 8 has helped me grow into a healthier leader and spouse. If you know the reputation that many 8’s have, you’ll know it takes a special kind of leader to lead a successful cohort of 8’s. The cohort I participated in, led by Alicia, was a really special space for vulnerability with other 8’s (something we’re not known to be particularly good at). We plan to engage Alicia with our leadership team as we move through a growth stage as an organization.”
Scott Key, CEO and Founder of Every Shelter (Type 8 cohort)
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