In recent conversations with coaches, we’ve talked about how to best support our clients when using the Enneagram.  There is so much to learn about the internal world of each of the nine types or spheres of consciousness.  

It’s true.  The Enneagram is a vast body of wisdom.  It speaks to our intellectual curiosity because it has so much to teach. There’s so much information on each of types,  and sometimes, that’s where we get stuck.  In the busy mind culture that most of us live in,  the tendency is to want to understand it all, and understand it right now.  That’s why the Enneagram has often been misinterpreted simply as a “typing’ tool.  It’s easy for the mind to categorize and label and then come up with a few solutions to how to work with that particular type.

 But the Enneagramm also speaks to our hearts because we can’t help but be deeply touched by seeing how the nine egoic structures play out, and  the enormous unconscious suffering that is caused when we take the ego to be who we are.  When we penetrate below the structures, and see the true yearning that each individual has, we see that the majority of our unconscious behaviors are the ego’s way of trying to resolve the pain.    Our compassion for ourselves, for our clients and loved ones,  and indeed, for the world, is  magnfied a thousand times.  It’s a lot for the heart to bear.

And that’s why the Enneagram also focuses on the wisdom of the Body.  It is here, in the belly center (kath point or lower tan tien) that we come into contact with the 3rd center of our whole being’s intelligence.  As we develop the capacity to ‘be with’ this center, that our experience of ourselves in relationship to the world changes.  We have our substance, our physicality, our hereness, our inner power, and through this center that we connect with ground. 

When we connect to the foundational center, the belly, our hearts can open to and hold with such compassion the human condition. And from that place, what the client needs from our time together, becomes more available.

It’s a radically different way of approaching coaching:  with a depth of Presence that is developed through contact with the 3 centers of intelligence.   Coaches,  this counter-intuitive approach offers such value. It is based upon what is here, what is real, and not upon the mental agenda of the busy mind.  And from Presence, all coaching topics, from peronal and relationship issues to organizational strategy-planning  becomes cleaner and clearer.

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