Presenter: Summer Estes, MA, NCC, LPC

The late Dr. David Daniels (a psychiatrist at Stanford and Enneagram teacher) said: “Our brains are pattern making machines and our personality patterns stand out as one of the most fundamental of such patterns.” The Enneagram is a dynamic and powerful tool in identifying 9 personality/ego patterns found in human beings with great precision. When we are “asleep” to our ego patterns we are enslaved for better or for worse, however, when we understand ourselves more deeply, we have the opportunity to “wake up” out of our habitual reactions and patterns and be present for our lives, our loved ones, and the world. The Enneagram shows us our core motivations, core fears, how the 9 personalities seek to have their needs met, what triggers them, how conflict is handled, social role, and gifts inherent within. The Enneagram shows us the box of our personality and how to expand out of our boxes into unlimited potential and presence. This program seeks to offer an engaging introduction of this practical wisdom tool.

Benefit of Program for Coaches: Introduce coaches to a powerful tool to use with self and clients in working with and identifying: Limiting personality patterns Levels of development (healthy, average, and unhealthy) Social role and how these can work together or against each other Core suffering and inherent gift of the types Discern imbalance and grow capacity to equally develop all 3 centers of intelligence (the body, the heart, and the head) Victor Frankel (author of, Man’s Search for Meaning) said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space lies our freedom.” The Enneagram, when used through the practice of developing self-awareness, increases that space between trigger and reactivity and one’s ability to choose how they show up in life.

Presenter: Summer Estes MA, NCC, LPC received her master’s degree in Integration of Theology and Community Mental Health Counseling from Denver Seminary and her undergraduate degree in Interpersonal Communication and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) she currently serves as a faculty member at Second Breath (formally known as The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro). Summer is also the founder of Renewal Counseling & Consulting a private mental health practice. She is a graduate of The Enneagram Institute’s Training Program in New York.