Feeling stuck in habitual patterns? I'm Anna, a coach who helps you awaken to yourself through the enneagram, so that you can break free from what's holding you back.
My coaching approach, AWE (Awake With the Enneagram), combines my deep understanding of the enneagram with powerful coaching tools, helping you access your inner wisdom and experience greater presence, groundedness, and self-love.
This profound inner work will transform your relationships, your mindset, and your understanding of yourself.
In our coaching sessions, we will embark on a journey of self-discovery that is rooted in spiritual growth and guided by the enneagram.
We'll discern your enneagram type and gain insight into your personality traits, strengths, and challenges.
With this knowledge, you'll stop self-sabotaging and show up with the purpose you crave.
If you're ready to awaken to the awe-inspiring power of the enneagram, I invite you to schedule your first coaching session.
Be on your way to living a more conscious and empowered life.
The enneagram transformed my life, and my mission is to share it with others.
I've completed the Narrative Enneagram's Core Program and Typing Process, and I'm certified with the 5D Trauma-Informed Enneagram Coaching Certification. I'm also a 20+ year publishing-industry veteran and trained meditation teacher.
I spent much of my life comparing myself to others and coming up short, as if those around me possessed some special secret and had it all figured out.
When I discovered the enneagram, I could finally see how much my defense mechanisms and coping strategies were running the show. How the strategies I'd adopted to gain acceptance and belonging were, paradoxically, having the opposite effect (I’ll let you in on a secret: our trusty go-to coping strategies are actually what’s sabotaging us!).
The enneagram showed me where I was getting in my own way, relieving me of shame and self-doubt, and guiding me toward re-presencing to myself with a deep well of inner resources.
These skills are trainable, this healing lives within us, and best of all, we've been given a map on how to best access them based on our unique personality blueprint.
There are four ways to work with me:
Typing interview
60 minutes
Online typing tests are estimated to be only 50-70% accurate at best.
I mistyped twice using some of the most credible online tests out there.
That's because we're too close to our own motivations and behavior patterns to see them clearly - they're like the water we're swimming in.
A coach who's trained to ask powerful questions and read nonverbal cues can help you accurately identify your enneagram type.
In this 60-minute session, I'll ask you a series of questions and together we'll land on a clearer sense of your type. Correctly typing is the first step to greater self-awareness and growth.
Typing interviews include 2 weeks of email follow-up and support.
AWE arc
4 coaching sessions
The AWE arc consists of an initial typing interview plus 3 deepening sessions.
Our first coaching session will focus on determining the stacking of your instincts. We all possess all three instincts (self-preservation, sexual, and social), but determining which is most predominant for you and which one is your “blind” instinct influences your type.
The second session focuses on the dynamic lines of movement for your type, or how you habitually respond in situations of stress and security. This is where we find your growth edge and paths to transformation.
The third session is focused on the gifts and challenges of your type, enabling you to better harness your natural abilities and avoid the traps you’re prone to falling into.
You can also bring any coaching question you'd like to work on to these sessions.
One-on-one coaching
45-minute sessions
These are general life-coaching sessions filtered through the lens of the enneagram. Our work together can take any focus that matters most to you.
My coaching approach combines somatic and cognitive techniques, aiming to integrate the head, heart, and body centers.
You can book a single session to work with me on a specific issue, or book ongoing weekly sessions, according to your needs.
Together we’ll establish goals and desired outcomes so that our work together is action-oriented.
Eufouria for Enneagram 4s
Weekly one-hour group coaching
Eufouria is a weekly online group coaching container just for Enneagram 4's.
Join me for a weekly group coaching session with me, a 4 who loves delving into the complex minds and hearts of those who lead with type 4.
Getting coached can feel a bit like being on a roller coaster. So there's a lot of benefit from watching calmly from the ground while someone else takes the ride, addressing issues that will undoubtedly resonate with your own experience. Group work leads to sustainable change when combined with accountability and support.
FAQs
Each personality type has its own growth path. I say it's a dynamic system because, in addition to moving up and down a spectrum of health and development within one's own core type, we also rely on our wings (the numbers on each side of our core number) and can draw from resources of all nine numbers.
We all contain all nine types within us. But because we lead with one particular type, it's like viewing the world through a filter that only lets you see one-ninth of the complete picture, or only inhabiting one room of your house. Realizing this allows us to break free of the confines of personality and emerge into a roomier and freer version of ourselves.
Reading enneagram memes won't get you there. This is deep inner work that will show you what's keeping you stuck and dissatisfied, and give you a roadmap to freedom.
Identifying the shape and contours of your cage (type fixation) is the first step to breaking free.
You may have heard that this is an ancient system. The symbol may be, as pertains to sacred geometry. However, though the idea of nine types of people reoccurs throughout history (notably popularized by Gurdjieff), applying the enneagram specifically to personality actually dates to the 1960’s and 1970’s with the work of Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo, amongst others.
Stop self-sabotaging. Each enneagram type has its own set of limiting beliefs. By identifying them with the help of a coach, you can begin to see through them, and eventually overcome them. This work is profoundly de-shaming - we can recognize the protective, adaptive nature of our habitual patterns, while also doing the work of growing beyond them.
Develop compassion, both for yourself and others, by using the enneagram as a roadmap to greater empathy. Understanding the motivations and reality strategies of those around you leads to improved relationships. Together we’ll work on challenging relationships through the lens of the enneagram.
Meaning and purpose are key to our sense of fulfillment. My role as a coach is to help you identify your core values, align with what lights you up, and restore you to a sense of maximal aliveness and well-being. Coaching facilitates energetic shifts and connects you to your natural creativity, resourcefulness, and sense of broadest possibility and impact.
Coaching typically establishes measurable goals and milestones and is a shorter-term process, whereas therapy is often open-ended and longer-term.
Coaching is action-oriented, identifying and implementing tailored strategies and techniques to effectuate change.
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anna@coachingawe.com
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