Advanced Modules
Introduction is just the beginning. The advanced modules go deeper into the system, exploring additional frameworks to give your team actionable insight in specific domains.
THE MODULES
What to Expect
The Introduction Workshop gives teams a working understanding of the mechanics of the system and the nine types. That’s the foundation. The advanced modules expand on it — looking at specific topics in more detail and introducing new lenses that add depth to what your team already knows.
Each module explores one of the theoretical frameworks built into the Enneagram system — the groupings, dynamics, and developmental patterns that shape how the types actually operate. Why does conflict so often become about the way the other person is handling it rather than the matter at hand? What makes two people of the same type look completely different? What happens when someone who performs well under ordinary conditions hits real pressure? These modules answer those questions.
Each module is a standalone half-day or full-day session. They can be done in any order, though some sequences work better than others depending on your team’s context. If you’re building a multi-session series, I recommend spacing them out over weeks or months, as it gives your team time to observe the patterns between sessions.
THE MODULES
What’s Covered
Six modules, each focused on a different dimension of the system.
Harmonics
How each type responds to conflict and difficulty. Understanding these patterns helps teams navigate disagreements more effectively — and recognize when the conflict is really about the approach, not the issue.
Working Styles
Each type has a default way of engaging with others and pursuing what they need. This module makes those patterns visible, helping teams identify predictable tension points and understand differences in the way people approach the work.
Core Affects
Every type carries an unconscious emotional orientation that colors the way they experience situations, relationships, and unmet expectations. Naming these patterns sharpens self-awareness and helps teams read each other better.
Stress & Growth
How each type falls into predictable, unhelpful patterns under pressure, and the specific path toward healthier functioning for each one. Helps teams recognize those patterns early and gives each person a concrete map for growth.
Instinctual Variants
An additional model that describes how people prioritize and meet their instinctual needs. Arguably as important as type in understanding personality, and the reason two people of the same type can look completely different.
Levels of Development
The Introduction introduces a simple above-the-line / below-the-line concept. This module goes further, exploring the full spectrum of functioning for each type and what it looks like to move along it. A deeper dive into the self-awareness work.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Where This Fits
The advanced modules build on the Introduction Workshop — and can be explored in any order from there.
Introduction to the Enneagram
The team learns the Enneagram system, understands each other’s types, and builds a shared language for how they work.
Learn moreAdvanced Modules
Deeper dives into the structural layers beneath type: the groupings, dynamics, and developmental frameworks that explain why people behave the way they do.
You are hereApplication Modules
Focused sessions applying the Enneagram type-by-type to specific workplace topics: communication, feedback, delegation, conflict, and more.
Learn moreCommon Questions
The Introduction Workshop. The advanced modules build directly on the foundation established there — the system itself, the nine types, and the shared language your team develops in that session. Without that context, the deeper exploration these modules offer won’t have anything to connect to. If your team hasn’t done an Introduction Workshop yet, that’s the right place to start.
Each module is designed as either a half-day or full-day session, depending on how much time you want for exercises and discussion. Half-day works well for initial exposure to a topic; full-day allows for deeper application to your team’s specific context.
In-person is ideal, as it allows for richer discussion and more organic breakout conversations, but the structure of these modules translates well to virtual sessions. If your team is distributed, don’t let format be the reason you skip the work.
These modules work for any group size, from small teams to larger groups of 50+. The facilitation approach shifts with size — smaller groups allow for more discussion and individual application; larger groups use structured exercises and breakouts.
No. Each module covers a substantial amount of content, and trying to squeeze more than one into a single day doesn’t give people time to process and integrate what they’ve learned before adding another layer.
There’s no required sequence — each module stands on its own. That said, some topics build naturally on others, and certain sequences work better depending on where your team is. I’ll help you think through the right order based on your team’s familiarity with the system and what you’re trying to accomplish.
They’re complementary, not competing. Application modules take the Enneagram and apply it type-by-type to specific workplace topics — feedback, conflict, communication, delegation, and more. The advanced modules go deeper into the system itself, exploring the frameworks and dynamics that explain how people operate. Teams often do both; the sequence depends on their goals.