Introduction Workshop
A half-day or full-day session where your team learns the Enneagram system, explores all nine types, and begins to understand each other — and themselves — in a new way.
THE SESSION
What to Expect
Picture your team seated in a circle, arranged by their theory of their type. The session opens with the fundamentals — what the Enneagram is, how it differs from other personality frameworks, and how and why it’s uniquely useful. From there, we move through all nine types in depth: not just surface-level descriptions, but the core motivations, natural strengths, and growth edges that explain why people do what they do.
Throughout, I mix teaching with facilitated discussion and video examples — keeping it engaging whether we have a half-day or a full day. People don’t just sit and absorb. They compare notes with colleagues, start recognizing patterns they’ve always sensed but couldn’t name, and begin to see each other through a completely different lens. By the end, the team has a shared language for motivation, stress, and communication — and genuine curiosity about what comes next.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
What Participants Receive
Every Introduction Workshop comes with these resources — included in every session, no add-ons or extra fees.
Voyance Assessment Report
A 30-page personalized report with scores across all nine Enneagram types, type descriptions to support self-exploration, and guidance for identifying their dominant type.
Companion Booklet
A 32-page reference guide covering the fundamentals of the system, descriptions of all nine types, tips for working with each type, and growth practices. Printed for in-person events, digital for virtual.
Follow-Up Resources
Each participant receives a follow-up email with additional reading recommendations and resources for continued exploration, tailored to the content covered in their session.
The Enneagram is sophisticated.The facilitation should be too.
The Enneagram is more sophisticated than it looks. Understanding it well enough to teach it accurately — to help people distinguish their type from similar ones, to explain the difference between a behavior and the motivation underneath it, to hold the nuance between what a type looks like at its best versus under stress — takes real depth. That depth is what makes the system so useful in a team context. It’s also what makes underprepared facilitation so costly.
The content is personal. The Enneagram doesn’t just describe strengths — it names the patterns people fall into when they’re not at their best, the growth edges that colleagues have often already noticed. Engaging with that honestly requires a sense of safety that doesn’t happen automatically. It has to be created. A skilled facilitator creates that setting deliberately: through framing, through pacing, through the way difficult material is introduced and discussed. That’s what makes the difference between a session that opens people up and one that closes them down.
I’ve worked with teams who came in having had an Enneagram experience that went awry — where people left feeling labeled or misunderstood, or where the system had become a shorthand for explaining away behavior rather than a tool for changing it. Rebuilding trust in the system after that takes significant work.
The Enneagram rewards real investment. Work with a facilitator who’s trained in the system at depth, has done this work across dozens of organizations, and knows how to hold this kind of conversation with both skill and care. Someone who’s read the books and can lead a discussion isn’t the same thing. If you’re going to work with the Enneagram, it’s worth doing it right.
WHERE THIS FITS
How Most Engagements Begin
Most team engagements start with the assessment, add consultations before the group session, and open with an Introduction Workshop.
Voyance Assessment
Each participant completes the 48-question assessment and receives a personalized report with scores across all nine types.
Learn more →2Type Consultations
A 30-minute 1-on-1 session where each person works through their results and lands on a working theory for their dominant type.
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A facilitated session where the team learns the system together, understands each other’s types, and builds a shared language for how they work.
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Common Questions
Both a half day and a full day work well — the difference is how much room the material has to breathe. A half-day workshop covers the system and all nine types with real depth, while a full-day workshop allows more time for discussion, questions, and moments of genuine insight that tend to get cut when you’re watching the clock. If you can make it work, do the full day — it’s worth the investment.
My honest recommendation is to wait until you can. The Introduction Workshop requires enough time to cover the full system — all nine types, their core motivations, and the patterns that actually matter for your team. A session that’s too short to do that well isn’t worth doing. If scheduling is the barrier, get in touch. I’m happy to help you figure out how to make it work.
In-person is almost always the better choice — especially when the goals involve team cohesion, communication, or psychological safety. There’s something that happens when people are physically in the room together that a virtual format can’t fully replicate. That said, the Introduction Workshop translates well to a virtual format, and if your team is distributed or can’t get together in person, don’t let that stop you from doing this work.
Hybrid sessions are possible but come with tradeoffs. When some participants are remote and others are in the room, the experience tends to feel uneven — the energy is different, the pacing has to accommodate two audiences, and remote participants often get a diminished version of the session. If you have a few team members who can’t be there in person, it’s worth considering whether everyone joining virtually would create a more consistent experience. That said, every situation is different. Get in touch and we can figure out the right approach.
I’ve run sessions for individuals all the way up to groups of 200+. Smaller teams run as a single group discussion, where the intimacy creates space for more personal conversation and deeper connection. Larger groups use type-based breakouts, where participants discuss prompts from the perspective of their type before sharing with the full group. Each format has its own strengths.
Not necessarily, but it significantly improves the experience. All participants complete the Voyance Assessment before the session as standard pre-work to give everyone a starting point going in. From there, Type Consultations take it a step further: a 30-minute 1-on-1 to work through the scores, interpret what they mean, and land on a confident working theory of type before the group comes together. The stronger that foundation, the more each participant — and the team as a whole — gets out of the session.
For small groups, a circle of chairs with nothing in the middle is ideal — no tables, no barriers. When there’s nothing to hide behind, people tend to be more present and open with each other, which matters for this kind of work. Participants sit by their theory of their type for the session. For larger groups, U-shaped or auditorium-style seating works well. A/V requirements include a large screen with audio for video content and slides.
It’s rare, but it does come up. Every workshop opens with a clear framing: people are not defined by their type, every type has equal strengths and growth edges, and the Enneagram should never be used to judge or label others. In the rare case someone still prefers not to share, I make accommodations so they can fully participate.