Burnout, Stress and the Five Lens

By all accounts, it seems that stress-related issues are on the rise worldwide and are presenting increasingly serious problems to health, relationships and business. What can be done for Burnout & Stress?

September is Suicide Prevention Month

Suicide Prevention

September has been designated ‘Suicide Prevention Month’, and the 10th of September is ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’. The intent is to generate a worldwide commitment and call to action that leads to the prevention of suicide.

The Cat Woman, Acceptance of Reality, and the Enneagram

Personality Types or traits

However you look at it, ‘type theories’ offer a relatively blunt way of describing people. They can have difficulty accounting for the small variations in behaviour that exist between people of the same type. As a result, it seems limiting and risky to assign a type label to a person, as this inevitably leads to missing their individual uniqueness.

The Stories We Tell

Self Talk

Our internal narratives allow us to make sense of life experiences by creating meaning from them such that we can tell a story about them. It’s important to remember that the story we create isn’t an objective reality. It’s simply a way of interpreting or representing reality in our own way.

Coaching with The Enneagram

The Enneagram goes further by giving insight into what motivates behaviour, how individuals ‘see’ the world, along with their typical thinking, feeling and communication habits.

The Avoidances of the Enneagram

Avoidances of the Enneagram

Each Enneagram style avoids a particular thing that they unconsciously believe will undermine their self-image.  This unconscious self-belief often results in behaviour opposite of the fear