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The Developmental Enneagram for Couples
Join leading expert Michelle Joy, MFT for an interactive and educational workshop designed to take your knowledge of The Enneagram to a deeper level in your work with couples. This unique and powerful workshop combines developmental based methods with the Enneagram to help couples transform their relationship in areas they didn’t think was possible – a unique approach that Michelle calls “The Developmental Enneagram for Couples®.”
Each Enneagram type leads the couple to do a “dance” together, causing them to get stuck repeating the same habits over and over. When you have a map of understanding in front of you, you can guide your couples down the path of growth, one that they are not able to see themselves.
“What a wonderful course! I was so impressed with Michelle’s skills as an Enneagram teacher/presenter and as a therapist. Absolutely one of the top Enneagram courses I have ever taken!” ~Karen Karvonen
Different interventions work for different people, and integrating the Enneagram system into your couples’ work is a powerful way to discern what interventions to use. When you know someone’s Enneagram type, you can be about 75% faster at revealing blind spots and appropriate course of action. It establishes rapport more quickly, and lets your couples know that you understand them.
What you will learn
Via teaching, videos, handouts, case studies, and small & large group discussion, you will:
–Discover the prominent defense mechanisms used by each Enneagram type, and ways to navigate them in couples’ therapy
–Understand how each Enneagram type’s strategy colors and influences the type of growth needed for each individual, and how to guide each person out of their blind spots.
–Explore barriers that each type brings to conflict resolution and emotional intimacy, and powerful developmental methods to help the couple grow and develop.
–Learn proven exercises to help couples connect, improve communication, & facilitate rapid conflict resolution.
–Learn how to effectively change deeply engrained communication patterns for each Enneagram Type using Michelle’s unqiue approach she calls, “The Developmental Enneagram for Couples®”
— Understand how each type tries to get their needs met within the relationship, unwittingly creating communication traps they are trying to avoid, and what to help them do instead.
“This is the sort of stuff that you want all couples to know. Michelle’s synthesis is the best application of the Enneagram to intimate relationships that I am aware of.” ~Rezzan Huseyin, The Practical Enneagram Podcaster
Learn specific and targeted interventions
Note from Michelle: If you feel lost during some of your couples’ sessions, this workshop will help you tremendously. For instance, even if you know what will help the couple, then how do you actually make that happen for each Enneagram Type? How does one facilitate more vulnerability for the 8’s? How about helping the 7’s stay in the present moment when their partner is talking about something “negative”? Developmental methods are the answer. I get feedback all the time that no one teaches the Enneagram and couples’ relationships like I do. My approach is truly unique because the proven developmental methods that I blend in naturally guide each individual toward higher levels of health within their Enneagram Type.
“Michelle Joy’s “Couples and the Enneagram” course provided me with extremely valuable tools to utilize when working with couples. Combining developmental concepts with practical application, this course increased both my competence and confidence with using the Enneagram with couples. Michelle’s expertise as a therapist and as an Enneagram practitioner shine through in her excellent teaching and her gentle presence. I highly recommend this fabulous course! ~Mary Wright, Certified Enneagram Coach
