3470 - Enneagram Part 1 - Introduction & Path to Growth and Happiness (Tony Holmes)
Course Description
Instructor: Tony Holmes
This course (Part 1) is a mandatory pre-requisite (or as an alternative, the Dec. 4th, 2024 course 3320 – 001) to taking any future 2025 Enneagram courses. The Enneagram course series must be taken in sequential order to ensure proper understanding and progression through the material. Part 1 focuses on the core Enneagram elements, and concepts, and provides real-life examples, in-class exercises, and an optional private online test to help determine your “type.”
Making real improvement in your life begins with self-awareness and understanding others. This requires finding your “true self,” and learning how we all see the world through our own distorted lenses. By becoming aware and accepting of your unconscious fears, motivations, desires, and how you respond to stress, you can find your natural path to overcoming the obstacles holding you back from better relationships, decisions, purpose, and happiness.
The “secret sauce” to unlocking life-changing personal growth and happiness is the Enneagram, which is a unique, powerful, and practical personality/self-development system that creates awareness of why we each uniquely - yet predictably - think, feel and behave as one of 9 common patterns or “types.” Understanding this “why” that is driving your behavior is the critical first step to improving your ability to manage your emotions, behavior, and life.
Whether you seek a better relationship with your spouse/family/friends/colleagues, are working through a new life stage, or simply want to find your true self and happiness, this course will introduce the foundational concepts, real-life examples, and practical tools and exercises to find your “type,” and of how you can use the Enneagram to energize and transform your life in the way that matters most to you. Included in the course is a brief introduction to additional Enneagram elements (e.g. “instincts, wings, arrows, subtypes, levels of development, triads” etc.) for personal growth --- that will be explored in detail in the Part 2 course offered later.
Part 1 and 2 are offered twice during summer 2025.
Bio: Tony Holmes, MA, is a Certified Enneagram professional and trainer on using the Enneagram for personal and professional success and happiness. He has done human resource consulting in Atlanta for over 25 years, while learning and applying the Enneagram to lead and develop teams and individuals. He has broad experience presenting, facilitating, and training groups of all types, and uses the Enneagram to energize and enhance teams, leaders, communication, emotional intelligence, and overall happiness. His passion includes a focus on coaching, mentoring, teaching, volunteering, and supporting individuals in pivotal stages of their lives. In addition to his Enneagram certification and experience, he has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Michigan and is an active Board Member with the Southeast USA Affiliate of the International Enneagram Association.