3563 - The Enneagram Part 5: Finding Happiness, Purpose, and Your “True Self” (Tony Holmes)
Course Description
Instructor: Tony Holmes
Part 5 builds on the required Part 1 Introduction to the Enneagram course and explores what happens when the “growth map” of the Enneagram becomes confusing or even misleading. Whether for self-growth or helping others, the key is understanding how happiness, real-life challenges, and Enneagram growth interact—supporting or hindering one another—and how to bring them into alignment.
This course highlights how our Enneagram type lens can distort reality, keeping us stuck in unhealthy patterns, false strategies, and “maze-like” loops that block happiness, purpose, and true growth. We’ll look at the tension between immediate life needs and deeper long-term goals, and how the ego type often prevents us from seeing what’s really driving our choices.
Participants will learn practical tools to navigate these obstacles, move beyond type-based blind spots, make effective life-change decisions, and reclaim a clearer path toward happiness, purpose, and their true self.
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. He has broad experience presenting, facilitating, and training. 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.