Helping Teams Build Self-Awareness, Communication & Healthier Collaboration
Curious what’s driving the recurring patterns within your team’s communication, conflict, leadership, decision-making, and stress?
Those recurring patterns are often connected to the underlying motivations, assumptions, communication tendencies, and stress responses each person brings into the team environment.
The Enneagram provides a practical framework for understanding those patterns so teams can work together with greater awareness, clarity, and trust.
These workshops are designed for church staff, leadership teams, boards, and nonprofit organizations looking to:
- Strengthen Communication
- Improve Team Dynamics
- Reduce Reactivity
- Increase Organizational Awareness
- Build Healthier Collaboration
The Enneagram can help teams:
- Understand the Motivations Beneath Behavior
- Reduce Unnecessary Judgment and Misunderstanding
- Take the Personal Out of Personality
- Recognize the Value Different Styles Bring to Team Effectiveness
Three Workshop Formats
1. Enneagram Fundamentals (90 Minutes)
Outcome: Awareness & Shared Language
An introductory session designed to help teams build a foundational understanding of the Enneagram and how personality patterns shape communication, stress responses, and team interaction.
Focus Areas
- Understanding Core Motivations & Patterns
- Recognizing Stress & Reactivity Tendencies
- Building Shared Language Around Team Dynamics
Best Suited For
- Staff Development
- Leadership Training
- Board Retreats
- Introductory Team Sessions
2. Enneagram Team Dynamics Workshop (3 Hours)
Outcome: Team Understanding & Communication
A more interactive workshop using individual assessment results and a team profile map to explore how the team functions together relationally and organizationally.
Focus Areas
- Team Communication Patterns
- Interpersonal & Conflict Coping Styles
- Blind Spots, Strengths & Reactive Tendencies
Includes
- Teaching
- Facilitated Discussion
- Coaching-Style Reflection & Processing
Smaller group formats create a safer environment for honesty, interaction, and meaningful processing. The 3-hour and full-day workshops are best suited for teams of approximately 8 participants or fewer.
3. Enneagram Team Intensive Full-Day Integrative Working Session
Outcome: Organizational Application & Team Integration
A facilitated working day designed to help teams move beyond awareness into practical organizational application.
Focus Areas
- Identifying Team Patterns & Relational Dynamics
- Processing Communication, Conflict & Leadership Challenges
- Applying Insights to Organizational Growth & Team Functioning
Includes
- Facilitated Team Conversations
- Coaching-Style Reflection & Processing
- Strategic Team Application & Next Steps
The full-day intensive is often most effective after teams have completed either the introductory session or the 3-hour workshop, although it can be adapted depending on organizational needs.
Together, these workshops are designed to help teams move from:
- Awareness → Understanding
- Insight → Integration
- Understanding → Healthier Collaboration
Explore What Best Fits Your Team
Every team is different.
Book a Team Exploration Call to discuss your team, goals, challenges, and what type of workshop format may best support your organization.
Testimonials
“I was very encouraged by how many people gained greater self-awareness, and the conversations that followed were invaluable. This set-apart time grew us as a collective team in an environment where it is easy to get task-focused.”
- Chris H. Senior Pastor, Tacoma WA