Program & Replays
Enhancing Our Relationships: Understandings to Minimize What Tears Us Apart
Studying the Enneagram brings a ton of learning about how we're structured and what makes us tick. It's one of the greatest "de-shaming" self-assessment tools. Once we've conquered the theory, the process of assimilation, implementation, and embodiment is our next step. Cognitive understanding must be followed with active methods in order to actually impact our self-awareness, and intimate relationships are one of the most powerful and immediate ways to transform ourselves and our relationships.
- How understanding our own Enneagram type and that of another depersonalizes relational struggles and builds relationship and critical compassion
- How each type’s defense system is formulated, and how relaxing the defense system of each Enneagram type is the key to relational struggle
- How to notice our own type triggers, become more present to the defense pattern, and less reactive to the defense patterns that destroy relationships, intimacy and vulnerability
Suzanne Dion
Suzanne Dion co-wrote the book, The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy: Understanding One Another Leads to Loving Better and Living More Fully, with her mentor, David Daniels, MD. In its pages, they marry the wisdom of the Enneagram with Dr. Dan Siegel's mindful awareness research and teachings.
Suzanne’s focus, as she carries forward David’s compassionate approach, is on bettering our human relationships through intrapersonal healing and developing our capacity for emotional literacy and deepening intimacy — with both ourselves and others.
Now a teacher, coach, and educator of the Enneagram system for personal and professional self-awareness, Suzanne completed her teacher certification with The Narrative Enneagram (TNE) program (formerly called the Palmer-Daniels Enneagram Professional Training School) in 2008. Suzanne was one of the founding board members of the Enneagram Prison Project and spent several years developing its curriculum and teaching incarcerated men and women in Northern California jails and San Quentin State Prison.
