Do you sometimes ask yourself, "I know the Enneagram, now what?" Do you sometimes say to yourself, "Oh no! I did it again! I hate when I do that!" Look no further. EnneaMotion, based on the Enneagram, uses simple movement exercises to explore the energy of the different Enneagram personality styles. By translating the emotional energy of the different styles into physical energy, you will leave with a tool for developing the best traits of all nine styles, and a tool to help change thinking, feeling and behavior patterns that are no longer effective.

• Increase your understanding of and compassion for self and others
• Create an ease in managing changing moods and emotions
• Improve communication
• Improve relationships
• Change the neuron pathways from the brain that can help you break free
of old emotional patterns that don't work for you anymore
• Increase emotional intelligence, and
• Find physical antidotes to different shades of the blues!

Initially based on the Enneagram, this includes physical exercises and a spiritual
practice that help you:
• Cultivate the best traits of all personality styles,
• Learn how to "wear your personality lightly",
• Easily change patterns that are no longer effective
• Address those "I hate when I do that" moments
• Balance thoughts, feelings and actions, and
• Live a life of wholeness and balance

In Greek, ennea means nine, and gram is something written or drawn. The Enneagram is a nine-pointed geometric figure. The Enneagram typology system mapped onto this nine pointed figure describes personality as:
    • Nine different lenses or "fixations" through which we experience the world; and
    • Nine different psychological structures, complete with their own motivations, survival strategies and specific mental patterns which filter everything we do.

According to this system, each of us is predominantly influenced by one of the nine styles, while at the same time we each contain some characteristics of the other eight styles.

The study of the Enneagram is very effective for understanding our most fundamental fears, motivations, strengths and weaknesses. This makes the Enneagram a powerful tool for personal transformation. In fact, many psychologists, counselors and business leaders are using the Enneagram professionally and very effectively in their fields. As a typology system, the Enneagram is superb in its elegance, effectiveness and astonishing depth. Contrary to other systems which tend to box a person into a static group, the Enneagram explains each personality not only from the perspective of psychological structure, motivation and probable behavior, but provides the context in which each personality operates with dynamic fluidity, just as we experience in real life.

The Inner Side uses Shadow Work tools as a way to bring your true self out of the shadow and into the light. It is a way of transforming parts of your character that you'd like to change with compassion and understanding, and offers an effective technology for balancing these diverse parts.

Research tells us high Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a greater predictor of success than a high IQ. EQ increases our ability to communicate effectively, one of the most important skills we can develop. Those who have it are happier in their work and personal lives and can lead more naturally and with greater grace.
 
This program combines the Enneagram with recent discoveries in brain science. Among the organizations making use of the Enneagram are the Walt Disney Company, Silicon Graphics, Kaiser Permanente Research Center, the Federal Reserve Bank, the CIA, and Rational Software. These and other companies and institutions use the Enneagram in the areas of:
 
•  Improving Communication
•  Increasing Employee Emotional Intelligence
•  Giving/Receiving Feedback Effectively
•  Resolving Conflict
•  Leadership Development
•  Team Building
 
The practical, easy-to-use EQ tools learned in this program will enhance communication skills, the ability to manage yourself and to lead others. The benefits of this work are profound.

Conflict is a source of anger in many different types of relationships. Anger is one of the most mis-understood and poorly-expressed emotions, often being over- or under-expressed. Becoming familiar with the emotional polarity of anger — the benefits of expressing it appropriately, at the right time, to the right person, with the right amount of energy, actually leads one to a graceful state of confidence.

Somatic Focusing
Private Sessions with Andrea Isaacs

Have you ever tried to make a change —

• In how you react
    • in how you lead
        • in any relationship
            • in how you live your life . . .

without success?

Have you ever said, “Oh no, I did it again; I hate when I do that!”?

If so, you have accepted patterns that have become a part of you, even if you don’t like those patterns, even when they make life more difficult. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

If change has been difficult, a step is missing. The missing step is often using the body. Listening to the body, we get insight to powerful, precise and effective tools for changing patterns we don’t like, and an ease in creating patterns for a way of being that we prefer.

Somatic Focusing is a powerful and simple method with
easy-to-use tools for lasting change.

In a private Somatic Focusing session, we explore the issue you want to work on, talking at first, and then finding your body’s “felt sense,” how it feels in your body when all that is going on. With simple movement exercises and gentle guidance, the body changes into a stronger and more balanced state.

We find what can be used as an “antidote” the next time that old disturbing pattern begins to arise.

An efficient complement to “talk therapy,” this returns us to wholeness, a connection to our true nature, greater joy and more inner peace.

To arrange for a session, for questions or more information, contact:
Andrea@EnneaMotion.com

Endorsements for Somatic Focusing Private Sessions

Working with Andrea on personal issues was moving, powerful and beautiful.

-- Deb Ryysylainen Yorktown Heights NY

Somatic Focusing with Andrea brought an immediate, dramatic and stunning state of change.

-- Rudi Narine Fredensborg, Denmark

It was marvelous how Andrea distills a feeling or thought to calm clarity through body connection. She has a gift.

--Judy Wells Warner Boulder, CO

Andrea’s Somatic Focusing creates powerful breakthroughs.

-- Kaley Klemp Southern California

A workshop for people whose lives have been touched by cancer, using meditation, movement, drawing and writing to address the emotional and spiritual aspects of healing. This program has been attended by cancer survivors, their friends and family members, insurance case workers, doctors and nurses.

This workshop helps you better understand the character you're portraying and the similarities and differences between you and your character. Translating emotional energy into physical energy, the strengths and weaknesses of different personality styles are explored through movement. This gives you a kinesthetic experience of a variety of ways of being in the world.

One of the challenges as an actor is to play roles unlike who you are naturally. This work can help you broaden your range as an actor by finding yourself and the roles you play in this personality system, and by discovering, exploring and developing the physical mannerisms to personality styles other than your own.

Understanding the relationship between personality and the body will guide you in how your character would walk, stand, sit, gesture and move through space, giving you the consistency necessary for creating a full range of in-depth and powerful characters.

Are you ready for the next step in your personal or professional development? Are you ready to break some emotional habits that aren't working for you? Would you like to create healthier, more balanced habits? Learn a new, experiential and effective tool:

At the end of this program, you will have:

• Deepened your insight about the Enneagram, a personality typology system
• Practiced "wearing your personality lightly" which will give flexibility in how you respond to challenging situations
• Gained a new ease in managing changing moods and emotions
• Changed the neuron pathways from the brain that can help you break free of old emotional patterns that don't work for you anymore
• Explored the relationship between personality and the body
• Developed triggers that can change how you think, feel and behave
• Learned exercises to establishing emotional wholeness
• A deeper sense of inner peace, no matter what circumstances you encounter
• Increased your emotional intelligence, and
• You will know how to create physical antidotes to different shades of the blues!

Learn how to teach EnneaMotion programs and how to do the one-on-one coaching. Go in depth with the movement exercises, increase your intuitive capacity and de-mystify the process of the one-on-one work. Also a great opportunity for your own deep personal work.