on demand available now

Enneagram: 
The Basics & Beyond

This interactive training provides a comprehensive introduction to the Enneagram, a powerful psychological framework for understanding personality patterns, emotional dynamics, and relational styles. Special attention will be given to integrating the Enneagram into clinical practice to enhance therapeutic rapport, deepen client insight, and support tailored interventions.

The training also explores how Enneagram principles can be applied in team settings to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership effectiveness.

Clinicians, coaches, supervisors, and organizational leaders will walk away with practical tools for applying the Enneagram in one-on-one sessions and team-based environments, along with resources for continued development.

What is the Enneagram?

  • We all have one of the nine types that dominate our personality which we develop in childhood and contributes to how we learn to adapt to our environment.
  • A wing is “second side” of your personality. They are the numbers on either side of your enneagram type and one is typically more predominant than the other.
  • There are 3 centers which each include 3 personality types that have common assets and liabilities.
  • Your security number indicates the type your personality moves toward and draws energy/resources from when you are feeling secure. Your stress number indicates the type your personality moves toward when you are overwhelmed.

Objectives:

1.5 hour course with 1.5 APA CEs. 
  • Differentiate the nine Enneagram types based on core motivations, behavioral patterns, and emotional tendencies relevant to clinical assessment.
  • Analyze the influence of wings and triads on personality expression and interpersonal functioning.
  • Assess how Enneagram types typically respond to stress and growth, and apply this understanding to case conceptualization.
  • Integrate Enneagram-informed insights into clinical assessment and treatment planning to enhance client self-awareness and therapeutic outcomes.
  • Apply Enneagram concepts to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership within clinical teams and group settings.

*Most licensing boards accept APA credits, though it is up to you to confirm if you license, board and state will accept APA continuing education units. 
Meet the instructor

Julia Nepini,  LICSW

Julia (she/her)  is a clinical and forensic social worker who owns the group practice, Compassionate Counseling Company in southeastern Massachusetts. She also owns the consulting business, Compassionate Consulting Company, where she helps entrepreneurs start, expand, and diversify their businesses. She hosts the Compassionate Climb podcast where she discusses being successful in business while maintaining integrity.
Patrick Jones - Course author

Other Courses You May Like