Most of us know that metaphors are great for communicating ideas, but did you know that they are also great for allowing your subconscious to bring important understandings into consciousness? Metaphors are how we code experience. Our deepest wisdom about situations is held metaphorically in our psyches and influence our approach to problems and goal achievement.
If you think of a problem as a barrier, you'll want "breakthrough" strategies. If you think you need to "get to the bottom of it," you'll "dig deeper". If you think you're "drowning", you'll hope for a life preserver. If you feel "stuck," you'll try to get "unstuck" to "move forward". If your metaphor and strategies are mismatched, you won't get very far. Similarly, in a relationship, if one of you thinks you're starving in a desert, and the other feels "swamped", a satisfactory joint resolution is not likely. In this fun session, you'll discover how inner metaphors work. We'll elicit people's metaphors as examples with Enneagram themes. You'll explore your own subjective experience in new ways and discover the power of eliciting metaphors in all life situations. Expect a lot of "ah-ha's" during the session, and even more in the days that follow.
Stephanie Davis is lively professional speaker and a certified, IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction, trained in the Palmer Daniels, Riso/Hudson, Claudio Naranjo and Dynamic Enneagram Schools. She is also educated in Psychology, Business, and Systems Theory and runs an enneagram-based training and consulting company along with her executive coaching practice. IEA Accredited Professional