Do you experience frustrating relationship patterns with your partner? Would you like to learn how to improve communication and conflict resolution by understanding and shifting type habits? When partners in a couple struggle to reach each other, it's often because they are running up against the limitations of their Enneagram type. This presentation will focus on two angles: Areas of growth specific to your Enneagram type for true fulfillment in your relationship, as well as ways to reach your partner in accordance with the habits of their type.
This presentation will explore:
- Common communication patterns that arise in relationship with each type, and how to manage them.
- How the habits of each type intend to facilitate relationship satisfaction, but instead inadvertently create the opposite result: relationship dissatisfaction.
- Strategies to reach your partner via understanding the lens of your- as well as their- Enneagram Type
The development needed for each Enneagram type within the couple, supporting higher levels of health individually and within the relationship.

Michelle Joy, MFT is a licensed marriage family therapist and a certified Enneagram Teacher. She has been helping couples for almost 2 decades by combining the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy (via The Couples Institute) and the Enneagram. Michelle also leads Enneagram workshops for couples and trainings for therapists at CouplesAndTheEnneagram.com