In this presentation we will explore how childhood trauma impacts the way personality operates and the ways the Enneagram map can help us understand how it shapes the different types and how it can be healed through applying type-based insights. The vast majority of people have experienced some sort of trauma in their lives, but the effect of early trauma has not been fully examined in terms of its potential role in mistyping, maintaining the rigidity of defensive type patterns, and successfully achieving real growth and transformation. We will share our views about the ways unresolved early trauma may make it harder to grow and change, but also how we can deploy Enneagram insights to address and heal trauma to move beyond the defensive patterns of the 9 types and access higher potentials. Through lecture, dialogue, case study examples, and a live demonstration in which we will work with someone to highlight the interaction of trauma and personality patterns, we will share our approach to healing trauma through applying Enneagram-based ideas about the centers, the instincts, the types, and the subtypes.
Beatrice Chestnut, PhD MA is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant. She has a PhD in communication and an MA in clinical psychology. The author of The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge and The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st-Century Workplace, she offers trainings and retreats based on the Enneagram internationally through the Enneagram school she co-founded with Uranio Paes, Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy. IEA Accredited with Distinction Professional
Uranio Paes is internationally recognized as a leading Enneagram facilitator, coach, and organization development consultant. He has worked in corporate settings for over two decades and now specializes in doing transformational work with groups and individuals based on the Enneagram. A former President of the IEA, for many years Uranio taught the Enneagram Worldwide Narrative Tradition Professional Training (EPTP) Program in Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. He is founder and CEO of Mundo Eneagrama/Chestnut Paes Online, a global Enneagram learning community and co-founder with Beatrice Chestnut of Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy. IEA Accredited with Distinction Professional