Training and Coaching – Martin Quigley

TRAINING

Martin’s Enneagram training courses are aimed at fostering self-discovery, self-awareness, motivation, and personal growth. Workshops by Martin guide participants through Enneagram principles, self-selection, transformation as well as practical applications.

Participants discover their type patterns, but also learn how to recognise these patterns happening automatically. Participants are encouraged to take ownership of their personality traits, while while also gaining an appreciation of how they can, by learning to interrupt automatic reactions, give themselves more appropriate choices to respond whether at home or at work.

Enneagram Workshops

All growth begins with awareness. Awareness is dependent on self-observation and reflection.

The study of the Enneagram can be interesting but limited if you see it simply as a model that reduces people to a number – you are ‘more than a number’.

Martin offers a series of workshops based on his book, More than a number.

Participating in these workshops you will be encouraged to notice and reflect on why you think, feel and behave as you do. You will be challenged to accept that others see reality differently from you, so they are not necessarily wrong, difficult, or obtuse, just different.

The benefits of exploring yourself through the Enneagram are many, including gaining a greater understanding of yourself and others, having better personal and professional relationships, being more real at work and at home, making more balanced decisions and managing stress and conflict more effectively.

Through this awareness, you can gain more flexibility in the way you respond to people and situations. Using the Enneagram as a framework, you too can recognise and tell your own story; you will put your own words, experience and understanding onto the model – you are the expert in your own type patterns. Consequently, you will develop your own individual growth path and action plans.

You will begin the journey of rediscovering your true self; your superpowers.

In these workshops you will learn:

Who will benefit:

Workplace Training

The Enneagram is an extremely effective tool to use in organisations. It complements existing policies by promoting Diversity, Dignity and Inclusion. Its application is easily tailored for a variety of situations and can be adapted to fit the needs of specific individuals or groups.

Knowing why people follow you, how you come across or how you influence others you engage with is very useful feedback in understanding how you impact those around you at work. How you communicate and influence others at work reflects your type patterns. The Enneagram model is an excellent self-management tool and very effective for helping you understand your leadership style. Knowing your Enneagram strengths and challenges gives you information about what changes you need to make in order to be more effective at managing yourself at work.

I am regularly asked by those in a leadership position, “How do I get the best out of my staff?” My stock answer is “Get the best out of yourself first.”

Martin Quigley, Enneagram Trainer and Author of More than a Number.

Enneagram Training Exercises

1. Which of these statements resonates with you?

2. Which of these statements would you never consider?

Enneagram training

Influences individual, team and organisational effectiveness as well as cultural change.
Awakens leadership potential.
Increases efficiency through awareness and compassion.

Change

Potential

Compassion

Teambuilding and Leadership Training

Through a series of exercises and team awareness activities on different workplace situations, Martin will demonstrate the strength and depth of the Enneagram and how both individuals and teams can build on their individual qualities for more effective working.

After Results:

A deep understanding of the nine type patterns.
An understanding of ‘compensating’ and development practices for each style.
An appreciation of all nine types’ gifts and challenges.
The ability to identify how the dynamics of the different type patterns play out at work.

Coaching

Martin provides coaching either to complement specific aspects of training or as standalone support for individuals' specific development goals.

The Coaching Process – Six Steps

1. Identify Type Patterns –

Clients are introduced to the key concepts and a review of the nine type patterns. Martin’s emphasis is on accountability and responsibility, with the aim of continuous evolution and personal growth.

2. Understanding the Structure of the Type Patterns –

The client accepts their view of the world and works on further awareness by identifying their Emotional Drive and Thinking Style. These are the important elements that confirm the type patterns and lay the foundation for later work.

3. Deeper Exploration -

We explore the ‘wings’, the ‘arrows’ and the ‘inner triangle’ structure. Martin encourages clients to reflect on what they discovered about themselves from the exercise as their homework between sessions.

4. Growth and Development -

Here, the focus shifts to working actively with the arrows and wings, and balancing the three centres: decision-making, the shadow and bodywork. Building up resources for catching the subtleties of patterns as they arise is important learning for the client at this stage. It may be useful to introduce attention practices at this stage.

5. Transformation -

This stage aims to set the groundwork for sustained change and growth. One common result is more pragmatic goal setting and resulting action points. It may be appropriate to address specific applications at this stage, such as communication, stress, conflict, or leadership style, depending on the issues facing the client.

6. Support -

Goal setting and action planning are useful activities to support practical changes at each stage. The ultimate goal, however, is not to achieve a specific target but to create sustainable personal awareness on the part of the client. More tangible goals may also be made based on the new insights from the self-discovery work.