Transform Your Personal Leadership Journey
Unlock your true potential with Enneagram and Mindfulness tools
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Transform Your Personal Leadership Journey
Unlock your true potential with Enneagram and Mindfulness tools
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Self-Discovery
Understanding yourself is the first step to effective leadership. Our classes guide you through the process of self-discovery, using the Enneagram and Mindfulness tools to uncover your true motivations and challenges.
Learning to Lead Ourselves Program Details
Learning to Lead Ourselves
A Personal Leadership Program
with Mindfulness and Enneagram tools
What is the Enneagram? The Enneagram, (pronounced ANY-a-gram) is a personality typing system that describes 9 personality patterns. Though ancient in origin, the Enneagram is rooted in modern day psychology and is a guide to recognize the strategies each of us have used to survive. The Enneagram gives us awareness of our behaviors based on how we think, how we feel, and how we relate to others. It is an amazing tool for understanding ourselves and for personal growth.
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a practice of being fully aware in the present moment without judgement.
How LLO integrates Enneagram and Mindfulness tools:
The Enneagram helps us to identify our personality habits and why they developed. With this awareness, we can choose to let go of habitual patterns that don’t serve us well.
Mindfulness helps us to recognize when we are using our habits, to pause and choose different responses when we are upset, to be clear about our feelings, and tune in to others.
What you can expect from LLO:
· Content experts as guest speakers
· Partnerships between participants and instructors
· Self-discovery and practice opportunities
· Trustworthy content
· Continual 2-way feedback
Personal Outcomes
1.Learn about your authenticity, your personality, and that of others.
2.Learn about protective habits from your experiences.
3.Learn about the benefits of Mindfulness practice
4. Explore what makes you upset and choose new ways to respond.
Organizational Outcomes
1. Improved work relationships
2. Improved conflict resolution
3. Increased creativity, innovation
4. Greater recognition and acceptance of different perspectives
Who We Teach
Leaders, providers, parents, older youth (ages 16-21), work teams, those who desire to understand their authenticity, their challenges, and opportunities for growth.
Examples of groups that have utilized LLO include:
· Non-profit and corporate leadership and staff, such as Foster Alumni Mentors and Kroger Corp, have used LLO to understand each other on a deeper level, to avoid taking things personally, and to resolve conflicts with new awareness.
· Couples have used LLO to deepen their connections and understand and appreciate their differences.
· Parents have learned that LLO strategies help them let go of their own childhood beliefs and habits, so they can be more authentic with their children.
· Court Appointed Special Advocates have learned to practice Mindfulness and utilize the Enneagram to help them let go of their challenging habits, to understand their reactions, and enhance their advocacy for children in Child Welfare.
· Older youth in transition from Foster Care have been eager to learn about their authentic qualities, personality patterns, and the effect on their relationships.
Learning to Lead Ourselves
Class Offerings
Your Personal Leadership Journey (90 minutes)
How we Develop
Learning your Enneagram Type
Mindfulness Benefits
Using Our Primary Instincts and Our Values (90 minutes)
· Enneagram Instinctual bias
· Application of Instincts and values to leading ourselves
What is Most Important to You: Thinking, Feeling, or Doing? (90 minutes)
· Exploring Head, Heart, Body Centers
· Find the one you tend to forget
· How can this knowledge help to lead ourselves?
Mindfulness Effects on Personality (90 minutes)
· How Mindfulness affects each Enneagram Type
· Enneagram types that can help us
Other Coaching/Organizational Classes Using Mindfulness and the Enneagram
(90 minutes)
Team building
Understanding Relationships
Authentic Parenting
How to Give and Receive Feedback
Listening and Leadership
Resilience
Self-Care
Testimonials
“Kathy brings her seasoned professionalism, authentic compassion, and enthusiasm to every endeavor. I personally benefited and continue to live a better life due to Kathy’s expert
counsel. Kathy focuses on and achieves best outcomes in her selfless contribution to the well-being of people and communities” Coaching client
“I found it so helpful to have the Enneagram and Mindfulness information applied to CASA Advocacy. It is important for our volunteers to more deeply understand themselves as they enter tough situations. The tools are great.” CASA Leader
“Kathy's Enneagram class was wonderful! I think it really opened up some new perspectives and it was extremely interesting learning about different personality types and seeing where I might be - which I found out I am a 9 or a Peacemaker!” Foster Alumni Mentors
“I really enjoyed Kathy’s Enneagram class! It helped me gain a deeper understanding of myself and others, especially in how different personality types approach relationships and challenges. The insights I learned have already made a difference in how I communicate and connect with people in my life” Foster Alumni Mentors
Learning to Lead Ourselves Content Experts
Content Experts, Advisors, Guest Teachers
Betty Lehman (Denver)
To create a more just, responsive, and humane world for all Colorado families with children and adult children with disabilities, I became a statewide leader for change. Working within the Colorado early intervention system, public and private health insurance industries, disability initiatives and medical practices, I successfully:
~Spearheaded 14 Colorado statutes improving the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families
~Served as the Executive Director of the Autism Society of Colorado
~Chaired the Colorado Autism Commission and the Colorado Division of Insurance Consumer Council
~Served on numerous Colorado Governor appointed Councils
Doug Farmer (South Caroline)
Doug Farmer is a retired Senior Special Agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives where he served as an explosives specialist. He is also an FBI trained hostage negotiator and served on the ATF National Response Team.
After Doug retired from ATF, he completed his Seminary education and became a licensed minister in the United Church of Christ. He also served as a hospice chaplain and a public safety chaplain. Doug was introduced to the Enneagram in 2011 and completed certification training with Enneagram Georgia, The Awareness to Action program, Integrative Enneagram Solutions IEQ9, and the Enneagram Prison Project. He is an International Enneagram Association Accredited Professional.
Adriana Medina-Lopez-Portillo PhD (Denver)
Adriana is a Career and Life Reinvention Coach through Pangea Coaching and Training, a service that empowers women and leaders to achieve clarity, confidence and courage. She invites individuals and organizations to operate and relate to others from a place of consciousness and awareness of self and others.
Marci Sontag, PhD (Denver)
Among Marci's passions are improving public health systems. She is currently focused on newborn screening, genetic services, and health information technology. Marci has an MA degree in biostatistics and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Colorado. She brings knowledge and experience in epidemiology, data analysis, program development, facilitation, and program evaluation.
Yvonne Kellar-Guenther PhD (Denver)
Yvonne holds advanced degrees in Communication Theory and Interpersonal Communication. She uses her skills to teach and consult in the public health arena with the University of Colorado for almost two decades. She is an expert at helping public health stakeholders identify and clarify their goals, continually improve their programs, identify important measures, and make use of proven collaboration processes and skills.
Ariane Baudhuin Kessel (Washington):
Originally from the French-speaking part of Belgium, I immigrated to the USA in 2005, and I have been living in the Seattle area with my husband and dog since 2020. I have a Master’s in Biochemistry and 20 years of academic research experience in Neuroscience. As a Certified Integral Coach with New Ventures West and an Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition, I’m devoted to supporting people from all walks of life in their personal and professional developmental journey, through 1-1 coaching or group facilitation. My passion is working with people who want to achieve self-mastery, create healthy relationships, and flourish in their lives.
About Me
My Background:
· I am based in Colorado and collaborate with state and national professionals in public health, universities, non-profits, child welfare, and the Enneagram community.
· Learning about myself has helped me to understand others. It has helped to learn about my authentic qualities as well as my defenses. I have a deeper compassion for myself, my family, friends, and colleagues.
· Learning how to be mindful has increased my effectiveness when teaching, advocating, and in leadership roles. My teaching experience is with individuals, small groups, work teams, and service providers. My advocacy extends to people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, criminal justice and children/families in Child Welfare.
My Training:
· I am a career Public Health professional of 40 years who has led public health initiatives, in Maternal and Child Health and Children with Special Health Care Needs, with successful outcomes at the state and national levels.
· I have followed the Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Challenge, throughout my career. I have practiced the five leadership principles: Model the Way, Challenge the Process, Inspire a Shared Vision, Encourage the Heart, Enable Others to Act.
· In the last decade, I have applied these leadership principles to my internal motivations and values, seeing that leading myself is essential to enhance my leadership of others and to increase the enjoyment of all my relationships.
· I am a dually certified Enneagram teacher through the International Enneagram Association and The Narrative Tradition.
· I am also trained in:
o Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
o The Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership
o Trauma-informed care
o The Enneagram Prison Project
o Non-Violent Communication
o Trust-Based Relational Intervention
o Internal Family Systems
o Training for Court Appointed Special Advocates.
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