Patterns, Presence, & the Enneagram
Small-Group Mentor Coaching for Coaches
Six sessions, 90 minutes each
Recognize client patterns, deepen rapport, and coach more effectively.
NBHWC approved for 9 CEs (CEA-100357-1)
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About this course
This live, six-session, small-group mentor coaching program introduces coaches to the Enneagram as a practical coaching tool for sensing energy and patterns in themselves and in clients.
The program presents the Enneagram not as a personality labeling system, but as a framework for understanding the core motivations, default patterns, and behavioral tendencies that shape how clients engage with change.
Designed specifically for coaches who are new to the Enneagram, this course bridges Enneagram awareness with health and wellness coaching competencies across three core applications:
- deepening the coach's own self-awareness and presence
- building stronger client rapport and communication
- supporting more resonant goal-setting and behavior change conversations.
This program is delivered online via Zoom in a live, small-group mentor coaching format (6–12 participants).
Each session integrates direct instruction, structured practice coaching, and facilitated group debriefs with a PCC-credentialed mentor coach, allowing coaches to apply Enneagram-informed approaches in real time under mentor observation and guidance.
This course is taught in English.
NBHWC approved for 9 CEs (CEA-100357-1)
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Content is explicitly framed as one practitioner's applied approach to integrating Enneagram awareness into health and wellness coaching. This program does not constitute Enneagram certification training.
What you will learn
- Describe the basic foundational elements of the Enneagram framework - including the centers of intelligence (body, heart, head), stances (Hornevian groups), and harmonic triads, and how they can be useful in coaching conversations and personal growth
- Identify which Enneagram energies you lead with and:
- Discover at least two ways your energy patterns may influence coaching presence, bias, automatic reactions, etc., during coaching sessions
- Create a specific reflective practice to support ongoing self-awareness when it comes to those energy patterns
- Demonstrate Enneagram-informed insights in client sessions to help:
- Build rapport faster
- Adapt approach based on the client's observed energy, patterns, and communication style
- Recognize motivations, barriers, and behavioral patterns in the client
- Integrate Enneagram awareness into more personalized goal-setting, action-planning, and troubleshooting for clients
- Explain how this framework can be ethically integrated coaching, including:
- The distinction between supporting client self-discovery and labeling
- Accurately representing the limits of coaches' expertise
- Maintaining alignment with NBHWC and ICF Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics
Attendance policy
If you require CE's or CCe's, you must:
- Attend 5 of the 6 live sessions. Missed sessions may be made up by watching the session recording and completing a brief quiz.
- Participate in live group coaching every week in class (as a coach, not a client).
- Complete an assessment (quiz) at the end of each week.
Who this is for:
- Coaches who are looking for a supportive space to practice coaching skills and get real-time feedback
- Newly credentialed/certified coaches (ICF, National Board, or any other credentialing body)
- New coaches with a minimum of 1 year of coaching experience (basic coach training is required, but you do not need to be certified/credentialed)
- Coaches who want to integrate the Enneagram more intentionally into their coaching practice. No prior Enneagram experience is required.
“In retrospect, I wish I had started working with Sandy sooner. She has a knack for spotting everything and presents it all for you to consider. Her personalized feedback helped me to fill in any blanks I hadn’t considered."
— DO
“I found the experience to be quite beneficial. Sandy provided detailed feedback, peppering the things I can focus more on with a number of positives as well. I left the group feeling positive and inspired to improve my coaching skills. ”
— HV
Continuing education CE & CCE Credits
This course is approved for continuing education credit through both the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching and the International Coaching Federation (pending).
NBHWC - 9.0 CE
NBHWC CEA-100357-1
ICF - 9 CCE
7.5 Core Competency
1.5 Resource Development
Pending Approval #[XXXXX]
Enroll Today:
“...it was just wonderful to be able to ask Sandy for her feedback and input… She was not only helpful but also humorous in her approach during the class. Cannot recommend her enough."
— LT
“Sandy's feedback was extremely insightful and informative for me. She also made herself available as a compassionate source of support and encouragement, which I really appreciated. ”
— AH
Meet Sandy Swanson
Sandy Swanson (NBC-HWC, PCC, A-CFHC) is the owner and founder of Swanson Coaching, LLC. She has been National Board Certified since 2020 and has been helping new coaches ever since: Assessing PSA's and ICF coaching sessions (she has completed PCC marker training through the ICF), as well as mentor coaching/coach supervision.
Sandy has run several live group coaching programs through Swanson Coaching, LLC, including "Reimagining Hashimoto's", a health-based wellness group for those experiencing autoimmune disease, and "Communicate With Confidence through the Lens of the Enneagram," a course designed to help people learn how to listen better, react less, and be present to communicate with more ease.
Sandy is the creator and host of "Beyond The Type: An Enneagram-inspired Podcast About Being Human." and the co-creator and co-host of "The Sandy and Dave Show: Coaching Conversations for Coaches"
She has been using the Enneagram in her 1:1 coaching sessions since 2020 and has been helping other coaches become more aware of their own patterns and biases through Enneagram Typing Interviews and mentor coaching.
Sandy has training in functional medicine health coaching, the Enneagram, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), polyvagal theory, and somatic inquiry.
When not coaching, you might find Sandy riding around on her Triumph 800XC motorcycle, raising monarch butterflies, playing with her crazy orange cats, or listening to opera.
She has a love-hate relationship with chocolate, technology, and exercise.
