When the Enneagram Growth Map Becomes the Maze:
(Navigating Real-Life Needs and Happiness, Within and Beyond Your Type Lens)
The Enneagram is a brilliant map — until it isn’t. Too often, it becomes a maze of conflicting paths and unfulfilled promises of happiness or effective strategies … reflecting ego-type narratives that may seem helpful but quietly keep us stuck. Whether for self-growth or coaching others, the key is understanding how happiness, real-life challenges, and Enneagram growth interact — supporting or hindering one another — and how to bring them into alignment.
Through discussion, exercises, and breakout groups, this session will:
- Distill multiple theories into simple, practical tools to help you get unstuck and move toward authentic growth, effective strategies, and lasting happiness
- Unpack how well-being, values, needs, and purpose are often distorted through the ego lens
- Identify how your ego type and instinct can mislabel false needs and solutions as real
- Clarify how values, needs, purpose, and growth can work together to support genuine development
- Reframe your choices and strategies to better align with your true needs and real happiness
This interactive session — with multiple breakout groups — offers space to reflect on individual experiences, share insights, and explore key questions to create practical, meaningful changes in your life.
Join Us!
Tony Holmes
Enneagram Consultant, Teacher, Mentor, Coach | Founder, 9 True Illusions, LLC
Tony Holmes, MA, is a Certified Enneagram professional whose passion is using the Enneagram to help individuals turn personal and professional success and happiness into reality. He serves on the Southeast USA Affiliate Board of the International Enneagram Association and has over 30 years of experience in leadership, corporate, and human resource consulting roles. Tony has spent much of that time learning and applying the Enneagram to help individuals, teams, and groups thrive. He increasingly focuses on leveraging the Enneagram to support people through pivotal life stages and decisions — including young adulthood, mid-life and career transitions, and later-life planning — through both formal and informal teaching, public speaking, university education programs, OLLI courses, and student and online community mentoring. Tony lives in suburban Atlanta, GA, and holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan.
