Using the Enneagram to Facilitate Resolution of Supervisory Conflict

Abstract

Supervision conflict is natural and inevitable. However, if not resolved effectively it can be detrimental to the supervisory relationship. The Enneagram is a personality classification system that houses nine basic personality types and their interrelationships. It has been utilized to facilitate self-and other-awareness in various situations, from client-counselor dyads to corporate employee groups. The authors propose that the Enneagram, and its neurobiological influences, can be a useful tool within the counseling supervision process, strengthening both the supervision relationship as well as modeling understanding and awareness that supervisees that can utilize in their relationships with clients.

An Enneagram Approach to Strategy

“…The Enneagram methodology is explained further in the next section. We note now that it draws on many disciplines and intellectual concepts, such as networks from physics as well as disciples such as Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism which have much in common and are concerned practically with develop-ing the creative capabilities that most people possess (Moore 1992;Kern et al 2011). Thus, we attempted to explore how the Enneagram methodology as an organisational tool could be used to achieve organisational conditioning/determines priorities.…”