Honouring the Threads, Meeting the Moment and Tending What Matters
Programme and Session Information
September 26, 2026 10:00 -17:00 BST
Registration, Tea & Coffee
Welcome by the Enneagram Alive Team
10.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 10.40
Gathering the Threads:
getting oriented in a fractured world with help from the Enneagram
with Trish White
10:40– 11.00
About Trish
Trish White is a change consultant and IEA Accredited Enneagram Practitioner with a background in leadership development, culture transformation and team effectiveness. She works internationally with senior leaders and executive teams, integrating the Enneagram with strengths-based and systemic approaches to leadership and development. Committed to her own ongoing inner work and professional development, Trish supports leaders to deepen self-awareness, strengthen relational intelligence and lead with greater presence, integrity and humanity.
Parallel sessions
Head, Heart & Gut:
Wisdom to carry Life Forward
with Therese Ryan
11:00 – 12:15
Our three centres of intelligence – head, heart & gut- are vital sources of wisdom. Living life predominantly from one centre channels our energy in repetitive, tired ways rather than allowing it to flow freely in a fresh response to the present moment. This workshop invites you to tune into each centre and explore your relationship to your unique head, heart and gut intelligence. What happens individually and collectively when one centre leads the way? How might accessing the energy of all three centres help us be more reflective, connected & grounded? You’ll have an opportunity to try out the gentle practice of Focusing (as developed by Eugene Gendlin) as you sense into the wisdom of each centre and how together they carry life forward.
Steady in the Storm: The Enneagram for Real-Time Change
with Susan Coughlan
11:00 – 12:15
In a world marked by rapid change, complexity, and instability, we all experience moments when we feel ungrounded or reactive. This session explores how the Enneagram, combined with the simple and powerful Below or Above the Line framework (from Conscious Leadership Group), can help us meet uncertainty with more presence, curiosity, and choice. In this practical and interactive workshop, you will learn to apply the framework and to identify your type’s predictable stress patterns and “below-the-line” stories or strategies that arise in stress and uncertainty. We will tune in to the strengths and wisdom available to you when your type returns “above the line”. We will explore where you go – above or below in certain scenarios and practice making the shift from below to above the line in ways that work for you.
About Therese
Therese Ryan integrates the Enneagram and Focusing (as developed by Dr Eugene Gendlin) in her work as a facilitator, trainer and coach. She is an accredited IEA professional trained in the Narrative Enneagram tradition and a certified Focusing teacher. She works as a lead trainer with Enneagram Training UK & Ireland. Together Therese and Phyllis facilitate monthly online Enneagram panels. Therese is also an Iyengar Yoga teacher.
About Susan
Susan Coughlan is a change consultant, facilitator, coach and certified Enneagram professional with the CP Academy. She brings over eight years’ experience supporting leaders, creatives and people in transition to navigate change through Enneagram-informed coaching in her business, Art of Change.Drawing on her lived experience of late-diagnosed ADHD, she’s currently brining her curiosity to explore how neurodivergence and the Enneagram overlap and differ as powerful ways to see ourselves and others more deeply. She lives and works in Stoneybatter, Dublin with her wife Margaret, an artist, and their cat Ziggy, who is blissfully oblivious to it all.
Exploring the Tapestry of the Enneagram in Ireland
with Phyllis Jordan
12.40 – 13.15
An inclusive space to reflect on the history of the Enneagram in Ireland through to the present day. Through the voices of Fr. Myles O' Reilly SJ, Margaret O' Rorke, Barry Ahern and others in the room, we will explore the varied and diverse threads which have been woven together to form the tapestry of today's Enneagram. We will conclude with an invitation to wonder about the Enneagram of the present times here in Ireland.
About Phyllis
Phyllis Jordan is based in Mayo in the West of Ireland. Phyllis qualified as a narrative Enneagram teacher in 2013 and has facilitated workshops, panels and typing interviews both online and in-person since that time. As well as being passionate about the Enneagram Phyllis holds a deep heart connection to the wisdom of Twelve Step recovery and Two Way Prayer. Phyllis draws on these wisdom sources in her work as a Spiritual guide, an Enneagram practitioner and a Kairos energy healer. Phyllis holds a B.Sc. in Clinical Speech and Language Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. She works with the Health Service in the West of Ireland and has specialised in the field of Dyslexia. In her spare time Phyllis loves to walk in nature, play traditional Irish music, read and visit islands and places of retreat.
Parallel sessions
Stress from the Inside
with Martin Quigley
14:15 – 15:30
We typically associate stress as coming from the outside, a pressure from something in the environment. However, when we are unaware of how our type patterns operate, we become the architect of our own stress. In this session we will examine the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that can initiate stress. When we understand our type patterns, it is easier to observe and recognise our automatic reaction. We can identify thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are stressors and energy sapping. By bringing awareness to these stressors, we can give ourselves options for managing our reactivity and build resilience. This is an experiential session using the inner triangle whereby each type will explore their own projections, avoidances and defences to identify sources of self-generated stress. Learning to recognise our own stressors will begin the task of building resilience.
Instincts in Intimacy
with Sam Greenberg
14:15 – 15:30
Instincts in Intimacy is an exploration of the influence of Enneagram instincts on our close relationships. Why might one person in a relationship require daily expressions of passion while another finds this excessive? Why might one person in a romantic partnership desire physical intimacy regardless of circumstances while for the other stressors must be low before desire is present? Enneagram instincts reveal the mysteries of intimate dynamics and provide a path towards understanding and compassion for ourselves and our loved ones. Familiarity with Enneagram instincts is a plus, beginners welcomeInstincts in Intimacy is an exploration of the influence of Enneagram instincts on our close relationships. Why might one person in a relationship require daily expressions of passion while another finds this excessive? Why might one person in a romantic partnership desire physical intimacy regardless of circumstances while for the other stressors must be low before desire is present? Enneagram instincts reveal the mysteries of intimate dynamics and provide a path towards understanding and compassion for ourselves and our loved ones. Familiarity with Enneagram instincts is a plus, beginners welcome
About Martin
Martin Quigley has studied and worked with the Enneagram for over 30 years. He is certified by the Narrative Enneagram and is an Accredited Professional by the International Enneagram Association. As a Senior member of the Enneagram in Business Network, he applies the Enneagram in his coaching, leadership, and team development training. Martin is a former lead trainer with Enneagram Training UK, delivering the Narrative Enneagram’s professional training programme. In this role he supervised trainee Enneagram teachers internationally. He is a guest facilitator with the South African Enneagram Professional Training programme. In 2024 Martin published his book ‘More than a number’ on his approach to working with the Enneagram.
About Sam
Dr. Sam E. Greenberg is a sexuality researcher who focuses on the impact of Enneagram type and instinct on intimacy. She is also an Enneagram coach, trained in the Narrative tradition, who focuses extensively on instincts with the individuals and couples she coaches. Sam has studied the Enneagram for 18 years, and has presented her research in national and international forums.
Weaving the Future: listening for the thread we’re called to carry forward into our lives and communities
15.50 – 16.50
A facilitated participative session to reflect, connect, ask questions and find your next steps. A space for emerging conversations.