ZOOM Inner Knowing: The Enneagram - 30 July 2020

Your Speaker

Andrew Ponniah first started his career in audit at Arthur Young, after completing his BACC at NUS. He then moved into education where he taught at Temasek Junior College and Ngee Ann Poly. From there and after his MBA, he took on the mantle of entrepreneur and set up a private international school under the Methodist Mission. He moved into counselling after his Masters at James Cook University. Having set up the SEL Network in 2010 as a counsellor training enterprise, he now works part-time as a Counsellor in church. He finished his Graduate Diploma in Christian Studies at BGST in 2015. Author of two books, Trust or Rust? on Emotional Quotients and HeartWarmers, an anthology of prose and poetry, Andrew is an avid reader and believer in new ideas. Married with four children, he loves the active and balanced life. He is a also a Narrative Therapist who delves into DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) too.

Course Brief

The enneagram is a very old, fourth century tool that started among the Christian desert fathers and moved to the Muslim sufis, then Jewish communities, and then found its way back to the Christian fold and secular society in the 1980s. An illustrious history!

This is not another personality trait system. It moves deeper and teaches us the energy flow from which traits emanate. It’s also not the popular DISC system which is about a behaviour response system or the Myers Briggs type indicator. It’s much more.

This is probably the first enneagram workshop that’s targeted at the counselling arena. It’s asking the question, “How will this self-understanding of myself and the ability to read my client accurately be useful to the counselling process and achieve desired goals?” Many a time, this is missing in the Counsellor-Counsellee encounter. We can’t seem to understand the client or where he is coming from. Enneagrams provide this missing piece.

Come learn the 9 interrelated faces of the soul and see how it relates to the problems encountered within the client-therapist relationship. This course is introductory in nature and does not assume prior knowledge, only a learning mind and heart.

Course Outline

SEGMENT 1
Contextualise individual one on one use, not for group use, but with clients and you as Counsellor

SEGMENT 2
Enneagram Personality Test
Nine Personality Overview
Types 1 to 4: Reformer- Perfectionist, Helper-Giver, Achiever-Performer, Individualist-Romantic

SEGMENT 3
Types 5-8: Investigator-Observer, Loyalist-Skeptic, Enthusiast-Epicure, Challenger-Protector

SEGMENT 4
Type 9: Peacemaker-Mediator
Identify True Self vs False Self
Wings & Video

This is a 1 day course that will be presented "in-person" or with ZOOM pending government regulations. Both formats will offer notes and exercises for an optimal learning experience.

Please make cheque payable to "The SEL Network LLP" and addressed to 39 Aida Street, Singapore 459964. For interbank GIRO (SEL 2010A) or Interbank Transfer UOB Acct NO [375 302 804 6]. Please email Ian at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with date of transaction, name of organization, person attending workshop and screenshot of transaction. 

Cheques and payments need to be received before invitation email is sent for your course - thank you!

Please note: Although the website states the Village Hotel Katong as the meeting place - please disregard as currently this is an online ZOOM telecourse.