The Enneagram for Relationships
Using the Enneagram to build more understanding, ease, and connection
Learn to use the Enneagram framework to navigate challenges and deepen your connections in relationships.
The Enneagram is a personality system that can help you understand yourself more deeply. It can also dramatically shift your relationships.
Rather than focusing on behaviors alone, the Enneagram helps you identify your core beliefs, fears, and desires - the deeper motivations that shape how you show up with the people you love. When two people understand each other at this level, new possibilities for empathy, connection, and conflict repair open up.
In this workshop, psychotherapist facilitators will bring together the Enneagram framework and tools from the Gottman Method to help you and someone close to you understand each other more clearly, and communicate with more care.
Bring your partner, best friend, sibling, or another important person in your life. This workshop is designed to deepen connection in all kinds of relationships.
In this two-hour Zoom workshop, you’ll:
Learn the nine Enneagram types and what drives each one
Identify your own relational patterns and how they show up in conflict and connection
Learn and practice a Gottman Method communication exercise you can use in real life
Participate in Q&A and discussion to help these tools actually stick
Details:
Suggested donation: $20 (pay what you can; no one turned away).
Sign up with a partner, friend, family member or other close person
You may register together or separately, and join from the same screen or different locations
Bring a sense of curiosity and a little self-honesty. Pre-reading is suggested to help you identify your likely type.
About the Enneagram: The Enneagram is a personality system rooted in spiritual traditions. It distills core fears, desires, and motivations into nine types. Used well, it’s a tool for compassion, for understanding others, and for deepening self-awareness.
About the Gottman Method: The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to relationships that focuses on communication, emotional attunement, and practical tools for navigating conflict while strengthening connection.
About your facilitators:
Marissa Mirbach (she/her), ASW, is a psychotherapist who works with individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, rumination, identity shifts, and life’s big transitions. She uses the Enneagram, visualization, and parts work to support clients in self-discovery and growth.
Gwen Child (she/her), LICSW, is a psychotherapist who creates a safe, compassionate space for clients to explore their inner world. Her trauma-informed approach integrates yoga-based mindfulness and somatic healing with a range of therapeutic modalities, including CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and narrative therapy.
Trained in the Gottman Method, Gwen also works with couples to strengthen communication, deepen connection, and improve conflict resolution.
1-on-1 Support
If you’ve attended a workshop and want to integrate or explore what arose for you, I offer individual coaching sessions. These can be scheduled as single sessions or a 3-session package, and are a supportive way to continue unfolding what you’re learning in community.
Sessions are tailored to what you need in the moment, and may include:
Guided visualization or for personal growth
Enneagram coaching
Support around habits, patterns, and self-awareness
Mindfulness and grounding practices
Rates:
Sliding scale $75–$120/session, 3-session package: $200–$300, Pay what you can
Important Note:
Coaching services are educational and personal-growth oriented, and are not psychotherapy.
I provide psychotherapy only under supervision as an Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW #120478.) at Shine a Light Counseling Center. Coaching services are legally and ethically distinct from therapy.