I was introduced to the Enneagram in 2012 as part of my Clinical Practical Education for Chaplains training. When Elaine invited me to take Enneagram and the Coach, I jumped at the opportunity. I wanted to know how it could help me both as a Coach and as a Chaplain.

As I studied the Enneagram in this course, I learned more about myself. Even more interesting, was watching others grow and learn as they attempted to type themselves. I finally began to understand and see the patterns that are a core part of the Enneagram. I began to understand how motivation affects our mindset and our behaviors. I also gained a heightened awareness of my own patterns and limiting beliefs. This awareness gave me more ability to make new choices in the moment. It made me much more coachable, and therefore, my coaching sessions much more effective.

Using the tools and information I gained, I have begun introducing my coaching clients to the Enneagram. It is being well received and people are finding it helpful to be able to separate their true essence from the pattern they are displaying. I also used my learning to create a chart for helping our hospice clinicians recognize patterns and identify ways that will be useful to address those patterns in caregivers and patients experiencing anticipatory grief. This tool was well received by the clinicians and they have shown an interest in learning more.

One final story… I was working with one client who was dealing with anticipatory grief. I acknowledged their pattern and they felt totally seen and heard. Next, I normalized the pattern and affirmed who they are. Finally. I provided a tool to help manage that pattern. The next session, the client said that they were “no longer a mess.” The client had increased their sleep and self-care, and found themselves calm and drama free.

I’m truly grateful to have such a great tool for both coaching and counseling.

I recommend the Enneagram and the Coach program for any coach wanting to know more about using the enneagram in their coaching practice or in their personal lives. Elaine is a fun and interesting teacher and she has built a community of great coaches of all different enneagram types to learn from. It’s a unique program born of Elaine’s years of experience using the enneagram both as an executive and personal coach.

Elaine Bailey has been such an integral part of my growth and development as a business owner and a leader. She models what she teaches as a coach. She’s committed to her own learning, growth and development and weaves what she learns into her coaching and teaching.

What I really appreciate is how Elaine meets me where I am and listens deeply to what I need. She asks key questions to support me through challenges and guides me to figure out solutions that move me forward.

I’ve learned so much through the Enneagram and the Coach course with Elaine. This is a thorough exploration of the Enneagram that combines material you can access anytime with facilitated group sessions that bring up new insights each week. Being able to talk through what you’re learning with other coaches and participants has been invaluable.

Elaine has taken a complex tool that could take you years to learn on your own and she’s simplified it. She’s broken it down into manageable sections that build on one another. Her process has helped me learn more about myself and immediately begin to use and apply what I’ve learned with my own clients. I highly recommend Elaine Bailey, the Enneagram and the Coach program and any future program she offers!

I wholeheartedly endorse Elaine’s “Enneagram and the Coach” training Programme. Elaine created a very warm and vibrant space which is exactly what was needed, to enrich my personal and business growth. I especially loved the structure, pre-recorded session, a wealth of supporting information, dedicated weekly one-to-one call time and group discussions.

As a coach who help my clients re-channel habits and or emotions that distracts them from living their dreams. Enneagram will definitely help me to further enhance, how I support my clients, to better understand themselves so the can be happier in their personal and professional life. Thank you Elaine for such an insightful experience!

I highly recommend Elaine’s “Enneagram and the Coach” class. I loved it and experienced so many insights that have helped me with both my own life and in my parent coaching business. Elaine is full of knowledge, warmth and enthusiasm, which makes the class both fun and educational. I loved the way she structured our learning with pre-recorded classes and live classes and discussion each week. I loved hearing her case histories and felt inspired by how she had used her knowledge of the Enneagram to coach all different types of people to become happier and more effective in their lives and their businesses. I’ve chosen to continue learning with Elaine through her “Enneagram Jam” which is super fun and interesting. Thank you, Elaine!

As a coach, I am very conscious of developing my toolkit further to better serve my clients, and investing in Elaine’s Enneagram Training has been one of the best investments for me. Elaine is such a loving, warm, kind, enthusiastic coach with lots of wisdom from her rich international executive and entrepreneur coaching experience. I love how Elaine structures the program with both training and live group discussions on case studies together with the guide for coaches to use with different types. Elaine is obviously so well versed in the Enneagram and she trains with so much passion, and I can’t recommend her Enneagram Training enough if you want to uplevel your service to your clients as a coach! You will love the training as well as her British accent 🙂

When it was time to hire a lead coach for our team at Uplevel You, Elaine Bailey was the natural first choice. The business of coaching and consulting requires some serious skillsets and emotional intelligence. In her role as lead coach for six years here at Uplevel, Elaine supported and coached our client base and led our team of coaches, while supporting me as I grew the company a multi-million dollar empire, serving clients from across the globe.

Elaine knows her stuff, from the inside out. From DiSC to Kolbes to Enneagram, she knows the inner workings of her clients and peers, always able to create a customized approach to the strategy she helps people understand. She also understands the customer journey, the messaging, selling and systems needed to grow a business. Not just as concepts – but from in the trenches.

Elaine cuts right to the bottom line, sees the needs of the situation, finds what’s in the way, and sets about helping you discover solutions. She does this with compassionate grace, and keeps her eye on the end goal. And unlike so many coaches and strategists who show up with agendas of their own, Elaine is 100% present, committed, willing and there to serve in each and every scenario.

When I learned that Elaine was offering a class in the Enneagram, I was excited to be able to join, I have known and respected Elaine for many years. My curiosity was both professional and personal, so I jumped at the chance to work with Elaine’s expertise.

As a personal development coach, I started using this tool as another path to awareness for those who want to understand themselves better as they navigate their life and career.

Professionally, I found that the Enneagram provides a breadth of information about patterns that keep people stuck and it has been a helpful addition to my work. Personally, I found the study of the Enneagram very insightful in my own relationships as well. Family dynamics have become so much more clear. Thank you Elaine!

So much of what we talked about during our 10 weeks together in the Enneagram and the Coach training I used as a self-study. And I’m learning that I love that kinda thing.

The weekly studies, meetings, and discussions were enjoyable and I looked forward to opening each weekly module to dive into new knowledge. Elaine is an amazing teacher and had thought about all of our different styles of acquiring information.

Now I find myself studying people around me, my interactions with them, and observing my responses.

Thank you Elaine for making learning so engaging and fun!

I tried learning about the Enneagram through several video courses and books. My experience was dismal and my learning process was meandering.

Elaine’s vibrancy and sense of humor makes stepping into learning an enjoyable process. The format structure and pacing kept drawing me in and so I stayed focused throughout. I appreciably augmented and enhanced my understanding in a manner I have enjoyed.

My experience in The Enneagram and the Coach has had a positively PROFOUND effect on me. I can appear to be easier going than I am. Actually, I have a tendency to be quite hard on myself. My personal growth has been immense.

Learning this system has laid the foundation for me to be an observer of my patterns rather than a tyrant with myself. It has also given me the ability to step back and OBSERVE another person’s behaviors and not take all so personally. This is quite useful in family situations as well as professional settings when I am marketing, setting up, and delivering my offerings.

Additionally, I am able to have fun and laugh more when I am a participant as well as observer in these settings.

I now have the ability to become an observer of my own patterns of interactions as well as those of others. Keeps me on a more even keel. I am no longer grasping at the Enneagram, I am becoming grounded in understanding.

Having the chance to experience a deep dive study the Enneagram with Elaine and a fab group is not only helpful for me, but also is already making it possible for me to be a better teacher to my students. So many will benefit from what I’m learning now for years to come.

As Elaine’s coaching has helped me for years, I jumped at the chance to learn further from her — in her “Enneagram and the Coach” certification course. Even though I’ve taken several other Enneagram courses and am already using this with my physician coaching clients, I knew Elaine’s work would further deepen my understanding.

Through Elaine’s presentations and the group discussions of practical coaching situations, my understanding of myself and others definitely grew. She clearly fleshed out the ways various Enneagram “types” might show up in coaching relationships, and how we might assist them. Through this work, my compassion for others and myself has deepened and become more consistent. Also, through comfort in the safe space Elaine held for all of us, I could also feel my own creativity coming to life as well. I feel like a big part of me has been set free! AS a result, I look forward to doing even better work with others.

I’ve just completed Elaine’s superb online course – The Enneagram and the Coach. She brings all of the Enneagram types to life, with their unique strengths and patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. She not only shows where each type could benefit from coaching but also helps you to build a repertoire of powerful coaching approaches and questions.

The course is a lively mixture of teaching and group discussion and Elaine brings her own special mixture of wisdom and humour. This course has really opened my eyes to my own patterns and to how I can use the Enneagram to support my clients on their journey of personal development.

I recently completed Elaine’s 10-week Certification program: The Enneagram and the Coach. This program surpassed my expectations as it is packed with a vast amount of content on the enneagram inclusive of multiple tools that I have already put into use in my business as well as my personal life! Gaining this knowledge has been an experience of awakening for me where I finally found the “key” to unlocking what makes me tick, i.e., the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. My enneagram learnings have improved my coaching abilities as it helped me better understand my client’s patterns and provided me with specific coaching observation tips to better coach them. On a personal level, my family has benefitted in their own personal growth as I shared my learnings these past 10 weeks. My family now speaks “enneagram” 😊.

The enneagram has so much wisdom and there is a lot to learn. Elaine has packaged the information in a way that easily builds your knowledge as you create your own Enneagram Manual from her teachings and materials. Throughout the entire course, Elaine was extremely supportive of our cohort. She was always available for questions via email and would go deeper with you, 1-on-1, during her Office Hours where you could ask specific questions about your own enneagram journey, e.g., how to work through your patterns, uncovering your enneatype if you did not know it, brainstorming on how you could integrate the enneagram into your business, etc.

Elaine is a “Brilliant” Coach as her company name states! She is extremely knowledgeable in the enneagram and in general is a fantastic coach and a good soul. I would highly recommend her certification program The Enneagram and the Coach course as well as her as a Transformation Coach!

I joined the Enneagram and the Coach program based on experience both with Elaine’s coaching and the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a comprehensive framework for describing personality traits and is very helpful in understanding and working with other humans.

One of the gems from this program is the link between learning about the Enneagram and actually applying it! This application is so often missing from educational programs. Elaine actually provides a coaching notebook.

I found the information about how people move to other numbers’ traits when stressed or functioning optimally, and the physical and behavioral presentations of various enneatypes to be most interesting.

I also figured out why my husband acts in certain ways and I have so much more compassion for him. I can see where this knowledge might be very helpful in relationships. I use this information as an addition to my assessment process which informs planning and delivery of coaching services.

Elaine also makes herself available in a high touch way through office hours, a call and quick response to emails, which is an outstanding value.

When I heard that Elaine was offering an Enneagram program especially for Coaches, my response was “Yes!” and I registered immediately. Because Elaine is known for her expertise in the Enneagram, I was excited to take advantage of the knowledge she would share in this ten-week course.

This course met, and exceeded, my expectations. I came away with a deeper, richer understanding of the Enneagram as a whole and each of the nine Enneatypes in particular. Elaine fleshed out each Type in great detail and the case studies she provided solidified the learning.

There’s so much I love about this program, things like her live weekly presentations of content information, detailed note-taking sheets provided for each Type, actual case studies with small group discussions, note-taking sheets provided to record coaching information for each Type, materials and guidance to create our own Enneagram Coaching Manual of information and resources, recorded lessons that can be reviewed as desired for our extended learning, weekly office hours to address questions and provide clarification, weekly assessments to solidify our weekly understanding, a ‘Wrap up Session’ that brought all nine Types together and provided a big picture of the Enneagram, and last but not least, a mystery panel of guests who provided information and insight into their Enneatypes through a fun question and answer session.

This course has been a pivotal experience in expanding my understanding of the Enneagram, with its wings, sub-types, levels of development, and differing needs for approaches in coaching the nine Enneatypes. As an added bonus, the course deepened my understanding of my own Enneatype and made a huge impact on my self-awareness.