Type Consultations
30-minute 1-on-1 sessions that help each person land on a working theory for their dominant type — so every team session that follows is built on solid ground.
Why It Matters
The Foundation Everything Else Builds On
After more than 1,000 of these conversations, here’s what I can tell you: most people don’t land on their correct type from an assessment alone. Not because the assessment is bad, but because the Enneagram describes core motivation, and motivation is often invisible to us. A Three and a One can answer the same questions identically for completely different reasons.
A mistyped participant isn’t just confused — they’re working from the wrong map. Every workshop insight, every team dynamic conversation gets applied to the wrong foundation. I’ve done the clean-up work from mistyping more times than I’d like to count. Type consultations are how we get it right before the group comes together.
What Happens in a Session
Each session is built around the participant’s actual assessment results. There’s no script — the conversation follows the scores.
Assessment Review
Sessions start with the participant’s results — high scores, clusters, and patterns across the results. I might flag that three of their top scores are all logic types, or that their top two are adjacent on the diagram. The scores are the map; the purpose of the consultation is to figure out what they’re pointing to.
Type Differentiation
This is where most of the conversation happens. When a person scores closely on two or more types, I walk through the core distinctions — not the surface behaviors, but the underlying motivations — and ask questions that help the participant recognize which one is actually driving them.
A Working Theory
We end with a working theory — the type most likely to fit, based on their scores and our conversation. Every participant leaves with a strong starting point: one or two types to explore, clear prompts for continued self-reflection, and a much sharper sense of how to think about the system.
A working theory,not a verdict.
Type identification isn’t a diagnosis. The Enneagram describes core motivation — and motivation is something a person recognizes in themselves, not something declared from the outside. At the end of a session, I’ll offer something like, “Based on the scores and this conversation, a theory you can hold is that you’re likely a Type X.” I intentionally frame it this way — encouraging people to keep exploring rather than locking themselves into a type before they’ve really sat with it.
Not every session ends with certainty, and that’s fine. Sometimes a person leaves with two strong candidates and needs more time with the material. Accurate typing depends on a person’s ability to accurately self-reflect and self-report — and that’s a process, not a switch. What matters is that they leave with a clear understanding of how to interpret their scores, what distinguishes their top candidates, and how to continue identifying their type as they learn more.
WHERE THIS FITS
How Most Engagements Begin
Most team engagements start with the assessment, add consultations before the group session, and open with an Introduction Workshop.
Voyance Assessment
Each participant completes the 48-question assessment and receives a personalized report with scores across all nine types.
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A 30-minute 1-on-1 session where each person works through their results and lands on a working theory for their dominant type.
You are hereIntroduction Workshop
A facilitated session where the team learns the system together, understands each other’s types, and builds a shared language for how they work.
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