The coaching programs use Andrew Hughes’ expertise developed as a Clinical Practitioner of NLP and other tools grounded in Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology to produce rapid and fundamental change in outlook and behaviours. When combined with the Enneagram, these techniques allow the client to become aware of the causes of ineffective and disempowering patterns before making rapid shifts in perspective. These shifts can go to the very core of personality and enable the client to begin bringing the key strengths of their personality type to conscious awareness.

LINGUISTIC PATTERNS: Insights into perspective, motivation and blind spots are obtained through understanding language patterns. Using tools such as the Meta Model, Hierarchy of Ideas, the Milton Model and Cartesian logic, clients are made aware of and then challenged to face their underlying assumptions, beliefs and perspectives at the core of their behaviours.

PARTS INTEGRATION: This is a process to collapse internal conflicts that are in the way of development and leadership effectiveness. For example, a Three who has a laser focus on goals and achievement may be burning themselves out or destroying relationships through their competitiveness. However, they may experience strong resistance to change because they perceive they will be worthless if they slow down. A parts integration would allow this conflict to be resolved and a more effective strategy to be developed.

EMOTIONAL RELEASE: As the Enneagram makes clear, all personality strategies have an emotional beginning, articulated in the Enneagram through concepts such as the Basic Fear, Basic Desire, Passion and Fixation. While awareness of these concepts is helpful, emotionally triggered patterns.

HEART COHERENCE: While it is widely understood that brain coherence is correlated with high performance and enhanced leadership capabilities, what has only recently been discovered is that heart coherence is the major contributor to brain coherence. That is, the electromagnetic signals sent from the heart to the brain are overwhelmingly responsible for bringing the brain into balance and creating the flow states associated with high performance. The most recent research on insight has revealed it comes in the form of gamma frequency brain activity, again triggered by a conscious hearty awareness process.

These techniques underpin the shift in perspective, consequent development of strategies and actions agreed with the client to improve performance, improve relationships, resolve conflict and achieve agreed outcomes.