About Me
I’m curious. If you want to share it, I want to listen. I love getting to know different people. Enneagram coaching has been the perfect fit. I’m so passionate about it that I wish I’d found it earlier.
The first thirty years of my life were spent in the theater. I acted as a kid and then went to one of the best acting schools in NYC , continued to act, and then turned in college to directing. My brother and I started Barking Dog Theater, in Atlanta, in the nineties, and had great critical response. I received an award for best director, from a local critic. My approach to getting actors to live truthfully under the given circumstances was to mirror back what they were doing well, to build up their creative confidence and then watch as their muse takes flight. The answer, our essence, our muse - they are always there. We just sometimes need help uncovering them.
I married an organic farmer and raised my kids full time in the country. From that experience, my realizations - about following nature, about putting relationship above being right, and about trust - grew exponentially. My children were my greatest teachers (along with the parenting mentors who advised me.)
Many years spent teaching teens, writing, dancing and art-ing have also fine tuned my intuition and authenticity - helping me to become a more intuitive and innovative Enneagram coach today.
I learned from a spiritual teacher that without a consistent self-observation practice, we stay stuck in our ego/personality/survival patterns. It was the teachings of Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes that finally allowed me to start experiencing genuine self-observation by using the Enneagram. I long to share this wisdom (that came to them from a strong lineage of teachers that brought this system to the West.) I believe that knowing your type and then using this system to grow towards your essence can be an amazing shortcut in your psychological and spiritual growth.
Now, please tell me about you.