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Tending trust in work (and other) pairs

Tending trust in work (and other) pairs

We instinctively know that trust is important. Without trust, being in the world becomes unmanageable….

Tending trust in work (and other) pairs

Getting a grip on Professional Pairs

Having been at times thoughtful and inquisitive and at times quite unwarrantedly opinionated about something…

Leader pairs

Leader pairs: a frontier of organisation development

Leader pairs: a frontier of organisation development Why are more organisations choosing to be headed…

Making magic – the alchemy of facilitator duos

In the first article about workplace pairs, I touched on some of the general issues…

It takes two: Coaching the workplace dyad

It takes two: Coaching the workplace dyad

This article is the first in a series of two exploring the workplace dyad in…

Love Maps

Love Maps

17 Reflections on Couples and the Enneagram  Christo van Staden, with Waheeda Ramjan   1….

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Team Resets: When Work Feels Like a Battleground

There are seasons in organisational life that feel like living in a permanent war room….

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Culture and Maturation: A Developmental Lens for Organisational Life

Introduction: Culture as the Container of Growth This article proposes that organisational culture should not…

Couples

From Friction to Flow: A Conscious Path to Coaching Couples with the Enneagram

By Lucille Greeff, in conversation with Shelley Lewin and Sav Goldridge In the early stages…

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Inside Your Emotional Wiring: Neuroscience and the Enneagram Explained

Our emotional patterns go far beyond what we see on the surface.   What does…

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How Habits Drive Change: The Missing Link Between Awareness and Transformation

Want to change culture? Start with behaviour.   Want to shift identity? Start with one…

Immature Leadership: How to Escape the Vortex

Immature Leadership: How to Escape the Vortex of Short-Term Thinking

Leadership can easily become an endless cycle of urgent issues demanding your attention. But what…

How to Lead As One

How to Lead As One: The Inner Workings of an Effective and Thriving Executive Team

Even the most capable executive teams struggle, and the cause is less about lack of…

Will tech do a better job

Will tech do a better job at being human than we can?

By Dr Julia Kukard with Rikus Combrink and Lucille Greeff   We humans are not…

Transforming What’s Broken

Transforming What’s Broken: A Story of Culture Change

When an organisation faces challenges and pain, leadership has a choice: hope things will fix…

How Inner Development Will Help Us

How Inner Development Will Help Us Solve the World’s Biggest Problems

In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created as a blueprint for…

The Art and Joy of Stuckness for Coaches and their Clients

The Art and Joy of Stuckness for Coaches and their Clients

Stuckness is a shared human experience that touches individuals, organisations, and even entire societies and…

Breaking Relational Cycles

Breaking Relational Cycles: Insightful Uses of Object Relations in Coaching

Object relations theory, paired with the Enneagram, can make all the difference when coaching clients…

The Person and Presence of the Leader by Dr Simon Whitesman

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for In haunting, poetic, and prophetic words, an…

Why Leadership Maturation is a Smarter Investment Than Buying a Management Development Programme

The world needs leaders who can lead us into the future. This leadership deficit is…

Leaky Containers: How to Anticipate and Work With Them in Facilitation

Have you ever facilitated a meeting, whether in person or on Zoom and found yourself…

Using the Enneagram to Guide Personal and Organisational Wellness

What does the word “wellness” make you think of? Maybe it conjures up images of…

Inner and Outer Thresholds: Ceremony and Ritual in Enneagram Work

“What is one aspect of your way of being you want to let go of?”…

What Happens to Personality During the Post-Conventional Stages of Maturity

Many of us wander through life within the conventional stages of maturity, often shaped by…

Inner World, Outer Impact: The Ripple Effect of a Leader’s Personality

A business owner’s personality can dictate the direction of their organisation. This begs the question:…

Holding Hands with Chaos: How to Deal with Uncertainty and Stabilise Your Inner World

“We need to be able to think in chaos,” urges Dr. Julia Kukard. “And the…

Ethical Innovation: One of the World’s First AI-Powered Maturity Assessment

Unlike humans, “a machine isn’t affected by whether or not it’s had its coffee yet,”…

How to Empower Corporate Teams and Unlock Potential Through Enneagram Coaching

Imagine a team that is following processes with radical diligence and sticking to their ‘swim…

How to Cultivate Leader Development Through Coaching

In the heart of today’s corporate landscape lies a silent crisis. 37% of leaders –…

The Enneagram Centres: How to Integrate Body, Heart, and Mind Through Coaching

Overthinking without ever taking action. Ignoring your physical health to prioritise your career. Withdrawing from…

The Path to Progress: How to Help Your Clients Overcome Stuckness

Stuckness occurs when we get stuck in an old recipe for life when the context…

How Maturity Unlocks Measurable ROI in Your Enneagram Coaching Practice

Struggling to stand out in an oversaturated market populated with Enneagram coaches? It may be…

Aephoria and teaching the Enneagram in South Africa

In this episode of the International Enneagram Association podcast, Milton Stewart speaks with Lucille Greeff…

Our first cohort of UWC value-based leadership training

We recently facilitated our uniquely designed value-based leadership training programme with the middle managers of…

Dr. Julia Kukard

Dr. Julia Kukard is a founding partner of Aephoria and a leadership and inclusion professional….

Why are there so few audio traffic signals.

Why are there so few audio traffic signals.   Check out this amazing article by…

Dave Snowden’s critique of Adult Development Theory

Dave Snowden’s critique of adult development theory with Lucille Greeff Complexity practitioner Dave Snowden is…

Aephoria’s first supervision for 2022

Dear friends and colleagues, Thank you to those who were able to join us for…

Advanced Enneagram

Enneagram

Lucille Greeff, one of our directors and an Enneagram expert, speaks to Movement Life Coaching…

Celebrating Community

Celebrating Community: Final Supervision

Join us on Tuesday 30 November for our final supervision for 2021…a little partay if you…

Exploring Curiosity

Exploring Curiosity

Please note: pre-registration on Zoom for supervision (below) is required  Join us on Tuesday 23 November, (from 4-6 pm…

Practical coaching and adult development

Practical application of coaching and adult development with Jonathan Reams

Please note: pre-registration on Zoom for supervision (below) is required  PUBLIC SUPERVISION 16 NOVEMBER – OPEN…

Happiness

Happiness as a goal: is it worth the effort?

PUBLIC SUPERVISION 9 NOVEMBER – OPEN TO ALL! Dear Aephorian community, Join us on Tuesday 9…

Burnout and Empathy Fatigue

Burnout and Empathy Fatigue

Please note: pre-registration on Zoom for supervision (below) is required  Join us on Tuesday 26 October, (from 4-6pm…

OD and Coaching

Exploring the connection between OD and coaching

PUBLIC SUPERVISION 19 OCTOBER – OPEN TO ALL! Join us on Tuesday 19 October (from 4-6 pm…

Supervision

Tips & Tricks: Facilitating And Coaching Online

PUBLIC SUPERVISION 12 OCTOBER – OPEN TO ALL! Dear Aephorian community, Join us on Tuesday 12…

Self-Love & Self-Acceptance as a form of liberation

PUBLIC SUPERVISION TOMORROW – OPEN TO ALL! “The courage to be is the courage to…

Ageing and why it is useful to know how to work with ageing in coaching.

PUBLIC SUPERVISION SESSION – OPEN TO ALL! Dear Aephorian community, Join us on Tuesday 21 August (from…

Public Supervision

Public Supervision

Please note: pre-registration on Zoom for supervision (below) is required  For our supervision session on Tuesday 24…

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Virtual Course Offerings

Virtual offerings in our network for 2021 What might be of value to you? The Enneagram…

Public Supervision: Working with Neurodiverse Clients

Aephoria supervision community is joined this week by Sasha van Deurzen-Smith and Ruth Millman, who…

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The Enneagram and Trauma Course

A new offering by Ingrid Hurwitz: The Enneagram and Trauma A eighteen hour (6×3 hours) online immersive…

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GSAEC Bonfire Virtual Summit

Julia and Ntyatyambo are speaking at the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching (GSAEC)…

Reaching across the Enneagram into race, relationships and reflexivity.

Lucille, Julia, and Simon are delighted to be presenting at  IEA Global Conference 202, July…

Changing the World Through Adult Development – Naryan Wong

Changing the World Through Adult Development Across the world, there is a growing awareness of…

Enneagram On Death

The Enneagram : On Death with Julia Kukard

Death refers to the end of things, not just our human bodies but ways of…

NEW! Level 3 Teams Accreditation

This accreditation equips a practitioner to facilitate a one-on-one coaching session to surface experience and…

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The Practical Enneagram Podcast

Lucille Greeff being interviewed by Rezzan Huseyin on The Practical Enneagram podcast. The Process Enneagram…

Biko and Inner Freedom

“Yila Moja. You can blow out a candle, but you can’t blow out a fire….

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British Society for Existential Analysis with Julia Kukard

British Society for Existential Analysis presents:  Julia Kukard Julia will be talking at a society…

Aephoria/ Vertical Dvelopment

Aephoria Supervision 2021

We are looking forward to kicking off Aephoria Supervision 2021 on Tuesday 9 February at 4pm and…

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Condolences To Kimi Makwetu

We send our condolences and love for the passing of the Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu to…

Leadership Maturity & Fallback In Times of Crisis

Lucille Greeff will share her experience in the field of identity and leadership maturity during…

Leadership Fallback presented by Valerie Livesay

Leadership Fallback is when a leader “falls back” to an earlier level of development where…

Leading In Times Of Crisis

“……to be leaders for this time of profound disruption, [we must] reclaim leadership as a…

Covid 19 : A strategy for supporting clients in this time

There have been many comments on how leaders are responding to Covid 19 and what…