R/EVOLUTIONARY
ENNEAGRAM
GUIDANCE
WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM?
A supremely powerful tool that illuminates nine distinct qualities of Essence, innate to us all.
Its power lies in seeing that most of us are distanced from these qualities to varying degrees, and this gap becomes foundational to our sense of self, our ways of thinking and feeling and acting — and the nature of our suffering.
While all nine qualities are intrinsic to each of us, we are singularly sensitive to one quality in particular, and we describe this fixated location as our “type”.
So the Enneagram is a lens through which we can see with clarity the nature of our “little boxed self”, and the Essential quality it is striving to mimic.
Used for its original purpose, it offers us a direct path into Essence, via awareness and presence.
OUR EXPLORATION
In these sessions, we explore your primary fixation — in real-time. A breath-by-breath journey through the trappings of personality and into the core of your Essential self.
We also touch into other patterns, like your trifix (what you’re doing in your body, heart, and mind, moment to moment) and instinctual stacking (the electric animal juice that drives the engine of personality, and which screams for your full attention on the daily).
We slow down. We open into sensation. Seeing is not enough. If we are sincere about the work, we must also meet our experience with feeling-awareness.
It’s important to hold that this is a journey. For some of us, the path is winding and can take years to land in a true seeing of what we’re centrally up to.
And once we’ve landed in our type, the greater journey begins.
THE STEPS
You submit a 20-30 minute video of you answering questions and being you. Here, inside a solo container with no other humans to react or respond or adapt to, you wonderfully and perfectly display the patterns of your type.
I’ll watch your video on my own time, aiming for a clarifying sense of your dominant center (which determines your main type), your trifix, and which instinctual drive dominates the show.
We then meet in person or zoom. I share what I’m seeing, adjust my interpretations in real-time if necessary, answer your questions, and offer practices for increasing awareness, presence, and aliveness.
COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED OF ME
Q: What’s the best Enneagram test available?
We are incredibly biased creatures. Our test responses — and thus, our test results — will likely reflect the very blind spots we struggle to objectively see, further reinforcing our incapacity to see ourselves clearly!
An Enneagram test can be a fun way to kick off your journey, but when you’re ready to go deeper, human engagement and reflection is essential.
Q: What about AI?
While many people are using AI to help them discover — and work with —their type, this too can be problematic. As with all things AI, our bots can only give as much value as the sources they’re pulling from.
This, along with the same challenges as above regarding subjectivity, can lead us down some very confusing trails…
Q: Are you sure you’re not a 4?
A question so commonly asked of me through the years, that I was eventually ensnared by it, in my own self-typing. Artist, deeply-feeling, deep, mysterious… But interpreting this as “type 4” is a classic problem pervasive in the armchair-Enneagram world.
This goes for all the types. If we’re sincere about waking up to what’s really going on and liberating ourselves from binding patterns, we need to go deeper than generalizations.
Q: Who are your Enneagram sources?
It’s key to get that our collective understanding of the Enneagram is refining through time. The Enneagram introduced by Gurdjieff to the West in the 1910s is not the Enneagram of the 1960’s, the early 2000’s, or even today. The Enneagram was not born into the world as a static system. The continuing clarifications are crucial.
And — holding to the original spirit of the Enneagram as a tool for waking up to Essence, is paramount.
My personal understanding of the Enneagram is akin to a garden — or more truly, an entire wilderness — grown from many seeds, many teachers, and through the often-brambly path of my own type journey. In our work together, I distill my love-obsession of a very complex system into something that can give you leverage in your life. For real evolution.
And possibly, revolution.
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$150/hr.
Book a guidance session for an hour or more.
KEITH MARTIN-SMITH. Award-winning Author. Founder, CEO². Host, The Integral Edge.
“If you’ve ever sat by the ocean and been mesmerized by its depth, you have a sense of what working with Bryce is like.
He is deeply present, often deceptively quiet, perceiving fully and seeing the whole of you — mind, body, feelings, soul, shadow.
Work with Bryce is not work in the shallows. The gift he provides is to show you back to yourself, along with a means to step fully into your deepest passion, purpose, and place in the world. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
