Hold Me Tight®…Even If I’m Not Your Type

10261 Kingston Pike,Knoxville TN 37922

03 June, 2023

Description

This workshop is being led by marriage therapists Doug Messer and Tyler Edmondson of Healing Hearts Counseling. “Hold Me Tight®…Even If I’m Not Your Type” is a two-day intensive workshop, which combines the widely used personality typing system, the Enneagram, with Sue Johnson’s relationship education program based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an empirically-validated approach that is now the gold standard in the field of couples counseling. This workshop for couples is held in Knoxville, Tennessee and helps partners struggling with communication, intimacy, and security gain insights into one another's attachment styles and Enneagram types, how these two frameworks relate and shape pivotal moves and moments that define the relationship, and how differences in styles or types may lead to conflict and patterns of interaction that keep couples stuck. These models also provide a map and opportunities for healing broken bonds and creating a more secure and intimate relationship, which couples will learn about and be led through over the course of the workshop. While participants of this workshop do not need to be familiar with EFT, each partner in a couple should at least have a basic sense of their primary Enneagram type/number, as determining one’s type is beyond the scope and timeframe of this program. The workshop facilitators believe that identifying one’s primary Enneagram type is best done by engaging with this model and all of the types, in depth; however, assessments can be a good way to begin the journey and home in on likely possibilities based on behavior. A free and popular test can be accessed here: https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test. A more comprehensive paid test ($12) can be taken here: https://tests.enneagraminstitute.com/. For additional background, consider reading “The Road Back to You”, co-authored by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile, and “The Path Between Us” by Suzanne Stabile.