Key details
Dates | Friday 12 & Saturday 13 September
Time | 9.30am to 4.30pm
Duration | 2 days
Location | Elie, Gestalt Centre Training Campus, 27 Royal Parade Parkville, VIC 3052
Fee | $700 (includes GST)
Facilitator | Leanne O'Shea
About this workshop
The Enneagram is more than a personality typology—it’s a rich, dynamic framework for understanding the core patterns that shape how we relate, grow, and experience distress. For therapists, it offers a powerful, practical tool to deepen insight and support transformation.
In this immersive two-day workshop, you’ll learn how to integrate Enneagram-informed perspectives into your clinical practice—helping you better understand your clients’ core motivations, defences, and needs, as well as your own.
We’ll introduce the core principles of the Enneagram and explore how they apply in clinical contexts. Drawing on the work of Daniel Siegel, we’ll examine the neurobiological foundations of the Enneagram and strategies for supporting personal development.
You’ll also explore how the Enneagram aligns with Gestalt principles, and how awareness of your own type can enhance therapeutic presence, attunement, and relationship.
What you'll gain
- A clear introduction to the nine Enneagram types and how they relate to emotional and neurobiological development.
- Practical ways to recognise and work with core patterns and relational dynamics in clinical settings.
- Insight into how your own type may shape your interventions, countertransference, and professional blind spots.
- Strategies for ongoing personal and professional growth.
- A framework that integrates Gestalt, attachment theory, and interpersonal neurobiology.
Through clinical examples, reflection, and discussion, you’ll walk away with tangible tools to enrich your therapeutic work.
Why choose this workshop
This workshop uniquely weaves together Gestalt principles, Enneagram insight, and neurobiological understanding to support deeper, more integrated clinical practice.
Who should attend
Ideal for psychotherapists, counsellors, supervisors, and anyone drawn to the Enneagram as a lens for deeper understanding of self and others.
Whether you’re new to the Enneagram or looking to apply it more consciously in clinical work, this training offers depth, clarity, and practical application.
What is the Enneagram
The Enneagram is symbolised by a nine-pointed geometric figure, with each point representing a distinct personality type. Type 9 is always at the top of the circle.
The types are interconnected by arrows that reflect growth paths and show how we’re all dynamically linked.
Each person identifies with one core type—no type is better, worse, or more capable than another. Your type is the lens through which you experience the world.
To learn more about the Enneagram symbol and its structure, see this overview from Origins Enneagram.
About your facilitator
Leanne O'Shea
DPsych, BTheol., MSc, FellowMGANZ
Leanne O’Shea is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and educator. Having studied Gestalt in Melbourne and London, she brings a diverse range of insights to her work. As well as private practice, Leanne holds several teaching positions, including the Director of Training at Gestalt Therapy Australia. She works with Relational Change in the UK and is also a certified Enneagram teacher.
Leanne is driven by a desire to promote awareness, cultivate ethical presence and develop greater sensitivity to our relational responsibility across diverse areas of need and concern. A long-standing interest concerns the place of sexuality within the therapeutic relationship and the rehabilitation of an Erotic sensibility.
About the Gestalt Centre
The Gestalt Centre is the heart of Melbourne’s Gestalt community. We offer a four-year psychotherapy training program through Gestalt Therapy Australia, staying true to the experiential roots of Gestalt while embracing cutting-edge developments in contemporary Gestalt thinking and practice worldwide.
We also operate ConnectGround, a community-based counselling and psychotherapy clinic. ConnectGround serves as both a training facility for psychotherapists and a provider of low-cost individual and group therapy for clients. The clinic emphasises the therapeutic relationship between client and therapist as a key support for building awareness and adaptability. Psychotherapy interns and volunteers gain valuable hands-on experience, enhancing their skills and professionalism through client work.
