The Bold Nine Academy for Enneagram 9s

The Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram which helps to illustrate how the types relate to one another.- Truity.com

To find out if you’re a Type Nine. You can take a free Enneagram Personality Test Here. After taking the test, read about the core fears and motivations, as well as what happens in stress and growth with each of your top 3 here so you can make sure you get the correct type.
Link: https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test

Here’s The Enneagram Institute’s description of the Type Nine: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-9

Even if you aren’t 100% sure if you’re a Type Nine, you’re more than welcome to join The Academy! What we do there can help anyone who relates to the issues that are common in a Nine.

Each week, we have two calls between 9:00 am and 1:oo pm and usually one call between 5:00 and 7:00 pm Mountain Time (US.)   

Even those in other countries can catch some calls live depending on their work schedules.  All calls are recorded and easy to access through the website or private podcast.

Absolutely! Many of our members listen to the calls as replays and don’t join in on any of the discussions and are still seeing incredible results. We even have a private podcast so you can easily access the replays and listen while you’re on the go. 

You are also welcome to leave your video off in Zoom and change your name to Anonymous (or something else!) when you come to calls. 

This is COMPLETELY normal for Nines, who are so used to blending in and not drawing attention to themselves. After actually doing it, though, you’ll find that it wasn’t as scary as you thought and you’ll be SO GLAD you did it because of the breakthrough that you had.

Heather and her other coaches are Nines themselves and they get it. They always help people to regulate their nervous system before starting in.

Every person in The Bold Nine has a gentle, accepting soul just like yours and they GET everything that you’re experiencing. Their brains do the same things as yours when under pressure. Also, even though the calls are recorded and shared with the group, it’s just you and the coach on the call, so it feels really casual. 

The Bold Nine is a place where you can feel supported and loved by a group of people who think and feel very similarly to you. Those who grow the most are the ones who allow themselves to be seen and get coaching. Listening to the coaching of others is incredibly helpful, but when you combine it with getting coaching yourself, your benefit will be even greater!

With this in mind…there’s ZERO pressure to get coached. You will still gain a ton of coaching by listening to others’ coaching. If you prefer to stay in the background, you are certainly welcome to do so. Or you can simply leave your camera off and change your name on Zoom if you’d like to get coached.

Yes. Membership is month-to-month or quarterly (billed every 3 months) and you can cancel anytime. The info on how to do that is in the Membership section of the Bold 9 Website. We just ask that you do it before your next billing cycle starts because refunds cost us money to make.

You’ll have until the end of your billing cycle, then you’ll be removed. Think of membership like membership at a gym, but it’s for your mental and emotional health. You have access to everything in the “gym” while you’re a member, then that access ends when you’re no longer paying for it.

Heather offers private coaching sessions to her Bold Nine members at a discounted rate of $97. You can schedule those as often as you’d like, and Heather highly recommends it for going deeper and getting help with struggles that feel too vulnerable to share with the group. 

If you feel that 1:1 coaching would be a better fit for you right now,  she also has a few spots for private clients. You can learn more about that on the Services page.

First, you get very specific help, even through other people’s coaching because everyone in the program has the same conditioned tendencies (well-memorized habits) and default thoughts that you do. It’s like you’re the one getting coached, even if you’re in a different stage of life or have a different upbringing or culture. It’s truly amazing how it works.

Secondly, most life coaches only coach people’s brains. At the Bold Nine Academy, we also coach the body, which holds MOST of the information that you need for change. Members are sharing that somatic coaching is what is helping them change in ways that they never thought was possible by just getting help with their thoughts. Combining the two modalities helps our clients get the full picture of what’s going on when they’re having a hard time being who they want to be.

There are different levels of development for each of the Enneagram Types. Below, I have listed these levels for the Nine, as described by The Enneagram Institute.

I recommend coaching if you find yourself at “healthy” or “high-average” levels (levels 1-5) most of the time. Coaching helps a person who is on solid ground with their emotional and mental health, to enjoy and get more out of their lives.

I recommend a body-based therapy like ART, EMDR, or Somatic Therapy for trauma healing if you often find yourself at “low-average to unhealthy levels” (levels 6-9.) 

The Bold Nine Academy is the perfect companion to therapy, though. It’s helpful for anyone! You may just need more than what we can provide as coaches.

TYPE NINE – Levels of Development -The Enneagram Institute:

Healthy Levels

Level 1 (At Their Best): Become self-possessed, feeling autonomous and fulfilled: have great equanimity and contentment because they are present to themselves. Paradoxically, at one with self, and thus able to form more profound relationships. Intensely alive, fully connected to self and others.

Level 2: Deeply receptive, accepting, unselfconscious, emotionally stable and serene. Trusting of self and others, at ease with self and life, innocent and simple. Patient, unpretentious, good-natured, genuinely nice people.

Level 3: Optimistic, reassuring, supportive: have a healing and calming influence—harmonizing groups, bringing people together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and communicator.

Average Levels

Level 4: Fear conflicts, so become self-effacing and accommodating, idealizing others and “going along” with their wishes, saying “yes” to things they do not really want to do. Fall into conventional roles and expectations. Use philosophies and stock sayings to deflect others.

Level 5: Active, but disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want to be affected, so become unresponsive and complacent, walking away from problems, and “sweeping them under the rug.” Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly comforting fantasies, as they begin to “tune out” reality, becoming oblivious. Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on problems: indifference.

Level 6: Begin to minimize problems, to appease others and to have “peace at any price.” Stubborn, fatalistic, and resigned, as if nothing could be done to change anything. Into wishful thinking, and magical solutions. Others frustrated and angry by their procrastination and unresponsiveness.

Unhealthy Levels

Level 7: Can be highly repressed, undeveloped, and ineffectual. Feel incapable of facing problems: become obstinate, dissociating self from all conflicts. Neglectful and dangerous to others.

Level 8: Wanting to block out of awareness anything that could affect them, they dissociate so much that they eventually cannot function: numb, depersonalized.

Level 9: They finally become severely disoriented and catatonic, abandoning themselves, turning into shattered shells. Multiple personalities possible. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid and Dependent personality disorders.