When was the last time you asked yourself, “How do I create belonging?”

"There is nothing more human than feeling, but we don't have much understanding/research of emotion. We weren't taught now to talk through how we are feeling and how to work through it." - Atlas at the Heart

The Nine Shapes project aims to help individuals connect using the framework of the Enneagram, without falling into the trap of reducing our multifaceted, unique, individual selves to a type on a personality framework.

Meditation is not just for yoga practitioners…

In honor of World Mental Health Day, we wanted to share the 5 habits we find most helpful with our mental health.

Learn how you can ease back into work after vacation.

Learn the difference between passive and intentional rest and how to make the most of your time off.

Scheduling that coveted summer vacation isn't selfish. You can call it self-care, but we say it's essential.

There are so many ways you can manage stress nowadays. Each person is different so your preferences on stress management will vary. Instead we'll take an approach that could be applied in a variety of circumstances.

We understand that perhaps the thought of facing your stress seems more daunting than the idea of managing the stress itself. But both go hand in hand.

What is stress anyway?

Creating a highly motivated workspace? Consider these three things.

Do you know what High Performing Culture means? Or better yet how to create it?

Work cultures that inspire play, purpose, and potential, and do not engage emotional, economic pressure, or inertia as motivating factors, produced better customer outcomes.

Why we work determines how well we work and why we work is directly impacted by work culture.

The first resource we recommend is The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st Century Workplace, by Beatrice Chestnut.

Here Sway gives a recap of the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. This is based on a five-category scheme for classifying interpersonal conflict-handling modes: competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating.

See one of our favorite downloadable resources for the 27-subtypes and why we use it. Thank you to the CP Enneagram Academy for their focus on quality and Enneagram ethics.

Read about our free Enneagram Series- Nine Styles.

We believe it’s our job to set up an individual or team for success as best we can when introducing them to the framework. So in that spirit, below we’ve listed out our series of simple “don’ts.”