Suzanne Dion
Sean Palmer
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Can’t make it live? After each class, video and audio recordings are available to download and watch anytime.
Break cycles of conflict and strife by using the wisdom of the Enneagram to interrupt the reactivity that derails your relationships — creating deeper compassion, lovingkindness, and healthier communication.
Master viable emotional literacy tools that help you compassionately intervene in the stress-response system — and consciously communicate with others.
Are you ready to open yourself to the true intimacy and healing that can be found in higher living, loving, and relating?
It has been said that your personality is what shows up when you don’t.
That to live a life enriched by openness, connection, and love is to allow the defensive parts of self to fall away, inviting your deeper essence to emerge in all that you do.
Too often, however, it’s our defense systems that are communicating instead of two open and heartfelt people.
Personality coaches and Enneagram experts Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer teach that these dialogues happen because our personalities are inherently designed for self-preservation and self-protection.
It’s not that the defense systems of our personalities are trying to sabotage us, they say. Creating distance between ourselves and others is how they protect the purest parts of who we are until we’re ready and able to graciously show up in life as we really are.
Suzanne and Sean use the Enneagram, an ancient personality typing tool, to illuminate the path that leads us back into wholeness — and into the confidence to share the purest parts of ourselves with each other and the world.
During this intensive skill-building course in intrapersonal healing, you’ll use the emotional wisdom system of the Enneagram to disarm your own defense mechanisms and those of others — and learn how to intervene in the stress-response system in order to pause, regulate, and consciously engage with others.
You’ll harness these insights to liberate your true self, funneling deeper understanding, healing, presence, and compassion into every facet of your life.
In doing so, you’ll give your personality and those of others permission to relax their defenses, bridging the gaps between you and those you love and those you work and interact with on a daily basis.
You’ll explore how each Enneagram type gives and receives love and deals with the sting of rejection. With this background, you can glean deeper insights into the cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual survival responses… and master the gifts underlying your triggers to create healthy coping mechanisms that alleviate reactivity and make room for greater connection and love.
You’ll learn from others who share your same Enneagram type, Center of Intelligence, Harmony Triad, and/or Harmonic Triad about how to consciously solve or cope with conflict — and build healthier, more stable, and more loving relationships.
Ultimately, Suzanne and Sean will teach you how to leverage the nuances of your Enneagram type to be present for people in real-time with more confidence and trust in the many facets that make you who you are.
Are you ready to move beyond reactivity and the ripples of negativity and distortions that come with it?
Join Suzanne and Sean for this 8-week journey on deepening your emotional literacy to funnel understanding, healing, presence, and compassion into the core of who you are and your relationships.
What Is Emotional Literacy?
What Are the Basics of Attachment?
How the Enneagram Gives Us a Better Understanding of Relationships
As you expand your emotional literacy with the Enneagram, you’ll:
- Uncover the organizing principles of your personality using the Enneagram
- Expand your sense of self through your Enneagram type — a divine expression with a unique set of gifts, skills, and personal attributes that are needed in our world today
- Explore your attachment style and the impact attachment has on your stress-response system and capacity for wellbeing
- Learn how the 3Fs reflexes of system overwhelm — flight, freeze, and fight — and the fourth, more regulatory and cerebral fawn response, relate to type
- Master the 5As of the Universal Growth Process for Self-Mastery to alleviate reactivity and help you develop the skills to intervene in the stress-response system in order to pause, regulate, and have a response-choice
- Discover how and why your cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual survival responses drive your entire defense system — and why they deserve compassion and appreciation
- Explore the most common defense mechanisms — and the 9 often co-opted by the Enneagram types
- Deepen your understanding of how you handle surface, secret, and source pain
- Learn how the Hornevian Triads and Harmonic Triads can be used to identify the way that you solve and cope with conflict — and leverage your natural abilities therein
- Explore how each type deals with rejection — and expands and expresses through love and connection
- Understand what it is generally like to work with a parent, love, or partner with these 9 particular type structures
- Gain deeper insights into how the complexities of Enneagram wisdom ties together and leads to living a fulfilled and authentic life with less unnecessary type-related suffering
- Explore real-world examples and experiences of relationships by type — which succeed more easily and which tend to struggle
What You’ll Discover in These 8 Weeks
In this 8-week transformational intensive, Suzanne and Sean will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to deepen your emotional literacy with the emotional wisdom system of the Enneagram, funneling understanding, healing, presence, and compassion into the core of who you are and your relationships.
The Power of Livestreaming Video
You’ll connect with Suzanne and Sean and experience their teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Suzanne and Sean’s transmissions. Or you can listen to just the audio by phone.
(Can’t make it live? No worries! After each class, the video and audio recordings will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format at your convenience.)
Weekly Sessions Thursdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Suzanne and Sean. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to deepen your emotional literacy with the emotional wisdom system of the Enneagram, funneling understanding, healing, presence, and compassion into the core of who you are and your relationships.
Module 1: Where Your Story Begins — Deepen Your Understanding of the 9 Enneagram Types (June 30)
Becoming a human is no small journey. It is one of great mystery, neurobiology, DNA, parenting and caregiving, and a temperamental blueprint that directs your survival mechanisms.
Explore the divine story about how you came to be through the lens of the Enneagram and its nine fundamental types.
This immersive overview will take you deeper into the organizing principles of the Enneagram system and how each of us naturally aligns with a type... a divine expression with a unique set of gifts, skills, and personal attributes.
You’ll also discover the role that your attachment style, and your reward and stress-threat systems play in creating distortions of reality and/or helping you remain centered and confident in facing life’s challenges as they come.
As you explore where your story begins, you’ll:
- Uncover the organizing principles of your personality using the Enneagram
- Explore your attachment style and the impact attachment has on your stress-response system and capacity for wellbeing
- Learn how your early attachment experiences correlate with the qualities and adaptations of your Enneagram type and why this matters
- Discover your positive neurotransmitters and stress hormones — and how these systems are designed in accordance with your Enneagram type
- Expand your sense of self through your Enneagram type — a divine expression with a unique set of gifts, skills, and personal attributes that are needed in our world today
Module 2: Naming That Feeling — The Process of Emotional Literacy (July 7)
We all want to feel good about ourselves and get along well with others. But what exactly is personal wellbeing... and what does it take to get along well with others?
This week, you’ll gain deeper self-mastery by using emotional literacy as a viable tool for gauging your true emotional state and the emotional states of others — helping yourself and others become less reactive while maintaining equilibrium regardless of the situation at hand.
You’ll explore how the Three Aversive Emotional Systems — fear, distress-grief, and anger — are influencing the extent to which you are triggered and how you respond in emotionally challenging situations.
You’ll learn why naming your emotions, especially when distressed, is paramount to identifying and alleviating emotional triggers… and how this practice can help you fully recognize and experience true wellbeing even when you’re hurt, angered, or scared.
Suzanne and Sean will also share how the 5As method for emotional regulation — awareness, allowance/acceptance, appreciation, (right) action, and adherence — can be used to derail negative outcomes of the stress-response system and immediately alleviate reactivity.
As you learn powerful processes for mastering emotional literacy, you’ll also explore:
- The 3 Centers of Intelligence Enneagram Triads in accordance with the research of Affective Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp — and the 3 Aversive Emotional Systems
- How the 3Fs reflexes of system overwhelm — flight, freeze, and fight — and the fourth, more regulatory and cerebral fawn response, relate to type
- Why the fawn response requires more regulation as it appeals to and salvages as follows: compromise/negotiation (head); connection/resonance (heart); and peace/surrender (gut)
- What happens when you get triggered — and what you look like when you get overwhelmed, defended, and reactive
- The 5As of the Universal Growth Process for Self-Mastery to alleviate reactivity and help you develop the skills to intervene in the stress-response system in order to pause, regulate, and have a response-choice
Module 3: The Defense System & Defense Mechanisms by Type (July 14)
Oftentimes, we get riled up and defensive even when we don’t need to be, which creates distance between ourselves and others.
This week, you’ll explore how your Enneagram type uses defense mechanisms — how your entire being perceives safety and responds to ensure your sense of self is protected.
You’ll also discover how your type provides solutions for preventing and alleviating harsh and defensive responses and system overwhelm.
As Suzanne and Sean teach, learning about your defense mechanisms — the ones that try to remedy your upset before you become reactive — can help you intervene, acknowledge, mediate, and dismantle them, removing the self-constructed barriers between yourself and others.
This is a pivotal step in the pursuit of creating greater connection with yourself and greater, more sustaining connections with others.
As you explore your type’s defense mechanisms, you’ll:
- Discover how and why your cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual survival responses drive your entire defense system — and why they deserve compassion and appreciation
- Learn how to identify and name your deeply ingrained beliefs and held avoidances
- Explore the most common defense mechanisms — and the 9 often co-opted by the Enneagram types
- Deepen your understanding of how you handle surface, secret, and source pain
- Learn how the distance you keep from yourself reflects the distance you will keep from others
Module 4: Understanding Triadic Groups — Bringing Your Best Self Into the World (July 21)
The Enneagram system teaches us that we all possess three Intelligence Centers — a dominant center, one that supports the dominant center, and a repressed center. All three centers shed light on your fundamental aptitudes and underlying drivers.
This week, you’ll learn how to bring balance to misaligned centers to live with less (cognitive-emotional) pain and greater love.
You’ll also explore other triad groupings in the Enneagram system, such as the Hornevian Triads and Harmonic Triads to accurately type yourself… and deepen how you show up in the world.
Delving into triadic groups, you’ll:
- Learn how the Hornevian Triads and Harmonic Triads can be used to identify the way that you solve and cope with conflict — and leverage your natural abilities therein
- Gain deeper insights using your Enneagram type regarding how you respond when you don’t get what you want and why
- Explore how you interact with others, socially and relationally, in order to get your needs met and keep your own internal conflict at bay in order to do so
- Learn how you and others respond to life’s challenges and regulate emotions, or not, by type
Module 5: Keep it Light, Sweet & at Bay — Rejection & Connection (Types 2, 7 & 9) (July 28)
This week, you’ll explore harmonically organized types 2, 7, and 9 from different angles to understand how rejection and connection are managed... and how the gifts of these types enhance relational experience with yourself and others.
You’ll learn how we give and receive love with these types, which are considered to be the positive-reframing Enneagram types.
Type 7s, for example, keep it light as they reframe their discomfort by rationalizing, highlighting the positive, and escaping into more pleasurable future options when distressed or rejected.
Type 2s, on the other hand, keep it sweet by denying their needs and giving more, while 9s keep it at bay as they numb themselves and diffuse upset, appearing totally fine until stubbornness overtakes them.
Suzanne and Sean will open up a Q&A session and explore examples of these types by either theatrical role play, class-participant panels, or a combination of each.
As you explore rejection and connection through types 2, 7, and 9, you’ll learn:
- How each of these types deals with rejection — and how each expands and expresses through love and connection
- How love and connection is expressed and gifted to others in 3 different nurturing, expansive, steadily tender ways
- The impact of your rejection and connection response on yourself and others
- What it is generally like to work with, parent, love, or partner with someone who is one of these type structures
Module 6: Improve, Work Harder & Retract — Rejection & Connection (Types 1, 3 & 5) (August 4)
This week, you’ll explore harmonically organized types 1, 3, and 5 from different angles to understand how rejection and connection are managed... and how the gifts of these types enhance relational experience with yourself and others.
You’ll learn how we give and receive love with these types, which are considered to be the competency and compartmentalizing Enneagram types.
Type 1s, for example, focus on improvement, over-idealizing the corrections, and fixing their feelings and those of others when distressed or rejected.
Type 3s, on the other hand, work even harder to overcome unwanted feelings, get more competitive, deny their upset and win the day, while 5s retract into a world of insights, figuring it out, and detaching away from the hurt.
Suzanne and Sean will open up a Q&A session and explore examples of these types using theatrical role play, class-participant panels, or a combination of each.
As you explore rejection and connection through types 1, 3, and 5, you’ll learn:
- How each of these types deals with rejection — and how they expand and express through love and connection
- How love and connection is expressed and gifted to others in 3 different devotedly committed, purposeful, and endearing ways
- The impact of your rejection and connection response on yourself and others
- What it is generally like to work with, parent, love, or partner with someone who is one of these type structures
Module 7: Introject, Project & Confront — Rejection & Connection (Types 4, 6 & 8) (August 11)
This week, you’ll explore harmonically organized types 4, 6, and 8 from different angles to understand how rejection and connection are managed... and how the gifts of these types enhance relational experience with yourself and others.
You’ll learn how we give and receive love with these Enneagram types.
Type 4s, for example, suffer disappointment and use introjection to express or convert unwanted feelings of distress or rejection.
Type 6s, meanwhile, overtly express unwanted feelings and project their concerns and fears on the world and the people in it.
The direct approach of 8s confront, challenge, and overcome feelings of distress or rejection, keeping their tender heart well out of it.
Suzanne and Sean will open up a Q&A session and explore examples of these types using theatrical role play, class-participant panels, or a combination of each.
As you explore rejection and connection through types 4, 6, and 8, you’ll learn:
- How each of these types deals with rejection — and expand and express through love and connection
- How love and connection is expressed and gifted to others in 3 different beautifully romantic, fiercely loyal, protective, and caring ways with these 3 different types
- The impact of your rejection and connection response on yourself and others
- What it is generally like to work with, parent, love, or partner with someone who is one of these type structures
Module 8: Personal Stories — Harnessing the Power of the Enneagram for Deeper Compassion, Greater Fulfillment & Less Suffering (August 18)
Learning from others who share your same Enneagram type, Center of Intelligence, Harmony Triad, and/or Harmonic Triad is key to gaining deeper insights into your own type.
One of the greatest reasons to study the Enneagram is for the development of self — and to better understand those we work with, love, and live with... all of which leads to developing a deep sense of compassion for ourselves and for others.
Your final class brings the theories of the Enneagram and the possibilities it holds for opening up your life, relationships, and personal growth with storytelling, examples, and sharing.
During your final class, you’ll:
- Gain deeper insights into how the complexities of Enneagram wisdom ties together and leads to living a fulfilled and authentic life with less unnecessary type-related suffering
- Explore real-world examples and experiences of relationships by type — why some thrive and succeed and why others continue to struggle
- Expand your connection with the Enneagram system and your type — and learn how to apply it to your daily life
The Enneagram for Relationships Bonus Collection
In addition to Suzanne and Sean’s transformative 8-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses with leading visionaries and teachers to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Excerpt From Speaking by the Numbers
PDF Chapter From the Book by Sean Palmer
In this excerpt from Sean’s book, Speaking by the Numbers: Enneagram Wisdom for Teachers, Pastors, and Communicators, you’ll explore the fuel that ignites your inner engine — as foretold by your Enneagram type. You’ll explore your Centers of Intelligence and how your unique brand of feeling, thinking, and doing helps you make sense of yourself, others, and life. Ultimately, you’ll discover why allowing yourself to evolve from the healthy spaces of your type leads to an energized and charmed life — one where you’re better equipped to make a positive impact on those you love and the world.
How to Be Here
Audio Practice From Sean Palmer
In this excerpt from Enneagram expert Sean Palmer’s book, Speaking by the Numbers, you’ll explore pain as a greater teacher — a necessary tool for growing and evolving into your true self. Sean offers insights on how to become the kind of person who can carry great pain with grace, without becoming a receptacle for others’ pain. You’ll also receive a guided audio practice to keep you grounded in the present moment when you’re triggered and anxious.
Increasing Your Pain Threshold & Theirs
PDF Guide From Sean Palmer
No one wants pain, yet it’s an inevitable part of life. Understanding your pain threshold can help you mitigate emotional pain and the pain points of your life. This in-depth guide by Sean will help you identify and gain deep insights into the nature of pain and anxiety and help you understand where you fall on the pain spectrum — or your ability to positively cope with pain. For example, some people don’t have much emotional agility for themselves or anyone; others have a high threshold for their personal pain, but a low threshold for others’. Discover where you land and be empowered by your type’s built-in mechanisms for dealing with — and healing — pain.
What People Are Saying About Suzanne Dion...
“Suzanne is clearly an Enneagram thought-leader.”
I have known Suzanne Dion as a dedicated Enneagram colleague for many years. She really knows her stuff, in particular the Enneagram’s application to relationships. She has vast experience as an Enneagram educator. Her depth of knowledge and keen perception are appreciated by her clients and students; they are also reflected in the book she co-authored with David Daniels, MD, “The Enneagram, Relationships and Intimacy.” This book, with powerful insights and suggestions about how to love people better, has become a valuable resource in the expanding field of Enneagram work. Suzanne is clearly an Enneagram thought-leader.
— Peter O’Hanrahan, of The Enneagram At Work, and core faculty member of The Narrative Enneagram school
“Suzanne helped me to change my life!”
I tried to figure out what was wrong with me for most of my life. I just didn’t feel like I fit in or that I was like “normal” people. I found myself in the worst place ever, incarcerated for the first time in my life! I decided to take a class about self-awareness so amazingly offered at the county jail in which I was located, and that is where I first met Suzanne and the Enneagram Prison Project (EPP). I took a course offered for inmates about the Enneagram, and Suzanne was one of the instructors. As I learned about myself and who I was inside of my heart, I began to heal, forgive myself and others, and find self-love. Suzanne helped me to change my life!
— Sue Lambert, EPP Faculty and Guide, NVW certified coach, ACE trainer
“Suzanne Dion is an amazing presenter and writer.”
Suzanne Dion is an amazing presenter and writer. I have had the pleasure of co-teaching/leading with her throughout the years, and the collaboration was amazing. Suzanne has a deep grasp of the Enneagram and is able to language it in a way that all feel included. She comes forward with compassion and clarity regarding people and the system. Participants feel “held, heard, and understood.” I highly recommend allowing Suzanne to lead you on the journey of self-discovery because she has done the work herself.
— Deborah Ooten, PhD, CEO and owner of Conscious Living Center and Conscious Dynamics, LLC
“Suzanne is a truly gifted individual...”
Suzanne has received outstanding recognition from Enneagram, trauma-recovery-informed, and relationships teachers in the field. Suzanne is a truly gifted individual as well as a couples' coach, and I can’t say enough about her natural charisma and ability to present and communicate with individuals all the way to large groups. Suzanne has a way of breaking things down succinctly, sometimes humorously, as well as compassionately and in a way that brings it home for people, including having brought highly complex teachings to those incarcerated with great success.
— Denise Daniels , PhD, developmentalist and Enneagram author
“She has both a theoretical understanding and practical experience, which make her a fascinating teacher.”
Suzanne’s 15-plus years of working with the Enneagram and now relationships, together with many other leading experts, have made her a true source of wisdom on this complicated topic. She has both a theoretical understanding and practical experience, which make her a fascinating teacher. Her insights have helped me tremendously in my research. If you really want to understand how you create challenges to your own relationships and want to do something about it, then Suzanne’s compassionate approach and in-depth knowledge will guide you on the right path!
— Frederik Coene, PhD, Enneagram researcher
What People Are Saying About Sean Palmer ...
“Sean Palmer exudes that rare combination of wisdom and warmth.”
Seldom do we get to experience a teacher who doesn’t suffer fools, who immediately grasps what’s most important, and yet genuinely cares about us. Sean Palmer exudes that rare combination of wisdom and warmth. He not only understands people, but wants them to flourish in ways that matter.
— Jeff Cook, Enneagram teacher, coach, author, lecturer, and philosopher
“Sean’s robust experience in public speaking and storytelling, combined with his mastery of Enneagram wisdom, gives people helpful tools to live more effectively.”
— Hunter Mobley, Enneagram teacher and author
“Sean’s years of experience with the Enneagram have created a foundation of understanding that he has been able to bring to many other areas in his life.”
Sean’s years of experience with the Enneagram have created a foundation of understanding that he has been able to bring to many other areas in his life. As a type 3, he wants to appear excellent as an Enneagram teacher, and clearly has done the work to achieve that goal. What’s more, with his focus firmly set on the future, he has an eye on where the Enneagram is going — and is on the forefront of bringing the system into new areas of study and application.
— T.J. Wilson, host of the Around the Circle Podcast
Join the Global Community
The Enneagram for Relationships offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer will share in this powerful training.
You’ll be part of an international community that’s on the leading edge of a global movement of people manifesting a world grounded in principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Eight 90-Minute Class Sessions With Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Enneagram experts Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to deepen your emotional literacy using the emotional wisdom system of the Enneagram. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Eight Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Eight Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high-quality MP3 format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Eight Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Enneagram for Relationships Bonus Collection
- Excerpt From Speaking by the Numbers
PDF Chapter From the Book by Sean Palmer - How to Be Here
Audio Practice From Sean Palmer - Increasing Your Pain Threshold & Theirs
PDF Guide From Sean Palmer
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Enneagram for Relationships Online Training
We feel honored that Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer have chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer, whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about engaging the Enneagram to funnel understanding, healing, presence, and compassion into the core of who you are and your relationships, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Enneagram for Relationships — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before July 14, 2022 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
About Suzanne Dion
Suzanne Dion co-wrote the book, The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy: Understanding One Another Leads to Loving Better and Living More Fully, with her mentor, David Daniels, MD. In its pages, they marry the wisdom of the Enneagram with Dr. Dan Siegel's mindful awareness research and teachings.
Suzanne’s focus, as she carries forward David’s compassionate approach, is on bettering our human relationships through intrapersonal healing and developing our capacity for emotional literacy and deepening intimacy — with both ourselves and others.
Now a teacher, coach, and educator of the Enneagram system for personal and professional self-awareness, Suzanne completed her teacher certification with The Narrative Enneagram (TNE) program (formerly called the Palmer-Daniels Enneagram Professional Training School) in 2008. Suzanne was one of the founding board members of the Enneagram Prison Project and spent several years developing its curriculum and teaching incarcerated men and women in Northern California jails and San Quentin State Prison.
About Sean Palmer
Sean Palmer is the Principal at Sean Palmer Coaching Company, LLC. He is an Enneagram expert, trainer, and author of Speaking by the Numbers: Enneagram Wisdom for Teachers, Pastors, and Communicators... Forty Days on Being a Three (Enneagram Daily Reflections)... and Unarmed Empire: In Search of Beloved Community.
Sean has been profiled in The Washington Post and was named in Christian Standard magazine’s “40 Leaders Under 40.” With 24 years of communications experience, Sean is a sought-after national keynote speaker, teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator. He works with nonprofits, business leaders, city managers, mayors, and chiefs of police and fire departments.
Sean’s work has been featured on Fox News and in Enneagram Today, Enneagram Magazine, Christianity Today, Success magazine, Sojourners magazine, and The Lookout magazine. Sean is vice-chair of and a featured writer for Missio Alliance, a contributing writer to The Voice, and a frequent guest on various podcasts and programs, including National Public Radio (NPR).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is July 14, 2022. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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