Personal development | The School of Visibility

Identifying your enneagram type (introducing the enneagram part 3)

The first question people invariably ask once they learn about the enneagram is; How do I find out what my type is?

There are tests you can do to give you a sense of your type but before you jump on over to test yourself, it’s vitally important that you remember this; tests generally examine behaviour.

But unlike some of the other personality typings out there, the enneagram isn’t so much about behaviour as it is about motivation. Sometimes you have to dig quite a bit deeper to uncover a motivation which makes it more difficult to test for.

That, incidentally, is why the enneagram is such a great visibility tool. When we dig deeply, we uncover what our deeper motivation is for being seen and heard in the world. We also understand quite clearly exactly why we’re hiding out, not choosing visibility even when we keep telling ourselves it’s … [Read More...]

How to spot your visibility blocks

The most common hurdle to overcoming visibility blocks is actually seeing them. They’re so embedded in the way we think, the way we act, the way we respond to people, that they don’t seem like blocks at all.

They seem like ‘Just the way life is’.

So in the interests of not being bogged down by visibility blocks for the rest of time, here’s a useful tip for spotting a block; What behaviour really annoys you?

Perhaps it’s sales funnels – you just can’t stand people selling to you or hosting webinars where they sell something at the end or mention the product they have for sale in a live video.

Rather than raging against the machine, here’s a question to ponder; How comfortable am I with selling my service/product/program?

A fear of being judged when you ask for the sale is a huge visibility block that impacts significantly on … [Read More...]

The Visibility Compendium, June 2019

We covered a range of topics in June; visibility upper limits, visibility lessons for business, women’s empowerment and more.

Below is where you can scroll through everything we shared and catch up on all the goodness. So grab a cup of tea and let’s get into it!

FROM THE BLOG

Are you fully expressed?
[Topics: visibility blocks | upper limits]
‘…if you’d asked me before doing the ‘I am fully expressed’ work whether there was much room for movement in this area, I would have said no. I felt good about my self expression.

And the shift that’s occurred has been in the form of a refinement, or redirection, rather than a radical 180 degree turn around. What it has done – and this has made all the difference in the world – has been to bring my method of self expression more fully into alignment with my visibility desires.’

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If you’re a coach or mentor interested in women’s empowerment, this is for you

‘If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you’ve come because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us work together.’ Lilla Watson and Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland

What do you think of that idea?

Personally I’d like to see it used as the guiding principle for anyone who feels called to coach, mentor, and/or support, motivate, empower, inspire, or facilitate healing for other people.

It takes you immediately from an hierarchical basis for your relationship, where one person is superior to the other in some way, to recognising that human evolution and liberation is bound together in a web of complex interrelations. Or an a more pragmatic level, it reminds you that when you teach, you learn and when you learn, you teach.

The other quote I’d love everyone to post in plain sight so they might be reminded … [Read More...]

I didn’t know I could say no! Stand your ground. Get the birth you want

This post is dedicated to all women who need support saying ‘no’ as you prepare for the birth of your child. It’s for all the women who are hearing their soul whisper, ‘You deserve more and better’.

“I didn’t know I could say no,” she exclaimed, turning her surprised face towards me. I can see the cogs literally whirring as she applies this new knowledge to her situation, as the possibility for a different way forward opens up.

I smile encouragingly, my own cogs working overtime as my mind is flooded with all that I desperately want her to know to ensure her birth goes as she dreams of… Where to even start?

I want her to know that her right to say no is enshrined in human rights law.

I want her to know that these human rights apply equally to her in pregnancy and birth just as they … [Read More...]