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Robert has taught the Enneagram worldwide for 20 years and trained thousands of coaches through his Coach Camp programs. An Accredited Professional Member of the International Enneagram Association (IEA), he delivered opening keynotes at its conferences in 2009 and 2021. He has trained psychologists, healthcare professionals, educators, and coaches in the Enneagram, and taught his Leadership & Enneagram program for clients including IBM and Google.
He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Higher Purpose, Loveability, Shift Happens!, Life Loves You co-authored with Louise Hay, and Becoming Yourself, his work on the Enneagram. He has also presented at more than 50 Hay House I CAN DO IT! events and writes the weekly Hay House Enneagram newsletter, 9 Ways.
Learn with Robert Holden
Discover the Coaching Advantage You Already Have
As a coach, therapist, or helping professional, you know how rewarding it can be to help someone grow and become more of who they are.
And to inspire that transformation, you likely spend a lot of time getting to know the person in front of you. What problem are they trying to overcome. What’s holding them back or propelling them forward?
But one of the keys to becoming a more effective coach is also understanding the person you bring into every session: YOU.
Every coach has a Coaching Advantage—a particular combination of strengths, gifts, and natural abilities.
Perhaps you create a space where people feel safe enough to tell the truth. Maybe you ask the questions that get to the heart of an issue, see possibilities others miss, or help clients find the courage to act.
The Enneagram can help you recognize what you naturally bring to your work, appreciate what makes your approach valuable, and identify the qualities you’re ready to develop next.
Class 1
Discover Your Coaching Advantage
Recognize the gifts you naturally bring to your work and where a strength may become a blind spot.
Robert Holden has spent decades exploring the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and human flourishing. At the heart of his work is a love of coaching—helping people grow and become more of who they are. Learning about the Enneagram took his own work as a coach and mentor to a whole new level.
Register free for all three live classes, event replays, and “The Enneagram Chapter” from Robert’s book Higher Purpose.
Develop a wider range of coaching capacities so you can adapt your approach to the person in front of you to create true connection and more profound transformation.
Bring your curiosity, your experience, and a desire to serve each client more fully.
Expand Your Range as a Coach
What You’ll Explore
Class 2
Flex Your Coaching Style
Learn how to adjust your pace, questions, directness, encouragement, and level of challenge for different clients.
Class 3
Coaching That Makes a Real Difference
Explore how to choose practices that help each client move from self-awareness into new choices and meaningful action + live Q&A with Robert
The Enneagram can also help you uncover something you may not even be aware of. Even a valuable strength can limit your effectiveness when it becomes the response you reach for automatically.
A coach who creates safety may keep making space when a client needs a clear challenge. A coach who inspires action may move toward solutions before the client has found their own direction.
Understanding your Coaching Advantage helps you ask a more useful question: What does this particular person need from me?
Over three days, Robert will show you how the Enneagram can help you expand your range and respond to different clients with greater awareness and flexibility.
The goal is to build on what already works while developing more ways to respond when a client needs something different.
When a Strength Gets in the Way
Being an Even More Effective Coach Using the Wisdom of the Enneagram
Free 3-Day Workshop with Robert Holden, PhD
October 27–29, 2026
9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET | 4:00 PM GMT
For coaches, therapists, and helping professionals. No prior Enneagram experience is required.
