Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit 2026 – Free Typeish Event Hosted by Tyler Zach
Spiritual growth can become frustrating when practices that seem meaningful for someone else leave you distracted, disconnected, or wondering why you are not experiencing the same thing.
The Type·ish Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit brings personality and spiritual formation into the same conversation. Across interviews, workshops, and personal stories, you can explore how Enneagram patterns influence prayer, attachment, discernment, relationships, leadership, emotional health, and the way you experience God.
Host Tyler Zach brings together voices including Suzanne Stabile, Dan Allender, Ruth Haley Barton, Bill and Kristi Gaultiere, Beth McCord, Adele Calhoun, Chuck DeGroat, Sean Palmer, David Wu, Nhien Vuong, and many more teachers and practitioners.
The summit is rooted in Christian spiritual formation while welcoming curious people from every background. You can choose the sessions most relevant to your own spiritual journey or use the material to deepen the way you support others as a pastor, coach, counselor, therapist, spiritual director, educator, parent, or ministry leader.
Why Attend the Type·ish Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit
Self-awareness can explain a great deal about your habits, reactions, and relationships, but information about your Enneagram type is only the beginning. This summit explores what happens when that awareness becomes part of prayer, discernment, spiritual practice, relationships, leadership, and the ongoing work of formation.
The four-day lineup approaches spiritual growth from several directions, including attachment, the false self and true self, virtues, instincts, spiritual direction, stages of faith, emotional patterns, soul care, spiritual gifts, church hurt, neuroscience, and compassionate leadership. That breadth makes it possible to follow the questions that are most relevant to your current season.
You will also hear both established teachers and practitioners offering distinct frameworks rather than one prescribed formula for growth. The aim is to help you notice your patterns more clearly, engage spiritual practices more intentionally, and consider how personality awareness can support a deeper and more compassionate spiritual life.
Who Should Attend the Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit
This summit is designed for people who want to understand how personality intersects with spiritual growth. You do not need to be an Enneagram expert, and you do not need to know your type before participating.
Most sessions use a Christian spiritual-formation lens, while people from every background are welcome to explore the material. The lineup also includes practical applications for people who accompany, teach, counsel, coach, lead, or care for others.
- People who want to explore greater intimacy with God through deeper self-awareness
- Anyone curious about spiritual practices that may interact differently with each personality type
- People navigating discernment, transition, changing seasons of faith, or questions about calling
- Pastors, ministry leaders, spiritual directors, and church staff
- Therapists, counselors, coaches, and other helping professionals interested in Enneagram-informed perspectives
- Parents and educators who want greater compassion for different personality patterns
- Experienced Enneagram students looking to connect type knowledge with spiritual formation
- People new to the Enneagram who want an accessible introduction through practical spiritual themes
What You’ll Learn During the Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit
The summit explores how your personality patterns may influence the ways you recognize presence, love, grace, trust, fear, shame, anger, connection, and spiritual invitation. Speakers approach these questions through Enneagram wisdom, Christian formation, attachment, contemplative practices, neuroscience, spiritual direction, and personal experience.
You will encounter multiple frameworks for understanding growth, including the Centers of Intelligence, instincts, Harmony and Harmonic Triads, Levels of Alignment, attachment styles, stages of faith, the Examen, virtues, soul gifts, and type-specific patterns of leadership and relationship.
The sessions also move beyond individual self-knowledge by considering ministry, marriage, coaching, spiritual direction, teams, church culture, compassion, trauma, and the ways we accompany other people without assuming everyone needs the same thing.
- How Enneagram patterns can shape the way you experience God, prayer, grace, and trust
- Why self-knowledge alone is different from spiritual formation
- How attachment patterns may influence your expectations of God and relationships
- Ways spiritual practices such as silence, solitude, the Examen, mindfulness, and breathwork can support awareness
- How the false self, true self, virtues, and personality strategies can be understood within Christian formation
- How spiritual directors, pastors, coaches, and leaders can respond more thoughtfully to different Enneagram types
- How instincts, centers, triads, and connecting points can reveal additional dimensions of growth
- How personality patterns can interact with leadership, marriage, church life, and compassion
- How difficult seasons, church hurt, spiritual trauma, and wilderness experiences may reveal hidden patterns
- How to distinguish personality traits from maturity, character, and conscious spiritual development
Using the Enneagram as a Lens for Spiritual Formation, Not an End Point
A recurring theme across the summit is that identifying your Enneagram type is useful, but it is not the same thing as becoming spiritually or emotionally mature. Type language can help you recognize habitual motivations, defenses, fears, strengths, blind spots, and relational patterns that might otherwise remain difficult to name.
The next step is learning how those patterns interact with spiritual practices, attachment, discernment, community, leadership, relationships, and your understanding of God. Several speakers also explore practices or growth paths that challenge the strategies you rely on most naturally rather than simply reinforcing what already feels comfortable.
This makes the Enneagram a starting point for attention rather than a fixed identity. The summit repeatedly returns to greater awareness, flexibility, compassion, honesty, integration, and the possibility of responding with more freedom instead of automatically repeating familiar patterns.
- Notice the difference between your personality strategy and your deeper values or spiritual intentions
- Recognize practices that support awareness instead of simply accommodating your strongest habits
- Explore how attachment, instincts, centers, and connecting points add nuance beyond a single type number
- Use personality awareness to approach yourself and other people with greater curiosity and compassion
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The summit includes 18 interviews and 18 workshops across four days, with additional Story Spotlights available throughout the event. The lineup brings together Enneagram teachers, spiritual directors, therapists, ministry voices, coaches, authors, and practitioners who approach formation from complementary angles.
Suzanne Stabile
Suzanne Stabile opens the summit by framing the Enneagram as a wisdom tool for spiritual formation rather than simply a system for personality information. Her session explores self-knowledge, spiritual practice, and the distinction between growing a personality and growing a soul.
Dan Allender
Dan Allender focuses on discernment, including the many voices competing for our attention and the difference between invitations rooted in fear, contempt, or delight. The conversation explores how to move toward what is next without demanding perfect certainty.
Ruth Haley Barton
Ruth Haley Barton explores sacred rhythms, the spiritual practices needed in different seasons, and the development of a rule of life. Her session also considers how the Enneagram can help identify practices that may be especially meaningful or challenging for each type.
Bill and Kristi Gaultiere
Bill and Kristi Gaultiere examine what each Enneagram type may look like in spiritual direction. Their conversation is especially relevant for spiritual directors, coaches, pastors, and ministry leaders who want to ask better questions and offer more person-specific guidance.
Beth McCord
Beth McCord presents her Levels of Alignment and explores how the nine types can look when resting in God’s love, relying on personal strength, or being driven by fear. The session connects Enneagram awareness with a gospel-centered understanding of growth.
Adele Calhoun
Adele Calhoun connects the nine Enneagram patterns with the virtues embodied in the life of Jesus. Her session considers how the humanity of Christ can offer solidarity and a practical spiritual reference point for each type.
Chuck DeGroat
Chuck DeGroat examines the slow work of formation in a culture shaped by quick fixes, personal branding, and constant attention demands. He also reflects on ways the contemporary Enneagram movement can drift away from its roots as a wisdom tradition.
Sean Palmer
Sean Palmer explores the false self, true self, ego, essence, belovedness, and spiritual practice through a Christian formation lens. His session helps place common Enneagram language inside a larger understanding of becoming the person God created you to be.
David Wu
David Wu introduces the Garden of the Soul, a framework that imagines spiritual formation through seeds to cultivate, weeds to uproot, and fruit that reflects the character of Christ. The session offers a practical framework for personal growth and for guiding others.
Nhien Vuong
Rev. Nhien Vuong explores the “soul gifts” associated with the nine types. Her session considers how moving beyond habitual personality patterns can make more room for each person’s distinctive expression of God’s Spirit.
Adam Young
Therapist Adam Young explores attachment and its influence on whether God feels close, distant, dependable, or difficult to trust. His conversation provides a foundation for several other summit sessions connecting relational history, personality, and spiritual experience.
Clare Loughrige
Clare Loughrige presents the Harmony Triads as a whole-person framework for spiritual growth. Her session examines how people may naturally favor heart, mind, or embodied ways of relating while being invited toward a more integrated spiritual life.
Four-Day Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit Schedule
The summit runs October 20–23, 2026. Nine on-demand sessions are released at 6:00 a.m. Central Time each day, and free registrants have 30 hours to watch that day’s presentations.
There is no fixed sequence to follow after the sessions are released. Use the detailed schedule below to identify the conversations and workshops that best match your questions, responsibilities, and current season of spiritual growth.
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Suzanne Stabile — The Enneagram as a Tool for Spiritual Formation
Suzanne Stabile opens the summit by moving the Enneagram beyond personality information and into the work of spiritual formation. She explores how type awareness can expand the way we see God and one another while challenging us to distinguish personality growth from soul growth.
- Why self-knowledge alone does not complete the work of formation
- How the nine types can expand the ways we perceive God and other people
- Why some spiritual practices may need to disrupt rather than accommodate our personality patterns
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Dan Allender — How to Hear God’s Voice and Discern His Will
Dan Allender explores discernment when several internal and external voices are competing for attention. The conversation considers how fear, contempt, delight, and invitation can shape the way we interpret what God may be asking of us.
- How to notice the different voices influencing a decision
- Ways fear and contempt can sound different from a life-giving invitation
- Why delight may offer an important clue when discerning what comes next
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Adam Young — Attachment and Your Relationship with God
Therapist Adam Young introduces attachment and explains how early relationships can continue shaping spiritual experience. The session explores why God may feel close, distant, dependable, or difficult to trust depending on patterns developed in relationships.
- What secure and insecure attachment patterns are
- How early relational experiences can influence present expectations
- Ways attachment may shape how closeness, trust, and dependability are experienced in relationship with God
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Lisa Vischer — Experiencing God Through Your Enneagram Type
Lisa Vischer explores how each Enneagram type may experience God’s presence while also encountering predictable barriers. She connects the false self, the centers, contemplative practices, and connecting points with increased receptivity to God.
- How the false self can interfere with receptivity to God’s presence
- Ways different types and centers may recognize and connect with God
- How stillness, solitude, silence, and connecting points can stretch familiar type strategies
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Tom LaHue — The 9 Types of Pastors and Spiritual Leaders
Tom LaHue explores how a leader’s personality can influence an entire ministry environment. The session looks at nine distinct leadership styles and the gifts, blind spots, communication habits, and ministry patterns that can accompany them.
- How Enneagram type can shape preaching, pastoral care, and decision-making
- Different ways leaders may approach conflict, vision, relationships, and stability
- How a leader’s personality can influence church culture and a congregation’s experience
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Dani Cooper — The Truth That Sets Your Type Free: Rewriting the False Narratives You Have About God
Dani Cooper focuses on the false narratives associated with Enneagram patterns and the ways those stories can affect relationships, including relationship with God. The workshop invites participants to identify disconnection-producing stories and reconsider them through a more truthful spiritual lens.
- Recognize false narratives connected with your Enneagram type
- Notice how those narratives can influence connection with God and other people
- Reflect on how a more grounded view of God’s regard can shape the way you show up in the world
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: David Goodman — Using the Enneagram as a Compass to Navigate the Stages of Faith
David Goodman explores seasons when a familiar expression of faith no longer works in the same way. Using the Enneagram alongside stages of faith, he examines how type patterns can influence the experience of reaching “the Wall” and moving toward a deeper expression of love.
- How personality patterns can influence changing seasons of faith
- Ways your type may become stuck when familiar spiritual strategies stop working
- How growth can shift from performing faith toward a deeper experience of love
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Todd Zaki Warfel — Same Team, Different Wiring: How to Lead and Coach the Nine Enneagram Types
Todd Zaki Warfel applies Enneagram awareness to coaching, communication, and team leadership. He walks through the types to show why effective leadership often requires adapting your approach rather than treating everyone identically.
- Strengths different Enneagram types may contribute to a team
- Common ways each type can be misunderstood by leaders and colleagues
- Practical ways to adjust coaching and communication for different personality patterns
Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20: Kelly Jo Morris — Unified Diversity: Aligning Enneagram Types and Spiritual Gifts for Kingdom Purpose
Kelly Jo Morris explores the relationship between personality, spiritual gifts, strengths, and purpose. The workshop offers reflection tools for considering how natural motivations and abilities may interact with the ways people serve and grow.
- How personality and spiritual gifts can offer different forms of self-understanding
- Ways motivations, strengths, and abilities may align with service and purpose
- Reflection and action steps for considering how your gifts can be expressed more intentionally
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Bill and Kristi Gaultiere — Each Enneagram Type in Spiritual Direction
Bill and Kristi Gaultiere explore how the nine Enneagram types may show up differently in spiritual direction. The conversation is designed both for personal growth and for people who guide others through coaching, ministry, pastoral care, or spiritual direction.
- How different Enneagram types may approach relationship with God
- Questions that can help spiritual guides understand the person in front of them more fully
- Ways guidance can be adapted instead of assuming everyone needs the same spiritual counsel
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Ruth Haley Barton — Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Your Life for Spiritual Transformation
Ruth Haley Barton explores how to discern the spiritual practices that fit a particular season of life. She also considers the purpose of a rule of life and how the Enneagram can illuminate practices that may be meaningful or challenging for each type.
- How to discern which spiritual practices may be needed in a given season
- Ways to think about whether spiritual practice is actually shaping your life
- How a rule of life can create supportive rhythms for ongoing formation
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Beth McCord — Spiritually Healthy and Unhealthy: The Growth Journey of Each Enneagram Type
Beth McCord uses her Levels of Alignment to explore the spiritual growth journey of the nine types. She compares patterns that emerge when a person is resting in God’s love, relying primarily on personal strength, or being driven by fear.
- How the Levels of Alignment frame different expressions of each type
- Ways fear and self-reliance can alter familiar personality strengths
- How a gospel-centered perspective changes the meaning of Enneagram growth
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Adele Calhoun — Jesus and the Nine Virtues: How Every Enneagram Type Can Find Its Story in Jesus
Spiritual director Adele Calhoun explores the core temptations associated with all nine Enneagram patterns through stories from the life of Jesus. Her session focuses on virtue as a way of understanding how Christ responded to pressures familiar across the Enneagram.
- Core temptations connected with the nine Enneagram types
- Virtues that offer an alternative response to automatic personality patterns
- Ways the humanity of Jesus can provide solidarity and a practical reference point for formation
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Clare Loughrige — The Harmony Triads: A Whole-Person Enneagram Framework for Spiritual Growth
Clare Loughrige uses the Harmony Triads to explore what it means to engage spiritual life with the whole self. The session considers how heart, mind, and embodied ways of knowing may come more or less naturally depending on personality patterns.
- How the Harmony Triads connect with whole-person spiritual formation
- Why some ways of relating to God may feel more natural than others
- How Enneagram awareness can invite greater integration of heart, mind, and body
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Justin Amos — Attachment Through the Lens of the Enneagram
Justin Amos connects relational wounds, attachment styles, personality patterns, and spiritual experience. The workshop considers how attachment may interact with type and influence the way a person sees and responds to God.
- The four attachment styles and their relational implications
- How attachment patterns can interact with Enneagram type
- Practical ideas for moving toward greater security, connection, and receptivity to love
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Danielle Fuller — Personality Isn’t Maturity: Mistaking Enneagram Type for Character
Danielle Fuller challenges the tendency to interpret particular personality traits as evidence of psychological or spiritual maturity. The workshop distinguishes type from development and examines how similar outward behavior can arise from very different motivations.
- The difference between personality style and genuine maturity
- How Enneagram levels of health, ego development, and spiritual formation can overlap without being identical
- Why motivation, flexibility, consciousness, and responsibility matter when evaluating growth
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Kara Koon — The Number You’re Afraid Of: The Missing Piece in Enneagram Growth
Kara Koon explores a connecting type she calls the “stretch number” and why its unhealthy patterns can feel especially threatening. She also introduces the “release number” as a gentler route toward accessing the healthy qualities that may be difficult to claim directly.
- What Kara means by a stretch number in Enneagram growth
- Why the feared qualities of another type can obscure a potential gift
- How the release number can provide a more accessible first step toward growth
Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21: Katherine Grabar — The Examen Prayer and the Enneagram
Katherine Grabar combines the centuries-old Examen Prayer with Enneagram awareness. The workshop offers a structured way to review daily experience, notice recurring personality patterns, and bring those observations into prayer.
- A practical five-step approach to the Examen Prayer
- How the Enneagram can help reveal recurring patterns in feeling, thinking, and acting
- Type-specific reflection questions that can support an ongoing prayer practice
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: David Wu — The Garden of the Soul: A New Enneagram Framework for Spiritual Growth
David Wu introduces a garden metaphor for understanding spiritual formation through the Enneagram. The framework considers what needs to be cultivated, what may need to be uprooted, and what kind of fruit can emerge through growth.
- How to identify “seeds” that can be intentionally cultivated
- How personality patterns can function like “weeds” that require attention
- How the framework can support both personal reflection and guiding other people
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Joey Schewee Stabile — Mistyping Matters: How to Find Your True Enneagram Type
Joey Schewee Stabile explores why mistyping is common and why surface behavior can be misleading. The session turns attention toward core motivations and recurring patterns as more useful clues for discerning type.
- Common reasons people identify with the wrong Enneagram type
- Why motivation matters more than stereotypes or isolated behaviors
- How to approach typing with greater patience, clarity, and confidence
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Joel Hubbard — The Three Instincts and Spirituality
Joel Hubbard explores how dominant instinct can shape spiritual life alongside Enneagram type. He introduces the Hunter, Farmer, and Teamer framework as a way of understanding different instinctive approaches to spirituality.
- The Hunter, Farmer, and Teamer language for the three instincts
- Strengths and blind spots associated with different instinctive approaches
- Spiritual experiences and practices that may support growth for each instinct
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Nhien Vuong — Discovering the Soul Gifts of Your Enneagram Type
Rev. Nhien Vuong explores the distinctive “soul gifts” she associates with the nine Enneagram types. The session considers how moving beyond automatic personality patterns can create space for a deeper expression of the self and of God’s Spirit.
- How each Enneagram type may express a distinctive soul gift
- The difference between habitual personality patterns and a deeper expression of self
- How individual gifts can contribute to a larger spiritual community
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Dina Smith — The God You Expect: How Attachment and the Enneagram Shape Your Experience of God
Dina Smith examines the expectations people bring into relationship with God through both attachment history and Enneagram patterns. The workshop explores why someone may intellectually believe they are loved while still reacting through striving, hiding, withdrawal, or self-protection.
- How attachment history can shape expectations of closeness, safety, and love
- Ways Enneagram patterns may reinforce protective spiritual responses
- Practical movement from self-protection toward greater trust, security, and intimacy
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: TJ Teems — Using the Enneagram to Guide Our Compassion
TJ Teems uses the Enneagram as a framework for seeing beyond outward behavior to the motivations and inner experiences underneath it. The workshop considers how this wider view can support compassion and relational repair in a divided and disconnected world.
- Why behavior alone rarely tells the full story of another person’s experience
- How Enneagram awareness can create greater curiosity about motivation
- Ways a broader perspective can support empathy, compassion, and relational repair
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Deborah Owen — The Neuroscience of Personality and Spiritual Formation
Deborah Owen, DLd, connects the Neuro-Based Enneagram with neuroscience, attachment, and Christian spiritual formation. She explores how strengths and adaptive responses can become well-worn protective pathways that feel automatic even when they no longer serve the situation.
- How repeated responses can become familiar neurological pathways
- Why an automatic pattern may reflect adaptation rather than a lack of willpower or spiritual maturity
- How awareness and flexibility can create more room to discern and respond intentionally
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Andrew Bowles — Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Perspective on the Harmonic Triads
Andrew Bowles explores how people respond when life becomes painful, uncertain, or overwhelming through the Enneagram Harmonic Triads. Drawing from chaplaincy, contemplative spirituality, and mindfulness, he examines habitual responses to disappointment and difficult emotion.
- How the Harmonic Triads illuminate different coping strategies
- Ways to recognize automatic patterns during disappointment, uncertainty, and pain
- How mindfulness and contemplative practice can support greater presence, compassion, and choice
Day 3 – Thursday, October 22: Jilian Brown — Jesus Our Enneagram Exemplar: Exploring the 9 Holy Ideas
Jilian Brown explores the holy ideas and virtues associated with the nine Enneagram types. The workshop connects those qualities with Scripture and considers Jesus as an example of the healthiest expression represented by each pattern.
- The holy ideas associated with the nine Enneagram types
- Virtues that correspond with movement toward healthier expression
- Scriptural reflections on Jesus embodying qualities associated with the nine types
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Dr. Rich Plass, Clif Roth and Amie Patrick — CrossPoint Enneagram Soul Care Panel
Dr. Rich Plass, Clif Roth, and Amie Patrick explore the Heart, Head, and Gut Centers of Intelligence alongside the emotions of shame, fear, and anger or guilt. The panel examines disconnection, loneliness, emotional imbalance, and the role of self-awareness in becoming more integrated and relationally healthy.
- How the Heart, Head, and Gut centers organize different ways of processing experience
- How shame, fear, anger, and guilt can become exaggerated or diminished
- Ways type awareness can illuminate disconnection, loneliness, and integration
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Sean Palmer — Who God Created You to Be: The False Self, True Self, and Formation
Sean Palmer examines language such as false self, true self, ego, and essence through a Christian spiritual-formation lens. The conversation considers how personality strategies develop and how belovedness and spiritual practice can loosen their grip.
- How psychological language about selfhood can be understood within Christian formation
- How the Enneagram can reveal strategies a person has learned to rely on
- Why belovedness and spiritual practices can support a less defended way of living
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Chuck DeGroat — Who You’re Becoming: The Slow Work of Spiritual Formation
Chuck DeGroat challenges the pressure for shortcuts, quick fixes, performance, and personal branding to shape the way we approach spiritual growth. He invites participants to recover formation as a slower process while examining cultural pressures surrounding the contemporary Enneagram movement.
- How the attention economy can influence spiritual life and self-understanding
- Why vulnerability, maturity, and formation resist quick-fix approaches
- How the Enneagram can be reclaimed as a wisdom tradition rather than merely a marketable identity system
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Christa Hardin — The Three Desires: How Instincts Reshape Connection and Intimacy in Marriage
Christa Hardin reframes the Enneagram’s self-preservation, social, and sexual instincts as desires for safety, connection, and intimacy within marriage. The conversation explores how different instinctive priorities can help couples understand recurring differences with greater appreciation.
- How the three instincts can be understood as core relational desires
- Why partners may prioritize safety, intimacy, or connection differently
- Ways instinct awareness can support appreciation, partnership, and communication in marriage
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Rosemary Hurwitz — Breathwork and Affirmations for the 9 Enneagram Types
Rosemary Hurwitz brings Enneagram awareness into an experiential practice using centering mantras and 4-7-8 breathing. The workshop is designed to help participants interrupt automatic reactions and reconnect with greater awareness of their inner state.
- Type-specific centering language for the nine Enneagram patterns
- A simple 4-7-8 breathing practice
- How embodied attention can support emotional regulation and a return to center
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Rachel Harris — Why Good Christian Women Hide Their Light and the Buried Gift Each Type Carries
Rachel Harris examines the cultural and religious messages that can teach women to become smaller, more agreeable, or easier to accommodate. Through the Enneagram, she explores a buried gift associated with each type and how participants can begin reclaiming what has gone underground.
- How a “good-girl code” can shape self-expression without erasing underlying gifts
- The buried gift Rachel associates with each Enneagram type
- A small first step toward expressing that gift with greater freedom and less shame
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Jenn Suen Chen — Wilderness Blindspots: What Our Enneagram Type Hides From Us
Jenn Suen Chen explores wilderness and liminal seasons as places where stories, wounds, and blind spots may become more visible. The workshop uses spiritual formation and the Enneagram to support reflection on what has shaped us and what growth may require next.
- How difficult or transitional seasons can expose familiar blind spots
- Ways to name stories and wounds that continue shaping present patterns
- How reclaiming your story can support a more authentic engagement with growth
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Penni McConnell — Church Hurt and Spiritual Trauma
Penni McConnell explores how Enneagram awareness can support self-understanding after experiences of church hurt and spiritual trauma. Drawing on personal experience, she invites participants to examine patterns and responses with greater honesty and compassion.
- How painful spiritual experiences can shape patterns of response and self-protection
- Ways the Enneagram can provide language for understanding reactions without reducing them to type
- How compassionate reflection can create space for understanding, healing, and growth
Day 4 – Friday, October 23: Amalie Greeve — Spiritual Warfare Through the Lens of the Enneagram
Amalie Greeve examines how protective personality patterns can become entangled with distorted beliefs about self, others, and God. The workshop uses Enneagram type as a lens for separating what a person was created to express from patterns built around fear and deception.
- Distortions that may feel especially convincing to different Enneagram types
- How protective strategies can form around something originally good
- Ways to distinguish identity from fear-based or deceptive patterns
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
The Type·ish Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit runs October 20–23, 2026 and is entirely virtual. The presentations are pre-recorded rather than live, so there is no live feed or fixed order you need to follow during each day’s viewing window.
Free registrants receive that day’s session links by email at 6:00 a.m. Central Time. All nine daily sessions are released together and remain available for 30 hours, from 6:00 a.m. CT on the release day until 12:00 p.m. CT the following day.
That daily release corresponds to 4:00 a.m. Pacific Time, 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, 12:00 p.m. in the UK and Ireland, 1:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time, and 10:00 p.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time. Free-pass sessions can be watched in a web browser on a phone or computer.
An optional All Access Pass provides lifetime access to the summit sessions and additional viewing and listening options, including the Kajabi mobile app, a private YouTube playlist, a private Apple Podcasts feed, and downloadable MP3s. Check your email after registration for viewing links and schedule updates.
How to Register for the Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From the Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit
With nine presentations released each day, the most useful approach is usually not trying to watch everything. Review the schedule before the summit and choose the sessions that connect most directly with your current questions, responsibilities, or season of spiritual life.
You can also use the summit as a reflective practice rather than a content marathon. A short pause after a session to notice one idea, one question, or one practice worth revisiting may help you engage the material more thoughtfully.
Choose Two or Three Priority Themes
- Prayer, discernment, and spiritual practices
- Attachment, emotional health, and relationship with God
- Leadership, ministry, coaching, spiritual direction, or relationships
Use a Simple Reflection Rhythm
- Write down one insight that challenged or clarified something for you
- Notice one pattern you want to observe without immediately trying to fix it
- Choose one practice, question, or conversation to revisit after the summit
Keep the Daily Emails Easy to Find
Daily session links arrive by email, so star the summit thread or move it into your primary inbox. This makes it easier to return to the day’s presentations during the 30-hour viewing window.
Use the Community When It Helps
Free registrants can also connect with other attendees in the summit Facebook group. It can be a useful place to compare reflections, ask questions, and hear how people with different Enneagram patterns are responding to the same material.
About Tyler Zach and Type·ish
Tyler Zach is a certified Enneagram coach, author, podcast host, summit producer, workshop leader, and founder of Type·ish. He produces virtual Enneagram summits that bring together teachers and practitioners from a range of specialties.
More than 25,000 people have participated in Type·ish Summits, formerly known as EnneaSummit, and individual events regularly attract more than 5,000 attendees from around the world. Tyler also hosts the Type·ish Podcast, where selected summit sessions are made available so listeners can continue exploring how personality connects with everyday life.
Before launching Type·ish, Tyler spent nearly two decades in ministry as a campus minister and co-lead pastor. He also wrote the nine-book Gospel For Enneagram devotional series, which has sold more than 25,000 copies.
In 2026, Tyler brought his Gospel for Enneagram, EnneaSummit, and coaching work together under the Type·ish name. The Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit reflects that broader focus by connecting Enneagram understanding with relationships, emotional health, spirituality, work, leadership, and the many areas of life influenced by personality.
Reviews and Testimonials
“These Summits are the best virtual conferences out there!” Tyler does a fantastic job of bringing together the best people from so many arenas.
“Your sessions are absolutely the best value I have ever encountered!” The transcripts, resources, web links, and the life-long wisdom from each speaker make this summit incredibly life-affirming.
Free Resources and Nine Story Spotlights
Free summit participants can access speaker-provided resources during the event. Registration also includes nine Story Spotlights featuring one person from each Enneagram type sharing an honest experience of patterns, change, faith, relationships, identity, or calling.
The Story Spotlights remain available throughout the four-day summit, giving you another way to hear how Enneagram patterns can show up in lived experience rather than only in teaching frameworks.
- Micky ScottBey Jones, Type 1: The Anger I Didn’t Know I Carried: Finding Freedom from Resentment
- Melinda Mihalyov, Type 2: The Helper Needs Help: What Cancer Is Teaching Me About Receiving Care
- Linda Hannigan, Type 3: I Don’t Have to Be Impressive: Why I Stopped Serving at Church for a Season
- Janine Westlund, Type 4: Bringing My Shame Into the Light: Learning to Believe I Am Still Loved
- Sharon Stewart, Type 5: When Isolation Feels Easier: Why I Chose To Go Back To Church
- Lynn Buckles, Type 6: Courage Without Certainty: Facing a 10% Chance of Survival
- Toni LaMotta, Type 7: What My Restlessness Was Trying to Tell Me: Sixteen Years in a Convent and What Came After
- Louise Goodwin, Type 8: My Strength Is Not a Liability: Navigating Rejection as a Woman in Ministry
- Nate Chatfield, Type 9: Taking the Lead: From Supporting Others to Pursuing My Own Calling
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How many summit presentations are included?
What is the difference between the interviews and workshops?
What are the nine Story Spotlights?
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Who is hosting the Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit?
Is there a community for summit attendees?
Are free speaker resources included?
What does the optional All Access Pass add?
Are continuing education credits available?
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Register for the Type·ish Spiritual Formation Enneagram Summit to explore four days of interviews, workshops, and personal stories about personality, spiritual practice, relationship with God, and helping others grow.
- Oct 20 - 23 2026
- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Oct 20 - 23 2026
- Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
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