THE CULTURALLY INTELLIGENT ENNEAGRAM
Discover integrative wholeness through our unique approach.
FOUR SESSIONS OVER EIGHT WEEKS · PHOENIX METRO AND ONLINE
THE CI ENNEAGRAM
Join us for this first-of-its-kind experience that blends the Enneagram personality theory with our CI leadership skills.
Available as an open cohort for individuals; ideal as a closed cohort for intact teams, where it opens the Leadership & Team Development Program.
The Enneagram reveals nine personality types, each with a unique worldview that shapes how we feel, think, and act.
The Enneagram (any-uh-gram) is a dynamic personality system revealing nine interconnected patterns of feeling, thinking, and acting, each driven by a core motivation. The CI Enneagram Series brings Enneagram theory together with the CI Leadership Model, grounded in Dr. Bhatti-Klug's book, The Culturally Intelligent Enneagram: Culture, Personality & Integrative Wholeness. Dr. Bhatti-Klug is an advanced certified Enneagram practitioner from multiple schools.
Wholeness emerges when our feelings, thoughts, and actions work in concert. Our Culturally Intelligent (CI) Enneagram approach offers a clear path toward that alignment.
The CI Enneagram reveals how our three Centers of Intelligence—feeling, thinking, and acting—create our unique way of experiencing the world.
When we cultivate:
Curiosity in the heart center (feeling)
Empathy in the head center (thinking)
Compassion in the body center (acting)
...we experience a profound integration that transforms how we relate to ourselves and others.
Now I know how to communicate consistently and collaboratively work with one another—knowing the styles of our various Enneagram types—in holding my team accountable and better supporting them.
—ASHLEY W. | MARKETING VP
The CI Enneagram Series is a first-of-its-kind cohort experience that brings together Enneagram personality theory and CITC's Culturally Intelligent (CI) Leadership Model. Across four 3-hour sessions held two weeks apart, participants explore how their core motivations, Centers of Intelligence (feeling, thinking, acting), stress patterns, and security points shape the way they show up at work, in community, and with people different from them.
The spacing is deliberate: each person integrates one layer before the next. Through structured reflection, scenario-based engagement, and peer dialogue, participants surface their own patterns before naming them, and most arrive at a confident working hypothesis about their type. Each person closes the series with individual commitments.
INCLUDES
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The Culturally Intelligent Enneagram interactive guide (115+ pages) for each participant
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A CI Enneagram certificate upon completion
DELIVERY | In the Phoenix metro area, all four sessions are in person. A fully virtual series is coming soon.
CI SKILLS BUILT | All eight.
FOR TEAMS | The CI Enneagram is the first phase of the Leadership & Team Development Program, one route within a CITC partnership.
COHORT 1 (April-May, 2026) | THE CULTURALLY INTELLIGENT (CI) ENNEAGRAM
Alongside the CI Enneagram Series, we offer private coaching and shorter team sessions built around the Enneagram iEQ9 assessment. The Enneagram iEQ9 anchors Executive Coaching and the self-awareness baselines in long-term partnerships. Shorter team sessions built around the iEQ9 are available for teams working within condensed timelines; CITC offers the iEQ9 at a discounted rate. Contact us to design a format that fits your team.
The Enneagram carries wisdom gathered across many cultures. Its roots reach into contemplative traditions that were mapping the human heart long before personality theory existed.
Fourth-century Christian monastics living in the Egyptian desert catalogued the recurring patterns of thought and desire that pull a person away from center. Sufi teachers in the Islamic world developed practices for observing the ego and softening its grip. Jewish mystics worked with structural maps of the soul's descent and return. Ancient Greek philosophers, drawing on Egyptian and Near Eastern sources, understood number and geometry as a language for describing spiritual reality.
The nine-pointed symbol entered Western awareness through G.I. Gurdjieff, an Armenian-Greek teacher working in Moscow and Paris in the early 1900s. He credited the figure to oral teaching he encountered traveling through Central Asia, Turkey, and Egypt.
Modern personality work began in the 1960s and 1970s. Oscar Ichazo, teaching in Chile and Bolivia, connected each of the nine points to a pattern of ego, emotion, and virtue. Claudio Naranjo, a Chilean psychiatrist, brought that framework to Berkeley and joined it with contemporary psychology. Teachers including Helen Palmer, David Daniels, Don Riso, Russ Hudson, and Beatrice Chestnut carried the work forward into the versions most people encounter today.
Portions of this history sit in the documented record. Other portions live in oral tradition and remain open to inquiry. We hold both with respect as we learn.