Turning Conflict into Healing & Defense into Presence using the Enneagram and the PDP Model
This group brings together the deep wisdom of the Enneagram and Dan Siegel’s Presence-Based Development (PDP) Model, offering a clear map for understanding relational patterns, emotional defenses, unmet needs, and the pathways toward healing.
Facilitated by Tracy Baker-Lawrence, Relationship & Personality Psychologist, and Suzanne Dion, Enneagram educator and coauthor of The Enneagram, Relationships & Intimacy, these sessions help practitioners, couples, and individuals understand how conflict arises—and how to transform it into connection, repair, and intimacy.
Through the combined lenses of personality structure, neurobiology, defense patterns, and developmental needs, participants learn how to shift from reactivity to presence—first within themselves, and then within relationships.
Each session offers a safe, attuned environment where learning is relational, experiential, and grounded in both cutting-edge science and timeless wisdom. Tracy and Suzanne blend guided teaching with open dialogue, inviting participants to bring real relational questions, case material, and lived experience into a shared learning space focused on depth, connection, and practical integration.
Strengthen your clinical or coaching effectiveness by assessing and shifting relational dynamics with greater precision.
wanting deeper insight into personality patterns and defenses that create barriers to connection.
by relational complexities and wanting tools for addressing attachment wounds and projections.
seeking to understand their own relational patterns, needs, and blind spots.
to explore their core needs—security, connection, autonomy—and learn to meet them sustainably.
to skillfully navigate biases, triangulation, transference, and other relational challenges when working with couples.
Suzanne Dion is an Enneagram teacher, coach, and coauthor of The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy, a work developed with her mentor Dr. David Daniels that integrates the Enneagram with attachment theory, somatics, and interpersonal neurobiology. She specializes in trauma-informed relational healing, emotional literacy, and the cultivation of deeper intimacy.
Suzanne has taught individuals, couples, teens, and families for decades and has served as Enneagram Consultant for the Deep Coaching Institute, Creative Director for Marion Gilbert’s Somatic Enneagram programs, and cofounder of T.A.P.P.—The Attuned Parent Program. A certified teacher through the Palmer-Daniels/Narrative Enneagram tradition and trained in advanced coaching and Life-Centered Therapy, she has also worked extensively with the Enneagram Prison Project developing curriculum and teaching in correctional facilities.
Tracy Baker-Lawrence is a Relationship and Personality Psychologist and Certified Enneagram Teacher with over 15 years of advanced training in Australia and the U.S. She is the founder of The Insight Agency, a B1G1 “business for good” dedicated to transformative relationship work rooted in compassion, science, and integrity.
A leading Australian personality expert, Tracy has conducted more than 2,000 clinical interviews, using a gold-standard assessment method that identifies personality patterns through narrative, body language, and motivational cues. Her work blends temperament, neurobiology, and the Enneagram to map how beliefs, attention, and core needs shape relational dynamics.
Tracy spent four years developing a PhD-level research matrix explaining predictable interpersonal differences across Enneagram patterns. She is also the creator of Your Couple D.N.A.™ and the B.O.T.H. Model™, a therapeutic approach that helps couples understand their inner worlds, reduce reactivity, and build sustainable intimacy through intentional, attuned connection.
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