Melanie Bell

Author: Inspire Envisioning

  • How Each Enneagram Type Can Boost Their EQ

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef Emotional intelligence is a key concept in many of today’s workplaces, and has been named one of the decade’s most influential business ideas by the Harvard Business Review. But what exactly does it mean, and why is it important? Daniel Goleman, who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence or “EQ” (as…

  • Meeting the Instinctual Needs of Different Organizations

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef Working with different organizations is a fascinating study in contrasts. Moving from one group to another, we’ve witnessed focuses and needs that required vastly different approaches. The Enneagram’s Instincts are a useful model for understanding the priorities and needs of organizations as well as individuals. The Instincts represent unconscious drives, or…

  • Why Self-Awareness Matters

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef If you were a Greek citizen in the 4th century B.C., traveling to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to listen to the Oracle’s wisdom, you’d find this inscription on the wall: “Know thyself.” In more recent years, self-awareness gets less press than flashier qualities like ambition and charisma. However, it…

  • Understanding Your Family

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef Families are some of the most powerful relationships around. They’re the first relationships we’re involved in, and the patterns of interaction that we develop in our families shape the rest of our lives. We think it’s unlikely that parents or upbringing define Enneagram type; take any set of siblings and you’ll…

  • The Cross-Cultural Enneagram

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef From what we’ve seen, Enneagram types exist across culture – that is, cultures throughout the world will have people who display qualities from all the Enneagram types and Instincts. Nonetheless, each country and culture has a dominant cultural overlay, which has a personality type of its own. People absorb the values…

  • How to Get Along with Your Coworkers

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef We spend most of our waking hours at work, dealing with a wide variety of people. From co-workers to clients and bosses to customers, we’re bound to run into a diverse array of personality types. Some of the people we work with think similarly to us, but others have such different…

  • Resolving Conflict with the Enneagram

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef Think back to the last time you got into a conflict. Did you see the situation one way while the other person had a completely different way of looking at things? Maybe you wanted to work things out logically but the other person kept telling you to look on the bright…

  • Finding Wisdom in Your Enneagram Type

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef This past weekend, Kacie volunteered at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. In an era where mindfulness practices are increasingly utilized in the business and tech world, Wisdom 2.0 provides a platform for like-minded people to connect and strategize around bringing empowered conscientiousness into the workplace. This weekend offered an…

  • Getting Your Needs Met in Relationships

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef We all know wonderful relationships where opposites attract. For example, one person might tend to the home and hearth, while the other cultivates the couple’s circle of friends. When both people appreciate each other’s contributions, their connection thrives! The whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. But sometimes it’s…

  • San Francisco Neighborhoods by Enneagram Type

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    Co-written with Kacie Berghoef Enneagram types are not only found in people. They also exist in the spirits of places and cultures. When we traveled to Portugal for the European Enneagram Conference last year, we found ourselves in a somber country of beautiful tiled buildings and fado performances: soulful, melancholy musical laments. We’d arrived in…