Helping you reach new heights

in your personal and professional life

by utilizing the Enneagram

Coaching and Counselling
Team Building
Leadership Training

Hi, I'm Marty Heeg.

I provide high quality service in 3 main areas:

Coaching and Counselling

individual, couple, family or group sessions

Team Building

workshops that help teams build trust, master conflict, integrate change and increase productivity

Leadership Training

for professionals – half or full day retreats or multi-session courses

In each of these areas, I have a very clear focus – to create awareness – both self-awareness and understanding of others.

Awareness is a critical component of personal well-being, professional success and quality relationships at home and at work because it informs and empowers our choices.

When we see ourselves clearly and the way we impact others, we have the opportunity to make our best decisions and our lives and relationships can grow and flourish.  When we have major blind spots, we can hurt ourselves and others through poor choices, despite our best intentions.

I work in many ways, with many models – everything from the 7 Habits to the 12 Steps.

Much of my work is informed by the Enneagram, a powerful and dynamic personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.  The Enneagram is different than other personality systems because it helps us more deeply understand the motivations and needs that drive us and others.

With this increased awareness, we can gain a much clearer perspective, have more compassion for others and ultimately make better decisions. This is what is especially illuminating to my clients in coaching and counselling, team-building and leadership training.

After 40 years of professional experience working with people in 3 careers – first as a television broadcaster, and then the last 25 years as a clinical therapist and organizational effectiveness consultant, the Enneagram is overall the best way I have found to help people know themselves and others.

I use this system as a map to collaborate with my clients to create a transformative path of growth and I have received a significant amount of very positive feedback.

I have an MSW in Clinical Social Work and I am member on the Clinical Registry of the Alberta College of Social Workers.  I am a Certified Practitioner in the Narrative Enneagram and Certified Coach through the Enneagram in Business.

Marty Heeg

MSW, RSW
Certified Practitioner in the Narrative Enneagram, Certified Coach – Enneagram in Business

The Enneagram

The wisdom and growth that comes from working with the Enneagram can significantly help you personally in your marriage and family, and professionally as a leader, or team member.

You can better understand your perspective on the Enneagram map and the perspective of others to create more wholeness within yourself and unity in relationships at home and at work.

We have one dominant Enneagram type, but it is important to understand and acknowledge that we have elements of each type within us that we utilize and that we can further develop.

It can be challenging to identify your type and this is a very normal part of the self-discovery process.  I offer specific sessions as typing interviews to clarify your type.  There are online tests, but after doing the Enneagram with hundreds of people, it is very clear to me the interview process is the most effective way to explore the unique factors that influence your Enneagram type.  Typically in about 45 minutes, you can gain clarity that can add significantly to your functioning personally and professionally

A Brief Summary of the Nine Enneagram Types

1. The Perfectionist

Type 1s strive to practice integrity and align themselves with what is right and good in the world.  When they are at their best, they are ethical, organized, disciplined and fair, focused on making improvements with high standards.  When they are at their worst, they can be very critical of themselves and others, rigid, opinionated and overly serious.  With awareness and practice, they grow through developing self-compassion, becoming more open to differences and allowing themselves time to relax.

2. The Giver

Type 2s strive to bring care, love and nurturance to the world.  When they are their best, they are perceptive, warm, supportive and attentive, focused on empathy and being helpful.  When they are at their worst, they can over-extend themselves and accommodate too much, becoming possessive and intrusive.  With awareness and practice, they grow through learning to pay attention their own needs, receiving love from others and developing more independence and autonomy.

3. The Performer

Type 3s strive to add value and achievement to the world. When they are their best, they are energetic, efficient, adaptive and entrepreneurial,  focused on getting results for themselves and others.   When they are at their worst, they can be overworked, competitive, superficial and pretentious. With awareness and practice, they grow through moderating their pace and welcoming feelings, realizing that failure is not a disaster and that they can be accepted for more than their successes.

4. The Romantic

Type 4s strive to bring meaning and depth to the world.  When they are at their best, they are creative, sensitive, expressive and compassionate, focused on originality and offering something unique or special.   When they are at their worst, they can be overly dramatic, intense, dissatisfied and melancholic.  With awareness and practice, they grow by focusing on what is positive in the present, finding meaning in the ordinary and being consistent in action despite fluctuating feelings.

5. The Observer

Type 5s strive to seek knowledge and want to offer intellectual understanding to the world.  When they are at their best, they are objective, analytical, open-minded and deep-thinking, focused on developing innovative ideas and mastery in their areas of interest. When they are at their worst, they can be withdrawn, secretive and contentious and may under-emphasize relationships.  With awareness and practice, they grow by learning how to stay connected with others, revealing more personal matters and experiencing their feelings in the moment.

6. The Loyal Skeptic

Type 6s strive to find security and have trustworthy alliances in the world.  When they are at their best, they are dedicated, engaging, practical and persevering, focused on providing strategic solutions to address potential risks.  When they are at their worst, they can be suspicious, doubting, anxious and unpredictable. With awareness and practice, they grow by developing faith in themselves and others, facing their fears and moving ahead courageously.

7. The Epicure

Type 7s strive to be upbeat and offer positive options to the world.  When they are at their best, they are energetic, imaginative, quick thinking and fun, focused on making connections and finding opportunities. When they are at their worst, they can be impulsive, distracted, pain-avoidant and rebellious.  With awareness and practice, they grow by opening up to the full spectrum of experience accepting pain and pleasure, fulfilling their commitments and becoming more aware of others.

8. The Protector

Type 8s strive to be strong in order to take action and bring justice to the world.  When they are at their best, they are direct, truthful, strategic and magnanimous, focused on standing up for themselves and those they care about.   When they are at their worst, they can be confrontational, intimidating, insensitive and controlling.  With awareness and practice, they can grow by acknowledging their vulnerability, appreciating others’ perspectives and learning how much force is necessary.

9. The Mediator

Type 9s strive to be diplomatic and inclusive and want to bring harmony to the world.   When they are at their best, they are understanding, steady, grounded and inclusive, focusing on the big picture and integrating perspectives.  When they are at their worst, they can be indecisive, conflict-avoidant, overly accommodating and ineffective at prioritizing. With awareness and practice, they grow by waking up to their needs, setting boundaries and accepting change and discomfort as part of life.

For a more comprehensive exploration of the Enneagram, I recommend the following link:
The Enneagram Institute

If you have any questions or would like to get started with a consultation

contact me today