Sessions & Archive

Sessions

Fortnightly conversations exploring the Enneagram through story and lived experience. Browse the archive, see what’s coming up, and get a sense of what we cover.

80 sessions since June 2023 · Fortnightly Tuesdays, 19:30 GMT

Themed conversations, live typing, subtype deep dives, relationship pairings, and the kind of honest exchange that keeps people coming back.

What We Cover

Each session explores a different theme. Here are the formats you'll encounter:

Attitudes to...

How different types relate to everyday experiences: money, time, conflict, rest, belonging, Christmas, and more. We hear from people across the types about how they actually navigate these universal themes.

Relationship Pairings

The dynamics between specific type combinations. What draws certain types together? Where do they clash? What do they teach each other? Real pairs share their experience.

Tyger Typing

Observing type patterns through film and television, from The Traitors to football managers. We watch and discuss what we see, developing your eye for type in action.

Subtypes Deep Dive

Self-preservation, social, and one-to-one instincts. How these three drives combine with each type to create 27 distinct expressions of the Enneagram.

Knowledge Deepening

Core Enneagram concepts explored together: centres, wings, lines, levels of health, PDP integration. Grounded in the Narrative Tradition and informed by neuroscience.

Type Panels

The heart of the Narrative tradition. People of a specific type shared their inner experience, and the rest of us listen, ask questions, and learn.

Patterns in Practice

Weekly Friday morning sessions focused on working with real-life situations through your type’s patterns. Body-based, somatic approach. Confidential and not recorded.

Session Archive

Every Enneagram Cafe session since June 2023. Members have access to recordings of all sessions.

2026 (planned)
15 DecClosing Out the Year
01 DecAttitudes: Christmas Obligation, generosity, family dynamics, and the gap between the Christmas you imagine and the one you get. How type shapes what we give, what we need, and what we quietly endure.
17 NovTyger Typing VI Observing type in action through television, film, or public life. The group watches clips together and discusses what drives each character’s behaviour – practising the skill of seeing pattern rather than personality.
03 NovKnowledge: Stress & Security Movement Working with the arrows in real time. Where do you actually go under pressure, and what does it feel like when you’re there? A practical session using the group’s own experiences to map the movements that theory describes but only lived experience makes useful.
20 OctSubtypes III: The Social Instinct What it means to have the social instinct as a dominant drive, how it shapes attention and priorities, and what happens when it meets the other two instincts in relationship. We’ll explore both the experience of leading with this instinct and what it looks like from the outside.
06 OctRelationships
22 SepTyger Typing V Observing type in action through television, film, or public life. The group watches clips together and discusses what drives each character’s behaviour – practising the skill of seeing pattern rather than personality.
08 SepAttitudes: Back-to-School September brings the return of structure, routine, and other people’s expectations. How each type responds to the shift – and what the transition reveals about our relationship with freedom, obligation, and fresh starts.
25 AugKnowledge: Awareness ≠ Choice Knowing your pattern doesn’t mean you get to choose differently. Why understanding something about yourself can feel like progress while nothing actually changes – and what the gap between seeing it and living it actually looks like.
11 AugSubtypes II: The Self-Preservation Instinct What it means to have the self-preservation instinct as a dominant drive, how it shapes attention and priorities, and what happens when it meets the other two instincts in relationship. We’ll explore both the experience of leading with this instinct and what it looks like from the outside.
28 JulTyger Typing IV Observing type in action through television, film, or public life. The group watches clips together and discusses what drives each character’s behaviour – practising the skill of seeing pattern rather than personality.
14 JulRelationships: The Impact We Have on Each Other Our type pattern lands on the people around us, usually without our noticing. The group worked outward in three passes: the types we feel most ourselves around and the ones that make us shrink; the impact we transmit when the pattern runs hot, from unintentional authority to ideas taken as firm commitments; and what shifts when we read another’s reaction as their pattern rather than a verdict on us. Humour surfaced as both a bridge and a way of holding others at a distance.
30 JunAttitudes: Sporting Events What major sporting events bring out in each type. Members shared their earliest memories of sport mattering, then explored spectating versus participating, loyalty to a club held over generations against indifference to the national team, and why a crowd sweeps some people up while leaving others cold. Short World Cup clips, including a penalty shootout, prompted a discussion of typing players under the compression of competition stress, and a closing thread on fandom as a form of collective, near-religious belonging.
16 JunKnowledge: Using PDP for Integration Members responded to Dan Siegel’s River of Integration, the flow that runs between the banks of rigidity and chaos. Rather than a lecture, the group built something: each person recalled a moment when the river ran narrow and drew the vessel their type put them in, from a soggy cardboard box to a rudderless raft. It closed on designing boats for the types we cannot easily reach, and the idea that we are more often in the river than we credit.
02 Jun🎂 Tyger Typing III Third birthday session. Members brought their own clips for the group to type together. A scene from The English Patient drew competing reads of sexual Eight versus sexual Four, with discussion of how physical possessiveness and dramatic language land differently across centres. A 1970s panel show tested whether type can be read from almost nothing. Winnie the Pooh characters were typed through the lens of defence mechanisms. A closing exercise on responses to losing control revealed centre differences in real time.
19 MayRelationships: Working with a Type [X] Each person chose a type they find challenging in a working relationship and explored the friction using a new AI-powered reflection tool. The tool synthesised type and subtype dynamics, offered practical communication strategies, and generated questions for group discussion. Themes included the translation gap between head and heart centres, the cost of entertaining someone else’s risk tolerance, and the difference between presence and performance when someone needs to be seen.
05 MayAttitudes: Rest & Downtime The group explored what rest actually means – not the word, but the experience. Answers ranged from lying in a garden listening to birdsong to inhabiting someone else’s world on a ten-hour flight. The discussion turned to why rest is resisted, whether it requires inner permission, and whether rest, downtime, recovery, and leisure are four different needs that get collapsed into one.
21 AprSubtypes I: The Sexual Instinct The first of three sessions exploring the instincts one at a time. Those leading with the sexual (one-to-one) instinct described the pull toward intensity, the radar for aliveness in a room, and the difference between intensity and intimacy. The distinction between what this instinct makes possible and what it costs drew some of the evening’s most honest contributions.
07 AprTyger Typing II Live typing of the five pairs from Race Across the World Series 6, Episode 1. The group worked from first impressions with minimal information, pausing after each pair to discuss self-referential versus other-referential energy, reaction formation, and how editing shapes perception of type.
24 MarRelationships: Patterns of Attraction Which types repeatedly show up in your life – romantically, platonically, at work – and which are mysteriously absent? Arrow connections, natural affinities, asymmetric attractions, and what your relational field reveals about your own type structure and blind spots.
10 MarAttitudes: Belonging & Community Each type has a belonging paradox — the very pattern that drives connection also creates distance. The group explored what belonging actually means for each type, how the three instincts shape radically different experiences of groups and community, and why the word 'belonging' itself can mean entirely different things depending on who says it.
24 FebKnowledge: What Words Mean The same words can mean wildly different things depending on who says them. The group explored how type shapes the meaning we assign to everyday language, from ‘be good’ to ‘work hard’ to ‘support’, examining why we so often talk past each other. The first in the Knowledge Deepening series.
10 FebTyger Typing I: Traitors S4 Typing contestants from The Traitors Series 4. Fiona typed as a sexual Four, Harriet as an Eight whose truth-seeking led to self-sacrifice, and a discussion of why Eights are perennially doomed as traitors.
27 JanRelationships: Four and Seven The Four-Seven relationship pairing explored through Helen Palmer’s text and lived experience. A breakthrough moment when a Seven shared a mundane thought about green peppers and a Four responded: “That to me is massive. I don’t have a mundane scale.”
13 JanAttitudes: Expectation & Capacity What happens when capacity is low and expectations remain high. Each type’s stress signature emerged vividly, from a Three’s negotiation “that happened in a room where I wasn’t present” to a Four’s shift from calm to explosion in seconds.
03 JanWelcoming 2026 Explored the positive gifts of each type pattern using PDP framework verbs. Group members reflected back what they value about each other’s patterns, with several people visibly moved by what others saw in them.
2025 (31 sessions)
16 DecClosing Out the Year A reflective end-of-year session. The group shared memorable moments, discussed how subtype creates even stronger bonds of recognition than type itself, and looked ahead to 2026.
02 DecTyger Typing VI Back to Race Across the World for another round of typing contestants through clips and discussion, developing the skill of separating self-reporting from observed type patterns.
18 NovWhat Does Your Type Overcomplicate? Guest-hosted by Chris Kenworthy while Kieran performed Ligeti in Paris. The group explored what each type overcomplicates, and what types overestimate and underestimate.
04 NovReflections on the PDP Model A debrief of Kieran’s training with Dan Siegel, covering the scientific model of temperament, personality, and attachment. The group explored attentional styles – inward, outward, and dyadic – and recognised their own patterns.
21 OctLive Typing Interview A live typing interview conducted in front of the group, with members discussing their evolving observations out of sight of the interviewee. Followed by a learning discussion about the process.
07 OctPatterns, Ruts, and Resistance Social media algorithms as a mirror for our internal type ‘algorithm’. The group examined their feeds as an exercise in self-observation and discovered how platforms exploit the same patterns the Enneagram describes.
23 SepDefences and the Path to Growth The idealization-avoidance-defence cycle and the Narrative Enneagram’s ‘notice, pause, allow’ framework for growth. A magnet analogy captured the automatic repulsion from our avoided parts.
09 SepObserving Type in Everyday Life The joys and frustrations of seeing type patterns in people who don’t know about the Enneagram. The group explored the ethics of typing others and landed on a posture of being with the knowledge rather than needing to put it out there.
26 AugWho Are We Beyond Type? Introduced Dan Siegel’s Patterns of Developmental Pathways framework, connecting Enneagram types to developmental neuroscience, exploring how temperament, attachment, and adaptive strategies form the patterns we call ‘type’.
16 AugCommunity Day 2025 A full day in Covent Garden. Talks on creativity and learning, public speaking under pressure, and how type shapes the questions we ask. A live typing interview, a guided netwalk along the Thames, and breakout discussions on connection styles.
12 AugOpen Discussion An informal session exploring what was live for the group. Discussion included Doug Lynam’s work on the limbic system and unconscious financial patterns, a thread that would deepen weeks later with the introduction of Dan Siegel’s Patterns of Developmental Pathways framework.
29 JulBeneath the Question An online preview of themes for the following day’s in-person coaching workshop, exploring what lies beneath the questions we ask and how type shapes our inquiry.
15 JulThe Enneagram and Self-Compassion Where can self-compassion be inserted before the defence mechanism fires? A somatic exercise helped participants locate the bodily sensation that precedes their defensive response: gut-drop for Ones, heart-clench for Threes, chest-tightness for Sevens.
01 JulTyger Typing & Lookalikes IV Typing contestants from Celebrity Race Across the World (Series 5), starting from written interviews before watching clips, developing the skill of separating self-reporting from observed type.
17 JunEnneagram in Work & Leadership How each type approaches leadership differently. A Three described operating on three hours of sleep while leading an assembly on the importance of sleep, and a One explored how body types project safety into a room without saying a word.
03 Jun🎂 Birthday Special with Raven Scott Enneagram Café’s second birthday. Guest Raven Scott explored type in team dynamics, and the group designed team cultures dominated by specific type pairings, discovering what makes peak collective performance possible.
20 MayWorkshop: The Defences A creative workshop where pairs designed defence mechanisms for types that weren’t their own. One pair created “AutoTune” for Type Nine, a mechanism that subtly adjusts what you hear so “this is rubbish” becomes “there are some improvements we could make.”
06 MayThe Type I Still Don’t Get An invitation to explore the implicit assumptions we make about the types we find hardest to understand, and to become more aware of the unconscious reactions that arise in our bodies when we encounter them.
22 AprTyger Typing: Football Managers Typing football managers through clips, exploring how type shows up in leadership under pressure, from touchline eruptions to post-match press conferences.
08 AprConflict, Connection, and Comms How different types define, experience, and recover from conflict. The group discovered that what counts as ‘conflict’ varies radically: for a Three, tension in a conversation; for a Four, being bored by someone who doesn’t see them.
25 MarUnderstanding the Self The gap between knowing your type and living it. The group explored the stories type tells about ourselves, using the ‘goose’ meme as a metaphor for wisdom we offer others but can’t follow ourselves.
11 MarTyger Typing: The Traitors Using Series 3 of The Traitors to explore instinctual subtypes and strategy under pressure. The group typed Armani as a one-to-one Eight, Linda as a Seven, and Mina as a likely heart type.
25 FebTyger Typing & Lookalikes IV A different take on Tyger Typing: recognising instinct before type, with members bringing free-choice clips highlighting instinctual energy in action.
11 FebSubtypes: SO Head Types The final session in the 27-subtype series. The social instinct in Types Five, Six, and Seven. A Five pushed back on the reclusive stereotype, and a Seven explored how ideas feel like ‘greed’ unless shared with a group.
28 JanSubtypes: SO Heart Types The social instinct in Types Two, Three, and Four. A social Three described creating groups she could curate to avoid being fully known, and social Twos explored the ‘radar’ for others’ feelings that never switches off.
14 JanSubtypes: SO Body Types The social instinct in Types Eight, Nine, and One. A social Eight described vulnerability as being ‘stripped of power’ when playing silly games, and a social Nine explored why “I’m not happy” never feels like a good enough reason to leave a group.
03 JanNew Year Reflections II The second of two new year sessions. Members returned to share what had emerged from the reflective questions posed the day before, exploring what they had written in the intervening period.
02 JanNew Year Reflections I The first of two new year sessions. Kieran posed reflective questions for exploration, giving members time and space to sit with them before reconvening the following morning.
2024 (26 sessions)
17 DecTyger Typing & Lookalikes III A festive edition of Tyger Typing. The group brought clips from Christmas films and debated type, including whether Die Hard counts as a Christmas film.
03 DecSubtypes: SX Head Types The sexual/one-to-one instinct in Types Five, Six, and Seven, exploring how the drive for intensity and deep connection intersects with the head centre’s relationship to fear.
19 NovSubtypes: SX Heart Types The sexual/one-to-one instinct in Types Two, Three, and Four. A sexual Three described being “both the puppet and the puppet master,” and a sexual Four spoke about the physical transformation when deep connection happens.
05 NovSubtypes: SX Body Types The sexual/one-to-one instinct in Types Eight, Nine, and One. Panelists explored surrender and possession in the Eight, the drive to merge in the Nine, and zealousness as self-forgetting in the One.
22 OctTyger Typing & Lookalikes II Typing contestants from Celebrity Race Across the World (Series 2). The group explored type dynamics within pairs under the stress and intimacy of long-distance travel.
08 OctSubtypes: SP Head Types The self-preservation instinct in Types Five, Six, and Seven, exploring how the drive for safety and resources intersects with the head centre’s relationship to fear and anxiety.
24 SepSubtypes: SP Heart Types The self-preservation instinct in Types Two, Three, and Four, exploring how the drive for security and wellbeing intersects with the heart centre’s relationship to image and shame.
10 SepSubtypes: SP Body Types The self-preservation instinct in Types Eight, Nine, and One, exploring how the drive for safety, comfort, and resources shapes the expression of body-centre anger. The first session in a full series covering all 27 subtypes.
27 AugEnneagram Cafe Live Our first in-person day workshop in London. ‘Attraction and Affinity’, exploring how subtype forms a central part of what we find attractive, and baffling, in other people.
13 AugPartners & Attraction Explored what draws different types together in romantic relationships, exploring how subtype, centre, and personal history shape the patterns of attraction and connection.
30 JulParent-Child Relationships Designing the ‘perfect family unit’ through the lens of type and instinct, a playful exercise that revealed how our biases shape our perceptions of what ‘works’ in relationships.
16 JulTyger Typing & Lookalikes I The first ever Tyger Typing session. The group watched clips from Schitt’s Creek, Fleabag, and Interior Design Masters, typing characters through observed behaviour and discussion.
02 JulType Nine Panel Nines shared their inner experience: the pull toward harmony, the difficulty of knowing what they want, and the quiet anger that lives beneath the surface.
18 JunNines and Narcotisation Type Nine’s defence mechanism: numbing out, going along, and merging with others’ agendas to avoid the discomfort of asserting their own position.
04 Jun🎂 Type Six Panel Sixes shared their inner experience: the scanning for danger, the questioning of motives, and the surprising courage that lives alongside the doubt.
21 MaySixes and Projection Type Six’s defence mechanism: reading the environment for hidden threats, attributing internal anxiety to external sources, and the relationship with trust and authority.
07 MayType Three Panel Threes shared their inner experience: the drive to produce and succeed, the relationship with failure, and the person behind the performance.
23 AprThrees and Identification Type Three’s defence mechanism: becoming the role, the image, the performance, losing sight of who they are beneath what they do.
09 AprType Five Panel Fives shared their inner experience: the need for privacy and knowledge, the relationship with energy and boundaries, and what connection costs.
26 MarFives and Isolation Type Five’s defence mechanism: withdrawing into the mind to manage overwhelming feelings, compartmentalising experience to maintain self-sufficiency.
12 MarType Eight Panel Eights shared their inner experience: the drive toward truth and justice, the relationship with vulnerability, and what lies beneath the protective strength.
27 FebEights and Denial Type Eight’s defence mechanism: the automatic overriding of vulnerability, keeping attention on strength, action, and control.
13 FebWhat Presses Your Buttons? Guest-hosted by Chris Kenworthy and Andrew Morris. The group explored the vice-to-virtue path of each type, the move from habitual strong reactions toward each type’s natural state of peace.
30 JanType Two Panel Twos shared their inner experience: the radar for others’ feelings, the difficulty of recognising their own needs, and what giving really costs.
16 JanTwos and Repression Type Two’s defence mechanism: pushing their own needs below awareness so they can focus entirely on what others need.
02 JanOur Type and Renewal A New Year reflection on what each type carries forward and what it hopes to leave behind, exploring renewal through the lens of type.
2023 (15 sessions)
19 DecType Four Panel Fours shared their inner experience: the sense of something missing, the pull toward depth and authenticity, and the relationship with longing.
05 DecFours and Introjection Type Four’s defence mechanism: absorbing and internalising painful experiences, making external criticism an internal narrative.
21 NovType One Panel Ones shared their inner experience: the inner critic, the relationship with anger, and the constant effort to do things properly.
07 NovOnes and Reaction Formation Type One's defence mechanism: converting unacceptable impulses into their opposite, maintaining the experience of being right and good.
24 OctType Seven Panel Sevens shared their inner experience: the drive toward possibility, the relationship with pain and limitation, and what it actually costs to keep things light.
10 OctSevens and Rationalisation Type Seven’s defence mechanism: the automatic reframing of painful or limiting experiences into positive ones.
26 SepThe Arrows and Movement How the lines on the Enneagram symbol describe real psychological movement, and how our tightly woven patterns can adapt in ways that mimic transformation, looking like self-growth when they’re still the pattern at work.
12 SepAll Questions Welcome An open session where the group brought their questions about the Enneagram, a chance to explore whatever was alive for people.
29 AugSub-Type II Continuing the exploration of instinctual subtypes, looking at how the passions of each type are expressed through our self-preserving, sexual, and social instincts, with group discussion by subtype.
15 AugExploring Sub-Type An introduction to the three instinctual drives – self-preservation, social, and one-to-one – and how subtype determines how our type behaviour appears when we interact with the world.
01 AugStress and Security How the arrows on the Enneagram describe predictable movement within type. The group mapped their own stress and security patterns through small-group work and panel exploration.
18 JulCentres of Intelligence The three centres – body, heart, and head – and how thoughts, feelings, and actions shape our experience of being. The group explored their own centre through breakout discussions and a small panel.
04 JulYour Focus of Attention Explored the Fixations: the habitual mental preoccupations of each type, described as the ‘hamster in the mental hamster wheel’, and the Holy Ideas that represent the transformed state when we’re free of them.
20 JunExperiencing Your Type Diving into the language of the Enneagram passions. What is the vice-to-virtue path? Why do these words sound so loaded? The group explored how others’ experience helps us see the dual nature of the passions as they protect and reflect our true essence.
06 Jun🎉 The Practical Enneagram The inaugural session. A brief introduction to the Enneagram system and its history, the nine types in overview, and hearing from the types present in their own words for the first time.

What to Expect

Each session explores a different theme — from type panels where members describe their inner world in their own words, to deep dives into relationships, subtypes, defence mechanisms, and the neuroscience behind the system. Kieran facilitates, poses questions, and draws out the connections between what people share. The learning comes from the conversation itself.

Sessions are recorded and added to the members’ archive so you can revisit them or catch up on ones you’ve missed. Patterns in Practice sessions are a separate, confidential space for body-based work applying the Enneagram to real-life situations, and are not recorded.

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