Our Team

Karin Fields

Founder, Certified Narrative Enneagram Practitioner

As a mental health professional, I have used many tools for awareness and growth, but nothing comes close to the Enneagram when it comes to meaningful transformation. When I first learned about it, I didn’t want to be my number. I longed for the gifts of other types and felt shame about the struggles my own type faces on a daily basis. I felt exposed, but I also felt connected. The more I explored, the more I was able to face my own shame and pain. I had found a part of myself I never knew how to access, and it felt like coming home to myself. 

In my work as a therapist, a professor, and a clinical supervisor, I incorporate the Enneagram to promote the dignity of others and deepen empathy. I bring a holistic, narrative, and relational-cultural lens to my work with people, and I believe in the power of story. That is what led me to pursue my intensive certification as a Certified Narrative Enneagram Practitioner through The Narrative Enneagram. The community I found there gave me room to combine my passion for connection, transformation, and justice through the lens of the Enneagram.

As the founder of EDP, my hope is to see more people develop compassion for themselves without minimizing the lived experiences and journeys of others. In the midst of so much chaos, division, and fear, each personality type has a tendency to default somewhere. This default mode feels necessary for survival, but it is not sustainable for healing and transformation. If we as a society can move out of our default modes, we can face ourselves, our friends, and even our enemies with fresh eyes and open hearts.

Sarah Stewart

Co-Founder, Enneagram practitioner

My Enneagram journey began when I was in graduate school studying Mental Health Counseling. When I first read my type, I suddenly felt incredibly seen, which was both comforting and terrifying. As I have continued my professional journey, the Enneagram has been there alongside me helping inform my practice and much more. Using this personality model, I have been able to reflect on the why through awareness and understanding of my motivations and behavior. As exposing as it is helpful, the Enneagram has provided a window into the shadow side of my personality and made things a bit clearer and brighter.
Due to the powerful insight the Enneagram has provided me, I found it imperative to receive extensive training in this model through The Narrative Enneagram. With approximately a years’ worth of training, I intend to complete the practitioner’s curriculum to receive certification in the Narrative Enneagram tradition. This specific tradition has been a powerful resource and is the backbone of the Enneagram Dignity Project.
I have worked with the Enneagram in a variety of ways and settings. As a therapist, this personality map has helped me understand my clients with deep and meaningful insight. My work with the Enneagram has included individual, couples, and group therapy. Using the Enneagram, I have led psychoeducational groups and workshops in the Gainesville community. As a co-founder of EDP, my hope is to continue this important work by providing information, resources, and spaces geared toward conversations using the lens of the Enneagram.
For me, the Enneagram is powerful because it allows for us to understand the motivations for not just ourselves, but for other people. This understanding inevitably leads to compassion which is a natural antidote to the division that surrounds us today. For me, compassion is what the Enneagram is all about because it allows empathy for others and kindness for ourselves. I sincerely hope this page sparks your interest and curiosity toward the Enneagram!