AWARENESS

My work in one word.

Awareness changes the way we understand ourselves, each other, and our shared world.

Awareness is what helps us begin to people better.
What is awareness?

Colleen’s work begins with awareness, and awareness begins with noticing.

Colleen’s sole objective, whether individually, at home or at work, is to help people people better.

Awareness creates a space to understand before we react, choose before we repeat, and respond with greater intention.

What is awareness?

Colleen’s work begins with awareness, and awareness begins with noticing.

Colleen’s sole objective, whether individually, at home or at work, is to help people people better.

Awareness creates a space to understand before we react, choose before we repeat, and respond with greater intention.

ME

What is happening inside me?

YOU

What is happening inside you?

US

What is happening around and between us?

The ripple effect

Awareness creates ripples.

A single moment of awareness can change a conversation. A changed conversation can change a relationship. A changed relationship can influence a family, a team, a culture or a community.

This is why awareness sits at the heart of the work.

Communities
Organisations
Teams
Families
Relationships
Self
Know → Grow → Show

Know yourself. Grow yourself. Show yourself.

Three connected stages, not three unrelated services — the movement from awareness to development to expression.

Know Yourself

Awareness begins with understanding yourself. Recognising your patterns, emotions, values, behaviours, strengths, needs and responses.

Awareness creates understanding.

Grow Yourself

Once we can see ourselves more clearly, we gain the opportunity to choose differently. Growth involves developing new ways of thinking, relating, communicating and responding.

Awareness creates choice.

Show Yourself

Growth becomes meaningful when it is lived. Showing yourself is about expressing who you are with greater clarity, authenticity, courage and intention.

Awareness creates action.
Across the work

One philosophy. Many expressions.

Awareness runs through every part of the work. Whether the focus is the individual, parenting, relationships, leadership, teams or organisations, the starting point remains the same:

What is happening here?
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For business

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Enneagram-powered teams — workshops, executive coaching and the Enneaverse platform.

In a team, awareness is the difference between reacting to each other and understanding each other.

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Abode
For women

Abode

Coming home to yourself — an online pilgrimage, coaching and writing for women in every season.

Here awareness often arrives as permission: noticing what you need, after years of noticing everyone else’s.

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For parents

The Nest

A safe place for parents — tools, webinars and family strategies for raising complex kids.

Asked out loud as a family — what’s going on in me, in you, in the environment? — those three questions change a home.

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FOr individuals

The Enneagram

Nine ways of seeing the world, and a language for the patterns that run us when we are not looking.

The Enneagram is awareness with a map — your patterns, your blind spots, and who shows up under stress.

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Everything begins with awareness.

Before we can change something, we need to see it. Before we can understand another person, we need to notice them. Before we can create healthier relationships, families, teams or cultures, we need to understand what is happening within the system.

Awareness is where the work begins.

Know yourself. Grow yourself. Show yourself.