What others are saying:

I’m thrilled to be able to write an endorsement for EEGS! Attending the EEGS was life changing. I’ve been studying the Enneagram for several years, particularly my own type. But I was always left feeling a little discouraged. It was great to understand myself better, but too often I felt stuck in defeating patterns. I wasn’t thriving the way I craved. 

Kris gave me transformative tools to enable me to flourish in my type. I’m blown away by the changes as I’ve been implementing the EEGS tools. I also learned about how the other types can thrive and have been able to share that information with my family, and it has been well received. 

I look forward to sharing these tools with others in my life! Thank you, Kris, for the amazing experience of tapping into your incredible brain and all the wisdom and knowledge you’re so generous to share. ~ BARBARA CULWELL 

Kris’s passion and expertise for others to flourish in their daily lives is so inviting. The EEGS helped me tremendously to identify ways I would like to shift for more joy and peace in my daily life.  I am eager to use these tools to come alongside others in their paths to flourishing.  The EEGS training helped me to strengthen and grow in my understanding of what it means to live and work on a path to flourishing. I have been given the tools to recognize when I have slipped into survival mode and how to make course corrections to get back to flourishing. This has strengthened my relationships with my wife and children. Additionally, I have grown in my leadership and management skills as I communicate with my faculty and staff and seek to lead them as we work to accomplish our mission and vision. The EEGS system is the gift that keeps on giving! I highly recommend this for anyone wishing to live a flourishing life.

~ Dr. Brian Guenther

A few years ago, I lost touch with who I was after going through a divorce. I started looking for learning tools to improve how I was relating to myself and others. The EEGS tools I learned and am applying have been the most insightful and impactful of anything I have done to improve how I was relating to myself and others. They enable me to readily identify tactics that do not serve my goals and enable me to shift towards creating the results I desire. They greatly enhance my clarity and awareness and improve every aspect of my life. I am amazed by how this process has improved my spiritual and physical well-being. I have so much more room for grace in my life…for myself as well as others. I have a much more defined purpose in life, and it is creating results at a level I had not reached before. This has been key to living out my purpose an building a life that matters, with no regrets.

~Jay Garrett

More than another self-help, how-to-be-a-better-me approach, Kris Kile’s Essential Enneagram Growth System (EEGS) provides a clear path to greatly enhance your ability to be a powerful resource to those you are in personal or professional relationship with. More than a personality typing approach that gives some personal insight, Kris’ Essential Enneagram Growth System (EEGS) provides a clear path for transforming those limiting ways of being into being a gift of life for healthy, sustainable relationships in your world. The EEGS clarifies your unique strengths, illuminates your blind spots, shows how to shift your limiting mindsets, and provides a clear path for transforming those limiting ways of being into being a gift of life for healthy, sustainable relationships in your world. This System helps you shift your focus from primarily looking inward to really seeing the end game. Becoming the ‘best me’ is simply the first step towards being a catalyst to flourishing for yourself and others. Kris’s use of breath work to facilitate this process is a game-changer and helps transform the process away from exhausting tactics of doing more to be more and have more. Instead, it provides a path to be fully who you were created to be to have the life you were created to give away. 

In a world growing more fearful with each passing day, this is a path to living a life fully awake and aware and free. I am a Spiritual Director and look forward to utilizing Kris’s EEGS System to strengthen my directees’ confidence to walk out who they were created to be as gifts of life to their world. ~ JUDY WILSON 

I have studied Enneagram frameworks for many years and the EEGS is truly unique.  Kris’ approach includes valuable insights of Enneagram Type awareness which allows for increased understanding and compassion for me and others.  

What makes this system transformational is the guidance for using that awareness to make the shift from surviving on autopilot with our Type tendencies to opening opportunities to choose a flourishing, more resourceful way of relating in the world.  This process of shifting can change your work and personal relationships, laying the foundation for a more effective, satisfying, and enjoyable life.  

One of the biggest benefits of Kris’ approach is that I did not have to become an Enneagram “Teacher”. My understanding of how the insights can help someone move from Survival to Flourishing informs and improves all my coaching sessions indirectly. 

The EEGS course allowed me to understand and integrate the information to a deep level to confidently use the system with my Coaching clients.  The course teachings and conversations with Kris, as I practiced, have greatly enhanced my personal application and been transformational for my clients.  

With some more curious clients, I have chosen to discuss the Essential Enneagram Growth System directly to great benefit.  Whether you are new to the Enneagram or have studied the concepts previously, I highly recommend this Training! 

~ Laura Brown

For many years I had found great value in a rudimentary understanding of the Enneagram, but nothing I’d learned prepared me for the accelerated transformation I experienced using Kris Kile’s EEGS material. Early in Kris’s course I started memorizing my flourishing pathways (an essential part of the EEGS System) and was galvanized by how often the process would illuminate one or more pathway to help me pivot from my self-limiting patterns of thought and behavior and instead choose unprecedented (and unimagined!) beliefs and actions. For instance, as a Type 9 (peacemaker/mediator) I always had tilted toward underachievement because of the survival strategies of self-forgetting and self-deprecation. I’ll never forget the moment when I believed that God had designed me to “not abandon self,” owning my essential value, and speaking truthfully about my own needs and wants (and in that mindset, be ready to walk out my Type’s virtue of “right action/engagement”). It seemed impossible, too good to be true, and yet this process has repeatedly confirmed to my inner being that this way of flourishing is my birthright. (Here is a story of Laura using it with one of her clients) “I had a client that had some common pain points. First, her life was painfully not working the way she wanted. As she got clearer about how she does want to experience life, she explicitly asked me for a “formula” (her own version of “tell me what to do and I’ll do it”). We talked about how that kind of certainty can feel like safety, but how life doesn’t give us a copy-and-paste formula that fits every situation or every person. However, I offered the EEGS key flourishing pathway points for her specific Enneagram type as the closest thing to a formula I’d ever experienced. I explained that she never has to be in a place of having no idea of what to do. She had worked with the Enneagram in the past. Her “mastery work” for that week was to make a visual of the three sets of flourishing pivot points for her Type and see which ones really landed for her in the micro-moments of her feeling stuck, along with the urgent desire for change.  She has a PTSD type fear of what change will cost her.  She currently lives with lots of physical pain and is in emotionally stressful circumstances, so she feels too fragile to create further transformation. Her assumption is that it will require high levels of rigor. I asserted that the pivot points flourishing pathways we covered are hers to access and apply at whatever level of rigor she chooses in any given moment. She gets to calibrate according to where she is in the micro-moments, not where the “formula” says she should be. This made a huge difference for her as she applied it to her life’s challenges. The EEGS process speaks to pain points relevant to both clients and coaches. Humans desire something that’s guaranteed to be helpful, and they desire a sense of urgency in how fast and how rigorously they pursue transformation. The EEGS system provides them with a surprisingly effective path to overcome these pain points and create flourishing mindsets in their place.

~ Laura Brown