Field portrait · Ireland
EDUCATOR· ATHENS, GEORGIA
Lee Fields Guide
Flourishing is fieldwork.
Noticing is a practice, and practice changes a life.
(Observe. Formulate a provisional hypothesis. seek to falsify. REvise. Repeat.)
The work is awareness and growth not transformation. You don't become someone else. You see who you already are with a little more precision - and maybe choose a little more deliberately from what you see.
field·work \ ˈfēld-ˌwərk \ noun
- Close observation done on location, not from a distance.
- The practice of noticing how you - and the people around you - actually operate.
- See also flourishing.
ABOUT
Not the map. The compass.
Rush · Black Valley, Co. Kerry
I teach people to see themselves and each other more clearly - why you react the way you do, why the person across the table sees the same moment differently, and what to do with that knowledge. My test for understanding someone else is simple: if I saw things that way, it would make perfect sense.
My main instrument is the Enneagram model. I think of it as a barometer: it doesn’t cause the weather or judge it. It reads the pressure and points to what is happening now, so you can decide how to respond. Used well, it’s a tool for clearer thinking - holding a reading provisionally, checking it against what’s actually happening, and learning to dance with our own neurobiology instead of being led by it. I’ve spent more than twenty years with it and I’m still learning to read it.
People come to me from every starting point. Some have never heard of the Enneagram. Some want help finding their type and subtype. Some have known their number for years and are wondering what comes next. I start where you are. Wherever that is, I'm hoping we land on something you can use on an ordinary Tuesday - not stopping with awareness, but applying it.
My working rule is to be kind to people and ruthless with ideas. Most of us could use more awareness, compassion, and accommodation. Curiosity helps. So does a sense of humor.
projects
Same eye, different terrain.
Stones · Rossbeigh Strand, Co. Kerry
Lee Fields Guide
Solo practice
Workshops, curriculum, and one-on-one work for people ready to move from understanding themselves to using what they know.
Fields’ Guide to Inner Work
Book in progress
The field guide to the interior. Lee’s own book, a primer organized the way a naturalist organizes, by observation, specimen, season, and recurrence.
Thinking Well & Why
podcast,Co-host & co-producer, with Mario Sikora and Seth Creekmore
A podcast on clear thinking and the Enneagram, each episode moving from a claim to a concept to a practice. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Tend the Year ↗
Co-founder, with Stephanie Spencer
Seasonal circles, threshold workshops, solstice and equinox events, and retreats that center creative practices and Enneagram insights with the turning of the year.
Analogue Enneagram ↗
Co-founder, with Seth “Creek” Creekmore
Tactile, grounded Enneagram work. Personal growth and skill building built on the Awareness to Action Enneagram and instinctual bias models.
ATA: the Instinctual Biases
book in progress Working title · co-author, with Mario Sikora and María José Munita · forthcoming
A book on the Awareness to Action instinctual biases model.
Enneagrammatic
Creative & community work
Lee’s home for practical dreamwork, Artist’s Way workshops, and other Enneagram-adjacent creative work, in circles and one-on-one. Looser and more playful, and best practiced in good company.
Teaching is noticing out loud.
TEACHING & SPEAKING
Dashboard desk · Dingle Peninsula
LEADERSHIP & FACULTY
Faculty, Awareness to Action International
Vice President & Programming Chair, International Enneagram Association (IEA), Southeast USA
Co-producer & co-host, IEA Global podcast, San Francisco & Minnesota IEA Global Conferences; returning for Laval, Quebec, Canada conference, July 2027
Co-creator & producer, IEA Global Conference ‘Story Booth’ Experience
SUMMITS
Typeish Enneagram Personal Growth Summit
Enneagram & Coffee Summit
PODCAST GUEST
Fathoms | An Enneagram Podcast
Enneagram & Coffee
Enneagram at Work with Enneagram MBA
Artists for Joy, enneagram series expert
Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast
Enneagram Typecast
Enneagram Coaching with Abbi Rodriguez