Lee Fields · Athens, Georgia

Hullo,

I’ve been a naturalist longer than I’ve had a name for it.

Long before I knew anything about the Enneagram (or really personalities at all) I was a keen student of humans and was the kid who stopped to look at what was growing in the sidewalk cracks.

That's the whole practice, really. Paying close attention to what’s going on with and around you and making a point of noting it to remember and apply.

I use the Enneagram the same way. Not as a typology to collect and display, but as an instrument. A barometer. The kind of thing that reads the interior pressure and points you to what is actually happening - not what should be happening, not what happened last time, what is happening now. And then helps you decide what to do about it.

I am certified in more Enneagram schools than is probably reasonable. I’m on faculty with Awareness to Action. That’s the framework I find most rigorous for the work I care about most: not just knowing yourself, but using what you know. Not the map, but the compass.

I believe inner work is a spiral. You meet the same patterns again. You recognize them this time. You practice. That’s the growth.

A few field notes on me:

I'm short, which keeps me close to the ground and paying attention. I keep a vintage brass barometer that reads Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair, Dry. Most days I'm somewhere between Change and Fair. As far as I can tell, that's where the interesting work happens. I'd rather ask one more question than be right too soon. If you're curious how other people see things - and a little curious how you do - we'll get along.

Rover · field companion

Training

each school taught me a different way of seeing…

CERTIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIP

  • Certified, and faculty, Awareness to Action International

  • Certified Enneagram Practitioner, The Narrative Enneagram

  • Certified Enneagram Professional, Enneagram Applications

  • Somatic Enneagram certification, with Marion Gilbert

  • Professional Member, International Enneagram Association

ENNEAGRAM LINEAGE

  • Riso-Hudson / Enneagram Institute certified workshops, with Nan Henson, Enneagram Atlanta

  • Studied and taught with Leslie Hershberger

  • Object Relations, with Belinda Gore, Deep Coaching Institute

RELATED STUDY

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology & Patterns of Developmental Pathways, with Dr. Dan Siegel, Mindsight Institute

  • Trauma-informed somatic practice, with Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Maidenhair spleenwort growing from a stone wall

Spleenwort · in a burren wall crevice

Every job was fieldwork.

BACKGROUND

I studied philosophy, English literature, and political science at the University of Georgia, where I was President of the Demosthenian Literary Society, founded in 1803 and still a haven for extemporaneous debate.

Before my full-time practice I was a social worker, tested recipes for Cook’s Illustrated, managed restaurants and dental offices, and sold residential real estate. All of it taught me how differently people move through the same situations.

Ireland taught me to read terrain. The land is harsh - bare rock, cutting wind off the Atlantic, weather that turns in an hour - and lush enough to stop you in the road. In the Burren, a moonscape of limestone on Ireland’s west coast, wildflowers grow out of the cracks with no soil to be seen. I’ve filled field notebooks there with specimens of flower and shell and stone, and the remote spots where I found them, and I still work that way: look closely, write it down, learn the ground before deciding what it means. The rocky parts and the green parts are the same country, and it’s worth knowing - all of it.