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Certified Enneagram Facilitator · Philadelphia, PA

Enneagram training in Philadelphia.

Train as a Certified Enneagram Facilitator (CEF) with Harmonika Institute in Philadelphia, PA. Master the nine Enneagram types — instincts, wings, levels, and the interview-based identification methodology.

Enneagram certification training in Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia cohort details

City
Philadelphia, PA
Credential
CEF
Tuition
$3,800
In-person training
10 days · 80h
Live cohort calls
2 days · 8h
Supervised practice
90h
Portfolio + jury
40h
Total
218h · ~27 day-eq.
Cohort
10 students
Format
In person + live cohort calls
Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Train where you live

Why Enneagram in Philadelphia?

Philadelphia carries the weight of three centuries of American medical history (the country's first medical school was founded here in 1765), which shapes its wellness scene in distinctive ways: practitioners are unusually rigorous about scope of practice, hospital-adjacent integrative-medicine roles are increasingly common, and the city's nurse and physical-therapy communities feed a steady pipeline of credible career-changers into holistic practice. Our Philadelphia cohorts often include nurses transitioning to private practice and educators seeking complementary credentials.

For students of Enneagram specifically, Philadelphia's scene is a particularly good match: medically literate practitioner community. strong nurse and pt pipeline into holistic practice. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Center City, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Philadelphia applicants tend to be 35-55, with strong representation from healthcare (Penn, Jefferson, CHOP nurses are well-represented), education, social services, and family-business backgrounds. They ask careful scope-of-practice questions and value clear regulatory framing — the city's medical-legal climate has shaped expectations.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Enneagram as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

The Enneagram is a personality framework that maps human character into nine interconnected types, each defined by a specific motivational pattern, characteristic strengths and limitations, and a set of healthy and unhealthy expressions. The model also includes wings (the influence of the two adjacent types), instinctual variants (self-preservation, social, sexual), and levels of development (from healthy expression to unhealthy expression within a single type).

What sets the Enneagram apart from most personality frameworks (MBTI, DISC, Big Five) is its depth and developmental structure. Where MBTI tells you what your type is, the Enneagram tells you what your type is, what motivates it, what it does in stress, what it does in growth, what it looks like at its healthiest, and what it looks like when it is struggling. This developmental quality makes it particularly useful for coaches, leaders, and team facilitators — but it also makes it harder to use well. The Enneagram is unusually easy to misuse with quick online tests that flatten people into stereotypes.

What you'll learn

The Enneagram curriculum, in 10 in-person days.

  • All nine types in depth, with attention to common confusions
  • Wings and instinctual variants
  • Levels of development within each type
  • The typing interview and how to ask non-leading questions
  • Working with type in a coaching conversation
  • Designing team workshops that use type without flattening people

See the full module-by-module curriculum →

Cohort schedule

When Enneagram cohorts run in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia cohorts run year-round with January, May, and September starts. The fall cohort is the strongest. Snow occasionally requires schedule adjustments in January-February.

The right student

Who this Philadelphia cohort is for.

Coaches, leaders, HR professionals, and career-changers who want a precise, embodied personality framework rather than a quick test.

Career outcomes

After graduation in Philadelphia.

  • Offer Enneagram-informed coaching as a CEF
  • Lead team Enneagram workshops in companies
  • Add type work to an existing coaching or HR practice
  • Specialize in couples or leadership-team work
Tuition

$3,800 for the full 27-day Enneagram program in Philadelphia.

Same tuition whether you study in Philadelphia or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Philadelphia cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$3,800

218h total · 10 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Enneagram Facilitator in Philadelphia.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Enneagram cohort starting in Philadelphia, PA. Free, online, one hour.