Other Teachers

Ann Binnie has had a varied career in and around marketing - she has been Account Planning Director of three London ad agencies and has run her own brand strategy consultancy for nearly 15 years.  She had become increasingly interested in the people behind brands when she met the Enneagram.  She qualified with Helen Palmer and David Daniels in 1999 and has since taught the Enneagram at Emmaus House, in open workshops in and around London, in tailored workshops and one-to-one with commercial clients and in the voluntary sector.  She has also been invited to teach the Enneagram at leadership programmes for sports and business coaches.  Ann lives in Harpenden with her husband and two teenage children.

Maddy Buttner is a freelance trainer and in the eight years she has been running her own business, has worked in a wide variety of industry sectors, from Banking and IT to Academia.  She also works as a volunteer with a number of charities.  She is a registered MBTI® practitioner and works as an associate with the UK publisher of MBTI®, OPP Ltd.  Maddy's firm belief is that our ability to do anything well is rooted in the way we function and treat each other as human beings. This premise guides any workshop she runs, her intent is to provide an environment in which people can and want to learn new skills and discover their own ability and potential.

Phil Dickinson is part of the team delivering Enneagram training at Emmaus and he covers Enneagram 1, 2, 3 & 4. He is a Management and Personal Development Consultant, and a potter, who has been running his own company for ten years after a career starting in teaching and moving into the IT industry as a trainer and then manager.  Phil has an MSc in Management Development, is an NLP Master Practitioner and is very experienced in the use of MBTI®.  He qualified as a teacher of the Enneagram with Helen Palmer in 2003.

Ebba From is a Danish Diploma Psychotherapist (1983) and trainer with in excess of twenty years’ experience in workshops and adult education. She has been in private practice in Denmark for over fifteen years, where she also works as an experienced Couples Counsellor using ”The Art of Dialogue” and the Enneagram as foundations for her work.

Through studying Jungian Studies at University of Aarhus/Denmark, Gestalttherapy training with Natasha Mann, USA and studies at Emmerson College, UK, Ebba has gathered knowledge of human life and the soul seen through different aspects of psychology. She also trained with Helen Palmer, David Daniels and Peter O´Hanrahan and qualified as a Professional Teacher of the Enneagram in 1999.

She has been connected to Emmaus House for several years as part of the Enneagram team and, through support and co-teaching with Ann O´Sullivan, developed her own workshops and retreats based on the Enneagram, combining her psychological knowledge, experience, compassion and deep respect for the human soul and spirit.

Kevin Murphy is an experienced teacher of creative writing and song-writing, has written and produced two musical plays and published psalms, songs and poems. He has gained an MA in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Writing at Cardiff University.

Dr Martin O’Kane, BA, MA is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at The University of Wales, Lampeter.  His specific areas of interest are interdisciplinary and postcolonial approaches to the Hebrew Bible, particularly those relating to the visual arts.

Judith Priest has a background in psychology, teaching, career and personal development for individuals and as part of organisational change, training and selection.  She is Reiki trained and has a certificate in psychotherapy and counselling.  She has been a member of the College for Psychic Studies for some years and has a particular interest in the nature of human consciousness.

She began studying the Enneagram in 2003 and has since qualified as a teacher with the Helen Palmer/David Daniels school.  "My eclectic search for understanding about our psychological and spiritual nature has taken me in many directions and I hope to bring some of the wisdom gained during this journey to my teaching of the Enneagram.  I have found it to be a source of true insight and practical transformation". 

Sister Ishpriya, RSCJ is a spiritual teacher and guide.  Although English by birth, she has lived in India among Hindu holy men and women for many years.  Along with Vandana, she founded three Christians ashrams for dialogue with Hindus and for meditation and spiritual practice, drawing on the wisdom of east and west.  In the Christian Ashram movement she was closely associated with other founders such as Bede Griffiths.  As well as an in depth experiential knowledge of eastern spiritual traditions, Ishpriya has a doctorate in western psychology.  She has taught and led retreats worldwide.  As a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious order, she has a gift for integrating our Christian heritage with the wisdom of the east.

Chris Waymark: after working in IT and business consultancy for seven years, Chris made the discovery that the quality of interactions between people was the sole most important factor in the success of business projects.  This coincided with his discovery of the Enneagram as a profound and insightful tool for self-awareness and personal growth.  He trained with the Helen Palmer/David Daniels School to teach the Enneagram professionally, qualifying in 2004.  Apart from teaching it at Emmaus House, he uses it with church groups, in coaching and in a course of personal development workshops.
Chris brought together these two discoveries to form a personal development business where he applies self-awareness tools to help people improve their performance at work, develop effective relationships and enable their own personal growth and development.