Today we’d like to introduce you to Calley Welborn.
Calley, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
My life was forever changed after my first introduction to the Enneagram in 2010! At the time, I didn’t even know how to pronounce Enneagram (btw, it’s “any-uh-gram” and it just means “9-point graph”), but after persistent urging from a loving friend, I agreed to attend a day-long class. I had no idea what I was in for! In her signature storytelling style (which has become the style I also use), I listened to renowned Enneagram Master, Suzanne Stabile, describe nine distinctly different ways in which each of us sees the world, encounters others, and experiences life.
Learning about my personality (the particular lens through which I see) made me feel truly seen and understood. Paradoxically, learning that my personality is who I am NOT, screamed out to me as equally true, deeply liberating, and confusing! If what I believed to be my identity is who I am not, then who am I?!
The faithful exploration of this life-giving question, facilitated by continued Enneagram education, exploration, and daily practice, helps me to personally release the tight grip on my ego (my false self) so that I can experience the balance, wholeness, peace, and joy available to me – and to all of us! – when we live more fully into, and from, our essence (our authentic selves). Letting go is perpetually transformational in my life, and has allowed me to truly love myself, has opened me to receive abundant love, has clarified my life’s purpose, and is now freeing me to live into that purpose.
This is why I have recently started Undercurrent Enneagram Consulting! Experience from my professional consulting background combined with practical application of Enneagram wisdom and a passion to share the truth that each of us is purposefully created and implicitly loved, uniquely equips me to journey alongside seekers on their own adventures of self-discovery so they can emerge beyond the surface and thrive!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It’s definitely been a road of surprises and continued discovery!
Simply introducing the concept of the Enneagram to so many who have never heard of it has been a rewarding challenge. The Enneagram is not something that fits neatly into an “elevator speech”, and its powerful, healing benefits are not limited to any one “demographic”. This challenge provides me with abundant opportunities to share how the practical application of Enneagram wisdom has transformational power for anyone and everyone seeking balance, wholeness, and transformation.
The most unexpected challenge has been how difficult I have found it to be objective when sharing my heart and soul through my business! Conversely, this challenge has only enhanced my own spiritual practice with the Enneagram. Instead of relying on the habitual, patterned reactions that have made me successful in the past (which usually involved frantic efforting!), I now relax into presence which allows me to be more attuned to what arises, and has opened me up to abundant opportunities I could have never imagined! Working from this intentional place of presence, being able to make decisions from a balanced perspective, is much more exciting and rewarding!
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Undercurrent Enneagram Consulting exists to journey alongside Seekers on their own adventures of self-discovery so they may emerge beyond the surface and thrive! Guided by foundational Enneagram wisdom, Undercurrent designs customized consulting, presentations, guidance, and training to support the specific needs and goals of organizations and individuals. Undercurrent also facilitates open workshops and retreats focused on increasing presence and awareness, improving balance, deepening authentic connection, honoring diverse perspectives, enhancing compassion, and offering freedom through transformational healing.
Undercurrent Enneagram Consulting does not tell you who you are or try to put you in a box. Instead, working together, you are empowered to engage in your own self-discovery and free yourself from the prison of your own making! Instead of a one-size-fits-all path or process to “success”, integration of Enneagram wisdom into your daily life empowers you to continually identify your own unique, specific misalignments AND, like a map, will also help guide you toward the balance and wholeness you seek.
We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up.
In the middle of the night one night when I was maybe 10 years old, my Dad woke me up simply to watch the beauty and magic of a tremendous thunderstorm. He slightly cracked the glass door to our backyard, and we just sat on the floor, next to the door, experiencing this storm – staring in awe at the bright flashes of lightning, feeling the booming thunder rumble my insides, smelling what I can still only describe as the smell of a Texas thunderstorm because it’s so distinct, feeling the wind and mist on my face reaching us all the way from the yard. We just sat in silence, marveling at this spectacular natural wonder – the exciting, unexpected, and sometimes startling juxtaposed with the safety and security of my Dad’s quiet strength. A snapshot of what the broader experience of life has been like! To this day, I feel so honored and so special that he knew me well enough to know how much I would cherish that experience and that he made sure I wouldn’t miss it!
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