Fractals of Mind
Is what you're seeing the type — or something running underneath it?
If you've spent serious time with the Enneagram — studying it, teaching it, using it with clients or in your own growth — you've probably encountered moments where something didn't quite add up.
A client whose type expression seems almost right, but not quite. A student who presents clearly as a Seven in every session and then becomes unrecognizable under stress. Someone whose patterns fit the framework beautifully, but whose relational style and emotional rhythms keep introducing noise you can't account for.
More often than you might think, what you're encountering isn't bad typing. It's a variable the Enneagram wasn't built to see on its own.
That variable is neurodivergence. Autism, ADHD, and AuDHD don't replace Enneagram type — they refract it. They run underneath the personality structure like a different layer of operating system, shaping how type is expressed, how defenses are built, how stress manifests, and how a person experiences their own inner life. When you can't see that layer, you're working with an incomplete map. When you can, everything gets sharper.
This workshop is about learning to see that layer — and what it changes.
A new lens — and the tools to use it
- — A clear, working distinction between neurotype (your brain's foundational wiring) and personality type (the ego structure organizing how you move through the world) and why collapsing the two leads to mistyping, misdiagnosis, and missed growth
- — An inside-out understanding of what autism, ADHD, and AuDHD actually look like in real people, especially high-functioning, high-masking adults who have spent years adapting and compensating in ways that make their neurodivergence nearly invisible
- — Three in-depth type portraits — one from each Center of Intelligence, showing exactly how neurodivergence refracts through Body, Heart, and Head type structures in ways even experienced practitioners routinely misread
- — A working framework for recognizing the interplay in real time, whether you're in a session with a client, teaching a group, or examining your own patterns
- — An introduction to the false flag phenomenon: the specific ways neurodivergent traits generate convincing mistyping that can send someone's growth work in the wrong direction for years
- — An honest look at trauma as a third variable: how it can mimic, magnify, and mask both type and neurotype, and why differentiation work has to hold all three simultaneously
- — A first preview of what Fractals of Mind argues about neurodivergence as a dimension of identity, meaning, and spiritual experience, and what that reframe opens up for how we understand the inner life
Three hours. Three movements.
We open by reorienting the conversation entirely. Neurodivergence is not a severity scale of dysfunction — it's a multidimensional range of perceptual and cognitive styles that shape how a person experiences the world from the inside out. We establish the hardware/software distinction that anchors the whole workshop, take an inside-out look at autism, ADHD, and AuDHD beyond clinical checklists, and examine why masking is so central to understanding this population — and why your Enneagram community is particularly likely to be sitting with an unexamined neurodivergent identity.
Rather than a surface-level pass through all nine types, we go deep into three carefully chosen portraits — one from each Center of Intelligence — to show exactly what the intersection of neurotype and Enneagram type looks like in practice. Each portrait covers what the pairing looks like in real life, what typically gets misread or mislabeled, what becomes visible when you hold both lenses, and a composite case that brings it to life.
We draw the threads together into something practical — the false flag framework as a tool for practitioners, an honest look at where trauma enters the picture, and the piece that makes this work Enneagram-native: neurodivergence not as a detour from personhood, but as one of its most revealing expressions. We close with live Q&A and a preview of where Sterlin's forthcoming book takes this material next.
This workshop is for you if…
You're an Enneagram practitioner, coach, or teacher who wants to bring neurodivergent-aware depth to your work with clients and students
You're an advanced student who has sensed that type alone doesn't fully account for your experience, or someone else's
You're a therapist, counselor, or educator who works with neurodivergent individuals and wants a personality framework that holds up under that complexity
You've received a neurodivergent diagnosis — or are exploring the possibility, and want to understand how it sits alongside your Enneagram type
About Sterlin & Aaron
Sterlin is an Associate Professor of Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma and the founder of Empathy Architects. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Communication and has spent over twenty years studying personality typology, empathy, consciousness, and human development. He is the author of The 27 Types of Narcissism and Center of the Universe, and is currently completing Fractals of Mind: Neurodivergence, Personality, and the Spectrum of Meaning. Sterlin received his own autism diagnosis in midlife, an experience that has profoundly shaped both this research and his understanding of everything he has spent his career teaching.
Aaron Addonizio holds a Master's degree in Human Relations with an emphasis on counseling and personality psychology from the University of Oklahoma, along with a Master's degree in Public Administration with an emphasis on nonprofit management from the same institution. She founded a successful professional organizing, coaching, and consulting practice before moving into freelance work as a business consultant and project manager for local and national clients. Aaron is the Executive Director and co-founder of Central Oklahoma Dance Company, and has brought her organizational expertise to Katherine Fauvre Consulting among other engagements. She is also a certified Enneagram teacher and coach.
Frequently Asked
No certification required — but we do recommend working knowledge of the nine types and the Centers of Intelligence. This workshop builds on that foundation rather than teaching it from scratch.
Yes — all registrants receive 30-day replay access.
Yes. This workshop is a first look at the research behind Sterlin's forthcoming book Fractals of Mind. If a fuller training is developed around the book, everyone who attends this workshop will be the first to know.
Absolutely. This workshop is as much for people in the process of self-understanding as it is for those with a formal diagnosis.
Zoom. A link will be sent to all registrants before the event.
This workshop is a beginning, not a complete map.
But three hours with Sterlin and Aaron on this material is enough to genuinely shift how you see type, how you see neurodivergence, and very possibly how you see yourself.
Date Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
Time 12:00pm – 3:00pm CST · Live on Zoom
With Sterlin Mosley, PhD & Aaron Addonizio
Replay 30-day access included for all registrants
We hope you'll join us. — Sterlin & Aaron