DAMMAD ENNEAGRAM & JOURNEY
DaMMaD Enneagram & Journey was established in 2000 by Marlene Wilson, a certified Enneagram Teacher and The Journey Practitioner. A variety of techniques are used in DaMMaD’s approach to Holistic Healing and maintaining Wellness throughout LiFe.
THE ENNEAGRAM
The benefits of the Enneagram are far reaching. Bringing an awareness of our unconscious behaviours and patterns allows us to get a better understanding or our triggers and automatic reactions.
Working with the Enneagram as a presence-based practice can bring more peace of mind, an open heart and more confidence. Our relationships can improve, we can manage issues arising in our lives and we can find our potential and purpose.
THE JOURNEY
The Journey is a globally recognized and critically acclaimed healing and transformational modality to uncover and awaken your limitless potential, and to apply it in every area of your life. To date, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have experienced this simple, yet powerful step-by-step method of overcoming a wide variety of challenges, from physical ailments to emotional issues or shut down, in relationship problems and with career or performance issues.
The Journey offers a uniquely potent set of tools for awakening and liberating our infinite human potential. The work has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide free themselves from issues like anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem, chronic anger and rage, physical illnesses, addictions and unhealthy behaviours, sexual or physical abuse, relationship problems and procrastination and career under-performance.
HYPNOTHERAPY
Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique that utilizes guided meditation and deep relaxation to access the subconscious mind, allowing individuals to reprogram negative thought patterns, behaviours and emotional responses. By inducing a state of trance, hypnotherapy enables the conscious mind to bypass the critical thinking process, facilitating direct access to the subconscious mind, where unconscious patterns and habits reside.
This allows individuals to rewire negative thought patterns, overcome phobias, anxieties and addictions and develop more adaptive coping mechanisms, leading to improved emotional regulation, reduced stress, enhanced motivation and increased overall well-being. Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to lasting changes in behavior, mood and physical health, as well as improved relationships, productivity and overall quality of life.
PSYCHO NEURO IMMUNOLOGY
Psychoneuroimmunology is a relatively young field of research that investigates interactions between central nervous and immune system. The brain modulates the immune system by the endocrine and autonomic nervous system. Vice versa, the immune system modulates brain activity including sleep and body temperature. Based on a close functional and anatomical link, the immune and nervous systems act in a highly reciprocal manner. From fever to stress, the influence of one system on the other has evolved in an intricate manner to help sense danger and to mount an appropriate adaptive response.
Over recent decades, reasonable evidence has emerged that these brain-to-immune interactions are highly modulated by psychological factors which influence immunity and autoimmune disease. For several diseases, the relevance of psychoneuroimmunology findings has already been demonstrated.
NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques involve non-invasive, medicine free therapy that helps the client discover new ways of dealing with emotional problems such as low self-esteem, anxiety, lack of confidence, destructive relationship patterns (coping with breakup), and are successful in effective bereavement counselling.
NLP is all about bringing about changes in perception, responsible communication and developing choices of responses or communication in a given situation. The situation can be personal or professional, but it empowers you by giving you choices and also being responsible for the choice made by you.
ABOUT MARLENE
Marlene has devoted many of her years to the caring of others, working extensively from the heart. She pursued a nursing career in community nursing, midwifery, psychiatry and cardiac cath lab, displaying a tremendous sense of caring and nurturing for her patients.
Marlene’s eagerness to help others would lead her to study and qualify as a much sought after Enneagram Teacher and Journey Practitioner. Her caring spirit and expert listening ability mixed with no frills straight talk, heaps of pizazz and a wicked sense of humour has created a reputation that people love, receiving phenomenal guidance with a lot of fun thrown in along the way!
If you keep doing what you are doing, you are going to land up where you are headed. To find a better space in life will require a change of direction! When you have the privilege of meeting up with Marlene, you are going to learn all about “The Finger” – what it does and where it belongs!
Enjoy the trip with her!
MARLENE’S QUALIFICATIONS
NURSING
Marlene has Nursing Diplomas & Experience covering General Nursing, Midwifery, Community Health, Industrial & Occupational Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing and Cath Lab.
MONTESSORI
Marlene trained as a Montessori Directress and co-owned Montessori Toddlers School in Port Elizabeth where 18 month to 3 year olds were raised in the Montessori tradition.
THE ENNEAGRAM
Marlene trained as an Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Form and co-founded The Enneagram Association of South Africa. Her training encompassed Enneagram History Workshops, Gifts and Potentials of Each Enneagram Stance, Self-Preservation Instinct & Essence, A Soul Perspective (X2), The Very Heart of The Matter (X2), The Misunderstood Magnanimous 8, ‘Sexual’/Intimate Instinct & Essence, Life Force, Sub-Types & Instincts, ‘Pioneer’ Self-Preservation Archetype, Module I, II & III and Mandorla
THE JOURNEY
Marlene is a trained Journey Practitioner. The Journey is a globally recognized and critically acclaimed healing and transformational modality to uncover and awaken your limitless potential, and to apply it in every area of your life.
HYPNOTHERAPY
Marlene is a certified Hypnotherapist through The National School of Therapeutic Hypnosis. Hypnotherapy offers a non-invasive, clinically-proven method for accessing the subconscious mind, allowing individuals to rewire negative thought patterns, manage stress and anxiety and make lasting changes to their behaviour and well-being.
PSYCHO NEURO IMMUNOLOGY (PNI)
Marlene is trained in Psycho Neuro Immunology, a comprehensive study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. Studies include the physiological functioning of the neuroimmune system in health and disease; disorders of the neuroimmune system (autoimmune diseases; hypersensitivities; immune deficiency); and the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the neuroimmune system.
NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING (NLP)
Marlene studied NLP through the National School of Therapeutic Hypnosis, an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy, treating problems such as phobias, depression, tic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, near-sightedness, allergy, common cold and learning disorders.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
With love always for walking beside me being my friend
Thank you deeply for your kind assistance and your patience. You are in my heart!
To quirky, compassionate, loving Marlene - we love you!
You live so you may learn to love and you love so you may learn to live.” – keep loving and living dear friendy. Miss you plenty.
Thank you for helping me opening and closing doors in my life. I treasure your friendship dearly. Much LOVE
I cannot put in words how grateful I am that you have stepped into my life. I appreciate your teachings and awareness so much
Thank you for sharing your passion and your love. Thank you for affecting so many people’s lives in a beautiful way.
I take this opportunity to thank you for all the amazing things you have taught both myself and John.
Thank you for all your help, I understand my inner workings better and will continue to look at why I do what I do
From inside of your sacred heart, pouring out to the outer world, you are a special soul. Love and light
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill. Thank you for being Marlene!
Thanks for leaving a footprint in my heart and for making the choice to become who you are, you are incredibly special.
Marlene, I honour and respect you more than you know... your deep sense of love is always an inspiration to me...and I thank you for that every day
May your life be filled with health, love, light and prosperity. you are a shining star for so many when they lose their way at their darkest night. So, keep shining Angel! 🙂
Marlene, a most amazing lady. The most “core complete” session I ever had. Wishing you more years of making a difference in people’s lives. You have blessed so many already.
Marlene, may you enjoy the fruit of your labour...continue to reach out to those who need your guidance with an open hand whereby God can fill up with his Grace what in Love you do.
You are awesome! You have a special gift. I now truly define myself by how many times I have struggled to my feet...I have emerged from the fire with your help, Thank you!
Know who you are, do what you can, love the light which radiates from within seek and embrace the light in all you come in contact with. Feel His all-encompassing embrace as you continue to love.
Your Honesty, compassion, kindness and love toward me has been one of the most valuable gifts that I will treasure for life. Thank you for your guidance in my life and for continually feeding me with positive thoughts to ponder on.
To my cupboard water drinking , faux handshaking and outspoken fellow life-traveler : the journey is only just starting , enjoy the path ahead and don't forget to stop and smell the roses!
Marlene, you personify for me this lesson in ACIM: "To have, give all to all." Thanks for your wonderful lessons in giving and also the reminder that giving means we are receiving the awareness of Love, our real Nature.
Thank you for all the help that you have provided me with in my personal space and for helping me try to get my head out of my A##!!! Keep up the good work; with people like you the world can but only get better.
Thank you very much for our sessions and I hope and pray that you will always be the Marlene I met at MOL and never change. You are truly a gift from God and thank you for coming into my life…Love
All these years later we still think of you as a very special person: a person who can encourage, who has her feet on the ground, a wise woman who loves her family, is warm and generous, who knows all there is to know about the Enneagram and who has a wonderful sense of humour.
We so appreciate all your support for the extended Journey family here in Cape Town. Your continued selfless service to others is a shining example to us all. May Grace shower you and your family with all that you have given others in the years to come.
It has been a blessing to our family to get to know you & we thank you for the help you have so willingly afforded us. You are a rock and your positive outlook is an inspiration. Thank you & with love
Marlene you were my anchor in a very stormy and rough sea. Your keen sense of observation, understanding and professional counselling made my journey so much easier. I am in awe of all you did for my girls and continue to be to all of us. I salute you and thank God for you.
“Stay the sweet soul you are; our time spent together has truly been blessed and memorable. We've really journeyed together in amazing ways. May the blessings of Grace be with you always." Words cannot do justice to this remarkable woman
Your loving & positive attitude to life has helped me in more ways than you will ever know. May the years ahead be filled with love, joy & happiness. Fondest love
I first met Marlene at Youth camp. She struck me as so earnest and sincere. She told us about the Enneagram and was very animated about it. Since then I went on her course and so enjoyed my weekly trip to her home. Thanks for all the things I learned from you. Be blessed
Either with journeys, numbers, old people, young people and even babies, Marlene works MIRACles. The right mix of love, humour and endurance make you the best friend and therapist I could wish for.
Marlene is a wonderful friend. A friend who has been there for me in my time of need. She is a friend I trust and love very much. She is also a friend who makes me laugh, she has a sense of humour second to none!! Dance as if no one were watching - Sing as if no one were listening - Live everyday as if it were your last.
To us, you are a very special person because by being you and letting us participate in your life and sharing your friendship and family with us you help making our 3 years in South Africa so wonderful and memorable. Lots of love all the way from Germany
A friend of friendies, full of love and caring for everyone, the lady of the finger .... Our meeting was life changing, the beginning of an era, a pure and modest facilitator of life enrichment and growth through accountability, a passionate teacher and a passionate student, a giver and receiver, a guide and follower....
“Friendship becomes deep when virtuous people learn to love the good in one another and understand the bad which clutters the mind...for virtue gives more joy than the physical plane of beauty, being untouched by time”. I thank You for loving the good and for many times uncluttering my mind!
You have connected with our hearts with so much care and reconfirmed our faith that no matter what, we are all beautiful. We pray that you will be blessed beyond belief for this new decade of your life! Blessed with renewed happiness and joy in your heart...and abundance for every single day.
YOU are truly an earth Angel with a heart of full of LOVE. Thank you for the wisdom that you shared all through our sessions. Thanks for all the times that you talked away our fears. Thanks for being there for us, to console us through our tears and share the many happy moments that we've enjoyed through the years. We wish you to be blessed with abundance, peace, joy and Love
For you Marlene, it’s a reinforcement of your daily dedication on differences you make with people you interact with. Learning or Growth is not necessary witnessed through external changes that we want to see, [with our naked eye] in people we’ve interacted with but, awareness and new knowledge that we share with others, is what invokes waves within our beings, what we do with that vibration is transformed by our capabilities. Thank you, Marlene, for reminding us to exercise all our senses and to bring us back home.
Marlene has left a huge impression in my life. I now live a life feeling Gods through people. I am currently working with Intellectually Disabled and Psychiatric Disabled students. I was told that when the students hear that I am coming, they would be excited. To me that is so beautiful. My experience with Marlene has taught me that when you love yourself, you are better able to love others and hence feel Gods love through others. I now live a more fulfilled and meaningful life. Thank you Marlene for having being part of this beautiful process. May God bless you with all that is beautiful in life.
You are the gift that gold cannot buy - a blessing that's truly unique! God gave you as a special gift to the world - someone who loves and cares unconditionally ... who sees a person's need and fills it ... who encourages, challenges and lifts people up ... and who touches each life you enter to make a real difference. Thank you for just being you – and for always being there for me too - sharing your wisdom, humour and huge love. I am a better person by having you as part of my life and I’m looking forward to many more years of friendship and growth with you. May the love you have shown and the gifts you have shared return to you multiplied ..
Marlene, it was 'the finger' that did it for me! Matilda's magic finger could not stand a chance next to your no nonsense appendage, 'Pull it out and get on with life'. You are a woman in a million with an emotional force that leaves few people wallowing in the mire of self-pity once they encounter your inner understanding of life and things. SARK may have penned 'Living Juicy', but you were and are and will continue to be the daily morsel that feeds and nourishes others until they can find their own courage within. Walk Tall... you are a precious daughter of Heavenly Father.
Marlene the ‘Sister’ was quite a girl, And looking after loonies must have been a whirl.
But now it’s ‘Enneagram’ with nine of a type, Which gives her a thrill and all the hype.
We love your patience and care so swell, With dignity and grace you handle so well.
Which is a gift from above, slowly learned, Through trial and tribulation well earned.
We appreciate your counsel and advice, From you who have learned it by paying the price.
Always in the background and not on show, But displaying deep feelings and a glow.
Thanks for being a friend indeed, And helping always when there is a need?
Take care our friend, We love you.
I just wanted to express my gratitude for the guidance you gave us on our journeys.
Time is the biggest catalyst in it all but with the skills you exposed us to, we transcended into opening up to learn and healing even more. I say we, because I speak of my boys as well.
Timo is melting my heart with his words of kindness and his nature is just wonderful.
Henrik is such a Kind Young man. Thank you.😇
I wish you health, joy and peace albeit all and immense love I send to you💜💛💚💙
