“Love the child in front of you, not the one in your mind.”
I don’t remember where or when I first saw this quote, but I have never…
The title of Susan Rhodes’s book clearly announces both the focus and the scope of her project. The author is taking aim at what she perceives to be…
“The first mistake is to believe that there is a self; the second mistake is to believe that there is not.”
Sunryu Suzuki Roshi
Wth The Career Within…
“What Gurdjieff calls `Objective science’ uses the musical analogy to depict a universe composed of a chain of energies that stretches from the lowest octave to the highest:…
Awareness to Action is not a “workbook” without depth and rigor, yet it is a practical book you can work with at work, in that it delivers on…
Abstract: In this article the first results are shown of a research study on the relationship between Enneagram types and KAI scores. In many descriptions of the Enneagram…
Metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God left inside His creatures when…
Abstract: Most accounts of the Enneagram describe relationships between each of the three major triads and the negative emotions of fear, anger, and sadness or social distress. This…
Abstract: The nine types of the Enneagram can be precisely correlated with the successive stages of Margaret Mahler’s separationindividuation process. The psychological experiences at a given stage do…
Abstract: This paper reports on a small part of a broader research project that studied the presentation of personality types with chronic pain in a clinical setting. It…
Director Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) is a highly enjoyable and useful character study of the path of development of a young Type Seven. The movie takes place in…
Abstract: Private enterprise has traditionally been concerned with the issue of financial performance and the appropriate management of staff and other resources to achieve maximum profitability. There have…
In the slim volume that is The Enneagram of Society, Claudio Naranjo accomplishes several profound and important tasks: he provides a concise, yet multi-faceted summation of the Enneagram’s…
In his book, The 9 Dimensions of the Soul, David Hey organizes each chapter by describing the particular essence of that Enneagram style, the fixation, how we might…
Abstract: The personality structure of 36 pairs of identical twins reared together was determined using The Essential Enneagram Test, (Daniels & Price, 2000) plus interviews of the participants…
In his enduring bestselling books He, She, and We, Jungian analyst Robert Johnson took various myths as jumping-off points to explore modern masculinity, femininity, and relationships. Enneagram author…
Lapid-Bogda comes as close to using the Enneagram scientifically as is really necessary. She knows the Enneagram thoroughly; she uses it as a template and shows us how…
Maitri, in addition to being the author’s last name, is a Buddhist term for loving kindness for oneself, the prerequisite of compassion of others.
While reading Sandra Maitri’s…
Abstract: Organizations, as a whole, have traditionally faced serious challenges and have incurred tremendous costs in recruiting, motivating, and retaining employees. The retention literature outlines seven major themes…
Khristian Paterhan has a degree in business administration and is a master trainer in NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). Originally from Chile, he now resides in Brazil and is the…
Abstract: The origins of the Enneagram are a constant point of fascination and discussion. Uncovering the source of this remarkable oracle provides for both a deeper personal understanding…
The Enneagram system describes the nine different sets of patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that get in the way of the creative and free-flowing expression of a…
Abstract: Cognitive theory is one of the dominant paradigms in psychology and psychotherapy these days. Its concepts about adaptive and maladaptive schemas resonate with the Enneagram’s notion of…
