How to create an environment that motivates your people
– The Enneagram & Susan Fowler’s model of motivation
One of the first things people ask us when we do leadership…
As an Enneagram community member, I am writing this letter in order to request for all of us to consider calling on the wisdom tradition of the Enneagram to be…
Today, the Enneagram is a global phenomenon. But 20 years ago when I discovered it, the Enneagram was, to put it mildly, obscure.
Despite my reservations, I was captivated. Never…
Why Study the Enneagram?
At first glance, the Enneagram seems to be just another system for pigeon-holing people. But look twice and you see it’s describing something central: your core…
In response to the changes we have all been experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership team of Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada has recorded a…
The majority of students and clients in my Enneagram workshops, presentations, study groups and counseling sessions are between thirty-five and fifty years of age—right in the middle of the chronological…
There was once an organization called The Flat Earth Society that apparently still exists, with members all around the globe. Through its literature and online presence, it advocates a medieval…
Many Enneagram teachers, authors, and students mention the term Fourth Way in their conversations and writings. However, rarely is this term actually defined, except for brief references to the teachings of…
The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Teaching the Enneagram to Lifelong Learners
at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the…
“You don’t pay love back, you pay it forward.”
–Lily Hardy Hammond
Most books and articles about the Enneagram have to do with theory, applications, and history. Few are about…
Never in our lifetimes has there been a period when the entire world is united in facing the same threat. Nothing in the universe happens by chance. At least that’s…
In the 1945 French film Children of Paradise there is a pivotal moment when all seems lost. The story concerns a love triangle set in a theater company involving a…
The IEA recently hosted an online workshop focused on the instinctual biases and subtypes. It was a wide-ranging conversation with Russ Hudson, Peter O’Hanrahan, Beatrice Chestnut and me, and while…
As an acupuncturist who is also an Enneagram teacher, I’ve found myself uniquely positioned to study how the ego plays a central role in health. I…
I’m intrigued by the parallels among the Bible story of the Israelites turning away from the true God and fashioning a false idol in the…
If you’re on Instagram today, perhaps you’ve seen it—not the ads for the next big DTC brand or…
Sex – it can carry us on wings of pure sensual pleasure, or crush and humiliate us. It can take us from the sacred…
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My children have benefited enormously from the Enneagram teachings. As a result, I wanted other…
What is the deep purpose of working with the Enneagram?
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I met Brodie at the IEA Conference 2018 in Cincinnati, Ohio and after hearing how he uses the Enneagram with his…
“If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of…
