Understanding the 5 Mindfulness Training’s & Practices of Thich Nhat Hanh

The Buddha spoke of “Four Noble Truths”
•    First Noble Truth: suffering exists
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Relationships of any kind often have moments of difficulties. Many of these difficulties arise from a type of reactivity that occurs in each one of us. Reactions arise from body,…

Like many of us in the Enneagram community, I have always been open to growth opportunities. As a member of Sandra Maitri’s International Retreat Group since 2010, I have come…

by Kelly Powell

When I met Sue Lambert, it was over a pixelated, late-night Google Hangout in an attempt to hear a few things about the Enneagram. I was referred…

As Enneagram and personal development practitioners, we’ve felt the call to bring this powerful growth material out into the world. But how do we let others know about our important…

In these changing times it is important to develop strategies for staying positive. Because we tend to want things in life to be certain, change can bring stress and unhappiness.…

Where did all these people come from and why didn’t I know about them?  That was the question I was asking as a first-time attendee at the International Enneagram Conference…

The word narcissism gets thrown around often. I’ve a friend who’s a physician and she said during her psychology rotation in med school, she was worried she had every pathology…

The IEA General Assembly of Affiliates and Chapters (GAAC) meets before every annual IEA Global Conference. It includes US chapters and country affiliates from all over the world. To make…

Enneatype Three describes the sociable, ambitious achiever who, deep inside, feels oddly blank and unloved. Threes have long been told that this type pattern involves a misguided attempt to earn…

Learn how one woman discovered how to change a negative recurring pattern in her life.

I am humbled by the wisdom that emerges from the clients I get to work with.…

EPP Guides + The Men of Namur Graduating Pilot Class May 2018

“THE HUMAN BEING IS A SUBTLE MECHANISM, EQUIPPED WITH INDIVIDUAL SPRINGS, DEVELOPED IN THE EARLY YEARS OF…

In May, the Minnesota Chapter of the IEA (MN-IEA) celebrated its 20th anniversary.  Over 65 members attended our celebratory gathering!  The afternoon began with a choice of experiential breakout workshops — Board…

From 2011-2014, I was associated with the Deep Coaching Institute. First as a student, then as a mentor, and then as…

This phrase, “feelings are not emergencies,” was uttered to me over twenty years ago by my clinical group supervisor.  I was just out of graduate school and had begun a…

As the IEA Global Conference in Cincinnati approaches (July 19-22), I’d like to share with you some of the many reasons that you might want to attend.

First, this Conference…

When I first began Integral and Enneagram classes, my aim was to teach. Teaching itself is by definition a transmission of knowledge. Both the Enneagram and Integral help flex the…

I quite enjoyed Kristin Arthur’s recent article in Nine Points “Essence and the Enneagram, Revisited: A Reply to Mario Sikora’s ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’” but it seems Kristin made a…

Where were you born?

I was born in the very beautiful little town of Ruokolahti, in Eastern lake Finland. My family was living there at the time. Even though I…

I’m sometimes invited to test out people’s recruiting tools that make use of the Enneagram based on, for instance, trawling through people’s social profiles, CV’s, LinkedIn or other data that…

Kristin Arthur, PhD

In New England, there is a joke about a stranger asking a farmer for directions back to the city. The old farmer thinks about it for a…

 Suggestions for the Nine in Recovery

1. You must learn to lean into conflict. Okay, let’s face it, this is last item on your Nine list of “Things I’d love…

The Core Suffering and Dilemma of the Nine in Recovery

You see the Type Nine—the peacemaker, the easy-going, self-effacing type—sitting at an AA meeting, initially withdrawn and distant, but with…