Social media and other internet platforms have been rapidly spreading the Enneagram teachings in an unprecedented way. As a result, more people than ever are getting access to information about the nine types and different Enneagram theories. What is often lacking, and perhaps difficult to [...]

It is widely known in spiritual work that genuine transformation is a transformation of the heart. Yet, the traditional teachings behind the Enneagram make it clear that this can only happen through an awakening in the body and in the mind as well. It takes [...]

A unique day expanding the Enneagram's power by merging it with three complementary paths to transformational change. Russ Hudson, Marion Gilbert and Tom Condon will each present their different perspectives and methods for increasing presence, opening to what is beyond your personal self and living [...]

The Enneagram typology has been around long enough now that a significant number of people are aware of its power to illuminate important elements of our character structure. Some then go a step further and learn the basic principles of self-observation upon which all real [...]

In its original form, the Enneagram symbol was more than a typology--it was an invitation to experience reality in new ways. The symbol itself has at its center a triangle in a circle, representing what Georges Gurdjieff called the Law of Three--a way of looking [...]

While knowledge of the types has tended to be the central focus of the modern Enneagram, sincere students also learn that the Enneagram symbol has an incredibly rich and profound background. This session will focus on some of the broader and deeper frameworks of the [...]

Many of us who have learned about the Enneagram have had the sense that it has had a profound impact on our lives, and that rightly applied it could have a very positive effect on the development of the world in our times. This might [...]

In this election year, the Enneagram can offer a variety of valuable perspectives on personalities and issues before the public. Topics to be discussed include: the Enneagram styles of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, the Enneagram style of the United States, how issues and events [...]

The Enneagram was originally taught as part of an integrated system of ideas and practices explicitly aimed at genuine transformation and living in presence--not just typing. But what do we mean by "presence"? What actually has led to transformation with this work? Gurdjieff taught that [...]

Historically we have understood the Enneagram to be part of an ancient spiritual system. Many of the ideas considered elemental in Enneagram work, such as the sacred geometry and meaning of the diagram itself, the three centers, self-observation, presence and self-remembering, were part of a [...]

As many traditions have noted, spiritual growth is like peeling the layers of an onion to get to its core. This process raises many important questions: What will one encounter at each layer? How does one move from one layer to the next? Why is [...]

In this all-day program, Don Riso and Russ Hudson, two of the leading teachers and developers of the Enneagram system in the world today, will present their ground-breaking material on The Nine Domains and The Nine Journeys. During the morning session, Don and Russ will [...]

How do our type structures and the associated drives for security, well-being, and love and the corresponding aversive emotions of fear, anger, and shame / distress play out in greed? What is required to lessen greed / selfishness and create true generosity? How might presence [...]

Most of us initially encounter the Enneagram as a typing system--a way of recognizing the principal characteristics in ourselves and others. But if we continue to study this work, we come to understand that the Enneagram is actually a system to support us in coming [...]

In the depth of every heart is a profound longing to be one with Essence, the Divine, our Beloved. Essence can be known in different ways, with many flavors and manifestations. In one of its deepest uses, the Enneagram is a way of looking at [...]

The three Instincts -- Self Preservation, Sexual (Attraction), and Social -- are a critical component in integrating any genuine spiritual awakening in our lives. Without a thorough understanding of the role they play in our development, lasting change tends to be elusive. Although the Instincts [...]

One of the teachings we have developed over the years is that of the "Missing Piece," the specific quality that is the most ego-alien to each type--but which is also the final "capstone" of each type's personal psychospiritual journey. Level 1 in each type's Direction [...]

The Passions ("capital sins") and resulting Fixations of the nine personality types of the Enneagram are well-known and relatively easy to understand since they are such a central part of our daily experience. This is generally not true of the Holy Ideas and the Virtues [...]

The Levels were not part of the original Enneagram teachings by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo; indeed, they did not even make the basic distinction between "healthy,""average," and "unhealthy" functioning within type. First to do this was Don Riso in 1977 and he went even [...]

A Series of Expert Panels Examining the "State of the Art" of Enneagram-related Work in the World Today The theme of this year's IEA conference is "Spiraling out into Greater Consciousness." Spiral Dynamics offers a model through which we can understand the spiraling levels of [...]

Anyone who has done serious spiritual or psychological inner work encounters a discouraging phenomenon: having experienced new states of freedom and expanded consciousness, after a few days (or hours) the old personality patterns reassert themselves as if the profound experience had not occurred. One of [...]

Most of us originally discover the Enneagram as a typology, but more profoundly, it is a map of wholeness and a way of recognizing and investigating different aspects and dimensions of our inner experience. George Gurdjieff brought the Enneagram symbol (and many of its principles) [...]