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 paper explores those relationships from a perspective that draws on contemporary scientific thinking in the fields of [...]

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 types, several remarks are made about the style of problem-solving and creativity. With this research the authors [...]

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 reviews the reasons for referral, subjects' presentation, subjects' goals, and practitioners' responses. Significant type-related differences were found [...]

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 He made them. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Introduction: Alice's Lesson I learned young that you can't [...]

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 experience that type in ourselves, how to recover the lost essence of that type, how to reintegrate [...]

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 "passions," he reviews the circle of the nine basic characters associated with the passions, he provides a [...]

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 both understanding and application. It is not an interpretation of an interpretation of the Enneagram. It represents [...]

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 London, and centers around the life and maturation of a 30-yearold British school teacher named Poppy (played [...]

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 been numerous studies into the way in which various management techniques can be used to improve resource [...]

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 not cause our type to form. Rather, our inborn type temperament predisposes us to experience a particularly [...]