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In workshops all over the world we are commonly asked by parents/grandparents, what about my daughter, my son? This happens in our corporate training sessions and in small personal coaching sessions. When, exactly, does type begin to form? And why or how does it [...]
More than ever before, information about the Enneagram is widely available. Newcomers, while initially excited by what the system can reveal, often become discouraged by the plethora of conflicting theories to be found on social media platforms. Experience shows that many of these theories can [...]
Through lecture, inner practice, type groups and conversation we'll explore how we express our love through each of our three centers and how our type structure can get in the way. Love is easy to say but hard to define. It means different things to [...]
Organizational culture is a collection of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that serve as an implicitly agreed-upon way of solving problems within the organization. It is rooted in systems of values; biases toward achieving a sense of stability or satisfaction that are often so deeply [...]
In contrast to the belief that racism is a personal choice, we will explore racism as a collective, often subconscious, reality that affects literally every person who grew up in Western cultures. Like our Enneagram types, racism tells a story of who we are [...]
As you use the Enneagram now and in the future - whether you are a beginner or an experienced user of the system - there is a limiting mentality that you may fall into without realizing it, leading you to "go wrong with confidence." Symptoms [...]
In various letters to the early churches, the Apostle Paul wrote about the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. These extraordinary spiritual gifts, often termed "charismatic gifts," map onto the Enneagram. Specifically, the nine gifts of the Spirit are the word of wisdom, the word [...]
How much and how little you have the gifts, and challenges of ALL the types can be as enlightening as discovering your core type. Your "Enneagram Blueprint" is like an MRI of your personality that impacts you to either empower you and lift you up, [...]
The 3 triangles of the Enneagram -- 9-3-6, 1-4-7 and 2-5-8 -- are potent and profound. The 9-3-6 triangle is visible on the Enneagram symbol, while the other two triangles are not. However, an invisible line connects point 4 and 7 and another invisible line [...]
The Enneagram, as we know it today, is all about personhood. We use it to dissect personality, explain our psychodynamics and try to celebrate diversity. One of the IEA Founders will tell his Enneagram "story". As one of the early individuals to learn the "psychological [...]
In an increasingly changing and agile world, with growing multiculturalism, it is important that parents raise children with high emotional, social and cultural intelligence. It is crucial to future-proof our children against getting stuck in habits of thinking, feeling and behaving when a more [...]
Over 250,000 muscle testing calibrations, spanning 30 years of multiple research studies, conducted by The Institute for Spiritual Research, Inc., Dr. David Hawkins defined a range of values that correspond to levels of consciousness which include well-recognized attitudes and emotions. With a logarithmic scale [...]
360 degree feedback is a widely-used process designed to help people identify the development areas of which they may be unaware. Furthermore, different vendors have identified their own proprietary formula for what they tout comprises an effective leader. In this highly-interactive session, we will [...]
At the triadic intersection of conscious community, the Enneagram, and contemplative practice, a sacred space can be created for not only catalyzing personal growth and spiritual awakening but also for living a transformative way of life. In this interactive session, you'll learn how to facilitate [...]
Connection is the heart of the Enneagram. From the living symbol, to awakening awareness, to transformation, the wisdom of the Enneagram invites all of us into a life-giving process. The dots and lines of the Enneagram are brought alive by connection, when this unique wisdom [...]
Spiritual traditions generally portray the ego as a barrier we place between ourselves and divine transpersonal realms. In our personality trance we are amnesiacs, having forgotten our true identity, seeing only a fraction of what’s before us, unconscious to the ground of our being, the [...]
When a British, Enneagram Five, Ph.D. shared his story and shed tears on day one of the ©iEnneagram Motions of the Soul Harmony training (he said he never does this) you might be on to something. Last month, this British gentleman became an [...]
This article originally appeared on greaterlight.ca.Although your Enneagram type is not your final destination on your inner journey, you need to start somewhere. Any ongoing work with the Enneagram presumes you have found your type accurately. This takes time and guidance from a reliable source.The [...]
This article was originally posted on greaterlight.ca.The Enneagram is having a bit of a moment. Enneagram knowledge is readily available in books, websites, seminars, retreats, workshops, and social media. Until about the 1980s the Enneagram was mostly an oral tradition, passed from teacher to student, [...]
In his book, The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles, author Jerome Wagner presents a list of each Enneagram style’s strengths paired with their neurotic, distorted counterparts, showing how they are versions of each other. Threes, for instance, possess a “natural organizational ability” but when distorted, [...]
Swiss therapist Marie Louise Von Franz was once lecturing about applications of Jungian psychology. She was saying that most women have an imaginary little devil that sits on their right shoulder and talks to them all day long in a negative way. Whenever the woman [...]
Beyond our biological need for identity is the desire to know who we are in a deep, personal sense. Each of us maintains a self-image that is based on who we once were within our family of origin, culture and subculture.Our self-image partially reflects how [...]
There is an organization called The Flat Earth Society whose purpose I used to assume was tongue-in-cheek. Through its literature and websites, it advocates a medieval view of the world and promotes an elaborate thesis that “proves” the world is flat. The Society claims, for [...]
Those of us who want to identify our Enneagram types correctly, as well as those of us who guide others, have a common intention: accuracy! But too often, one phrase or statement reminds us of one of the types in particular. As a result, we [...]
This article was originally posted on greaterlight.ca.Once you have discerned your Enneagram type, what do you do with it? To turn this information into personal transformation, you need to learn spiritual practices that will move you beyond a fixed idea of your personality type. Understanding [...]
I’ve been pretty vocal in past articles here at Nine Points about the dangers of becoming too identified with your Enneagram type—I cringe when I see someone wearing jewelry or clothing reflecting their Enneagram type, and my pre-frontal cortex tends to take a nap whenever [...]
Those of us who want to identify our Enneagram types correctly, as well as those of us who guide others, have a common intention: accuracy! But too often, one phrase or statement reminds us of one of the types in particular. As a result, we [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
The Enneagram of Personality teaches three centers of intelligence, the body, mind, and heart. This is a simplification of the original Enneagram as taught by G.I. Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff originally taught the Enneagram as a system of transformation through awakening and integrating the seven centers of [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
There’s understandable concern in the Enneagram community about how knowledge of the types gets used, especially in the wild world of social media today. People often get excited about their type and identify strongly with it, when we think they should be trying to dis-identify [...]
At New York Enneagram, we teach that a fundamental skill for being present is increasing your capacity to be with the sensations of your body. One of the gifts of studying the Enneagram is the recognition that although everyone needs to develop presence, each of [...]
Raymond Carver’s iconic short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” struck me like a thunderbolt when I read it as a young man in the 1980s. It depicts four people sitting at a kitchen table and drinking gin as the afternoon fades into [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
You also have in-built connections to the Enneagram styles of your mother and father – called parental points – and these are almost as influential as the other connecting points. When you introjected your parents you also assimilated their Enneagram styles, and now you carry [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
I have always hoped that someday I would work out how all the things I love - psychology, the Enneagram, spirituality and music - could merge together, culminating in a beautiful contribution to the world.Since 2011 I have been compiling an album of songs each [...]
Values are the guiding principles by which we live or, at least, they are aspirations that help us align our actions with our principles. Without values, we would be living in an immoral or amoral world of interpersonal confusion and existential chaos. At the same [...]
The sacred nature and dynamics of being privy to the inner life of another human being calls for a certain level of knowledge and skill in creating a safe space and trust. When we teach, coach, consult, explore enneagram type with our clients, with their [...]
I’ve been in the Enneagram arena for a really long time now… I was introduced to the Enneagram in 1994 and started using it in my work as an executive coach and consultant in 1997. I presented at my first IEA conference in 2006 and [...]
I reached out to Annie Wilde whose Twitter feed, Enneagram Reactions, has gotten much attention from the #millennialenneagram followers. I asked her to tell IEA Nine Points how she went from 0-over 5000 followers on Twitter where Enneagram tweets are lighting up the Wild West [...]
The Enneagram is most often taught as a map of 9 personality types. The 9 types are typically displayed clockwise from 1 to 9 around a circle. What is interesting is that we speak most often of the heart, head, and body types, which are [...]
Those of us who want to identify our Enneagram types correctly, as well as those of us who guide others, have a common intention: accuracy! But too often, one phrase or statement reminds us of one of the types in particular. As a result, we [...]
Author Annie Dillard once wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”An important question of the human experience is: What do we do with our time? Our use of time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years [...]
Those of us who want to identify our Enneagram types correctly, as well as those of us who guide others, have a common intention: accuracy! But too often, one phrase or statement reminds us of one of the types in particular. As a result, we [...]
A group of university researchers found that when a speaker ascribes qualities to another person, a listener will automatically unconsciously attribute those characteristics to the speaker. They called this phenomenon “spontaneous trait transference.” As you study the Enneagram, you will pinpoint particular personality styles that [...]
