Casais felizes, amigos em festas sorrindo, profissionais sendo reconhecidos... somos diariamente bombardeados com imagens nas redes sociais e na vida "real". É linda a ideia que desperta em nós a esperança de um dia também vivermos uma história assim. O irônico é que não basta almejar bons relacionamentos, simplesmente não podemos. Não é tão fácil quanto parece. Por que [...]

Join us for this wonderful and FREE offering at Enneagram Great Lakes, MID DAY CAFE on OCTOBER 20th 12-1pm with Suzanne Dion, Co-Author with Dr, David Daniels, The Enneagram, Relationships & Intimacy. "Our qualities of being are what we leave behind."David Daniels What are you leaving behind these days? How can we open to new ways of leaving what is [...]

The Enneagram Love Triads At the 2017 Enneagram Global Summit lectures, Jessica Dibb was chatting to the late Claudio Naranjo in a talk entitled “The Enneagram and Multiplicity.” Naranjo described how we can divide the nine basic Enneagram Types into three triads that reflect these three ways of approaching love: Paternal, Maternal, and Erotic. (A trinity of energies related [...]

Sex – it can carry us on wings of pure sensual pleasure, or crush and humiliate us. It can take us from the sacred sublime to the darkest, most depraved aspects of humanity. Sex presents paradox: pleasure/pain, love/hate, gentleness/brutality, spiritual transcendence/primal urge, unconditional giving/self-gratification, playful fun/serious offence . . . Only the essential survival needs of shelter, food, and water create as much [...]

There are many common questions on the Enneagram when we first discover it. Which type is best for me to relate to? How can we mobilize the most successful team? Who is my best match? I always hear couples in my coaching sessions talk about their partner saying things like; "I avoid, I hate, I fear her or him" [...]

For over 15 years working as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have found that combining 2 powerful models help couples improve communication, intimacy, connection, conflict resolution, while facilitating effective, developmental shifts for each partner: The Developmental Model (via The Couples Institute) and the Enneagram. This approach is called, "The Enneagram & Development for Couples©."There are 2 main roles [...]

After a recent Head Type panel, a student said, "My partner is a Five. I've been reading everything I could about Fives, but hearing from them directly was so helpful particularly when I realized there is a lot more going on in there than I realized. I had no idea." When I interviewed Jerry Wagner, one of the IEA [...]

In Seven Laws of Spiritual Success, Deepak Chopra says “The universe operates through dynamic exchange…giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe (God) circulating in our lives.” As we approach the holidays it is important to ask [...]

As we go into the holiday season, the most difficult thing to manage can often be our relationships with one another, whether we are relating to our spouse, primary partner, children, parents or friends. Some basic rules of engagement are important to keep in mind as we eat, drink and make merry over the next couple of months. Communications [...]

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, mind, or heart centers of the individual. The reaction comes from that aspect of ourselves that we call the personality or the ego. The personality or ego is a [...]