Eights, Nines and Ones usually have no inherent trouble with action. Instead, they tend to unconsciously overlook themselves and habitually react from an emotional ground of anger. These three styles…
To paraphrase the Beatles:
‘I read the news today, oh boy.
Eights control through lust which includes sexual lust, but encompasses a lust for power, a drive to dominate and prevail. This is similar to Freud’s concept of the libido, which…
Connection is the heart of the Enneagram. From the living symbol, to awakening awareness, to transformation, the wisdom of…
Spiritual traditions generally portray the ego as a barrier we place between ourselves and divine transpersonal realms. In our personality trance we are amnesiacs,…
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Although your Enneagram type is not your final destination on your inner journey, you need to start somewhere. Any ongoing…
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The Enneagram is having a bit of a moment. Enneagram knowledge is readily available in books, websites, seminars, retreats,…
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…
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…
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…
Communication loops are necessary to provide feedback within an organization between individuals, involving a critical assessment of an individual’s behavior or performance, both verbal and nonverbal.
Feedback is clear, concise,…
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“Type or ego is simply our strategy for surviving on planet earth” Dr Deborah Ooten, School of Conscious Living, EEI Session I teachings
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…
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…
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…
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Once you have discerned your Enneagram type, what do you do with it?…
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…
I recently returned from a very powerful and moving Enneagram retreat in London designed and facilitated by Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes. Upon my return I…
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