Enneagramtake a second to sign up for my monthly SpiritZine. What is it anyway? It is a dynamic personality system that describes nine fundamentally different ways of operating in the world. It reveals how our patterns of attention create our core beliefs, preoccupations, behaviors and our personalities. It is a powerful map for self-discovery and personal development. Understanding the system will help you build personal effectiveness, awareness, compassion and wisdom. When studying human behavior, we become aware of the beauty and the mystery of the personality of every person. We also see conflict and "stuff" that seems to alternate back and forth, up and down between healthy and unhealthy. These teachings help us to give order and coherence to what appears to be a marvelous, but disorganized, puzzle of human potential. There are nine personality patterns (types) with the inner driving forces that shape the understanding of our life, people and the world. Getting to know our own type helps each of us become more conscious self-observers, thereby consciously choosing behavior which helps us live more effectively inside ourselves, in relationships and at work. And it is about Transformation: rediscovering in ourselves, the God who dwells within and abides with us always. This delightful personality system helps us return to the person we have always been from the beginning. If you feel like you want to broaden and deepen your understanding of these teachings, please feel free to start your own discussion or join any existing discussions in the Enneagram ChatSpace. More teachings on the Ennea...The Ennea... with the Riso-Hudson Type Names1. An Ennea... symbol
What is ….The Ennea...For those of you who have not yet discovered it, the Enneagram (pronounced any-agram) is a powerful addition to our frameworks for understanding human beings. It is a nine point model of personality types. These personality 'types' are the basis for a dynamic model that shows how we function at different levels of development - and how we shift styles at times of growth and times of stress.Love by the NumbersEnnea... system of personality types gains popularity among partners seeking a window on themselves and their relationshipsFunny, You Don't Look TwoishBeyond Freud, beyond Jung, beyond EST, lies a personality-typing system known as the Enneagram. And whether you're an overachieving pit-bull lawyer or a hopelessly romantic wanna-be poet, it's got your number.Part 1 of 4I'm a six. Still, the discovery of my essential Sixness - embedded in a personality-typing system known as the Enneagram - has revealed more to me about my unconscious patterns, habitual preoccupations, underlying fears, and misused strengths than any technique for self-understanding I've yet come across.Part 2 of 4Today, at least a dozen main teachers offer workshops across the country. More than 30 books about the system have been published, and two of them - Helen Palmer's The Enneagram and Don Riso's Personality Types - have sold more than 100,000 copies each.Part 3 of 4My introduction to the Enneagram took place when my wife, Deborah, and I attended an intensive five-day workshop run by Helen Palmer at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.Part 4 of 4To better understand how transformation occurs, I found myself drawn to the insights of Don Riso, who has developed a more systematic and developmental approach to the Ennea... than its other teachers.What's Your Type?The Ennea..., which divides people into 9 types, is moving into the mainstream...Return to top of page
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