When I was in grad school, I did a lot of reading to look for Enneagram patterns in the wisdom traditions (I looked primarily at Christianity and Buddhism ). Concurrently, I was doing my Enneagram training. In listening to panels, you can see people’s core...
For 15 minutes, my granddaughter Sophie filled and refilled her shoe and watched the sand spill out the sides. She barely looked up. Her focus was exquisite to witness. Then she got up and walked. She noticed how her foot made impressions in the sand. She pointed to...
I used to have pat answers for people who say, “I don’t want to be put in a box.”After spending a week at the International Enneagram Association conference with the most diverse crowd I’ve ever seen, I experienced over 400 souls with lines, edges,...
“I’m bad at meditating” is a misunderstanding of meditation. The only bad meditation is the one you don’t do. Or… “I can’t meditate” is a way of saying “I have a hard time being with the silence of my own being.” Of course you do. There’s a lot of stimulation...
Types 2 and 9 both tend to reference their attention to others and have a hard time knowing what they need or want. Both tend towards (conscious) suppression and (unconscious) repression of their anger. Both are “positive reframe” types in conflict. One...
