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  • The “Third Approach” to the Triads

    The “Third Approach” to the Triads

    ~~Dick Wright Ph.D.~~ Enneagram authors tend to follow one of two “classic” approaches to describing the three triads. The first approach, a specific application of the popular “Head/Heart/Gut” theory, was discussed by Helen Palmer in her book, The Enneagram. Speaking about the three ways individuals can “focus attention,” she identifies “those with mentally-based intuitions, those [...]

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  • Enneagram Typology Among Animals

    Enneagram Typology Among Animals

    ~~by Richard Curran Trussel~~ Moses had an easy going, placid nature. We got him early in his life and gave him lots of love, providing consistent training and discipline. He was a late bloomer. He didn’t bark until he was past 11 1/2 years old. I seriously questioned his intelligence. Often he just seemed so [...]

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  • Enneagram Types Relating To Animals

    Enneagram Types Relating To Animals

    ~~by Richard Curran Trussel~~ Not everyone relates to animals, but for those who do, elements of Enneagram type manifest. One of the many gifts animals offer us is that they potentially lead us beyond our fixations. One What place do companion animals have with someone who is organized and orderly, striving to make every detail [...]

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  • Type Four Women

    Type Four Women

    ~~by Antonio Barbato~~ These are three stories of actual type Four women (one of each subtype), and about how each major change in life came with its own physical component, its own emotional state and its own reasoning. I focus quite a bit on the style in which each of the subtypes deals with relationships [...]

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Videos on the Enneagram

More Videos on the Enneagram
  • Enneagram Type 1 – The Perfectionist
    Enneagram Type 1 – The Perfectionist

    by Iain McNay of Conscious.tv interviews Enneagram Type Ones - Discussion with James Barlow, Anne Martin and Carlos Silva. uploaded to youtube.com on Nov. 7, 2011

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  • Enneagram Type 9 – The Mediator
    Enneagram Type 9 – The Mediator

    Conscious TV with host and moderator, Iain McNay interviewing three enneagram Type 9s, Dottie Baynham, Cate Parker and Sam Settle. The enneagram Type 9 is called “The Mediator” – finds it easy to merge with others and ignore their own selves. Watch and listen to this thoughtful and personal discussion with these three Type 9s.

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  • What is Barack Obama’s Enneagram Style?
    What is Barack Obama’s Enneagram Style?

    Ginger Lapid-Bogda discusses Barack Obama’s enneagram style and he is not a type three…What is he?  Listen to Ms. Lapid-Bogda go through her analysis; type nine, type two, type three, type five…which one is it?

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New in The Enneagram Monthly

January 2012, Issue #184

January 2012, Issue #184

In the course of gathering, editing and discussing articles on material for the Enneagram Monthly, new and innovative ideas come up frequently, but in this issue we have a particularly rich selection. A small price to pay is that it often causes our timing to lag, but waiting for good material to come together is [...]

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December 2011, Issue #183

December 2011, Issue #183

A New Year is a time to give in to the temptation of making resolutions — some keep them more than others— can’t brag that my record is worthy of mentioning…But what’s the harm in taking stock of where we’re at in life and if we can tweak some areas towards more wisdom. Every positive [...]

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Videos on the Enneagram

Enneagram Type 1 – The Perfectionist

Enneagram Type 1 – The Perfectionist

by Iain McNay of Conscious.tv interviews Enneagram Type Ones - Discussion with James Barlow, Anne Martin and Carlos Silva. uploaded to youtube.com on Nov. 7, 2011

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Enneagram Type 9 – The Mediator

Enneagram Type 9 – The Mediator

Conscious TV with host and moderator, Iain McNay interviewing three enneagram Type 9s, Dottie Baynham, Cate Parker and Sam Settle. The enneagram Type 9 is called “The Mediator” – finds it easy to merge with others and ignore their own selves. Watch and listen to this thoughtful and personal discussion with these three Type 9s.

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Enneagram Types

Enneagram Types Relating To Animals

Enneagram Types Relating To Animals

~~by Richard Curran Trussel~~ Not everyone relates to animals, but for those who do, elements of Enneagram type manifest. One of the many gifts animals offer us is that they potentially lead us beyond our fixations. One What place do companion animals have with someone who is organized and orderly, striving to make every detail [...]

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The Subtypes of Point Four

The Subtypes of Point Four

~~by Clarence Thomson~~ The Intimate (One-to-One, or Sexual) Four The Intimate Fours begin with a sense of defect which appears in relationship to someone or something else. It is not enough that one feels defective—one must also recognize that no one else is. The vice of envy is relational—it is not free-standing. Envy will take [...]

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Interviews

Interview with Sandra Maitri – Part 1

Interview with Sandra Maitri – Part 1

Jack Labanauskas: Has your general focus regarding the Enneagram changed in the past few years? I’m interested if there was a shift and what direction it took. Sandra Maitri: In terms of change of focus in the last years, the main thing is that I have become quite dissatisfied with doing stand-alone Enneagram workshops. Primarily [...]

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Interview with Sandra Maitri – Part 2

Interview with Sandra Maitri – Part 2

continued from Interview with Sandra Maitri – Part 1 Jack Labanauskas: In the last issue you went through a brief synopsis of the types, which is familiar ground to most readers, but far fewer people pay equal attention to the passions or have a clear concept of what they mean. It is as if initially, [...]

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Other Recent Posts

Tracking the Elusive Self

Tracking the Elusive Self

~~ Bruce Love ~~ I think what may make the story of my quest of interest to others is the possibly unique approach I developed based on the work of two masters of healing, one living and one dead, and both of whom, in my opinion, have not been sufficiently appreciated. Like the triune nature [...]

February 15, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Passion, Power, Esotericism, Triads and the Enneagram gets a bad rap

Passion, Power, Esotericism, Triads and the Enneagram gets a bad rap

Thomas Isham: I wish to set the record straight on one issue and add some comments on another. As to the first: a delightful quotation has been floating through “The Conversation” for the past several issues, attributed sometimes to myself, sometimes to Antonio Barbato, and sometimes to both of us. “The Enneagram,” it says, “is [...]

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Further Conversations

Further Conversations

Bert Rose: If we accept that thinking triad has the common emotional base fear and body triad has the common emotional base anger, could we consider possibility that emotional triad has the common emotional base pride rather than “emotions?” Sterling Doughty: I also think it pretty obvious that Western culture is far more concerned with [...]

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