Enneagram Defense Mechanisms: Guardians of the Fixations -Part 2
Peter O'Hanrahan Instinctually based defenses Mental types in general tend to withdraw energy from their emotional and instinctual centers and concentrate on mental activity....
Enneagram Defense Mechanisms: Guardians of the Fixations – Part 1
Peter O'Hanrahan Working with the Enneagram presents a number of challenges to us as students of the system. One of these is the sheer...
Misusing the Enneagram to Promote Political Agendas: The Case of Newt Gingrich
Jonah Whales Many people who teach or write about the enneagram use public figures as illustrations of the nine types. This can be a...
Handwriting of Type 5, Part 2
Claudio Garibaldi Introversion Type Five is probably the most introverted of all Enneagram types. Looking at handwriting (HW) samples 12 and 13 could you...
The Wings Do Fly
Especially if They’re Not Loaded Down with Politics and Ego Brian Grodner Wing theory and the relationship of the wings to other Enneagram concepts...
WIMP: a “Four Letter” Word
Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey Alan: A few years ago I, a type 5, challenged my wife Barbara, a type 8, by claiming that...
Floating Islands and Flying Ideas: The Spirit of Type Seven
There’s a fascinating stop in Homer’s Odyssey where Odysseus and his crew arrive at Aeolia, the floating island home of Aeolus, the Keeper of...
The Conversation # 5
Bert Rose, Sterling Doughty, Carl Marsak, Kirby Olson, Usha Mullan, Antonio Barbato, Thomas Isham, Jack Labanauskas Bert Rose: If we accept that thinking triad...
Nines – Admitting Your Preferences
Tom Coondon I once lived in a college town with a history of radical politics and social experimentation. In 1968 the people in the...
Nine Enneagram Negotiation Styles, Part 2
Dee Dee and Patrick Aspell 4. Elements of Negotiation. Effective negotiation involves five elements: outcomes, rules, resources, results, and consequences. Examples of the first...
The Enneagram and Me: Type 2
Kim Maree I first came across the enneagram in early February 2011, so it has been in my life for just over 5 years...
The Enneagram of avoidances, deficient emptiness & the plutonic paradox of space part 2
Gary Rosenthal Regarding Space — Regarding Depths… The Enneagram of the Self-idealizations might be seen as the composite mapping of an idealized facet of...
The Giver-Observer (Two-Five) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn M.S.W A chapter from our reference book, Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to...
The Conversation #4
Antonio Barbato, Carl Marsak, Sterling Doughty, Jack Labanauskas, Thomas Isham, Usha Mullan, Kirby Olson, Gloria Davenport, Richard Daffner Antonio Barbato: I agree with Thomas...
A Discussion of Problems in the Transmission of Enneagram Teachings in Contemporary Western Society
Introduction This short essay outlines some potential problems for the dissemination of Enneagram teachings. It contains a discussion of why the Enneagram teaching was...
