The Enneagram as a Transformative Tool for Leadership
Susan Forster Developing individual competencies is vital to transforming organizations from hierarchical to team-based systems. After several decades in the psychological community, the Enneagram...
The Appealing, Attractive, Accomplished People
Loretta Brady This is the concluding article in a series of excerpts on the Three Centers of the Enneagram. Since Dick Wright’s articles on...
The 2D Enneagram Confusion: Part IV — Participation in Living Process
With the distinction between force and energy clarified, the role of the personality can be understood with greater precision. If transformation depends on configurations...
Some Advice – Part 1
Rev. William J. Callahan, S.J. Editors’ Note: In this book, Fr. Callahan, S.J. introduces the Enneagram to an adolescent audience and to their teachers...
Whom Does the Grail Serve? The Tale of Perceval as a Parable of the Three Wounds and the Three Virtues (Part 3 of 3)
The previous two articles in this series developed a framework. They argued that beneath the Enneagram's familiar center-level account of anger, fear, and shame...
The 2D Enneagram Confusion: Part III — Three Laws, Three Dimensions
With the outer circle restored as the unfolding of process in time, the inner structure of the Enneagram can be approached with greater precision....
More Than a Label: The Sacred Process of How to Discover Your Enneagram Type
How Do You Determine Your Enneagram Type? There’s no shortcut to self-discovery, no quick test that can decode the mystery of who you are....
How to Build a Better Relationship Part 1
Dee Dee and Patrick Aspell Have you ever wondered why relationships which apparently arise from love break up? This question can be answered by...
The Virtues That Break the Loop: Love, Faith, and Hope as Center-Level Liberation (Part 2 of 3)
The preceding issue mapped two features of the wound structure beneath the Enneagram's center-level account: the developmental origin of each wound in the infant...
The 2D Enneagram Confusion: Part II — The Flattening
The difficulty we are addressing does not begin with misunderstanding so much as orientation. The Enneagram, as it is commonly presented and used today,...
Nine Ingredients For A Panacea
If Oscar Ichazo was the Father of today’s Enneagram Movement, then Claudio Naranjo can rightly be said to be the Mother, inasmuch as through...
The Enneagram: A Key to Understanding Organizational Systems, Part II
By Michael Goldberg By looking past expressed intention and overt behavior to underlying assumptions and values, the Enneagram focuses on what really matters to...
The 2D Enneagram Confusion: Part I — A Study in Misapplication, Not Misunderstanding
The Enneagram of personality is one of the most valuable maps we have for understanding the structure of the human psyche. It reveals how...
Below the Wound: Origins and the Loops That Keep Leaders Stuck (Part 1 of 3)
The Enneagram tradition has mapped the wound structure of personality with extraordinary precision. The Gut center carries anger, the Heart center carries shame, the...
The Existential Hole and the Path to Transformation (Part 3 of 3)
If the Existential Hole is a fracture, could it also be a doorway to transformation? In this final installment, we explore how stepping into...
A Path to God: How the Enneagram is an Essential Tool for the Spiritual Life
Generally, it seems as if the Enneagram is presented primarily within a secular framework. At least, it’s a fun party trick to type your...
