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...
Myths We Live By: The Hidden Stories of Each Enneagram Type
What is Myth? While the word myth is often used to describe something false or unfounded, myths are far more than mistaken beliefs. They...
Nine Enneagram Negotiation Styles, Part 1
Patrick Aspell, Ph.D. and Dee Dee Aspell, M.A. There’s not a day goes by that people do not use negotiation: at home or the...
The IEA and the Conference: Congratulations and Critique
Brian Grodner The IEA Special Event in Chicago was in many ways a success. Many of the major authors and theoreticians had the opportunity...
Philosophy and Personality, part 3.1: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle – as Individuals
Nicholas Reitter As a final preliminary step before connecting analyses of exemplars’ philosophies and personalities, a concise chart seems useful to recap the categorizations...
Book Review: The Enneagram World of the Child by John Harper
The Enneagram World of the Child: Nurturing Resilience and Self-Compassion in Early Life by John Harper centers on nurturing children, it equally serves as...
Personal Reflections: Claudio Naranjo’s 6-Day Workshop
Frank Benison, Ph.D. & Pamela Benison, M.A. We came to this workshop to learn the wisdom of the enneagram from the master. That is...
The Conversation #3
Jack Labanauskas, Antonio Barbato, Kirby Olson, Carl Marsak, Thomas Isham & Sterling Doughty Jack Labanauskas: At the International Enneagram Association conference in San Francisco...
Social Ones
Tom Condon At their best, Social Ones are genuinely self-sacrificing, working tirelessly for the good of others and putting their beliefs into action. “What...
The Orchestra Cannot Hear the Symphony
Kevin Cullen I am writing this article as I ride the “El” train to the airport from Loyola University just after the IEA conference...
Blue Dot, Sure Shot
Ann Kirby Call me obsessive. Call me hypervigilant. Call me Six. As soon as I saw the name badges lined up on the registration...
Somatic Work Through the Lens of the Enneagram Part 2
Johanna Putnoi Somatic Work has the potential to profoundly expose and disengage the various aberrant patterns of behavior described by the Enneagram and other...
Beautiful, Eloquent, Efficient and Sticky
Brenda Mills I came to Chicago, the site of my first Enneagram conference, my mind brimming with questions and diagrams, eager to engage with...
Chicago Enneagram History
Jerry Wagner The Enneagram first appeared in Chicago as part of a two semester course in Religious Experience taught by Bob Ochs, S.J. in...
The Mediator (Type Nine) in Relationship
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn M.S.W Here is another chapter from our reference book, Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram...
The Enneagram and Transformation: A Workshop With Helen Palmer
Bruce Anderson The intensity of 5s is one of the traits that is more suggested than defined in the enneagram literature. We need focus...
