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April 2026

The Nine Types Understanding the Enneagram

Why Is It So Hard To Change

John Richards In my interactions with many people regarding the Enneagram, like a number of the Enneagram teachers, therapists and consultants I know, I...

by John Richards April 13, 2026April 12, 2026
Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

The Core of the Fixation

One of the curiosities in enneagram study is around the question of: “How does one arrive at their point of fixation?” There are many...

by John Harper April 12, 2026April 17, 2026
Communication Type 5 Type 6 Type Insights

Enneagram Typing: Just for the Fun of It – #1

Ed Jacobs Some people believe that labeling people with an Enneagram type is a dangerous business. It pigeon-holes them into expected thought patterns, actions...

by Ed Jacobs April 11, 2026May 12, 2026
Type 7 Type Insights

Comparison of Two Authors’ Views of the Seven by a Type Seven

Mona Coates, Ph.D. In an attempt to understand my own SEVEN-ness more completely, I conducted the following search for deeper explanations by comparing and...

by Mona Coates Ph.D. April 9, 2026April 29, 2026
Instincts and Subtypes

Understanding the Enneagram’s Three Instincts as Safety, Intensity, and Belonging

While our Enneagram type describes the lens through which we interpret the world, our Instincts describe what our nervous system is constantly scanning for....

by Christopher L Heuertz April 7, 2026March 26, 2026
Communication History Relationships Spirituality Type Insights

The Conversation # 34

Carl Marsak, Susan Rhodes, Jack Labanauskas Carl Marsak: Riso and Hudson’s type analysis of Barack Obama in the Jan. 2009 EM is deep and...

by Carl Marsak, Susan Rhodes, Jack Labanauskas April 6, 2026March 15, 2026
History Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

Nine Qualities of the Enlightened Being, Part 3

John Fudjack Type Seven The enlightened quality associated with Type Seven (sometimes referred to as the “Epicure”) is the capacity for “peak” experience. The...

by John Fudjack April 5, 2026March 28, 2026
Centers of Intelligence Triads

The Centers, A Fourth Approach — Or is it the First?

By Kathy Hurley and Ted Dobson With this issue of the Enneagram Monthly, Dick Wright continues his four-part series entitled “The ‘Third Approach’ to...

by Kathy Hurley and Ted Dobson April 4, 2026April 2, 2026
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