EM Editor, Author at Enneagram Monthly

Let’s Talk About Eights

by Jim Jennings, Ph.D. If you’re willing to listen, I’m willing to talk. I’m an Eight. Funny thing about being an Eight. If I...

Community Spotlights Interviews

Conversation with Robert and Ruth Bly

Jack Labanauskas: Robert, you spent a chunky bit of time working with men on their deep inner nature. I’m curious about what fundamental core...

Editorial and News Letters from the Editor

Editorial 149 June 2008

When the 80’s were in full swing and my (then) wife was coming home from her English Literature post-graduate classes, we’d often have debates...

Type 7

The Dynamic Enneagram – All About Sevens

In the 1945 movie Children of Paradise, there is a pivotal moment when all seems lost. The story concerns a love triangle set in a...

Recovery and Addiction

The Enneagram, Addictions Treatment and the Levels of Development

Norman Quellet’s article in the Enneagram Monthly (Jan. & Feb. 2008) discussed the completion of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in relation to...

Type 5

Dynamic Enneagram: Fine Distinctions, Fives

Subtypes, Self Preservation Fives Often exceptionally knowledgeable, possibly about obscure subjects. When healthy they use their knowledge to contribute to the world. Sensitive to...

Editorial and News Letters from the Editor

Editorial 148 May 2008

Spring is in the air, and in some places we are finally getting a little bit of global warming (oops, pardon the gaffe, it’s...

Type 2

Type Two’s War With Fat

by Shadrach Smith, M.D. and Clarence Thomson Here's how I (Shadrach) came to the Enneagram integrations by Clarence Thomson. A Doctor’s Discovery Gwen was...