EM Editor, Author at Enneagram Monthly

Presentation of personality in therapy

Attention: Avoiding conflict, finding peace and comfort • Easygoing, pleasant, passive, agreeable • Diffuse energy • May demonstrate awareness of therapist’s needs • May...

Instincts and Subtypes Type 9

Myra, Type Nine: Self -Preservation

Chubby, charming and cheerful, Myra was a woman well positioned in society when I first met her. A few years earlier she had immigrated...

Type 9

Type Nine Intuitive Take . . .

Being a nine involves movement between inner sleep and awakeness, a struggle that is often hidden from the lower self. If I am a nine, it is...

Type 3 Type 8

What You Don’t Know About Yourself Could Hurt: Challenger or Champion?

What do Martin Luther King, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lee Iacocca, Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, Ross Perot and Indira Gandhi have in common? How are Jimmy...

Education

The Enneagram System: Understand Yourself to Understand Your Students

Janet Levine Often educators struggle in situations where teaching is not simply about content and curriculum, but about connecting across the divide of human...

Childhood Wounds Family Dynamics

How Compassion Helps Us Reimagine Childhood Wounds

Over the years, my approach in teaching type has been framed by two things: how our imperfect early holding environments shaped our sense of...

Therapy and Counselling

Nine Ancient Human Responses

In the current uncertainty, the Enneagram can provide invaluable help by enabling people to play to their strengths, sidestep their blindspots, and to be...

Arica Institute History

Oscar Ichazo born in Roboré, Bolivia July 24, 1931 – died March 26, 2020 in Kihei, on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

Oscar Ichazo was the founder of the Arica School and the originator (often referred to as the “father”) of the Enneagram of Personality. Oscar...