Recovery and Addiction Archives

January 10, 2026January 9, 2026

“E”& the Prisoner Entrepreneur Program

Susan Olesek I spent the weekend before Thanksgiving in prison. It was just not long enough. I was invited to teach the Enneagram to...

by Susan Olesek

History Personal Growth/Self-Development Recovery and Addiction Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

The Conversation #23

Gloria Davenport, Jack Labanauskas, Carl Marsak Kirby Olson, Sterling Doughty, Liz Wagele Gloria Davenport: It’s exciting to see how The Conversation spices up interactive...

by Gloria Davenport, Jack Labanauskas, Carl Marsak Kirby Olson, Sterling Doughty, Liz Wagele December 5, 2025November 29, 2025

Applications Education Personal Growth/Self-Development Recovery and Addiction

The Enneagram Prison Project…Update

Susan Olesek It’s been a running joke at EPP: Until people “on the inside” actually do their internal work, I’m just a white lady with a...

by Susan Olesek October 7, 2024September 4, 2024

Applications Holy Ideas Recovery and Addiction Spirituality The Nine Types

The Twelve Steps, the Enneagram and Contemplative Prayer Part 1&2

We all crave the kind of peace that can never come from a bottle, a drug, or a false self, but only from understanding...

by Robert Tallon April 7, 2011January 24, 2026

Applications Recovery and Addiction The Nine Types

Doing My Time

My first steps into a 500 person prison unit fifteen months ago were full of trepidation, not at all for my safety, but for...

by Susan Olesek April 7, 2011October 7, 2023

Applications Personal Growth/Self-Development Recovery and Addiction Spirituality

A Stroke of Insight: Using the Insights of Brain Science to Inform Our Understanding of the Enneagram

One day in 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor woke up and began to get ready for work. A busy neuroanatomist, she was accustomed to a...

by Susan Rhodes December 17, 2010September 17, 2023

Applications Community Spotlights Education Recovery and Addiction

Megatron Does the Enneagram

My heart skipped when I read the email confirming my next trip back to prison. I felt triumphant after my first visit, having wrestled...

by Susan Olesek May 21, 2010September 26, 2023

Biological Markers Personal Growth/Self-Development Recovery and Addiction Therapy and Counselling Understanding the Enneagram

Stiff upper lip syndrome

A Hypothesis about the Possible Causes of Parkinson’s Disease and the Interplay Between Illness, Culture, and Personality “There can be no transformation of darkness...

by Cynthia Miller August 4, 2008October 18, 2023

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...

by Michael Naylor May 14, 2008September 14, 2023