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  • Understanding the Enneagram
    • Centers of Intelligence
    • Triads
    • Passions
    • Fixations
    • Virtues
    • Holy Ideas
    • History
  • The Nine Types
    • Type Insights
      • Type 1
      • Type 2
      • Type 3
      • Type 4
      • Type 5
      • Type 6
      • Type 7
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      • Type 9
    • Instincts and Subtypes
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    • The Arrows
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Understanding the Enneagram

Centers of Intelligence

Head versus Heart

Written by: Michael Hampson People have every right to be suspicious – because there is no explanation. And surely there ought to be –...

by Michael Hampson March 5, 2005September 8, 2023
Centers of Intelligence Instincts and Subtypes

Misuse of the Enneagram of Personality

Written By: Gloria Davenport Like any other system, the Enneagram of Personality can be misused or abused. Too often, when the bias of the...

by Gloria Davenport March 1, 2005September 8, 2023
Understanding the Enneagram

The Enneagram of Cartoons

Written by: Kirby Olson In that cartoons are based on simplification and exaggeration it seemed to me possible that they could illustrate some of...

by Kirby Olson March 1, 2005September 8, 2023
Understanding the Enneagram

When Everything is Perfect in My Life, Then I Can Start to Live

Peter Zappel Written by: By Peter Zappel Many Americans today are doing a tremendous amount of soul searching. Books like The Power of Now...

by Peter Zappel March 1, 2005September 8, 2023
Fixations Therapy and Counselling

Stripped Naked—From Fixation to Freedom

Written by Lissa Friedman Ph.D. This article focuses on how the fixation of each Enneagram type comes into being; how the nurturing environment affects...

by Lissa Friedman Ph.D. December 1, 2004September 8, 2023
Passions

Passion and Counterpassion

Is Type Six different from the others? Or do other types portray similar dualistic characteristics? When learning the Enneagram, many people are surprised to...

by Fabien and Patricia Chabreuil October 1, 2002October 25, 2023
Fixations Therapy and Counselling

From Fixation to Elation   Positive Psychology and the Enneagram

Paula Raines There is a new movement quickly gathering a following among psychologists. After spending most of the years since World War II focused...

by Paula Raines September 1, 2001March 26, 2025
Centers of Intelligence Editorial and News Letters from the Editor Understanding the Enneagram

Letters Issue 57 January 2000

The short article, “A Five’s Miscalculation,” by Nancy Anderson, in your last issue moved me to tears. (I’d love to read more by her—can...

by Crowdsourced Letter(s) to the Editor January 24, 2000September 26, 2023
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