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Enneagram Monthly
Enneagram Monthly
  • 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
      • Type 8
      • Type 9
    • Instincts and Subtypes
    • Childhood Wounds
    • The Arrows
    • The Wings
  • Applications
    • Business/Workplace
    • Communication
    • Education
    • Family Dynamics
    • Leadership and Management
    • Personal Growth/Self-Development
    • Recovery and Addiction
    • Relationships
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    • Team Building
    • Therapy and Counselling
  • Comparative Systems
    • Astrology
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    • Fourth way
    • Graphology
    • MBTI
    • Process Enneagram
  • Editorial and News
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Understanding the Enneagram

The Nine Types Type 8 Understanding the Enneagram

Dynamic Enneagram: Fine Distinctions, Eights

Self Preservation Eights Strongly focused on physical security; very hard workers. When healthy they are exceptionally self-reliant, independent and responsible. Self-preservation Eights can be...

by Tom Condon April 27, 2009October 18, 2023
Editorial and News History Interviews Latest Research Understanding the Enneagram

Finding Buried Treasure:

Getting Reacquainted with Innovative EM Articles and Their Authors The Enneagram Monthly has published 1000+ articles by about 350 authors in 158 issues over...

by Richard K. Moore April 27, 2009October 18, 2023
Holy Ideas Type 8 Understanding the Enneagram

Sacred Ideas of Type Eight  

Sacred Omnipresence, Sacred Expanse, Sacred Resistance In a previous article (EM, Nov. 08), I summarized the Sacred Ideas—the spiritual aspects—of each Enneagram type.  In...

by Stephen Hatch, M.A.R. March 1, 2009September 23, 2023
Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 6 Understanding the Enneagram

Dynamic Enneagram–Fine Distinctions: Sixes

Self Preservation Sixes Self-preservation Sixes can be warm and ingratiating; have a graceful, diplomatic sociability. Try to bring out the best in others and...

by Tom Condon February 4, 2009October 18, 2023
History Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

Type is With Us Since Birth: Part 3

A New Theory on Type and the Nature of Type Motivation By Susan RhodesGurdjieff taught a practical work of self-transformation and left us the...

by Susan Rhodes January 26, 2009September 26, 2023
Understanding the Enneagram

Enneagram Type is With Us At Birth, Part II

Deconstructing the Freudian Enneagram By Susan Rhodes’s In Part I of this article, I addressed a recent argument put forth in the Enneagram Journal...

by Susan Rhodes December 1, 2008September 8, 2023
Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

The Enneagram of Individuality

How Type Shows Us What We Aren’t, What We Are, and What We Can Become Most of us who read the Enneagram Monthly are...

by Susan Rhodes September 4, 2008October 18, 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
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