Trauma, Choice, and Paradise Lost
The impact of the Enneagram, from its significant beginnings with the publication of the first book in 1984 (by Maria Beesing, Robert Nogosek and...
You’re just like your mother: A study of integrational personality type
A question which arises frequently in Enneagram gatherings is the extent to which Enneagram types cross generations. Is there an association between the Enneagram...
The Nine Enneagram Types
(Based on I Corinthians 12:8-11) The Enneagram and Ethics, My Belief The enneagram identifies mental features of a person’s psyche. They are an aspect...
Enneagram and the Horney Typology
Karen Horney (1885-1952), a brilliant American psychoanalyst of German origin, was interested in taking into account cultural and social causes, in addition to the...
A Four takes up Golf
An Eastern disciple who was proud of what he considered to be the spirituality of the East came to the Master and said, “Why...
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...
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...
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...