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  • Understanding the Enneagram
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  • The Nine Types
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    • Instincts and Subtypes
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Type 8

Sex, Love & Your Personality. Type Eight: The Challenger in Love

Eights are one of the easier Enneagram types to identify because they are often aggressive, comfortable with confrontation and apparently spoiling for a fight....

by Mona Coates & Judith Searle April 1, 2012October 24, 2023
Book Reviews

Dear Lissa: A Reply to Lissa Friedman’s Article. “The Truth about Fixation and Beyond.”

Dear Lissa,  I read with interest your article the last issue of the EM, “The Truth About Fixation and Beyond,” because of its focus...

by Susan Rhodes April 1, 2012October 24, 2023
Centers of Intelligence

The missing Body center

(or Making the Invisible Visible) The other day, I was watching Oprah’s show, Soul Sunday, on which she presents interviews with spiritual teachers and...

by Susan Rhodes February 29, 2012January 31, 2026
Business/Workplace

Thoughts on Steve Jobs’ Enneatype

Mario Sikora Assessing other people’s Ennea-types is tricky business, and the only thing more problematic than ennea-typing public figures is not doing so.  Let...

by Mario Sikora February 29, 2012October 23, 2023
Fixations

The Truth About Fixation and Beyond

LIssa Friedman Ph.D Before I begin, I would like to make clear that all I can say can only point at the truth and...

by Lissa Friedman February 28, 2012April 29, 2025
Editorial and News

Editorial 185  Feb/Mar 2012

It’s odd how the vagaries of life take charge of events in spite of our best intentions. No sooner had I made a resolution...

by Jack Labanauskas February 28, 2012October 15, 2023
Instincts and Subtypes Type 9

Nine Subtypes

As body types who seek to create harmony and balance, Nines have a natural affinity for the daily rhythms of instinctual life - working,...

by Peter O’Hanrahan February 17, 2012April 29, 2025
Applications Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality

Competing With Love

Somik Raha The Japanese warrior looked perplexed. He had just offered tea to his Chinese adversary and asked whether his guest fully appreciated its...

by Somik Raha January 22, 2012December 22, 2023
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