Editorial 164 June 2009
Well, no sooner did I wish for a relief from the Summer heat and expressed a craving for thermal homeostasis, it arrived in spades...
The Permeable Boundary Between 5 and 4
There’s no clear boundary between Five and Four. Fours with Five-wings are virtually indistinguishable from Fives with Four-wings. For instance, the very popular Eclectic...
Sacred Ideas of Type Nine
Sacred Backdrop, Sacred Self-Forgetting, Sacred Bliss Nines are generally the most grounding, peaceful and content of all the Enneagram types. They can merge with...
Listening from a Type Perspective
“The first duty of love is to listen.” -- Paul Tillich Intrapersonal listening is about listening to ourselves. When we learn to listen to...
Untrue to Type: Dionysius and the Repair of Imagination
It’s easy to see why the enneagram community was seduced by the dazzling Olympian god Apollo. He’s good looking, sure, so tall and classically...
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On the nature of enneagram subtypes
[Author’s note: I wrote the following article about four years ago as an introduction to the enneagram subtypes. That’s why it’s pretty basic at...
Enneagram Interactions at Work
Which Enneagram styles get along best at work? How well do the different Enneagram styles work together? What are the dynamics that predictably arise...
Editorial 163 october 2009
Autumn in the San Francisco Bay area is the best season of all. That’s my subjective view, and feel free to disagree if you...