The type 3 descriptions are often cliche, stereotypical. Everyone’s just ambitious and compatetive. And I was like, that doesn’t match my life experience. But his description talked about this idea of wanting to live as an exemplary human being. And I remember all my life, I thought, if I lived in such a way that
Mr. Gurdjieff is talking about the energy behind the Enneagram, which he called the fourth way, he said that part of the mission is that the wisdom of the East must come into balance and blend with the creative energy of the West. He said, if that doesn’t happen, our civilization will go backwards, it
The Enneagram conference theme is remember what you are. We’re trying to bring people onto remembering this source and remembering where we actually originate and where we come from. And that at the end, when all of these differences are put aside, when we remember what we are, it’s always one point, oneness.
The Enneagram need to be put in drama. In theatres, in novels, in movies, in series. Why not let the Enneagram to be known through the world from drama and poetry? Why not? People act the types. And the Enneagram shows us how to deal with those types. Interview with Mai Ashour
You know what hit me first when I started learning the Enneagram? That I have a self. Leading from a type Nine, it hit me very strongly that I have a self to begin with. So if you are asking me if the Enneagram would help anyone? Yes. And it’s not theoretical, it was impactful.
We are all walking each other home. There is no superiority or or ranks or who is knowing better than who or who has the experience, who is the guru, who knows it. No one knows it. We are all walking each other home. And this sentence makes me feel grounded and compassionate to me
When I met the the Enneagram, it was as if it was the cheat sheet of knowing people, on how they function and how they operate in this life. I felt I had the key now. It was also a key to become true and committed. It is hard work but you will get out
Some details in the Enneagram makes it very powerful. It’s about the lens. I can now borrow the lens of my daughter and see how she’s seeing things. And why she’s acting in that way. So it’s about the why, not the how she’s acting. And that for me was a transformation. I literally can
I don’t believe that our type is our mission. But I believe that it’s one of the keys that can help us to understand our mission. I’m a big believer that there is no one system or one theory that can explain everything. The Enneagram is a great system. But still it does not explain
The Enneagram is like a running river that’s always adding. And every new person that comes into the tradition of the Enneagram adds something extra. And you should never be contained by one thought or one interpretation of the Enneagram. You can have a school, you can have a lineage, but you have to expand
And the moment I remember specifically the moment when I saw the fear. It was like suddenly someone put on the light. Suddenly you know, this really aha moment of, Oh my God – everything I do in my life is motivated by fear. And so I decided that I wanted to continue doing inner
I’m a big believer that the transformation is completely different than change. The Enneagram is not about the behavior. It’s more about where are you coming from. And once you connect with where you’re coming from, you can take yourself and take your life to beyond your limitations and beyond what you expect. Islam
The Enneagram helped me to get in touch with my inner territory, my inner landscape, and to understand people around me better. The Enneagram gave me my life back, it gave me my smile back. Because these are things that I had lost along the way. Rania Hussein interview in Enneagram Insights podcast Rania
What’s so profound about the Enneagram is not just the behaviors and attitudes that we may have. It’s what’s going on underneath the waterline. I use an iceberg model, and what’s above that’s visible is what we might most connect with. Underneath are those deeper levels of motivation and hurt. The inner critic really comes
The journey between knowing myself, thinking that I was a type and then going and discovering that I’m another type made me realize a lot of things about my childhood. It made me see a lot of sides of myself that I didn’t see before. I couldn’t see because I was basically hiding them, hiding behind
I’ve spoken to quite a few people who have changed their perception or who have changed the satisfaction of their sex life, not by changing anything in their sex life, but by changing the way they communicate with their partner, the way that they talk about their needs and their desires. Frederik Coene is a
When I can learn to be aware of my patterns in the here and now, Don Riso and I call this catching ourselves in the act in “the Wisdom of the Enneagram”. When we can keep doing that, those reactions don’t get the same grip. And so when they come up, there’s a little
The Enneagram work certainly can have an effect on the personality, but it’s really about working on a deeper part of us. When we’re looking at what the Enneagram is originally intended to develop, it’s more about the development of essence. It’s soul work. It’s like the raw material of what we are born with
The Enneagram is a way of customizing what will help us develop. There’s so many things we could pay attention to in our mind, in our emotions, in our postures. But some things are going to be more useful. Some things are going to give us leverage for opening up possibilities. And that’s what Integral
As I sit here 50 some years later and I see all the things that have been added to the Enneagram, I’m glad for the excitement and I’m glad for the application of new insight. But is all this necessary or are we simply obfuscating a very healthy way of looking at human personality? Patrick
I had prior, as an Enneagram 8, which is the type I’m leading with, I had said: I don’t know, people that are afraid, I don’t know what that means. But that all came in as a perfect storm. And I learned the hard way how you don’t go towards change. I suddenly had no
Dr. Deborah Ooten: I asked Tato Gomez: “ So what’s your type?” Back then I said, what is your type rather than what’s your fixation. And he said: “One through nine.” And I thought, oh, my God, you are so right. So if we take the law of one, the circle, that says it all.
Knowing my Enneagram at point One has actually taught me that there is no such thing as perfection. That if there is anything that comes close to perfection, it is imperfect. So it has taught me to be comfortable with my perfectly imperfect self, and to be comfortable being uncomfortable in a perfectly imperfect world.
I think of myself as an Enneagram Activist now. Because I looked at the state of the world. And as an American, and as a black American, I look at what is happening, not just in this country, but really around the world, where people are marginalized for the color of their skin. I looked
We’re nature too. Sometimes I have to go out in nature to remember that. It’s like a subconscious way of letting things find their way. I have a tendency to force things: I want to be a good father. I want to be a good partner. I want to be fair. But when I walk
I’m more courageous in terms of showing up and speaking up and being involved with people and situations. And it’s not OK for me anymore to hide out on the sidelines with my knowledge while the world is having all kinds of problems. I feel a much stronger pull to use whatever I do know
I saw that all the Enneagram teachers, we were inviting students to learn about the Enneagram for personal growth. But I didn’t see much of it. Let’s say for a type eight, it’s pointing towards type two – try with a little humility and empathy that would help you. But the change is really difficult.
The Enneagram started my journey to befriend my heart. And I had no idea about any of that until I really approached the Enneagram, which I started just like a five, from a very cognitive place, interesting, trying to understand, trying to know. But then this became my journey. Befriending the heart. Interview with Dr.
The Enneagram Teacher Dr. Khaled ElSherbini is a guest in “Enneagram Insights Podcast – On Awareness, Presence and relationships”. Khaled is the founder of the school Enneagram Egypt. He talks to Flemming Christensen about how the Enneagram found him. And how the Enneagram for him is a tool for awakening. This is a conversation about
The Enneagram is telling us that If I’m in a real connection with myself, I will be more in a real connection with you. The Enneagram in its original sense was an invitation back to living in our deeper heart, and to be really embodied in our deeper mind. Russ Hudson on Presence and
Awareness, Presence and Relationships is, according to Flemming Christensen, an important part of working with the Enneagram. These are the three pillars of his work, books, teaching and podcasts. In the “Enneagram Insights podcast – On Awareness, Presence and Relationships” he talk about why in the first episode. Here is his thoughts on why, he think it
Welcome to this first episode of our International podcast about the Enneagram. We want to bring you great interviews with remarkable people to discuss how the Enneagram can be both a key and a gate into deeper presence and awareness and into strong and healthy relationships. Listen to the new Enneagram podcast The “Enneagram
Flemming Christensen´s meeting with the Enneagram is based on an interview with Rezzan Huseyin and converted into this blogpost. Discovering the Enneagram My story about discovering the Enneagram and how it became central to my work starts when I was running a consulting company with 60 employees in Denmark. (click here to receive
