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*
Enneagram
Intro
* What
People Say
* Milton
Erickson
* Enneagram:
*
Ones
* Twos
* Threes
* Fours
* Fives
* Sixes
* Sevens
* Eights
* Nines
* Famous
Examples
* Tom
Condon Interview
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The
Enneagram and Spiritual
Goals
The
world’s religious literature is full of
instructions and techniques for
transcending ego and detaching from our
limited identities. The purpose of many
such practices is to help us waken from
the trance-like dream of our lives and
open to realms beyond our personality
and worldview. But getting to such
realms and staying in them are two
different tasks, because we keep putting
our defenses in the way. Read
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The
Trouble With Typing
When
people first learn the
Enneagram, they often
become intensely occupied
with the system. New
students buy books, go to
workshops, and engage in a
flurry of typing, working
out the personality styles
of their relatives,
colleagues and friends.
Suddenly,
Part
1 Part 2
On
the Job With the Enneagram
There is an old story about a man who finds a bottle
on a beach. He uncorks it and out comes a genie who
offers the man a choice between a colossal amount of
money or infinite wisdom. The man thinks hard for a
few minutes and then chooses infinite wisdom. Days
later several friends of the man see him sitting on
a park bench shaking his head and talking to
himself. Knowing he now has infinite wisdom they
move in closer to hear what he is saying. Over and
over they hear him repeat: Read
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Today a visit to Auschwitz
and Birkenau. Grueling, but then its supposed to
be. The train trip began in forest but gradually
yielded to rolling farm land and marshy patches
of woods. I kept flashing on the iconic image
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THE DYNAMIC ENNEAGRAM - Twos
Links, Quotes, Sites
The Living Bridge; how
a Three grows and changes; On Having No Head
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THE
DYNAMIC ENNEAGRAM - Fours
Four is one of what I jokingly call “nature’s Enneagram styles.”
In extreme old age people often slow down, grow laconic and
mellow; turning Nine-like, no matter what their true personality
style. In their early twenties, many young adults pass through a
natural Sevenish phase when they first venture into the world to
sample life’s variety and delights.
In a similar way, nature temporarily turns
all teenagers into Fours, in that the universal teenage
experience contains many of the elements of Four psychology: a
sense of alienation; a conscious search for identity; a
preoccupation with who you are as unique from others; a
tendency to romanticize death; the conviction that no one has
ever felt what you feel and a keen awareness of both the
elation and pain of love. The famous poetry teacher John
Ciardi was once asked whether people have to suffer to become
poets. “No,” he replied, “Having been a teenager is quite
enough.”
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About
the Enneagram - eBook excerpt
There is an organization called The Flat Earth Society with a circle of members all around the globe. Through its
literature and online presence, it advocates a medieval view of
the world and promotes an elaborate thesis that “proves”
the world is flat. The Society claims, for instance, that
photographs of the round earth shot from space are
Photoshopped, part of a sinister worldwide conspiracy to
contradict common sense. After all, any fool who can see
the horizon knows that the world is flat.
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Fine
Distinctions: Nines
Often preoccupied with
physical comfort, maintaining routines and satisfying
appetites.
Exceptionally good receivers and
appreciators; the best things in life are free.
Grateful for what they have and
treasure it.
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Quotes
By, For and About Nines
Fine
Distinctions: Eights
Self-Preservation
Eights are strongly
focused on physical security; very hard workers.
When healthy they are
exceptionally self-reliant, independent and responsible.
Self-preservation Eights can be implacably determined to
prosper.
Momma Bear or Poppa Bear; both
fiercely protective and tenderly nurturing.
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Quotes
By, For and About Eights
Self
Preservation Sevens
Self-Preservation Sevens are
confusing since they tend to be highly sociable and
gravitate toward groups like Social Subtypes do. They
specialize in “chosen family” in that they tend to
create a network of people around them.
They enjoy sharing on a circuit of
interesting or like-minded people. Other people are a
source of information and stimulation; interested in the
latest gossip and everyone’s news.
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Quotes
By, For and About Sevens
Fine
Distinctions: Sixes
Self-preservation Sixes can be warm and ingratiating; have a
graceful, diplomatic sociability.
Try to bring out the best in others and speak well of
most people.
Good communication skills; can tell people
hard truths in a skillful or funny way.
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Rapid
pain control; $47,000 Paper Sculptures; Wonders of the
Natural World;
83 Uses for Baking Soda; Everything
you know is wrong?
"The
greatest dance number ever filmed."
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Fine
Distinctions: Fives
Self
Preservation Fives
are
often exceptionally knowledgeable, possibly about
obscure subjects.
Use
their knowledge to contribute to the world.
Sensitive
to being saturated, feel overwhelmed by people’s
expectations.
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When people are hypnotized, they demonstrate
capacities called hypnotic phenomena. For instance,
trance subjects will frequently forget the
experience they had while hypnotized much like the
rest of us forget our dreams when we awaken in the
morning. This is the hypnotic phenomenon of amnesia.
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Fine Distinctions: Fours
Self-Preservation Fours are often
risk takers.
They take chances to stir up emotional intensity, collect new
experiences, play out inner dramas or learn about themselves.
Open advocates of the passionate life.
Social and artistic courage; the high side of this subtype brings
daring.
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Slovakia,
Part 1
Brataslava is an
interesting though not scintillating city, housing
about a tenth of Slovakia's five million people.
It's a hodgepodge of Slavic and Austro-Hungarian
influences plus residual Communist architecture.
Advertised as one of Europe's youngest capitals,
Bratislava is certainly on an upswing. The road
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Fine Distinctions:
Threes
Self
Preservation Threes are unusually capable, organized and
efficient.
Especially
good at discovering the best strategy for getting a job
done, getting from point A to point B as effectively as
possible.
Think of
Olympic athletes who are utterly focused on goals and
make themselves into achievement machines.
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Fine Distinctions: Twos
Healthy Self-preservation Twos are often more in
touch with how they feel and what they want.
Have the courage and social skills to
express their preferences.
Appropriately “self-referenced” – know
what they want and yet include the wishes of others.
Can be unusually materialistic.
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Links,
Quotes, Sites
Why
Study the Enneagram?
At first glance, the Enneagram seems to be just
another system for pigeon-holing people. But look
twice and you see it’s describing something central:
your core strategy for making sense of reality, your
basic life stance, the axis of your flat earth. As
you investigate the system and compare its insights
with your own experience, you may be amazed at its
depth and accuracy.
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Slovakia,
Part 2
The Novy Most (New Bridge)
was built by the Communists in 1972 when I was in
college and events in this part of the world were
an outright mystery. It too has a distinctive
show-off design, this time like an alien
envisioned by HG Wells. A huge silver saucer with
windows perched on giant stilts above the bridge
extends cables to the bridge's middle. From one
angle it looks like the figure is dominating and
possessing the bridge; from another it is shooting
death rays. Read
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Healthy Self-preservation Twos are often more in
touch with how they feel and what they want.
Have the courage and social skills to
express their preferences.
Appropriately “self-referenced” –
know what they want and yet include the wishes of
others.
 The Enneagram's Fine
Distinctions
Subtypes, Stress/Security
Points, Wings
Fine
Distinctions: Ones
- Ultra-reliable; do what they say they will and on
time.
Tend towards worry and negative anticipation
about their material well being.
Can catastrophize about money; might be “penny-wise and
pound-foolish.”
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