With many people traveling over the coming months to conferences and workshops, an insight on service may be useful. Almost every business is a service in some way – coaching, consulting, the airlines, manufacturing, etc. What is one way that
Transformational Leaders | Type 1 – from Resentment to Perfection
When Enneagram One leaders become transformation leaders, they recognize, understand and integrate that their striving for perfection in all they do – perfection in themselves, others, and their environments – limits them in perceiving the inherent perfection in what is
Somatic Advice for Threes | A Guest Blog by Peter O’Hanrahan
Threes have such great, go-forward energy. In the study that Dr. David Daniels cites, on nine innate temperaments in small children (Thomas & Chess, 1977), Threes were likely the kids who had the most kinetic energy. They were born “on
Romney Revisited
This blog could also be titled, “You Get What You Ask For.” I follow politics to a degree, and I certainly did in the last presidential election. During that period, I guessed that Mitt Romney was an Enneagram type 3
Nature and the Enneagram | An Insight by Catherine Bell
Recently, I got to spend time with Brian and Dee Keating discussing a travel bucket list. Brian is a nature conservationist (click here for information, and some amazing videos). During our discussion, I posed the following questions of them: Question
Somatic Advice for Twos | A Guest Blog by Peter O’Hanrahan
Twos have this wonderful quality: the invitation to connect that is communicated through their facial expressions, body language and tone of voice. I try my best to meet them but am often a bit clumsy in my response. They are
Somatic Advice for Ones | A Guest Blog by Peter O’Hanrahan
When I meet Ones, I am struck by their intentional goodness and how this organizes their body language and posture. Being good includes being orderly and self-disciplined. I respect their self-control and yet, I worry about how much effort this
Somatics and the Enneagram | An Interview with Peter O’Hanrahan
The more I work with people with the Enneagram and development, the more I have concluded that bodywork and somatics is the most underemphasized and a missing core ingredient in our development psychologically and spiritually. I have also noticed that
Leadership "Practices"
The Inuksuk in Canada can represent leadership, cooperation, human spirit, or be a guidepost of a special symbolic location. This month, let’s explore some daily routines or practices that help us be more whole as leaders, embodying the different layers
Transformational Leaders | part 1
When I wrote a blog on March 6, 2013, on authentic leadership, I noted that for me, there is distinction between an “authentic leader” and a “transformed” authentic leader (click here). Further, I said this about the distinction: A leader