Archive | September, 2011

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Type and Culture: What Enneagram Type is South Africa?

During my nearly 3 weeks in South Africa, immersed with people there who know the Enneagram, I asked multiple people and groups, “What Enneagram type is South Africa?” In response, I received a consistent and universal answer: “I don’t know.”

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Enneagram Theory: Three Things I Wonder About Subtypes

Although I have become immersed in learning, knowing, and using the 27 Enneagram subtypes in my work and writing, there are more and more intriguing questions emerging for which I don’t have answers. Here they are, plus some musings about

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Enneagram Theory: Fixations (Habits of Mind) – Vengeance

This 9th blog in the series Enneagram the Fixations (Habits of Mind) focuses on Vengeance, the fixation normally associated with Enneagram style Eight. In Eights (really in all of us), Vengeance refers to the mental process of rebalancing wrongs through

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Enneagram Styles and Enthusiasm

Gayle Hardie has written a provocative insight this month, which you can read at the start of this blog. I’ve written that the “don’ts” are how we respond to the things outside of ourselves; the “dos” are what we have

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