What? Another blog on the Enneagram arrows? Peter O’Hanrahan and Jerry Wagner both wrote blogs on the Arrow theory, and although they may seem to contradict one another (which is fine and healthy for us to consider), I think
How to Choose the Right Job Using the Enneagram
This blog was written at the request of Josefina Escobar Bascur from Chile for use on a website called Work and Women. The site is for women who are entering the workforce, and Josefina requested my thoughts regarding how
Enneagram Styles and Empowerment
This blog was inspired by Ruth Landis’s insight activity about Empowerment, below. You can also read about how each of us, based on our Enneagram styles, can experience Empowerment in our daily lives. Ruth Landis is a Senior Member
Enneagram Theory: Enneagram Arrows
A Guest Blog by Jerome Wagner, PhD. WHICH WAY ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET THERE? The nine numbers around the Enneagram circle are connected by lines. (Grammi in Greek means lines, I was told by
Enneagram Theory: The Arrows
A Guest Blog by Peter O’Hanrahan At Ginger’s request, here is a blog about the “movement on the lines/arrows” from our home personality type to our “security and stress points.” I will try to address her criteria for the
Enneagram Theory: Projection and Enneagram Styles
A Guest Blog by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. While human beings have been projecting for 10,000 years, or as long as we’ve been around, it wasn’t until Freud that we got called on it. Projection is when we imagine and
Enneagram Styles and Possibilities
This blog was inspired by Ruth Landis’ insights about Possibilities. You can read about how each of us, based on our Enneagram styles, can engage life in its real possibilities. Ruth Landis is a Senior Member of the Enneagram
Enneagram Theory: Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Enneagram
There is nothing so practical as a good theory. – Kurt Lewin* In this series of blogs, I’m selecting the Enneagram theories that I believe are the most accurate and most useful. I think it is essential, especially as the
Enneagram Theory: The Three Centers of Intelligence
There is nothing so practical as a good theory. – Kurt Lewin* Because I have 35+ years as an OD consultant, I have lived by this quotation from Kurt Lewin. Jerry Wagner, in his keynote address to the International
Coaching: Enneagram Body Center Styles: Eight, Nine, and One
The three Enneagram styles that emanate from the Body Center of Intelligence, Eights, Nines, and Ones, have three different ways of responding to the emotion of anger. Eights have a need to express their anger full-throttle; Nines convince themselves