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  Enneagram Explorations: Instinctual Subtypes, Online Tests, Type Descriptions
The Enneagram Explorations Online Enneagram Test and Instinctual Subtypes Test are based on over 30 years of combined study and research in the fields of personality testing and the Enneagram.
The Enneagram (any-a-gram; ennea is Greek for nine, and gram means drawing) is a circle enclosing nine equidistant points connected by nine intersected lines.
Enneagram Explorations has over 25 years of combined experience in Enneagram research, training, and study.
www.enneagram.net   (475 words)

  
  Enneagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lacking falsifiability, the claims of Enneagram theorists cannot be verified using the empirical scientific method.
In her 1972 book "The Gnostic Circle", she superimposes the Zodiac on the Enneagram and uses both the 12 and 9 divisions of the circle as an Integral Yoga which she presents an approach to understanding the evolution of consciousness.
Each integer or point on the Enneagram of the Gnostic Circle corresponds to one of the planets, with the Sun as the Zero, Mercury as the One and finally Pluto, which is not a planet, as the Nine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enneagram   (2977 words)

  
 Enneagram
The Enneagram is a popular New Age tool which has found its way into Catholic practices, including parish classes and in retreat programs.
The Enneagram is a circular diagram on which personality types numbered one through nine are symbolically represented at nine equidistant points on the circumference.
The Enneagram is supposed to enable a person to gain knowledge of his true self, exposing the true motivations for actions and illusions developed regarding himself and regarding how to deal with the world.
www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/enneagram.htm   (2309 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: The Enneagram
The Enneagram is an occult oriented chart or diagram with many points and lines inside and touching a circle.
Enneagram is one of the few models of consciousness that addresses the relationship between personality and other levels of human capability.(p.
Another leading figure in the enneagram movement was psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo, associated with the New Age experimental Esalen Institute.
www.watchman.org /reltop/ennegram.htm   (754 words)

  
 How the Enneagram Personality System Works
In the course of teaching the Enneagram in workshops and Trainings, many people in the latter half of their lives have reported the development of their so-called "second wing." And in individuals who have been pursuing psychological and/or spiritual work, we have seen evidence that this is true.
Once you have taken the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator to discover your dominant type, and perhaps also the Instinctual Variants Questionnaire to further refine your understanding of the Enneagram types, you may be curious about the personality types of others.
The Enneagram is useful because it indicates with startling clarity certain constellations of meaning about something that is essentially beyond definition: the mystery that we are.
www.enneagraminstitute.com /intro.asp   (6041 words)

  
 enneagram, enneagon
The work of the enneagram authors is plainly unscientific and without rational foundation, because it is based on dogmatic formulations as opposed to the Arica system, which under any measure is logical and scientific and is based on rational metaphysical propositions and ultimate theological truth.
It is believed by some teachers of the enneagram that Gurdjieff learned the enneagram from Sufi masters, and that he was trained in the mystical arts not only of Sufism but of the cabala and Zen.
Palmer says that the "Enneagram is a psychological and spiritual system with roots in ancient traditions." She types people by fundamental weakness or sin: anger, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, sloth, fear, and deceit.
skepdic.com /enneagr.html   (2406 words)

  
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For the Sarmounis the enneagram was important as a means of divination to foretell future events as well as a tool to represent life processes, such as personal transformation.
Gurdjieff taught that the enneagram has the power to reveal the "timeless" aspect of any cosmic process, since the enneagram is a symbol of the cosmos (i.e., the universe itself is ordered according to the same numerical arrangement as the enneagram).
Nearly all the enneagram books and lecturers accept Gurdjieff's claim that the enneagram is very ancient, originating in the Babylon or Mesopotamia of 2500 B.C. Faith in the enneagram's antiquity is in effect a claim for its authority.
www.equip.org /free/DN067.htm   (5180 words)

  
 Enneagram
"Gurdjieff's presentation of the enneagram did not apply directly to personality or character types,.....What instead was characteristic of Gurdjieff's presentation of the enneagram was that he described it as a symbol relating the law of the triad (law of three) to the law of the octave (law of seven).
In the 1980's, the enneagram as a means of character typing took off, thanks in large part to the efforts of Dr. Naranjo and Helen Palmer.
The use of the enneagram as a means of transformation to a state beyond the mind has been largely forgotten except for a few Gurdjieffian students, notably J. Bennet and Anthony Blake.
www.mysticmissal.org /enneagram.htm   (2482 words)

  
 Enneagram Product Resources
The nine Enneagram Personality Types are discussed and performed as Heard in the Beethoven Piano Sonatas by the talented musician and Enneagram teacher Elizabeth Wagele.
Her direct engaging style makes the Enneagram easy and fun to digest as she illustrates the nine behavioral styles and covers ten common problem areas for each child's type.
The Enneagram is a framework for understanding the self and provides fresh conjunctions of new and old ideas, with profound implications for teaching, management and therapy.
www.metamodels.com /maps/enneagram.html   (2382 words)

  
 Enneagram Central
The fundamental premise of the Enneagram is that each of us has one dominant (not exclusive) energy that drives us in everything we do.
The Enneagram map depicts what model of the universe each of nine different kinds of people have.
Our Enneagram style is patterned perceptions, responses and behaviors, so a coach can help you at any of those points.
www.enneagramcentral.com   (440 words)

  
 The DuVersity Library: The Enneagram
Enneagrams largely derives from articles written for the Enneagram Monthly, attempting to explain the Gurdjieffian view of the enneagram as an insight into transformative process rather than as a spectrum of 'fixations' or psychological types.
One of the great lessons of the enneagram is that any kind of development must reach its ceiling and be transcended in another dimension.
FIXATIONS: As a frame of nine points, the enneagram was used by Oscar Ichazo to depict his scheme of human types of fixation, in such a way that the dynamical organising process was ignored.
www.duversity.org /ideas/enneagram.html   (1987 words)

  
 The Enneagram
The enneagram has fascinated the western world in the twentieth century like no other metaphysical concept.
Each one has added a different "flavor" to the soup and studying each one will inform a person as to his or her own "type" and what to do to "fix" the situation.
There are others who "know" the enneagram in a different way; they live it.
www.indranet.com /enneagram.html   (643 words)

  
 Enneagram
The Enneagram (or Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diametric figure which is used to indicate the dynamic ways that aspects of things and processes are connected and change.
The nine Enneagram types are often given names that indicate some distinctive behavioral aspect, though these labels are insufficient to capture the nuances of the type concerned.
Enneagram: The Sufi Enneagram explored as a way of becoming aware of how the pains of the heart can blurr out the reality of our essence and how our disorders themselves are the raw material of our recovery.
www.experiencefestival.com /enneagram   (941 words)

  
 Enneagram
Understanding your Enneagram personality type can literally change your life- the way you cope with all issues and situations, as well as the way you handle relations.
In the Enneagram theory of personality, there are 3 subtypes for each of the 9 personality types.
Judith O'Connor is certified with Helen Palmer in the presentation of the Enneagram and is a master certified coach.
www.houstoncontemplative.org /Enneagram.htm   (266 words)

  
 Enneagram Self Study Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Condon and I recently edited a book, Enneagram Applications, which applies the enneagram to therapy, spirituality, medicine, teaching, administration, management and, for fun and non-linear insight, how to see types and learn them in movies and literature.
Using the enneagram works quickly and the changes are deep and permanent.
You should be warned, the enneagram is fascinating to the point of addiction and can considerably nourish your self-development, first through insight itself and then through other means that I'll explain frequently.
www.enneagramcentral.com /eenstudy.htm   (687 words)

  
 The DuVersity - Chapter 12 from The Intelligent Enneagram
According to the principles of the enneagram, this presupposes a harmony with the processes of the first phase, the biosphere, and a resolution of the dilemmas created by the second phase, the technosphere, in which we are now living.
In the enneagram model, the turning point in the middle of the S curve lies between points 4 and 5.
The significance of the third process of the enneagram is that it intro duces a totally new player into the drama.
www.duversity.org /archives/intellennea.html   (7565 words)

  
 The Enneagram Institute of Central Ohio, Continuing Education Seminars
Knowledge of the Enneagram system is an invaluable tool for understanding the core issues underlying human suffering, allowing therapists and coaches to accurately guide people through their struggles into greater freedom and satisfaction with life.
The Enneagram Institute of Ohio is affiliated with Don Riso and Russ Hudson, internationally recognized as master teachers of the Enneagram.
She is the director of The Enneagram Institute of Ohio and teaches workshops and intensive study groups for therapists and other professionals.
www.enneagram-ohio.com /seminars.htm   (561 words)

  
 Enneagram, Enneagram Worldwide
Enneagram Worldwide offers you a unique and personally transformative experience of the Enneagram through our Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition, founded by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D. We have found that the most effective way to teach the Enneagram and recognize personality differences is through people speaking from their own experience.
As you learn about the nine Enneagram types and witness representatives of each type sharing their personal stories, you will gain self-awareness, compassion and insights to create a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types that empowers you to better understand yourself and others.
www.enneagramworldwide.com   (334 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Enneagram
In her book A Closer Look at the Enneagram, Ranaghan said the man primarily responsible for transmitting the enneagram into the West was George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, an Armenian occultist who lived in Russia from 1877 to 1947.
Furthermore, Christian proponents of the enneagram are sometimes forced to encourage Christians to bend their Christian standards to deal with their problems.
It is this diagram itself which is the enneagram, and it is used as a psychological tool of self-discovery.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1005   (1063 words)

  
 CRI Journal - CRJ0146A
Enneagram teachers who recommend that students return to this essence rarely understand what Gurdjieff meant, but his words make it clear that he did not have a Christian sense of God.
Nearly all the enneagram books and lecturers accept Gurdjieff's claim that the enneagram is very ancient, originating in the Babylon or Mesopotamia of 2500 B.C. Faith in the enneagram's antiquity is in effect a claim for its authority.
The enneagram practitioners, and anyone tempted to take their courses, must become aware that their doctrine must conform to Scripture and (at least in the view of the Catholic, but also to a lesser extent for many Protestants) church teaching.
www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0146a.html   (5051 words)

  
 Foundation for Global Community - The Enneagram
The Enneagram is a model that describes nine different personality types and their interrelationships.
She is a professionally trained Enneagram teacher, certified by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D. She has taught beginning and continuation level Enneagram courses locally, nationally, and in Canada and also offers personality typing sessions to help people determine their Enneagram type.
She is a professionally trained Enneagram teacher, certified by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D and also offers personality-typing sessions as well as psychological and spiritual counseling, in which she utilizes the Enneagram as a main tool.
www.globalcommunity.org /enneagram/index.shtml   (823 words)

  
 Enneagram Institute: Enneagram Testing & Training
This set of 90 cards enables people to type themselves and is an invaluable way to introduce the Enneagram to clients and business groups, as well as to deepen your own knowledge of the system.
For more in-depth study of the Enneagram to aid in your personal development, we recommend our best-selling books and tapes, our extensive selection of workshops, our teacher network, and private consultations.
The Enneagram is also known as the "Enneagon" and in Spanish as the "Eneagrama".
www.enneagraminstitute.com   (511 words)

  
 The Enneagram: A Typology of Personality | Type Identification
Pacwa expresses criticism of the Enneagram on several important grounds, including the fact that there is no evidence only nine types exist, nor that the correct nine have been identified.
The Enneagram is organized in three triads, and the ennea-types in each group are thought to share similar characteristics.
Point 9 of the Enneagram is aligned with 0º Aries; the arc of Ennea-type 9 extends 20º to either side of 0º Aries - i.e., from 10º Pisces to 20º Aries.
www.intraspec.ca /ennea0.php   (4080 words)

  
 The Enneagram Institute of Central Ohio, Current Seminar Schedule
The Enneagram provides a rare opportunity to discover the blueprint, the nine personality styles, on which our unique personalities are built.
Belinda Gore, Ph.D. Belinda Gore is the Director of The Enneagram Institute of Ohio and is a certified instructor with The Enneagram Institute and a member of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Association.
Send a check made payable to The Enneagram Institute of Ohio, 3105 Waukeegan Avenue, Lewis Center, OH A confirmation letter with a map and directions as well as information about nearby hotels will be sent when we receive your registration.
www.enneagram-ohio.com /seminarinfo.html   (1006 words)

  
 Helen Palmer and Enneagram Training
Helen Palmer is a preeminent teacher on the topic of the Enneagram, a dynamic system of nine personality types that empowers you to better understand yourself and others.
Helen teaches Enneagram courses and workshops in a variety of settings, including academic programs for behavioral science professionals at the PHD level.
The Enneagram is a highly sophisticated system of nine personality profiles set in a non-denominational framework compatible with contemporary psychological categories and spiritual traditions.
www.enneagram.com   (406 words)

  
 Enneagram: teambuilding, persoonlijke-, organisatie ontwikkeling en coaching
Dit maakt het werken met het Enneagram dynamisch en geeft tevens aan dat als een type gezond is hij/of zij moeilijker te typeren is. Zodra een type middelmatig tot ongezond is, is het eenvoudiger om het type te ontdekken.
Gezond zijn in termen van het werken met het Enneagram betekent dat er een hoog niveau van zelf-bewustzijn of zelf-reflectie aanwezig is bij het individu, het team, en de organisatie.
Het Enneagram kan worden ingezet als procesmodel ten behoeve van teambuilding en organisatie- of cultuur ontwikkeling.
www.enneagram.nl   (699 words)

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