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Why the Enneagram?

The top three catalysts for transformation and insight in my life have been:

1-relationships

2-suffering

3-the Enneagram

The Enneagram is a personality assessment tool that helps people uncover their motivations and discover how to grow. I went to an Enneagram training last weekend and the teacher, Michael Naylor, used the terms “asleep” and “awake” a lot. Learning the Enneagram has the potential to wake us up to our desires, drives, and fears. As Michael Naylor put it, how do we “sense our aliveness” in the most profound way.

People use the Enneagram (and all personality assessments) for all kinds of purposes. I had dinner with a recent college grad last night who said the Enneagram wave had swept her college last year. And why not? Personality assessments can be really fun! We get to see what’s unique about ourselves, who we’re like and who we’re not like. There’s a voodoo quality to reading a description of your type—“ooo, how did they know me so well?”

But the Enneagram has a different quality to it. There’s an element of being found out….of having our darker desires unearthed. One of my spiritual mentors told me, read all the descriptions and the one you think is most horrible is probably your type.

So why do I use the Enneagram in Counseling and Spiritual Direction? Because at its roots, the Enneagram is all about spiritual transformation.  It is a tool that helps us see what we think the solution is for us (that never works well) and redirects us towards the action that actually is the best solution (but that we may never have chosen). This kind of understanding is critically helpful in therapy and spiritual direction because it can help us press towards real, life-transforming change.

For more information:

–Check out www.enneagraminstitute.com.

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