The Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Essential Wholeness offers here a unique perspective on the Enneagram. I present the Enneagram symbol as a model of the underlying patterns that connect our knowledge of psychology, biology, physics, mythology and spirituality. Unlike other books that show the Enneagram in a static two-dimensional way, this book will broaden your perspective into an expanding […]
Neuroscientist Dan Siegel Acknowledges Enneagram
Separation and Identity The anxieties, frustrations, insecurities, resentments or even the simple discontent that drives most people’s lives, is caused by the separation from our essential nature that occurs by the holding onto a solid, permanent sense of self. This sense of an isolated me is created and maintained by beliefs that create perceptions that […]
Vulnerability and Evolution
Brene Brown, Pema Chodron and other innovators help us to realise the power of vulnerability Psychotherapy is learning how to relate more effectively with Life. Evolution is Life learning to relate in more effective ways. Over time species have adapted by becoming more varied, intelligent, resilient, perceptive and cooperative. This has required becoming more open and […]
What Paradigm Defines your Psychotherapeutic Approach?
Psychotherapeutic Paradigms – Dominant-submissive vs. Ecological Cooperation Many of those who adopt psychoanalytic theory contend that it is important for the socially constructed ego to maintain control over the emotional impulses of the id and other emotional impulses stored in the unconscious mind. The connections that can be drawn from the personal to the larger, […]
Transformative Conversations
What is transformation? How does it happen? Is there a universal pattern how people and all living systems evolve? Change is inevitable. It is only a fearful mind that clings to what is familiar. Underlying every Enneagram fixation is the hope to maintain a stable sense of self and a life that is fairly predicable, […]
Meditation Benefits Validated by Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why Learn Meditation? In 2000 the Dalai Lama invited neuroscientists to study the brain activity of expert Buddhist meditators. The University of Wisconsin along with other universities over the next fifteen years studied more than one hundred experienced meditators, as well as, beginning meditators. It became apparent that because of the brain’s neuroplasticity that […]
Questioning Beliefs – Phase SIX of Enneagram of Change
Questioning Beliefs “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer Beliefs are not things, so much as they are mental constructions that maintain their form through the action of believing. The more useful a belief appears to be, the more […]
Essential Wholeness – Using the Enneagram to Integrate Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Essential Wholeness Enneagram – an Integration Astrophysicists tell us the universe has been expanding at an accelerating pace ever since the Big Bang. Biologists tell a long and convoluted story of the evolution of life in which humans finally enter the scene on the last page of the last chapter. Buddhists say that although our […]
