Personality and Personal Evolution an Introduction to the Enneagram
The Enneagram is a system of 9 personality types and a tool which helps us to:
grow and expand
break free from addictive behaviours
recognise unconscious patterns that keep us stuck and suffering.
Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Essential Wholeness: Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram, Eric Lyleson, Balboa Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015 ISBN 978‐1‐4525‐2820‐5, PB, 408 pages Yvonne McDonell Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson uses an extensive range of philosophy, psychology and spirituality to describe us as people and to broaden our role as therapists. We […]
Enneagram – Personality, Resistance to Change and Realising Potential
The Enneagram commonly known as a system of nine personality types, can be used as a nine- phase model of living Systems, including humans evolve and grow. It shows we evolve from one level of homeostasis to a higher and more complex level of organisation and homeostasis. NINE represents homeostasis and the process moves around […]
NLP, the Enneagram and the Power of PsychoLogical Domains
The Enneagram, NLP and evolutionary biology and positive psychology combined for effective growth, healing and change.
Enneagram Essential Quality of phase FIVE – Space
Inner Spaciousness It is our experience of essential space that puts our petty attachments and the self-imposed limitations into perspective, like the vastness of Outer Space reminds us that Earth is but a speck of dust in a universe of billions of galaxies. At phase FIVE the old boundaries of the way we have thought […]
Enneagram of Essential Qualities of Soul
Our essential quality of peace seeks to cooperate more fully with life as it is emerging within and around us. This inspires greater mindfulness of our internal and external experience. This leads us to a greater sense of compassion in the way we relate to ourselves and the rest of creation. Out of compassion we find the strength to promote life’s emerging agendas and address our inadequacies and past mistakes with forgiveness. Through forgiveness we are able to experience the present moment as it is, which in turn opens up the space in our consciousness to investigate the nature of reality more fully. Spacious awareness just accepts everything as it is, whereby we can differentiate fact from fiction. Acceptance of everything opens us to appreciation of everything and the joyously blissful nature of consciousness. It is when we follow our deepest bliss that we are in alignment with divine will (dharma). In the surrendering to divine will, we manifest our part to play in peaceful harmony with the rest of creatio
Buddhism and Essential Wholeness
Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit Essential Wholeness is the sum total of what it is to be a human being. We are human and we are being. Our Essential Wholeness includes body, mind, soul and spirit. What is changing and what is unchanging. What is changing is like an ecosystem. As human animals we are […]
Enneagram Type NINE’s Hero’s Journey
Enneagram Type NINE – Tales from the Therapy Room: Waking Up! Jane has an Enneagram type NINE personality structure. She came in with her husband Bill for marital therapy, was shocked when her husband announced he was leaving the marriage to live with a woman he’d been having an affair with for some time. Although she […]
Enneagram Personality Type NINE
Personality Type NINE Type NINEs identify with the: change cycle phase of homeostasis essential quality of peace basic function of mediation developmental task of cooperation psychological network of community/environment Type NINEs tend to resist the: change cycle phase of awareness of limitations essential quality of consciousness basic function of discernment developmental task of separation psychological […]
Your Personality Type and Essential Qualities
New Insights into Enneagram Personality Types –
Your personality is shaped by your relationship with the essential qualities of peace, consciousness, compassion, strength, forgiveness, space, acceptance, joy and will.