Love in Three Centers – Body, Heart & Mind by Peter O’Hanrahan What is love? It’s easy to say but hard to define. It means different things to different people. Perhaps the most common meaning is that love is a feeling in the heart. We care for another person, we feel something for them. Yet […]

Relationship Tips for the Nine Types by Peter O’Hanrahan Tips for relating to Ones Don’t take too personally: Their critical or judgmental attitude. To create rapport: Respect their integrity and take things seriously. Try to avoid: Making agreements that you may not keep; ignoring traditional good manners. Join them: In seeing how things can be

The Emotional Habits of the Nine Personality Types by Peter O’Hanrahan It’s time to revise the nine passions or vices which are assigned to the nine enneagram types. Our enneagram shorthand has been to use the seven deadly sins of the Christian tradition (plus two). After all, these have a long history with the enneagram

Instinctual Subtypes Enneagram Sub-Types – An Introduction by Peter O’Hanrahan The Enneagram describes three centers of intelligence: our mental center, where we have our ideas, plans, and language; our emotional center, where we have our feelings and our empathy for other people; and the body center, where we have three major instinctual drives. These are

The Embodied Enneagram by Peter O’Hanrahan One of the great virtues of the Enneagram system is its holistic view of people and personality type. Each of us has three centers of perception and intelligence: intellectual, emotional and physical/instinctual. George I. Gurdjieff, who brought the Enneagram to the West, developed an early holistic curriculum in his

The Enneagram Defense System Access Points for Self Awareness & Growth by Peter O’Hanrahan People are wonderful; people are difficult. The enneagram helps us make sense of both these statements. Learning about the nine personality types opens up our ability to tolerate, appreciate and love people who are different from us. There’s a lot to

Moving on the Lines by Peter O’Hanrahan Moving to other Enneagram points – the Enneagram as a dynamic system “Are we just one personality type?” is a common question in Enneagram workshops. The answer is both “yes and no!” The Enneagram is a dynamic system, meaning that we are not limited to just one point

Enneagram Monthly Interviews by Peter O’Hanrahan Enneagram Monthly Interviews – 2002 and 2009 Part 1 – July/August 2002 Jack Labanauskas: Most of our readers are familiar with your excellent articles on Sub-Types and the somatic correlations between body type and personality. I have received many requests asking for more of your writing and your name consistently

Personal Stories of the Enneagram Types -by Peter O’Hanrahan If you have a personal story to share about your experience of your type or subtype, or your process of personal development using the Enneagram, please send it to me at enneagramatwork@gmail.com  – I will edit these for space and clarity.  Click below points to read