Spirit of the Enneagram Week Four Materials (June 2020)
Please know, these weekly materials are not assignments or homework. They are resources to use along your journey of personal growth. We do encourage you to utilize the forum pages to build a community within your enneastyle.
Week Four
Challenge:
Create a list of what you have learned about yourself and your Enneatype. Create a second list with what you still want to work on and discover. Create one goal for future study and share it on the forum page.
Exploring the Resources:
This week look at the rich collection of writings on the Enneagram in Business Website. Find an article that is especially useful and share it on the forum page-
Website Resources:
The Enneagram in Business Blog
Books:
A must-read for anyone looking to move beyond type as a caricature and learn how to work with the Enneagram toward spiritual growth. Over 100,000 copies sold!
Most of us spend a lifetime trying to figure out who we are and how we relate to others and God. The Enneagram is here to help. Far more than a personality test, author Chris Heuertz writes, the Enneagram is a sacred map to the soul. Lies about who we think we are keeping us trapped in loops of self-defeat. But the Enneagram reveals both the nine ways we get lost, as well as the nine ways we find our way home to our True Self and to God.
Chris Heuertz has taught the Enneagram all over the world, and has trained under some of the great living Enneagram masters including Father Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Marion Gilbert, and Helen Palmer. Whether you are an enthusiast or simply Enneagram-curious, this groundbreaking guide to the spiritual depth of the Enneagram will help you:
- Understand the “why” behind your type, beyond caricatures and stereotypes
- Identify and find freedom from self-destructive patterns
- Learn how to work with your type toward spiritual growth
- Awaken your unique gifts to serve today’s broken world
Richly insightful and deeply practical, The Sacred Enneagram is your invitation to begin the journey of a life transformed.
Video:
The Enneagram: The Discernment of Spirits
Presented by Richard Rohr
Music video by India.Arie performing Break The Shell.
Poem:
Learning Life
By Catherine Garland
I have learned
that fences are for climbing to see
if the grass really is greener on the other side;
and that if I leave the house at night,
and stretch high on the top of my tiptoes
I might touch the quivering stars,
play with the bright young moon.
I have learned that a mind is like the universe,
an immensity of twinkling lights and
far-flung galaxies to be explored.
I have learned that the world beyond
the fence is full of human beings as diverse as the stars,
each waiting to be recognized and named
and loved by me. I have learned
that life is for loving and love is for living
and dying is for letting go.
I have learned that opposites
are inextricably linked,
that within all pain are tiny buds of beauty
and within all beauty seeds of pain;
that the sun disappears only to return
the following morning,
and that clouds are not solid;
that tears are for falling
and laughter is for taking wing;
that forgiveness is the better part of valor,
sweeter far than blame.
I have learned how
the sound of a full orchestra
can break me wide open;
that a piano’s single notes
played against adagio strings
are like raindrops of silver
falling on crushed velvet;
and that a violin concerto
can stretch me thin
and leave me full.
I have learned that
everything has its own language and that
if I listen carefully to the birds and the creatures,
and even the grasses,
I will hear the sound of God
in the music of the silence.
There are multiple realities surrounding me
and I know that I must keep the eyes of my heart open
to allow all of existence to be.
And I’m glad I was not told
any of these things
else I would not have grown as tall
nor stretched as far.
I am glad these things were kept hidden from me
until I could open the gate to taste and touch,
to smell and feel, and
to discover my self along the way.
https://gratefulness.org/resource/learning-life/
Quote:
“In traditional Christian teaching, Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic philosophers said that people normally do not consciously choose evil, but they choose something that appears good inside of their framework. We have to expose our frame of reference early on if our spiritual journey is to go anywhere. Our egos naturally put together a construct that explains why the things we’re doing are necessary and even good. That is why it is so essential to ‘discern the spirits’ (see 1 Corinthians 12:10). We need support to distance ourselves from our illusions and rationalizations and see them for what they are. To unmask our false or separate self, we need to install a kind of ‘inner observer’ or ‘fair witness.’
At first that sounds impossible, but after a while it becomes quite natural, especially with the help of a tool like the Enneagram. Our ‘inner observer’ becomes the part of us that’s brutally honest with ourselves—not only in the negative sense but in the positive, too….This helps us to distinguish moralizing from authentic morality, shame from appropriate guilt, false pride from genuine strength. Through the lens of the Enneagram we have greater self-knowledge and the ability to let go of what only seems good in order to discover what in us is really good.”
-Richard Rohr
Continuing Study
The Concept of Subtypes within Enneagram Theory
Website Resources:
Integrative 9: Enneagram/27 Subtypes
Enneagram Worldwide: Instinctual Subtypes
Videos:
Mario Sikora discusses the Awareness to Action Approach to the instinctual biases of the Enneagram. This is the first in a series.
The Narrative Enneagram Core Faculty member Peter O’Hanrahan describes the Instincts and Subtypes program. Each Enneagram type has three important variations known as instinctual subtypes. While everyone uses all three instincts (located in the body center) – self-preservation, one-to-one and social – we each rely on one of these as our primary survival strategy.
Book:
The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge by Beatrice Chestnut
The Enneagram―a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility―is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.
The Soul Child
Subscribe to the three-part pre-recorded webinars “Enneagram as Mirror to the Soul” and enjoy over three hours of teachings from Richard Groves and twelve weeks of daily materials.
Description:
The Enneagram has deep roots in spiritual wisdom and practice. This webinar series explores several profound and insightful aspects of the nine Ennea-Styles which are often unexplored in introductory courses. Here is an opportunity to see more deeply into the soul through the wisdom and mirror of the Enneagram…
- Discovering how your “Soul Child” can be a compass for spiritual and emotional healing
- Experiencing how the Divine Idea for each Ennea-style offers a ‘map’ for transformation
- Exploring the spiritual practices which best support each soul’s journey towards wholeness
- Deepening in the art of spiritual discernment for ourselves and others
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