Enneagram Teaching

In today’s world we are bombarded by the lives of others via a mass media seeking to influence us through advertising, image and marketing.  As a result it has never been easier to be lost to ourselves.   We can find our attention oriented towards those people out there in the ether who we don’t know, our attention focussed on how we can be noticed or accepted, how we can succeed or be loved by them.  In short, we can end up trying to be who we think we need to be instead of knowing who we are and acting from the assurance of that knowledge. Self-knowledge is key to the choices we make, our ability to develop our potential and ultimately to our contentment. 

 

In an increasingly troubled world we need to know who we are  - and this world needs us to know who we are - so that we can feel assured of our place within it, confident of the gifts we bring to it and, as a result, able to bring them to bear more fully upon it.

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If we do not take the time to know ourselves, we cannot be surprised when we find that we are unhappy in our lives.  The tendency, then, is to think that the answer lies ‘out there’ in a different job or another relationship when in fact the answer lies within, in understanding who we really are.  This leads to a knowing - that you are all you need to be because you are you and you are enough.

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The Enneagram is a combination of ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychology.  It believes that there are nine different personality structures, each with its own inherent logic.   It identifies their strengths and weaknesses, primary motivations, values, fears and desires and particular challenges and gifts. As a result it provides a specific roadmap for the development of each towards its own potential and a path, therefore, towards greater personal fulfilment.