Understanding the Enneagram

Join us for our next worship topic, Understanding the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a powerful tool that helps us understand our motivations, core beliefs, and unconscious patterns that drive our behavior. We have all 9 Types in us, although one of the Enneagram Types is dominant for each of us. A good place to start with the Enneagram is in learning about all 9 Types and identifying our own dominant Enneagram Type.

The origins and history of ideas associated with the Enneagram of Personality are disputed. Contemporary approaches are principally derived from the teachings of the Bolivian psycho-spiritual teacher Oscar Ichazo from the 1950s and the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo from the 1970s. Richard Rohr has found the enneagram a useful tool for those interested in self awareness spiritual growth.

Laura Parker, who has completed training in using the Enneagram will lead us in this first session to understand an overview of how it works.