v Childhood Impressions My Father—The Type Six Valiant Hero * My Father was a Type Six, demonstrating many of the tell-tale signs, a community gatherer, a devoted church-goer, a counter-phobic, anti-ego, fierce competitor and humble team player, a life-insurance salesman making life safe and secure for everyone, a World War Two PBY navigator with a […]
The Zen of Baseball & The Oregon State Beavers 1970-1971 Keith Gentz. Here was one of my first messengers from above. A heroic Type Four, who combined with his awesome heart and his deep inquiring soul, was his capacity to pitch a baseball. At six-foot-two, he was an Adonis. A Greek god, with a fierce
ForewordBY RUSS HUDSONThe popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions ofpeople, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a newfriend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Manyare reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their“number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram expands,the understanding of its true purpose
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AcknowledgmentsI want to thank Russ Hudson and Don Riso, my teachers at the Enneagram Institute, who laid the foundation for my understandingof the Enneagram through my certification and faculty process. My first serendipitous encounter was in 2006 at a Part One Trainingat the Mercy Center in Burlingame, San Francisco, when, minutes after Russ had started
Praise forThe Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction\ “The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction is inspiring, informative, deeply personal, and uplifting, offering objective hope without denying the heavy work and self-responsibility of recovery, and self-realization. Michael imparts the invaluable teachings of the Enneagram in a way that is personal, passionate, engages the
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Discovering My Enneagram Map, 1996 Amidst a time of great turmoil, I sought counseling with my future Gurdjieff guide. I was fifteen years sober (the blessing of AA) as my life as I knew it had dissolved through some Type Four Trap of Death and Most-Unlikely Redemption and I was dragging my aching soul through
