I’m not familiar with the enneagram , can you describe it?

The Enneagram first an foremost is a SPIRITUAL tool and tradition, a system that describes nine personality types, each with a particular world view, relational style, set of strengths and the challenges. through the enneagram one can learn THE path of growth and grace.

Nature versus nurture ~ what are your thoughts on the degree of influence of each of these on one's type?

There is a great deal debate about how much of our personalities come from nature - meaning genetic inheritance, temperament, and perhaps destiny - and how much from nurture - the family, social environment and times in which we were raised. Most people would say it's both factors. Personally, I think each child is born with a type- what I refer to as the Inner Child Number-a certain spirit or archetype that they were born to be.

I tested as a 9 but my ic number is 3.

it’s important to take the stress and growth points, as well as the wings into account as well as environment. a 3 stresses to a 9, for instance. maybe you were raised in a family where “keeping the peace at all cost” was valued. I’m happy to go over these questions in more depth.

do you teach groups?

yes, I am available for groups. Just contact me to set up a date.

do you consult businesses?

absolutely! while enneagram is designed specifically for one’s own awareness and growth, Knowing the types and principles can be the key to successful communication in the workplace.

is this NUMEROLOGY?

I am not a student of NUMEROLOGY although there is undeniable SIMILARITIES to my theory of inner child number and the number traits in numerology. I am a christian and can clearly see the beautiful ARCHITECTURE of a creator would design a propensity for an earthly vice, yet gift the proclivity for a spiritual virtue.

Can you tell me more of the history and origin of Enneagram?

The diagram itself goes back many centuries, possibly as far back as the Greek mathematicians and beyond. The first appearance in print (that we know about) was in 1305, when a Franciscan friar named Ramon Lull in Majorca used it as a way of synthesizing the knowledge of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. As a system of psychological types, this development began in the late 1960s although there are parallels in the Christian tradition going back to the "Desert Fathers" in the first two centuries CE. The obstacles to spiritual practice were described as the eight or nine habits of mind. The use of the enneagram for understanding the natural laws of the universe was apparently preserved by spiritual groups in the mid-east. George Gurdjieff, a teacher of human development, brought the symbol to the public in 1915 in Moscow. Gurdjieff used the Enneagram as a central part of his teaching, but did not talk about personality types per se. He mentions a Sufi monastery as the source of the symbol and system. Oscar Ichazo, another teacher of human development who had contact with Gurdjieff groups in South America, was the first to arrange human types around the Enneagram in the late 1960s.