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The Enneagram in Fairy Tales

4/11/2013

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Explaining the enneagram to children can be made easier when you realise that all fairy tales contain examples of the enneagram types. Here's a few to start you off.
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1. The princess from 'The Princess and the Pea'. She shows how a One's attention goes directly to even the smallest imperfection.
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2. 'Rumplestiltskin'. He seems so helpful and kind at first, but underneath it all he expected huge rewards.
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3. The queen in 'Snow White'. Obsessed with her own image and being the best, she is also a master of disguise when she transforms herself into an old crone.
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4. 'The Little Mermaid'. She fourishly develops an intense crush, then suffers heartbreak and ends up full of despair and melancholy.
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5. The witch from 'Hansel and Gretel'. Isolated from society, she is skilfully inventive and totally eccentric.
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6. The third of the 'Three Little Pigs'. Like a Six, he is hard-working and suspicious and builds a fortress against fears.
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7. Goldilocks from 'The Three Bears'. A adventurous, pleasure-seeking character who has to try everything.
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8. Jack in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. He's fearless, strong and resourceful: it's not surprising he beats the giant.
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9. 'Sleeping Beauty'. She symbolises the Nine's habit of drifting away from wakefulness into a daze.
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The Enneagram of Christmas

12/11/2012

 
It's the most wonderful (and Enneagrammy) time of the year.

Merry Christmas!
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1. Christmas Cards. Especially Oneish if a christmas card list was drawn up in November to give a sensible amount of time to write and send them.
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2. Santa Claus. The ultimate Twoish giver (but he would appreciate it if you left him a mince pie).
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3. Christmas lights. The competitive Threeish facade for the festive season. Although the surface looks good, who knows what sort of Christmas they are having inside?
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4. Carols by Candlelight. Candles are so much more authentic than electric lights, aren't they? And the carols get back to the deeper meaning of Christmas - though can be a bit Fourishly depressing ('In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan...').
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5. Scrooge. One of the most famous literary Christmas characters is definitely a hermit-like Five. Luckily, as the ending shows, Fives can enjoy Christmas too.
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6. Christmas Dinner. Having family and friends all sat around the table together is a special Sixish time of the day.
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7. Christmas Crackers. Just in case Christmas dinner gets boring, here's the remedy. Each has a joke, a fact, a silly hat, a toy and a big bang to shake things up a bit. How Sevenly!
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8. The Big Sell. It's that Eightish time of year when the big corporations seize the opportunity to maximise profits and cash in on the red-and-white pound.
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9. Chestnuts roasting on an Open Fire (and all other cosy things). After the meal it's time to lie back and have a warm, peaceful, Nineish doze.

Board Games

5/28/2011

 


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1. Scruples: a game of moral dilemmas.

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2. The Helping, Sharing and Caring Game:  it wears its kind heart on its lid.

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3. Balderdash: a bluffing game where the most convincing phony wins.

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4. Pictionary: an (unusually) light-hearted opportunity for fours' creative expression.

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5. Dungeons and Dragons. Complex, all-consuming and fantastical.

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6. Family Feud: our safe family unit against yours...

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7. Cranium: humming, sculpture, drama, puzzles, factoids, drawing... never an opportunity for boredom. 

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8. Monopoly: Money and property is seen as power and control. 

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9. Solitaire. How to avoid conflict altogether? Settle down and play on your own.

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Pop(ular) Songs

5/23/2011

 
The enneagram in pop. The delivery, music and lyric of these tracks illustrate the fixations of the nine numbers:

1. If I Had A Rocket Launcher ( Bruce Cockburn) 
Using music for a moral purpose...
2. How Much is that Doggie in the Window? (Patti Page)
She's  thinking about someone else and how she can help them (and the dog).
3. Poker Face (Lady Gaga)
Three-ishly slick, successful pop. It is also about the difference between inner feelings and outer facade.
4. Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
A strange and unique song all about jealousy and death.
5. Frontier Psychiatrist (The Avalanches)
Totally eccentric and showing amazing expertise in the layering and mixing of sounds.
6. We are the World (various)
A team effort, reaching out to bring the world together.
7. Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)
Nobody's going to stop a Seven when they're in the mood for partying.
8. No Scrubs (TLC)
Direct, no-nonsense and totally in control.
9. Orinoco Flow (Enya)
Drifting away in Nine-ish fantasies.
Let me know in the Playground if you have better examples.

The Muppets, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock

5/3/2011

 
Wonderful, colourful exaggerations of the enneagram numbers in puppet form, from the imagination of Jim Henson and his studio.
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1. Sam the Eagle. He needs to lighten up.
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2. Big Bird. He wants to be your friend.
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3. Guy Smiley. He turns on the charm for his audiences.
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4. Kermit. "It's not easy being green."
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5. Oscar the Grouch. Eccentric and hermit-like in his bin.
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6. Beaker. Aligns himself with his job and co-worker but always has that fear in his eyes!
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7. Miss Piggy. Viva la diva.
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8. Margery the trash heap, who dishes out the advice in an Eightish, no-nonsense way.
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9. Mr Snuffleupagus. Easy-going mammoth.

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