Episode Description

Welcome to the first episode of Upbuild’s Enneagram Foundation podcast series. Whether you are a seasoned enthusiast or a curious newcomer, this series promises to offer fresh perspectives and valuable insights for your journey into the world of the Enneagram. In 14 episodes, we’ll provide a strong foundation on the nine Types as well as the most important dimension of the framework, the Levels of Consciousness. This series will bring the Types alive for you in a vivid way, help you understand the suffering that each Type experiences as a result of its ego fixations, and offer our personalized practice for each Type to move towards their best self, free from the shackles of the ego.

Podcast Hosts: Rasanath Das and Hari Prasada Das

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Highlights

• [0:40] What is the Enneagram?

• [1:30] How the Enneagram is different than personality typologies like Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and DISC

• [3:20] The definition of ego

• [4:50] The meaning of the word Enneagram and the symbol

• [7:20] Richard Rohr’s Discovering the Enneagram

• [8:00] Hari’s experience of breaking down in tears after learning about his Type

• [8:30] The experience of “Oh my God. My mind finally makes sense.”

• [9:00] Richard Rohr’s teaching that even though all types are equal, when you discover your type, you’ll think that it’s the worse

• [10:00] The truth will set you free

• [11:30] All self-development work ties back to self-acceptance

• [13:30] The Enneagram teaches you what you need to be responsible for

• [14:00] Common misconceptions and misapplications of the Enneagram

• [16:00] The problem with an Enneagram test

• [18:40] “The Enneagram does not put us in a box, it shows us the box we are already in—and the way out.”(Riso and Hudson)

• [20:00] What will you get from listening to this series