Enneagram - Peacemaking Practices for the Soul

1. Thought Leader Series -- Practice Enneagram – A Journey Towards Inner Peace July 30, 10:30-12:00pm ETwith Mary Albert DarlingProfessor of Community, Spring Arbor University Enneagram - Peacemaking Practices for the Soul  How do we strategically engage the Enneagram as a tool for internal peacemaking and what are the implications for the work of incarnational leadership formation?

2. Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV) • 23 Search me, God, and know my heart;    test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 See if there is any offensive way in me,    and lead me in the way everlasting.

4. https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/how-the-enneagram-system-workshttps://www.enneagraminstitute.com/how-the-enneagram-system-works

5. 9 types and common terms: Basic Desire/Need Basic Fear

6. 9 types Virtue Vice

7. The three centers: • 8/9/1: Instinctive center/the gut • 2/3/4: Feeling center/the heart • 5/6/7: Thinking center/the head • Main emotions of the three centers: • 8/9/1: anger • 2/3/4: shame • 5/6/7: fear

8. He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas. --Merton as quoted in TGOIAA, p. 182.

9. Fixations (mental/thinking) Passions (emotional/feeling)

10. Focusing on…the Passions only gives them more power. It’s when we breathe into them with our whole selves that they are revealed for what they truly are. This helps us own them, integrate them, and make peace with them—finding the humor in the humility of our humanity.   http://chrisheuertz.com/clarifyingpassions/ • Still waters run deep, yet the water we swim in stays at the surface if we aren’t aware. • Spiritual practices: the power of indirection.

11. For Spiritual Practices for each Enneagram number, please see the following resources: http://scottandclareloughrige.org/?page_id=2436

12. Fruit of the Enneagram as a transformation tool:Waking up and finding freedom to do Christ’s work in ourselves, our communities, our cities • Increase in: • GRACE toward ourselves and one another • Sacred listening • Ability to ask beautiful questions

13. Word from Below, 7/26/19: The Vulnerability of AskingSo I say to you, ‘Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.’ from Luke 11:1-13 • Step into the Unknown • Every time we encourage a homeless man to think about entering a housing program; every time we offer to help women caught in cycles of domestic abuse to leave and go to a shelter; every time we motivate an adolescent who is drug addicted to go to treatment—we are asking someone to take the spiritual step from the familiar to the unknown.  • My encouragement is simply this: can we too move toward the unknown, modeling a spiritual journey this is faith-filled and far from certain. Can we honestly explore these empty spaces in our own lives, the places of tragedy, suffering, and disappointment? Our willingness to pull back the curtain on these spaces will give us genuine empathy and credibility as we invite others to do the same. It is only by leaning into these prayerful places that we can begin to invite others to make the journey.  • If we enter into these empty spaces, with the deeply vulnerable posture of asking, we might not get what we want, but our desire will be exposed and give way to the Spirit of the All Mighty. from Ron Ruthruff’s book Closer to the Edge: Walking with Jesus for the Worlds Sake