The core purpose of this article is to introduce parents to the foundational paradigm of The Attuned Parent Project (TAPP). In a parenting culture flooded with behavioral hacks, sleep training formulas, and hyper-curated milestones, TAPP offers an alternative: a return to relationship, presence, and authentic seeing. The goal of our work is not to train … Read more
What the Enneagram, the Nervous System, and Direct Experience Reveal About Lasting Change If insight created transformation, most of us would already be transformed, enlightened, and free of our Enneagram type. We live in a culture saturated with information. We have access to books, podcasts, videos, workshops, therapy, spiritual teachings, and an endless stream of … Read more
An Inquiry into the Enneagram of Universal Process (See Author’s Note at Bottom of Page) In my book The Enneagram & the Arc of Transformation, I explored the possibility that the Diamond Approach and Gurdjieff’s understanding of the Enneagram might be describing aspects of the same transformational territory. The goal was not to prove that … Read more
How the Enneagram Reveals the Mechanics of Transformation What Was the Enneagram Originally Designed to Describe? Ask someone about the Enneagram today, and they will almost certainly describe a system of nine personality types. They may tell you about motivations, wings, instincts, growth paths, blind spots, and relationship dynamics. All of that is valuable. The … Read more
Participation, Identity, and the Recovery of Being in the Arc of Transformation Following my recent lecture on The Arc of Transformation, the second shock point generated the most questions. Most attendees intuitively grasped the first shock. The idea that presence enters the process between Points Three and Four is relatively accessible. Most people have experienced … Read more
Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Leadership, Teams, and Organizational Synergy The Enneagram has entered the corporate world through the back door of self-help and stayed because it works. Not because it predicts behavior — it doesn’t, reliably — but because it reveals something more useful: the architecture of motivation that drives every decision, every conflict, every leadership … Read more
Legominism, Laughing Wisdom, and the Art of Ego Unraveling Gurdjieff never fit the mold of a spiritual master, and that was precisely the point. He moved through the world like an ancient Trickster reborn — part sage, part saboteur, part cosmic clown. He disrupted expectations because expectations are the walls that keep real seeing out. … Read more
What If the Enneagram Was Never Primarily About Personality? Most modern Enneagram teaching focuses on personality types, traits, motivations, defenses, wings, arrows, and behavioral patterns. For many students, coaches, and therapists, the Enneagram has become a system of psychological classification primarily. But that was not how G.I. Gurdjieff originally introduced the symbol. In its earliest … Read more
How Chanting Rewires the Nervous System and Quiets the Self There is a sound beneath all sound.A hum beneath all things.A vibration that has never ceased.Science has finally caught up with what the chanters have always known. We Arrived Already Tuned Published this week in Current Biology, University of Amsterdam researcher Henkjan Honing presents two … Read more
The Difference Between Tension and Attention There is a particular face people make when they are “trying” to meditate. Brows pulled together.Jaw set.A subtle tightening behind the eyes. It is the face of effort, and it rests on a misunderstanding. Focus does not require force. Concentration does not require contraction. Meditation does not require a … Read more