The Dangers of Enneagram Practice: An Audio Essay

This "audio essay" is the transcription of one of my quarterly emails from 2021. It is a thought experiment, based on Lauren Winner's recent book, The Dangers of Christian Practice, which explores the damages intrinsic to Christian sacred practices. Believing her to have made a compelling case, and believing cautionary tales of techno-critics everywhere, I explore the possible damages sustained at the very site of our attempts to do good work with the enneagram as tool. This isn't an essay to tell you how to do things perfectly, simply an invitation to eyes-wide-openness and honest companionship as we do work which tends towards very particular kinds of damage. For access to the text-based option, just go ahead and sign up to the EFW quarterly email list!

Enneagram Games and Memes: A Cost/Benefit Analysis

Originally, this video went out to my email list, but the more questions I get about how to use the Enneagram, the more this video seems helpful. I think you can apply the logic that this video lays out to work on accepting and appreciating the way people engage with the Enneagram, as well as appreciating the kinds of environments such engagements enable and allow (as well as the invitational scope of those environments). I hope it is generous. But I also hope it makes clear what games and memes cannot do. We might have that general sense, but then we are left with the question: What do we do with the Enneagram?