balancing thinking, feeling, and doing in daily life
On Friday morning I had the opportunity to talk to Kathy Hurley. Kathy and her late husband, Theodore Dobson (later Theodorre Donson), are credited with founding the International Enneagram Association and helping foster relationships among the many Enneagram teachers who emerged in the U.S. in the 1980s. Of even greater interest to me, Kathy and… Continue reading Meeting Kathy Hurley
The last two posts have provided some Advent reflections as we prayerfully anticipate and participate in God’s coming anew to our hurting world where the power of racism is so destructive. As we pray, we learn to be open in new ways to how God is always coming into our world and into our lives.… Continue reading The Work of the Enneagram Centers
Advent is a season when we typically think about the coming of Christ in the birth of Jesus. And yet, advent means so much more; it is about preparing ourselves for the Christ to come in personal, interpersonal, and systemic ways. In the very systems, places, and processes where we are racialized to be black,… Continue reading The Inbreaking of the Antiracist Work of Christ
In a recent small group discussion at church on the role of race, specifically whiteness, in systemic racism (no, it was not an easy Sunday School lesson), a friend offered an amazingly succinct summary for understanding our current struggle: race was created by racists. John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika do an amazing job of describing… Continue reading Magee’s “Racial Emotional Awareness Practice” as an Advent Prayer for Peace
My last two posts highlight the importance of drawing on the characteristics and traits available to you from one of the numbers across the arrows on the Enneagram – the forward number. Riso and Hudson most popularly describe this as our stress number, but Chestnut says it is a growth-through-stress number. O’Hanrahan describes it as… Continue reading Looking Back: Arrows in the Other Direction
