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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

I introduced what the move forward across the Enneagram means for me in my last post and want to share a brief possibility for each of the numbers. And, I will share some possible antiracism implications of this shift for each type. I’ll need your input to help evaluate my thoughts knowing this is coming… Continue reading Enneagram Growth through Stress: The work of Antiracism

Advent is often understood as the period of waiting between the now and the not-yet. In the story, Mary now knows what the Angel has told her, but we are not yet at the point of the Angel’s announcement to the Shepherds of a savior being born for them.  In our lives, we have the… Continue reading Growth through Stress – 3 drawing from 9

As part of this advent season, this season of Christ coming into our lives anew, I am considering Enneagram implications of our racial pandemic. The racial reckoning of 2020 shines new light on the ways Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and all people of Color are affected by historic patterns of racism and oppression in our nation.… Continue reading Enneagram Reflection and Racial Reckoning