Podcast - Episode 0347 - Enneagram Instincts And Passions - Part 1 (with Dr. Beatrice Chestnut)

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In this episode, Joel and Antonia highlight a live talk about the Enneagram instincts and passions given by Dr. Beatrice Chestnut live on the main stage at the Profiler Training event in Los Angeles.

• Dr. Beatrice Chestnut gives an understanding of the basic building blocks of the Enneagram and how we can put it into work in our lives.
• Dr. Beatrice Chestnut’s biography and fateful introduction to the Enneagram.
• How the Enneagram is a “grand theory of psychology”.
• The ancient roots of the Enneagram and how it applies to today’s psychology.
• Why the work of balancing the three centers of intelligence: the head, heart and gut is challenging to Western cultures.
• Using the Enneagram symbol to transform according to George Gurdjieff.
• Where our survival instincts are rooted and how they work:
  • Why it is so important to know about the instincts in the Enneagram.
  • Our 3 types of instincts.
  • How distortion happens when our instincts get incorrectly used or unused.
  • What happens when the self-preservation instinct is misfiring in today’s world?
  • Understanding the order of our instincts, from dominant to repressed.
  • How our dominant instinct shapes our subtype.
  • The costs and injuries we experience when repressing 1 instinct.
  • Freud’s theory on instincts.
  • How the 3 instinct types interact with each other.
  • The pitfalls of overgeneralizing how our instincts show up in our subtypes.
• What the self-preservation instinct is concerned with.
  • How self-preservation changes the flavor of different subtypes.
  • Its less favorable Shadow side.
  • The intensities of the repressed version of self-preservation.
• The motivations of the social instinct.
  • The God-complex of the social instinct.
  • How a repressed social instinct mistrusts.
• The bonding needs of the sexual (or one-to-one) instinct.
  • What sexual does and doesn’t mean in the Enneagram.
  • The intense Shadow side of the sexual instinct.
  • The diminishing effect that occurs when the sexual instinct is repressed.
• The delicate interplay of the instincts and subtypes in finding your Enneagram type.

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