Enneagram 2.0 with Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes

In this week's episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes share a sample of one of their live monthly video webinars, an exclusive perk for CP Online members. This particular webinar is about the healthy use of the Heart Center. With a low level of awareness, every intelligence center tends to overuse their type’s center and often steal energy from the other centers. When using the Heart Center in...

In this week's episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes discuss the much anticipated Instinctual Sequences in Personality Types. Instincts are the animal drives that have helped us survive as a species and in the context of the personality, it is broken down into self-preservation, social, and sexual instincts. People have an instinctual sequence (one being dominant, one being second, and one be...

In this week's episode, Uranio Paes interviews Domingos Cunha, a good friend, a successful Enneagram teacher, and a Catholic priest. As an Enneagram Type Eight, Domingos shares how he had the belief that the world was against him, and if he showed any love and compassion, he would feel shame out of fear of appearing weak. He used to be proud when people would share concerns about him taking on too...

This week, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes discuss how low levels of awareness can be dangerous for any type. They discuss what type they think Vladimir Putin could be and what could have caused his choice to invade Ukraine. This is a reminder that the path of least resistance is to identify with the Ego, which is to say we see ourselves as individuals separate from others, and the Enneagram hel...

In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes talk with Dina El-Badry, a Type Six who is the head of the Enneagram track at the school The Field of Awakening in Cairo, Egypt. Dina, a Sexual Subtype, describes what it was like to be one with her ego and the realization that she was driven mostly by fear her entire life. She tells the emotional story of the pivotal moment in her growth path whe...

This week, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes speak to us from Cairo, Egypt, where they presented at the International Enneagram Association's affiliate conference. Uranio gave the keynote address where he discussed the theme of the conference: As above, so below. He covered the levels of awareness, shadow work, and most central to the theme, esoteric truth and the Enneagram's ancient roots. Beatri...

In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes discuss the ways we can transform pandemic-related challenges into inner growth opportunities. This collective stress around the globe can be seen as a call for conscious evolution, which is helping to normalize psychotherapy and spirituality. When dealing with this external shock, we can meet it with consciousness and awareness, and use it to hel...

In our 50th episode—the first of 2022—we revisit insights from the podcast to date and share a compilation of aha moments to help transform your inner work journey. Some are inspirational, others point to the core ideas that have helped Beatrice and Uranio in their own work and that of their students. From defense mechanisms to converting your passion to virtue, this episode will give you a taste...

In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes reflect on their personal inner work in 2021. As a Type 5, Uranio has been trying to be more comfortable with structure and processes, while connecting more with his emotions. As a Type 2, Bea has been working on asserting herself more in a conscious way, recognizing when she has a strength, and stating her opinion in a clear way. They hope t...

In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes talk with Todd Pierce, a Type Seven who was introduced to the Enneagram in 2004. He shares from experience what it's like to be stuck in personality; there is a false sense of freedom that comes from avoiding problems by using extreme optimism. The journey is about opening up to what is happening now , engaging with life moment to moment, and not...

In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes talk about gratitude not being a simple emotion, but rather a higher emotion that can elevate us when we feel it in a sincere way. Gratitude naturally reveals itself when we open up our spiritual hearts. Each Enneagram type has its own path and hurdles to feeling grateful, and they share ideas of what people can do to move into gratitude and out o...

Who is Gurdjieff, and why do we hear so much about his work in the Enneagram world? One of Beatrice and Uranio's biggest areas of commonality in their approach to teaching the Enneagram is their commitment to its origins and its seminal, foundational texts. In this episode, you will learn about G. I. Gurdjieff and The Fourth Way, the path he defined for human beings to work on the head, heart, and...

Have you ever wondered if your Enneagram type impacts the career you choose, or how you perform in a given career? In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes discuss the unconscious patterns of our type that limit our professional potential. They also explain how our type influences the careers toward which we are naturally inclined, naturally succeed in, and how those inclinations ma...

When we learn about the Enneagram, we often apply it first to our relationships. But we often look at it only from a type perspective, without bringing in the Enneagram's centers of intelligence as a framework of analysis. A few weeks ago, we started this discussion with the Enneagram's heart types and what is important to them in relationships. Now let's hear from the head types. In this episode,...

So, you may have been listening to the podcast for some time and you are ready to embark on your own inner work process, but what is your type's growth map? Bea and Uranio put together three practical steps that look different for each of the nine types. In this episode, they offer a behind-the-scenes look at their new co-authored book, The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up . They share the motiva...

Where do you begin when you want to do high-quality inner work? Across history, we have seen spiritual paths as isolated approaches to personal development, and more recently, a sole focus on psychological work. But one powerful method to meaningful inner development that "sticks" is a combination of the two. We think the Enneagram is an amazing model that maps out a path of development and inhere...

Relationships are important for all nine types, but for heart types (Types Two, Three, and Four), they are essential. Those who are heart types or have been in relationship with them know this well. They also probably know that making those relationships work requires a deep understanding of what heart types need. In this episode, Bea and Uranio break it down for us—what makes heart types happy? F...

One of the top questions we receive in our community is around other personality tests—how does the Enneagram compare? What about Myers Briggs? What are the overlaps? And the truth is that like the Enneagram, depending on who teaches the material, we often have a shallow understanding of the system and the growth potential it can offer. Our whole perspective on Myers-Briggs changed completely when...

In this episode, Beatrice and Uranio speak to their friend, fellow Enneagram teacher, and the host of the Enneagram podcast "Typology", Ian Cron, an Enneagram Self-preservation 4. This interview does not only focus on what his experience is descriptively but what his growth journey has been. What is different? What does development look like? And what kind of inner work has helped ignite these shi...

"Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors," says Bessel van der Kolk, seminal author in the study of trauma. And in our work at the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy, we know it's true. At every retreat we host, a big portion of our work involves supporting our students in healing from trauma. But how does the Enneagram fit into the equation? Are there specific patterns in...

When someone does years of inner growth work, oftentimes it feels as if they carry a light within—a special capacity for understanding and connection to spirituality. In this episode, Beatrice and Uranio speak to their friend, student, and fellow Enneagram teacher, Abdul-Rahman, an Enneagram Social 9. A dear friend of the Academy, Abdul-Rahman and his school, The Field of Awakening, often host Bea...

Back by popular demand. You loved our Q&A episodes earlier this year, so here we go again! In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes go through the questions that the Enneagram 2.0 listeners have posed!  If you want to discover which Enneagram Type you could be, visit our webpage cpenneagram.com/compass to learn about the Enneagram Test they just launched, CPS Enneagram Compass....

Each of us believes something so deeply that our reality is completely distorted by that belief. The nine Enneagram types each have a core fixation—a lens through which we view the world. And around that fixation, we build a series of ideas that keep us stuck. Claudio Naranjo, a pioneer of the Enneagram system of personality, provocatively called these the "crazy ideas" that each type holds. So wh...

Whether you are a professional trying to use the Enneagram in coaching or therapy, or just can't seem to land on the right Enneagram type, you know that typing is not easy. The Enneagram system of personality and the nine types hold enormous complexity. Given the Enneagram's recent increase in popularity and the influx of new "experts" in the field, mistyping may even be a growing phenomenon. Unfo...

We often hear about the strengths and challenges associated with each Enneagram type. But what if our leadership potential had more to do with disidentifying with the confines of our type? In this episode, Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes draw upon decades of leadership development experience using the Enneagram and discuss the leadership paths for each type. They also discuss the Enneagram more...