Enneagram Insights Podcast

Flemming Christensen is interviewing Russ Hudson on Essence. Russ explains that essence is what's always here. Essence is the ground of experience. "It's like the photographic film that's our psyche that's receiving  impressions."  There's a lot of different ways a human being can experience essence but they're all elements of presence. In any given moment we are in some degree of contact with ess...

There are a lot of different parts of us, that can be developed.  What is it that is being developed, when we do personal development? This is the question that Flemming Christensen is asking Enneagram expert Russ Hudson.  When we´re looking at the Enneagram in the originally sense the development is soulwork or essence. The part of us we are born with and can be matured and developed.  Listen to...

How can Integral Coaching and the Enneagram help us live a more full life - that isn´t just coping? We live in a time with a lot of input and are a bit overwhelmed.  Russ Hudson and James Flaherty are guests in today's show. Russ Hudson is an Enneagram Expert and has been a guest on this podcast before. James Flaherty is an expert in Integral Coaching.  Together they offer a four month virtual cou...

Patrick O´Leary has taught the Enneagram for 53 years, he is the founder of the International Enneagram Association and has become a Wisdom figure in the Enneagram world. He is also the co-author of the very first published book on the Enneagram (1984): "The Enneagram: A Journey of Self Discovery". Patrick O´Leary has found that the Enneagram gave us a language to describe the innermost self and h...

Flemming Christensen is interviewing Russ Hudson on the human experience and the search for meaning. And how the Enneagram can be a help. Russ Hudson is also sharing his personal journey on the search for meaning.   This interview was originally published in the Enneagrammet Next Level podcast.    Further reading   Russ Hudson in Denmark: https://thinkaboutit.nemtilmeld.dk/256/     Podcast on Russ...

This is an interview by the accredited Enneagram Expert, Keynote Speaker and writer Nhien Vuong. She asks Flemming Christensen about his personal Transformation by type. Flemming relates to type 3 and it is an honest talk abot a journey towards more authentic connection. This conversation has first been aired in Evolving Enneagram Podcast. Host: Nhien Vuong Relevant links: https://evolvingenneagra...

In this episode Russ Hudson is giving a talk to The Enneagram Next Level community about the instincts.  He is looking at instincts, not from the point of view of congratulating ourselves on being self-pressed or sexual or social. But from the point of view of understanding these patterns can really liberate a lot of life energy, better health, better relationships and connections, and better bala...

Flemming Christensen is taking us out on his daily walks. This morning in the woods he is talking exploring: How to walk our path? This episode is also about finding or exploring different paths. You dont know in the beginning if you are on the right path, but you have to keep walking, living and explore.   It is also an episode about finding people to share a path with. For a while.   Flemming Ch...

Flemming Christensen is on his daily walk and records his reflections about this question:    "What is family to you?"   He also reflects on:   What is the structure of a family? Is our family essential for our emotional and mental health? What do we want to transmit to the next generations?   You are welcome on this walk in nature. There are no simple answers, and you are wellcome to take the que...

Todays guest is Marion Gilbert.   She is an accredited professional enneagram teacher and has really made a mark on the Enneagram world by adding the somatic piece and the importance of body awareness.      In this episode she talks about the gifts of the enneagram and the wisdom of the body.   She also shares her personal story about being broken open, when she went through a divorce and had a sp...

In this episode Flemming Christensen is interviewing Deborah A. Ooten PhD. What is the Enneagram according to Dr. Deborah Ooten? What is an Enneagram type? And how do we work with it?  Welcome to a conversation on the Enneagram traditions and the inner work.    She identifies with type eight of the Enneagram and is the founder and director of the Conscious Living Center.  Dr. Deborah Ooten has a d...

What is your blind Enneagram Type? In this episode the Danish Enneagram teacher Flemming Christensen talks about the blind type and how to discover your Blindness. He goes through the different types and explains how the type is blind for you and how it differs from your Blind spot.   IEA Conference, July 2023 https://www.internationalenneagram.org/2023-iea-global-conference-2/     Flemming Christ...

Finding your blind spot is actually what the Enneagram is all about according to Flemming Christensen.   In this episode, who was originally recorded as a Zoom meeting, he explains that the Enneagram is not about discovering patterns that you can relate to. That is just more attachment, more self-identification.   It's just like having post-its sitting on you with all kind of traits and patterns a...

Dr. Deborah Egerton use the Enneagram as a way to unite a divided world. That is a beautiful mission, so we invited her as a Guest on "Enneagram insights podcast - On Awareness presence and Relationships". Dr. Egerton is a renowned psychotherapist, an Enneagram teacher with distinction and a bestselling author.  She relates to type one.  Her unique work with the Enneagram is focused on Inclusion,...

Flemming Christensen is reflecting on nature, while walking in the forest in this episode of "Enneagram insights: Awareness, Presence and Relationships". He asks: "What is holding you, supporting you, and giving you those special gifts that we get in nature?" There's something very organic about nature. Things are happening in a certain cycle, rhythm, pace. We human being is part of nature. Flemmi...

Why does your blind type matter? And what is it?   Rezzan Huseyin is interviewing Flemming Christensen about his book "The Enneagram and why the blind type matters".    Your primary type is the type in the Enneagram to which you relate the most. When you find your primary type, you will understand your triggers and how to bring yourself back to balance.   Your blind type is shaping how your primar...

It the Enneagram practical? It is what Flemming Christensen had been looking for, but he does not think it provide permanent personal growth and change by itself. Rezzan Huseyin is a developmental coach, a long-time student of the Enneagram. She is living in the Uk, just outside London, and hosts the great podcast "The Practical Enneagram". Here she interviews Flemming Christensen on how he first...

We have interviewed the Egyptian Enneagram Dr. Khaled ElSherbini in Enneagram Insights podcast. He relates to the Enneagram type five. Charlotte Haase asked him, hvad the Enneagram has taught him about being human. Listen to the episode for his honest answer. Here is at part of it: "That's a very powerful question. The Enneagram actually has taught me to be human. So, and by that I mean, the Ennea...

This is the second interview in a series where Flemming Christensen is talking to Dr. Khaled ElSherbini about the Enneagram.  Dr. ElSherbini is the founder of Enneagram Egypt and is coming to Denmark in May. Take a look in the show notes if you'd like to attend. In this episode, they will be talking a little bit more about Khaled Elsherbini´s approach to the Enneagram. How does he actually teach i...

This is an interview with Khaled ElSherbini. Khaled is from Cairo, Egypt, and he's the founder of the school Enneagram Egypt. He talks to Flemming about how the Enneagram found him.   In his school the teaching principles he is using are also principles for how to conduct your life, how to live a meaningful and purposeful life.   He sees the Enneagram as a core tool for awakening:    "So the Ennea...

Can the Enneagram and the kowledge of the types be a gateway to presence? And why is presence important in our lives? Todays podcast guest is the renowned American Enneagram teacher Russ Hudson. He has been teaching and writing bestselling books on the Enneagram with Don Richard Riso. He has founded the Enneagram Institute, written his own books and teaches the Enneagram all over the world. This i...

In our interviews with Enneagram experts in this podcast, we will often ask this question:  "What has the Enneagram taught you about being human."  But before we can ask others about that, we want to ask each other this question.  Listen to this personal conversation with Flemming Christensen and Charlotte Haase.  Flemming's primary type is type 3, with a self-preservation instinct. And part of th...

The "Enneagram Insights Podcast - on Awareness, Presence and Relationships" is a podcast for everyone who is interested in the Enneagram and wants to live a life with presence and awareness in a deep and thriving relationship with oneself and others. In the Enneagram Insights podcast, we will also explore the power of your bind type, the merge of the original teachers with modern psychology, curre...