Purpose:
To provide an open, compassionate and confidential environment for the sharing in the theory and application of the Enneagram.

Membership:
To attend the monthly Enneagram Meetings is free of charge and open to individuals who have studied the Enneagram (or attended the introductory 1 day Enneagram workshop).

Meetings:
Members meet once a month, venue to be confirmed for each meeting, from 19h00 to 22h00.

Dates (2007):
Generally the first Wednesday of every month. 4 July; 1 August; 5 Sept; 3 October and 7 November 2007.

Topics:
Topics vary on a month-to-month basis, but may include…

• Instinctual variants
• Integration and Disintegration (stress)
• Relationships between personality types
• Ego and ego messages
• Enneagram and children
• Wings
• Hornevian and Harmonic Groups
• Enneagram and the movies
• Personal development practices

Member guidelines
The Enneagram is primarily an instrument for self-knowledge and personal transformation. Keeping a conscious focus on our own motives and behaviour helps avoid the common pitfalls of our type. Self-knowledge involves constant inquiry into our own agendas and defenses, and transformation requires the courage to act against the structures and habits of our personalities.

A source of help to one another
The Enneagram Institute of Johannesburg invites members to wake up from habit and recurring defensive patterns. In that sense we each serve to remind others of the differences among us and of the integrity of different points of view. Doctrine and theory are far less important than keeping the conversation open.

Allow others to discover themselves
The Enneagram has profound effects on people. It is most effective when we allow others to discover their type, rather than assuming that we know them better than they know themselves. Be sensitive to their reactions, their changing picture of themselves, and their need to integrate new information.

Type does not fully describe an individual
The Enneagram does not tell us about a person's history or anything meaningful about the quality of their character, their intelligence, or their talents. People are more than their type. This is particularly important to remember in the workplace.

The Enneagram is an important tool for compassion
In seeing the intentions and logic of other types, it becomes less likely that we will dismiss, judge, or demean each other. Listen closely to individual stories; we do not know each other simply because we know each other's type. Stereotyping indicates closed-mindedness, an assumption that we already know about a person's attitude and motivation. Stereotyping arises largely because of past negative encounters with someone of the same type, and it limits growth and opportunities in the present.

No individual owns the Enneagram
Although the Enneagram Institute of Johannesburg is run under the auspices and guidelines of Don Riso and Russ Hudson's Enneagram Institute, it is acknowledged that Enneagram cannot be controlled, monopolised, or withheld from public discussion. Restricting the right to communicate, develop, and share information about the system is contrary to the Enneagram's liberating and empowering spirit.

Encouraging the "walk the walk" of transformation
The Enneagram Institute of Johannesburg supports and encourages everyone to embody the work of personal transformation, to stand as living examples of self-inquiry and practical change in the service of spiritual liberation.