In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, María José Munita and Seth “Creek” Creekmore conduct another typing interview with Jess Junke, a self-employed administrative consultant. Jessica works with a client in the Enneagram world, but is a rookie when it comes to knowing her Enneagram type. MJ interviews Jess about her personal and work life as a way to show how she and Mario do a typing session and put together the different puzzle pieces towards their hypothesis.

“This is supposed to be as a way to understand how Mario and MJ do typing sessions. This is also a way to–in some ways–practice your own skills of observations and putting together the different puzzle pieces, turning the knobs and trying to come up with some sort of hypothesis at the end of what Jess may be. So we make sure to hold these things very loosely as humans are complicated, and there’s lots to discover.” -Creek [04:08]

“Part of growing up for me has been realizing that sharing the hard things with people is a lot more fun actually. It makes the hard things –I don’t know about easier–but they’re not as heavy to carry and so I can go a lot farther.” -Jess [14:05]

“That’s what the Enneagram is for. It’s not just a fun game or questionnaire. It’s so that we can apply it in ways like this to manage ourselves and being able to change the narratives we have, understanding that my narrative is related to striving to feel connected in your case.” -María José [59:16]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[00:43] This week’s guess, Jess

[03:59] Things to remember

[05:41] Interviewing Jess about relationships

[14:20] Jess’ work life

[25:34] Learning to ask for help

[40:15] Time to come up with a hypothesis

[41:48] Things MJ considered and disregarded

[46:11] Jess’ preferred strategy

[50:50] Does Jess resonate with this?

[1:00:32] Outro

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, María José Munita and Lee Fields talk about the vice (lust), virtue (vengeance) and fixation (innocence) of Type Eight.

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, María José Munita and Seth "Creek" Creekmore return to their series about the vices, virtues and fixations for each type. This week, they discuss Type One and its vice of anger.

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[01:08] A quick recap

[04:28] Why are you so angry?

[10:31] Comparing angers

[15:55] Wrath and anger are different

[21:05] Fixation closely tied to the passion

[30:49] Calibrating and communicating expectations

[34:34] Virtue: How do we fix all this?

[45:12] Practices and cues to temper the vice and fixation

[49:31] MJ’s final remarks

[51:29] Outro

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, María José Munita, Seth "Creek" Creekmore and Lee Fields talk about countertypes–or “not-countertypes”–inspired by last week’s debrief episode. They go deeper into the other Enneagram type combinations that are harder to make sense of and why “countertype” is not the ideal term for it.

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, María José Munita, Seth "Creek" Creekmore and Lee Fields recap last week’s episode with Christian McClain. María José and Lee share their hypotheses from their initial listen of the episode, and Mario provides a more in-depth look into his thought process in determining Christian’s Enneagram type.

“Expect that there will be confirmation bias. Expect that you’re looking for both of these components and they might be in conflict with one another, and so hold room in your mind that you’re not precisely sure what you’re seeing until you have disconfirming confirmation.” -Lee [13:42]

“Treat it as entertainment that you can learn some skills from and understand a little bit more about how the game is played.” -Creek [16:16]

“Look, you just have to master the fundamentals of this. You have to understand what these instinctual biases are really all about, and what these strategies are really all about, and what really happens related to the connecting points. Not what we read about in the books.” -Mario [25:50]

“In my mind, I need to pay attention to the things that are being said and not get trapped into my initial hypothesis.” -María José [32:37]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[02:13] MJ’s conclusion

[04:09] Conflicting combinations

[09:23] The importance of the instinctual bias

[16:23] Some of Mario’s fundamental principles

[17:51] Why not these types?

[24:52] Master the fundamentals

[32:21] Types not considered

[36:55] The connecting points

[43:46] The neglected strategy of Three

[46:53] More tips for people to consider

[54:25] Outro

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In this special episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Seth "Creek" Creekmore and Mario Sikora are joined by Christian McClain, a songwriter and musician, for an exercise that determines someone’s Enneagram type. Mario conducts a typing interview, talking to Christian and asking him questions about his career and family to try to understand who he is. Mario then shares his thought process towards his provisional hypothesis as a result of this conversation.

“I’m getting to know Christian in a different way, which is fun.” -Creek [17:16]

“My goal when I’m talking to people is just to get them to talk. And I don’t care what they talk about or where they go, I just want them to talk.” -Mario [17:53]

“I think putting something and leaving something behind, it sounds silly, because no one knows who I am as an artist. I’m not a big deal, but to know that there is something, a little piece of me, a journal entry that was put to music, to know that that’s out in the world, it’s kind of nice to know that there’s something that would live past you.” -Christian [26:07] 

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[00:19] This week’s guest, Christian

[01:02] This week’s exercise

[03:34] What listeners should look out for

[05:16] Getting to know Christian

[16:51] Seth’s thoughts and Mario’s goal

[18:05] More about Christian

[27:06] A few of Mario’s observations

[30:27] Disconfirming questions

[34:32] Mario’s process

[36:37] A moment to gather your thoughts

[37:27] Mario’s provisional hypothesis

[47:09] Suggestions and feedback

[52:39] Where to find Christian’s music

[54:35] Outro

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, María José Munita, Seth "Creek" Creekmore and Lee Fields talk about an exercise they conducted during their recent Instinctual Biases and Subtypes Weekend Workshop. The hosts explain some of the takeaways and common themes they observed from asking the participants to plan a party. Listen as they summarize how this reveals a clear representation of the instinctual biases and insight into the dynamics between them.

“You lose so much in the digital realm. And I think I was just reminded with the workshop of like theory is interesting, but it’s so boring and dead unless you actually get to work with it and observe it and interact in person with it. I think that it just kind of made it come alive to me in a different way.” -Creek [11:10]

“Is this party going to happen? And will it be fun? It’s a complimentary nature that you need all of the pieces to be represented, but different things will be highlighted if that group is solely in charge of the actual outcome.” -Lee [15:52]

“And that’s the main takeaway from all the groups that I’ve worked with, it’s that I can now see the value of having these three domains considered, and I can also see how some of these truly bother me. I look at it and I just find it not compelling, not interesting, not important, but I can understand that it’s important. I can understand that we need to have them all.” - María José [30:07]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:08] Most hilarious moment in Nashville

[03:13] MJ and Lee explain the exercise

[07:53] The dynamics and what stood out

[11:35] The point of the exercise

[13:46] Typical takeaways between three groups

[16:31] Strategies for relationships

[20:47] Common themes among the instinctual biases

[32:10] How Pattern of Expression plays into this

[38:14] Outro

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora and María José Munita and Seth "Creek" Creekmore host their first live Q and A podcast, answering questions from their recent Instinctual Biases and Subtypes Weekend Workshop in Nashville.

“I used to get frustrated because our materials would change every time we changed a concept, an idea, the way in which we thought about something. Now I see it as a strength, because it means that we are challenging our own ideas, and not staying stuck into what we think because it’s printed. Because we already taught it. We’re not identified with those ideas.” - María José [26:34]

“I think what I’ve experienced as I’ve come into ATA more is that this model and these words tend to capture a more broader explanation of this phenomena of my human existence. And that doesn’t mean that the others are wrong. I’ve just found personally that this terminology captures more and gives more flexibility for me to have my own personal expression of who it is to be me with my own personal story.” -Creek [27:20]

“Everything we teach applies to every aspect in your life. We just tend to contextualize it in organizational life. And my view is if any idea I have doesn’t pass muster with a critical audience, then I shouldn’t be teaching it. So it’s almost like that’s the litmus test. If it’ll work here, it’ll work anywhere. But it’s really no different than things you would apply in your regular life.” -Mario [37:58]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[01:06] Describing strategies

[02:40] The connecting points and instinctual biases

[14:31] Applying the ATA approach to your life

[18:12] Recommended reads

[21:24] An ​​ecumenical approach

[31:42] Conversations with other schools and teachers

[36:31] Plans for a new book?

[40:33] Questioning things

[43:15] Most grateful for with the Enneagram

[47:18] Outro

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In this special episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora and María José Munita check in with Seth "Creek" Creekmore and hear his perspective on the Awareness to Action Enneagram approach. As Creek as worked with Mario and María José for the last few years, he shares the impact this different approach has had on him as well as his thoughts, observations and lingering questions.

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In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, Seth "Creek" Creekmore and Lee Fields start their series on the vices, virtues and fixations. Vices, or passions, are usually associated as the opposite of virtues and are the emotional reactions to the loss of the essential virtues. Fixations are the mental reaction to this loss. The three hosts first discuss the origin and evolution of these terms before they get more specific with the nine different Enneagram types and how it fits with the core qualities.

“The vice, or the fixation, could develop because of a loss of contact with the virtue, or it could be from a loss of contact with God, or it can be a loss of contact with the healthy ego. So whenever we feel the loss of something, we need to fill it in with something else, and so that’s one way of thinking about these things.” -Mario [15:11]

“Coemergent doesn’t mean that they magically appear or they’re already implanted in us or anything. How we develop is through nature, nurture, the whole thing, and even nature and nurture is a duality that I’m learning is not exactly accurate.” -Creek [27:29]

“Sometimes, you really need anger, but overidentifying with it or using it maladaptively is where the struggle comes in.” -Lee [29:51]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[01:17] The vices, virtues and fixations

[04:28] Things that are objectively wrong

[10:00] The origin and evolution of the terms

[20:04] Defining terms

[22:10] How it fits with the core quality

[26:57] Coemergent doesn’t mean innate

[30:51] All ideas evolve

[34:37] What are they good for?

[45:49] Action steps

[47:25] Outro

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