Interview with Enneagram teacher, psychologist, author, artist, and poet, Belinda Gore Ph.D. Belinda (Type 3) has been an important teaching presence in my life for the past 12 months or so. In this conversation, we speak about what object relations is and highlight a couple of key ways of working with object relations patterns.
- What Belinda does in life [1.45]
- What is object relations and where did it come from? [4.30]
- Who paired object relations theory with the Enneagram [6.03]
- Divergences in how object relations is taught [7.36]
- What does object relations add to the picture (why can't we just use the Enneagram to understand relational triggers)? [11.05]
- What is 'repeating questions' from Diamond Approach? [13.40]
- 5 adjectives technique [20.20]
- The whole point of the object relations exploration [21.42]
- Belinda's object relations book [23.12]
- How Belinda feels about threeness [28.53]
- How Belinda sees subtypes [33.14]
Resources/ references
Object relations patterns:
Attachment types: Nines, threes, sixes
Rejection types: Eights, twos, fives
Frustration types: Ones, fours, sevens
- Belinda's course at the Deep Coaching Institute
- Belinda's article on object relations theory
- How Belinda came to teach Object Relations theory
- The Diamond Approach. Hameed Ali and Karen Johnson, who I refer to, are the founders.
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