“I’ve seen the Enneagram save marriages. I’ve seen it bring estranged parents and their children back together again. I’ve seen it bring about radical change inside of organizations and corporate settings where I work and in a non-profit settings and churches where I come to work and do workshops, etc. It elevates compassion and empathy. It brings us an appreciation for difference.”
“[The Enneagram] is not the be all and end all. But it is a very helpful tool.”
“I have seen churches and staffs completely changed by the Enneagram.”
“I oftentimes say to leaders…one of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is to assume that your way of seeing the world is normal.”
“[The Enneagram] helps you to understand how people work, how they function, why they do the things that they do. And when you have that kind of insight into other people, then you can really lead them because you’re not assuming that they see the world the way that you do. And you can also learn to value their different way of seeing the world.”
“It’s really important to know all nine numbers…so that you get a little resolution picture of the interior worlds of these nine other ways of being in the world. And that’s incredibly powerful.”
“I’ve experienced in my marriage and in my relationship with my children such powerful insight into their interior architecture. And knowing that, it’s helped me to know how to love them better.”
“Understanding each other in many ways is how we begin to love one another. Love is hard to do without understanding.”
“I always tell pastors, ‘You know, not everybody in the room that you’re preaching to on Sunday morning sees the world the way that you do.’ And you better keep that in mind when you preach because you may be only preaching to other people of your type in the room and nobody else.”
“Once you have the information about different types, it’s immediately actionable and it’s very practical.”
“Don’t underestimate how important self-awareness is…the ability to self-regulate and to self-lead is all tied to the level of self awareness and self knowledge that you have.”
“When you start to understand who you are, it adrenalizes ministry.”
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