Balancing Your Centers of Intelligence, feat. Beatrice Chestnut [S02-044]
Typology
Ian Morgan Cron
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
One of the elements about the Enneagram that makes it different than other typologies is the principles behind working with Centers of Intelligence. The three centers of intelligence are the head, heart, and body. Each Enneagram type uses all three centers but approaches the world from one center more than the other two. Where people often get in trouble is when they over-privilege or overuse one of those centers or even perhaps put down other centers, acting out of balance rather than consciously drawing on all three centers, especially in terms of how they work best and in the right situations, using the right center and the right function for the right purposes.
Today, Enneagram expert Beatrice Chestnut and I introduce the Centers of Intelligence and talk about ways we can learn to bring them into balance.
Beatrice has taught at Northwestern University and was trained in group facilitation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She served as President of the International Enneagram Association from 2006-2007 and teaches workshops on the Enneagram internationally, focusing on using it as a tool for leadership development and personal transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey typology tribe Ian Morgan Cron host of the show typology on which we explore the |
| 0:12.8 | mystery of the human personality through the lens of the Anya Graham and I'm on today |
| 0:18.7 | with my friend and the master Anya Graham teacher author presenter Beatrice Chestnut. |
| 0:27.2 | Beatrice welcome back. |
| 0:29.3 | We have a big day coming up on our calendar the end of June. |
| 0:33.4 | Man I'll tell you what it's going to be the highlight of my year. |
| 0:38.4 | It's been June 28th and 29th we're going to be leading the luminous conference here in |
| 0:45.7 | Nashville Tennessee and we are bringing together folks to take a deep dive into the Anya |
| 0:53.2 | Graham with you and I serving as hosts of the gathering and teachers and it's a limited |
| 1:03.0 | group we have like a just limited to a hundred spaces and people are signing up like crazy |
| 1:08.7 | I cannot wait for this event to happen. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah me too it's going to be fun. |
| 1:16.5 | Now you do a ton of teachers you're in Europe right now right? |
| 1:19.0 | That's right I'm in London. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay now just tell me because you told me the day because about your teaching schedule |
| 1:24.4 | can you just tell me like the last few weeks or the weeks coming up that you have like |
| 1:27.4 | where you are and what you're teaching I just want people to know about it. |
| 1:30.6 | Sure sure I was in Brazil in late April and then in Portugal for an Anya Graham conference |
| 1:37.6 | and a two day workshop that we did there and now I'm in London and preparing for next |
| 1:42.7 | week where we'll do a five day retreats and then I go to Italy to Dubai. |
| 1:49.7 | Julie, Dante's, Divine Comedy and the Anya Graham workshop which we call from fixation |
| 1:56.6 | to freedom and Florence. |
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