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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Enneagram Type”
Cutting Through a Mess of Vagaries to Find a Working Definition By Mario Sikora Sometimes I find myself stumbling upon a social media post on what it means to be a particular Enneagram type, whether we are one type or “have all the types in us,” if it...
Cultivating Vitality—the Core Quality at Enneagram Point Eight
The first in a series on the Core Qualities of the ATA Enneagram
Is Our Enneagram Type Nature or Nurture? Everyone seems to have an opinion…
By Mario Sikora “Are we born our type or do we become our type?” I see this question being feverishly debated on social media all the time, and it invariably pops up during workshops I conduct. It’s a reasonable question, and perhaps even an...
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Cultivating Vitality—the Core Quality at Enneagram Point Eight
The first in a series on the Core Qualities of the ATA Enneagram
Is Our Enneagram Type Nature or Nurture? Everyone seems to have an opinion…
By Mario Sikora “Are we born our type or do we become our type?” I see this question being feverishly debated on social media all the time, and it invariably pops up during workshops I conduct. It’s a reasonable question, and perhaps even an...
Our Instinctual Biases: Three Patterns of Attention and Values and How They Shape the Way We Work
By Mario Sikora This article is a brief description of the three instinctual biases of the Awareness to Action Enneagram. For more information, visit us at http://www.awarenesstoaction.com or read my book, “Instinctual Leadership.” We humans are complicated creatures living...
Critical Thinking
Ignorance: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). In the last set of articles, we...
ANTIDOTES AND GUARDRAILS, PART 2: Protecting Ourselves Against Our Built-In Biases
By Mario Sikora An ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). In the last few articles we discussed...
ANTIDOTES AND GUARDRAILS: Protecting Ourselves Against Our Built-In Biases
By Mario Sikora An ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). In the last few articles we discussed...
Emotional Intelligence / Self Awareness
What Does It Mean to Be Mindful?
Mindfulness is a very popular topic in organizations these days. Many companies offer courses in mindfulness and tout its benefits—relaxation, improved focus, better performance. But the concept of mindfulness can be uncomfortable for some people because it brings to...
One Tribe: A Message from Awareness to Action International
Humans are tribal creatures and at a deep, non-conscious level we often associate “different” with “bad.” This innate bias served our ancestors well. To them, a stranger was likely to be a threat—a competitor for territory, mates, resources; a risk to their very...
What Comes Next
Basic principle number one is that during a dual health and financial crisis, we are all going to be Preservers. Have you been focused on how to stockpile and conserve resources? Have you been mindlessly (or even mindfully, for that matter) cleaning and organizing...
Leadership
The Discerning Mind
This is part six in a series on the qualities of the mind. The first four qualities of the mind we discussed were focused on being attentive and receptive, cultivating an attitude of openness and acceptance. The Discerning Mind, however, is about winnowing, evaluating...
The Fluid Mind
Sometimes our minds feel like a sieve. Things go in one ear and out the other, we walk into a room and forget why, or we go to the store and come back without the main thing we went for (my wife could tell you stories…). This is usually due to a lack of attention, a...
The Noticing Mind
This is the fourth in a series of articles on mindfulness and the six qualities of the mind. Take a moment and look up from whatever device on which you are reading this, and look around. Notice the people and objects around you. If it is a room you are familiar with,...