#50 “The Enneagram is a remarkable way for us to wake up” Peter O’Hanrahan

Flemming Christensen interviews Peter O’Hanrahan. Peter is an IEA accredited Professional with Distinction and a renowned Enneagram teacher. 

Peter O’Hanrahan is a core faculty member of The Narrative Enneagram. He has been working with the Enneagram for more than 45 years and has combined it with his practice in counseling and body therapy. 

He was part of the original American wave of students at Berkeley who learned about the Enneagram intensively and started applying it to their lives and teachings. 

Peter O’Hanrahan relates to type 8. 

He teaches workshops on the Instinctual Subtypes, the Embodied Enneagram, and the Defense Systems in US, Europe and China.

Listen to this conversation to hear more about: 
 

✔️ How the Enneagram is a remarkable way for us to wake up and remember our deeper selves. And to understand and be aware of our patterns of personality

 

✔️ The teaching of the Enneagram in the late 1970´s at Berkeley with teachers such as Helen Palmer from the lineage of George Gurdjief and Claudio Naranjo

✔️ Why to use somatic methods as part of a holistic approach in working with the Enneagram type structure. Involving body psychotherapy, temperament, neurobiology and psychology 

 

✔️ About being an Enneagram generalist and having a holistic approach

 

 

More information  

Peter O’Hanrahan and the Narrative Enneagram

https://www.narrativeenneagram.org/directory/peter-ohanrahan/

Peter O’Hanrahan and the Enneagram at Work

https://theenneagramatwork.com/

 

Flemming Christensen

https://www.flemmingchristensen.com/