Conversation | The Enneagram of Traps

<p class="p1">This was a fun, free-wheeling conversation on one of the lesser known foundational pieces to the modern enneagram: Oscar Ichazo’s Enneagram of Traps. The Traps are the ways each type falls into as a mistaken remedy to [attempt to] overcome the type’s mental fixation. Inspired by Abram’s Instagram series on the traps [@integratedenneagram] we riff on the fixations, the holy ideas, and how the traps try (and fail) to reconcile them. </p> <p class="p1">2:00 The history of the enneagram of traps</p> <p class="p1">3:58 The mental FIXATIONS of our types</p> <p class="p1">3:55 The HOLY IDEA as the true way to alleviate the fixation</p> <p class="p1">5:24 Mario Sikora’s take on phenomenology vs. ontology</p> <p class="p1">6:55 Traps as maladaptive patterns</p> <p class="p1">8:10 Why Creek drinks pumpkin spice lattes</p> <p class="p1">9:45 The traps for each type </p> <p class="p1">28:30 How to begin to identify fallen into our traps</p> <p class="p1">29:50 How the traps impact our stories</p> <p class="p1">30:30 “We are walking metaphors living out a story that our whole body believes.” - Tom Condon</p> <p class="p1">32:00 Resources on the Traps: Transpersonal Psychologies by Ichazo, Sandra Maitri’s Enneagram of Spirituality, and Patrick O’Leary’s The Enneagram</p> <p class="p1">32:15 Buy Creek a pumpkin spiced latte! Venmo: @Seth-Creekmore</p> <p class="p1">—</p> <p class="p1">Fathoms | An Enneagram Podcast: “Discovering our inner depths, one fathom at a time.”</p> <p class="p1">—</p> <p class="p1">Co-hosts: Seth Abram, Seth Creekmore, Drew Moser</p> <p class="p1">Production/Editing: Seth Creekmore</p> <ul class="ul1"><li class="li1">Follow us on Instagram: @fathoms.enneagram</li> <li class="li1">Follow Abram: @integratedenneagram</li> <li class="li1">Follow Creek: @creekmoremusic</li> <li class="li1">Follow Drew: @typetrailenneagram</li> </ul>