Chris Heuertz: The Sacred Ennegram

Podcast: Living a Life Unleashed
Host: Lisa Bishop
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The Sacred Enneagram.

On Today’s show, I have a conversation with Chris Heuertz, author of the book, The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth.If you are new to the Enneagram, Chris explains the 9 Enneagram “Types,” how our type is formed and how understanding our type can lead to spiritual growth and maturity. The 9 Enneagram types:Type 1: The need to be perfectType 2: The need to be neededType 3: The need to succeedType 4: The need to be uniqueType 5: The need to understandType 6: The need to be secureType 7: The need to avoid painType 8: The need to be against (contrarians)Type 9: The need to avoid

To find out more about the Sacred Enneagram and upcoming workshops, check out his website https://gravitycenter.com/sacredenneagram/

Here are two resources to take Enneagram test online: (Be aware that the test is not the end all be all! Read about each type and see which most resonates.)

Introducing the Enneagram with Chris Heuertz

Podcast: Contemplate This
Host: Tom Bushlack
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This bonus track is an edited snippet from my interview with Chris Heuertz for the Contemplate This! podcast, conversations on contemplation and compassion. My interview with Chris was so rich and in-depth that I wanted to break out this 7 minute section where he gives a very concise overview of what the Enneagram is – or better, how it functions as a tool for spiritual growth and integration – and he gives an incredible overview of the nine personality typologies, or as he calls them the nine paths to God. If you’re totally new to the Enneagram, or even if you’re not, this is one of the best quick introductions I’ve ever heard, and it seemed worthy of its own mini-episode. I hope you enjoy it, and after you listen here, head over to the full episode and dive all the way in with Chris’s wisdom on the Enneagram in the full podcast of episode 5 at thomasjbushlack.com/episode5. You will not be disappointed.

Interview with Chris Heuertz

Podcast: Contemplate This
Host: Tom Bushlack
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Chris Heuertz was introduced to the Enneagram by a friend in India and it radically changed his life – leading to a shocking and difficult awakening, a “severe mercy,” but one that led him on a journey of self-discovery and in-depth study of the Enneagram system and process of spiritual transformation. The wisdom of this journey is collected in his recent book, The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth. This interview breaks open a deeper understanding of the Enneagram, which Chris approaches more as a process for understanding our energies and our path to God, rather than a psycho-spiritual personality typology. For those listeners not familiar with the Enneagram, I have compiled some introductory resources below, and the bonus track, “Introducing the Enneagram with Chris Heuertz” also provides a short (less than 10 min.) to the Enneagram and the nine points. Chris has spent his life bearing witness to the possibility of hope among a world that has legitimate reasons to question God’s goodness. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Chris studied at Asbury University in Kentucky before moving to India where he was mentored by Mother Teresa for three years. While living in India, he helped launch South Asia’s first pediatric AIDS care home – creating a safe haven for children impacted by the global pandemic. A forerunner in the New Friar movement, Chris and his wife Phileena served with the Word Made Flesh community for nearly 20 years, working for women and children victimized by human traffickers in the commercial sex industry. This has taken Chris to over 70 countries working among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor. In 2012 Phileena and Chris launched Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism. Named one of Outreach magazine’s “30 Emerging Influencers Reshaping Leadership,” Chris is a curator of unlikely friendships, an instigator for good, a champion of collaboration, and a witness to hope, Chris fights for a renewal of contemplative activism.

Enneagram Type Four

Podcast: Sleeping At Last
Host: Ryan O’Neal
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New song debut: “Four” – the fourth of nine songs inspired by the nine Enneagram types! “Four” belongs to the ongoing series of songs, Atlas by Sleeping At Last. In this episode, you’ll hear how the song came about, the Enneagram, who an Enneagram type “Four” is and so much more! Guest: Chris Heuertz.

Chris Heuertz, The Sacred Enneagram, and the Dynamic Gifts of ‘Type’

Podcast: Shwell
Host: Cathleen Falsani
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Chris Heuertz, author of The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth, joins Cath and Kell for an even deeper dive into the sacred wisdom of the Enneagram and the gift that “type” can be. “It’s not nine buckets that your soul gets dumped into, it’s a color wheel,” Chris says. Cath (a 4w3) says: “I’m a 4 with a 3 wing, but it’s like a special Nemo wing.” EVERYBODY NOW: Awwwwwwwwwww.

Chris helps us find the answer to the question so many of us have when we begin to dig through the Enneagram’s layers, connections, and applications:

Once you find your type, how do you work with it for your own spiritual wellbeing and contemplative practices?

Join us as we continue to unpack this fascinating ancient technology together. And please hit us up with follow-up questions on Twitter @TheShwell or on our site, TheShwell.com. We’ll revisit the Enneagram from time to time in the weeks and months ahead. 

Enneagram Type Three

Podcast: Sleeping At Last
Host: Ryan O’Neal
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New song debut: “Three” – the third of nine songs inspired by the nine Enneagram types! “Three” is also part of the ongoing series of songs, Atlas by Sleeping At Last. In this episode, you’ll hear how the song came about, the Enneagram, who an Enneagram type “Three” is and so much more! Guest: Chris Heuertz.

 

Chris Heuertz on the Sacred Enneagram

Podcast: RePlacing Church
Host: Ben Katt
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Chris Heuertz is a founding partner of Gravity, a center for contemplative activism based in Omaha, Nebraska that helps people “to do good better” by hosting a weekly prayer sit, leading contemplative retreats and pilgrimages, providing spiritual direction, and facilitating Enneagram consultations. Prior to starting Gravity, the he co-founded and served for 20 years with Word Made Flesh, a non-profit organization that extends love and care to the most vulnerable in some of the world’s poorest slums, red light areas, and places of intense human suffering. Chris is the author of Unexpected Gifts: Discovering the Way of Community, which explores how the challenges of community, such as betrayal, failure, and doubt, can actually become unexpected gifts. His latest book is The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth. Chris is also regular guest on the Sleeping At Last podcast, which is creating a series of songs and conversations about all nine Enneagram types.

Chris Heuertz Interview Part 1

Podcast: Bible Meditation Podcast
Host: Nikki Rach
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I am SO EXCITED to bring you this special edition of the podcast – actually two! Today we learn from Chris Heuertz about how the Enneagram types can help guide our spiritual journey. So many insights were shared by Chris, we had to divide this into two episodes.

Read his book: The Sacred Enneagram, Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

Learn more at:

GravityCenter.com and SacredEnneagram.org

Discern your enneagram type with the RHETI test (small fee) at EnneagramInstitute.com or the EnneaApp (free quiz) or read the type descriptions and discern for yourself.

Background music from “Soul Breaker” by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotions.

Finding The Way to Your True Self: Enneagram Expert Chris Heuertz

Podcast: For the Love
Host: Jen Hatmaker
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Our “For the Love of New Beginnings” series continues strong with Enneagram expert Chris Heuertz. Are you a 2 (The Helper) or perhaps an 8 (The Challenger)? Or maybe a 3 (The Achiever), like Jen? If you don’t know what the heck we’re talking about, we’re here to help. Chris has written a new book called The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth and shares why The Enneagram is one of the most powerful and insightful tools for understanding ourselves and others. Jen and Chris both share how knowing their Enneagram types has helped them embrace their strengths and their flaws and how it has enhanced understanding and compassion in their key relationships.   If you haven’t taken the Enneagram, you are going to want to after you listen to this episode. Visit JenHatmaker.com/podcast for links to Enneagram Institute resources. 

Christopher Heuertz Part 2, Sacred Ennegram

Podcast: Restoring Soul
Host: Michael Cusick

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On this podcast, Michael concludes his conversation with Christopher Heuertz, author of “The Sacred Enneagram: Finding your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth”. Chris is also the author of 3 other books, “Unexpected Gifts: Discovering the Way of Community”, “Simple Spirituality: Learning to See God in a Broken World”, and “Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission”.

After 20 years of grassroots work in some of the world’s poorest slums, red light districts and places of intense human suffering, Chris and his wife Phileena founded Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism that exists to nurture the integral connection between contemplation and action. Gravity grounds social change in contemplative spirituality, to do good better by facilitating contemplative retreats, spiritual direction, enneagram consultations, and pilgrimage. Chris says, “Our aim is to make contemplative practices accessible to individuals and communities who care about their spirituality and want to make the world a better place.

Christopher Heuertz Part 1, Sacred Ennegram

Podcast: Restoring Soul
Host: Michael Cusick
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Christopher Heuertz is Michael’s special guest for the next two podcasts. In addition to being an author and speaker, Chris describes himself as a contemplative activist, ecclesial provocateur, curator of unlikely friendships, instigator for good, witness to hope, and clergy for common people.

Chris has spent his life bearing witness to the possibility of hope in a world that has legitimate reasons to question God’s goodness. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Chris studied at Asbury University in Kentucky before moving to India where he was mentored by Mother Teresa for three years. While living in India, he helped launch South Asia’s first pediatric AIDS care home–creating a safe haven for children impacted by the global pandemic.

His vocation has taken him to over 70 countries working among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor. In 2012, he and his wife Phileena launched Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism. Find our more about Christopher Heuertz here

Chris Heuertz from Gravity Center on the Sacred Enneagram

Podcast: The Good Journey
Host: Brady Josephson
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Chris Huertz has a background in humanitarian work fighting human trafficking in the slums of Cambodia and spent a lot of time with Mother Theresa. In his travels and work he’s become an Enneagram professional and been trained by people like Father Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Marion Gilbert and Helen Palmer among others. He has spent time on many nonprofit boards over the past 15 years, currently runs his own nonprofit in Omaha called Gravity and recently wrote a book called The Sacred Enneagram. In this episode Chris shares more about the Enneagram, what contemplative activism is and why it’s needed in our world today, and what he’s learned working with nonprofits and nonprofit professionals. Hope you like it!

“What is the Enneagram and Why Should You Care?”

Podcast: Rage Against the Minivan
Host: Kristen Howerton
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What can you learn about your internal motivations and drives from the Enneagram? Over on my podcast Selfie we’re kicking off a series on this fascinating personality theory. In this introductory episode we will explain what it is, and then talk through each type with writer and enneagram enthusiast Leigh Kramer. We’re also joined by Christopher Heuertz, author of The Sacred Enneagram, who shares some of the history of the enneagram, it’s spiritual origins and modern psychological iterations, and how our childhood fears and wounds shape our personality. It’s a fascinating episode that we hope will inspire you to join us on this journey of exploration.

To take the test to find out your own type, you can visit this site for a quick, free test, or buy the $12 Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator test at the Enneagram Institute for a more thorough assessment and explanation of your secondary types. (We recommend springing for the paid test.)

Here are some books we talked about in this episode:

The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Riso and Hudson

The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge by Beatrice Chestnut

 

Enneagram Type Two

Podcast: Sleeping At Last Podcast
Hosts: Ryan O’Neal
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New song debut: “Two” – the second of nine songs inspired by the nine Enneagram types! “Two” is also part of the ongoing series of songs, Atlas by Sleeping At Last. In this episode, you’ll hear how the song came about, the Enneagram, what an Enneagram Type “Two” is and so much more! Guest: Chris Heuertz.