Gestalt Therapy & working with Enneagram - By Silvia Giani

About the workshop

The Enneagram comes from an ancient teaching that has its roots in the Sufi tradition. It can be considered both a tool that allows the study of the character of every human being and an ancient diagnostic framework.

The structure of the Enneagram links the individual’s discomfort to the persistence of an early adaptive strategy that interferes with the wisdom of the organism.

What is peculiar of the Enneagram is that it does not want to put people in categories; it is a very complex and dynamic tool.

Each personality type can be seen as organized around an emotional core (passion), a cognitive core (fixation), and an instinctual core (instinct). From this perspective, character can be defined as a defensive crystallization of the natural fluidity in the early process of adaptation to the environment—a fixed structure. This defence, with a protective function, takes on behavioural forms that the individual draws from their…