Exploring the Enneagram through Art (continued) I want to explain the different types as they are identified in the Enneagram of Personality by using images of the sculptures we made for our exhibition, Your Signature, My Life. Our personalities are formed in our attempts to protect and defend our essential being, or essence. By adopting coping mechanisms in childhood, we survive the physical world, but get cut off from our essential nature. In each sculpture, we portrayed the personality type as the imprint or Signature that has been stamped onto us. The essence, or Life , which has to be allowed to surface in order for us to fully realize ourselves, is shown to be present always, but nuanced and even hidden. By exploring the Enneagram in this way it helps us to get insight into the deeper meaning of our life that we not always have access to through cognitive thinking alone. In The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, they "have named personalit...
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.