Exploring the Enneagram through art. (continued) Threes achieve great success in their lives and are looked up to as role models. They believe in developing their talents and capabilities to reach their full potential. As children however, Threes were not valued for themselves, but for being and doing certain things extremely well. A pattern is set whereby Threes live with the belief that you are good or okay if you are successful and others think well of you because of your achievements and performance. To mask their insecurities about their worth, Threes tend to present themselves in a way that does not reflect their authentic self, but rather a version of themselves that they feel are called for in each situation to achieve success. In a sense, they wear "masks" to ensure that they will be accepted. Their Life essence emerges when Threes shift their centre of gravity from outside themselves to inside by allowing their hearts ...
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.