Episode 8

Conversation | The Enneagram of Traps

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.

2:00 The history of the enneagram of traps

3:58 The mental FIXATIONS of our types

3:55 The HOLY IDEA as the true way to alleviate the fixation

5:24 Mario Sikora’s take on phenomenology vs. ontology

6:55 Traps as maladaptive patterns

8:10 Why Creek drinks pumpkin spice lattes

9:45 The traps for each type

28:30 How to begin to identify fallen into our traps

29:50 How the traps impact our stories

30:30 “We are walking metaphors living out a story that our whole body believes.” - Tom Condon

32:00 Resources on the Traps: Transpersonal Psychologies by Ichazo, Sandra Maitri’s Enneagram of Spirituality, and Patrick O’Leary’s The Enneagram

32:15 Buy Creek a pumpkin spiced latte! Venmo: @Seth-Creekmore

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Fathoms | An Enneagram Podcast: “Discovering our inner depths, one fathom at a time.”

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Co-hosts: Seth Abram, Seth Creekmore, Drew Moser

Production/Editing: Seth Creekmore