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- Preface
- Introduction
- Three Zones and Nine Sectors
- Wings and Moves and other functions
- Biblical Journeys
- Prayer
- The Enneagram
- From the Enneagram to the Strategy Board
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The strategy board described in Head versus Heart is a development of the system commonly known as the enneagram of personality types.
For an introduction to that system, head back to the home page here.
This appendix explores the other uses of the enneagram.
The Enneagram - Introduction
Part of the structure of the strategy board is the pattern of nine lines within the outer circle – the pattern of nine ‘well-trodden paths’ across the board. This diagram with nine arrows connecting nine points on a circle is the one part of the structure properly know as ‘the enneagram’ – or ‘nine-pattern’. It has some fascinating properties which are well worth examination – and which can add to our understanding of the workings of the strategy board.
The enneagram is a tool for examining the properties of certain three-part systems. It comes in two forms: the static enneagram and the cyclical enneagram.
The cyclical enneagram – ‘the enneagram of cyclical processes’ – introduces a sense of clockwise motion around the outer circumference of the diagram. There was a hint of this in our examination of The Lord’s Prayer.
But for the most part, the strategy board has been a ‘static’ system – there has been no particular sense of clockwise or anti-clockwise movement around the outer circle – so we examine first ‘the static enneagram.’