The Upbuild Enneagram Library
Welcome to the Upbuild Enneagram Library. We’re glad to be on this journey with you.
We’re two former monks, a former startup founder and CEO, and a former investment bank executive…who met in a NYC monastery.
Over the past two decades, we’ve used the Enneagram to help countless individuals and organizations see themselves more clearly and start to break free from the shackles of the ego.
Drawing on years of teaching, coaching, and lived experience, we’ve created this podcast as a deep library of Enneagram knowledge to support you in the most meaningful journey there is: the journey from the ego to the true self.
Episodes
37 episodes
Type 5 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram
This compilation episode brings together our discussions of Type 5 across the many dimensions of the Enneagram to build a richer, more complete understanding of the Type. The team explores the 5’s connection to the Head Center, its relationship...
Type 4 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram
This compilation episode brings together our discussions of Type 4 across the many dimensions of the Enneagram to build a richer, more complete understanding of the Type. The team explores the 4’s connection to the Heart Center, its relationshi...
Type 3 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram
This compilation episode brings together our discussions of Type 3 across the many dimensions of the Enneagram to build a richer, more complete understanding of the Type. The team explores the 3's connection to the Heart Center, its relationshi...
Type 2 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram
This compilation episode brings together our discussions of Type 2 across the many dimensions of the Enneagram to build a richer, more complete understanding of the Type. The team explores the 2’s connection to the Heart Center, its relationshi...
Type 1 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram
This compilation episode brings together our discussions of Type 1 across the many dimensions of the Enneagram to build a richer, more complete understanding of the Type. The team explores the 1’s deep desire to live according to higher princip...
The Achilles Heel of Every Enneagram Type (And How to Heal It, Including The Five Stages of Grief)
What is the one thing about yourself that you cannot accept?In this episode, Michael, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath introduce the Upbuild original concept of the Achilles Heel. Drawing from years of study and teaching of the Enneagram, the...
The Passions and the Virtues
What keeps each Enneagram Type trapped, and what helps it move toward freedom? In this episode, Vipin, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath explore one of the deepest dimensions of the Enneagram: the Passions and the Virtues. Drawing on the work of Oscar...
The Imbalances of the Centers of Intelligence
In the Enneagram, there are some Types that disassociate from their Center of Intelligence and other Types where one Center “enslaves” another. Which pattern do you fall into, and what is actually happening beneath the surface? In this episode,...
The Harmonics: How Each Enneagram Type Approaches Conflict
One of the most overlooked dimensions of the Enneagram is how we handle conflict. In this episode, Michael, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath explore the three Harmonics: Competency, Emotional Realness, and Positive Outlook. Each represents a distinct...
The Inner Critic: The Mouthpiece of the Ego
We live in a constant negotiation with an Inner Critic that tells us we are not enough. In this episode, Vipin, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath shed light on the Inner Critic as the mouthpiece of the ego. Using the Enneagram, they show how this voic...
The Shock Point and Red Flag Fears: What Makes Us Slip Down the Levels of Consciousness
This episode introduces the Transitional Fears, the fears that arise at key thresholds between Levels of Consciousness. Vipin, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath show how these fears are expressions of deeper existential anxiety, why they feel so convi...
Parental Orientation: Attachment, Frustration, and Rejection in the Enneagram
Every Enneagram Type carries a specific relationship to nurturing and protective energy. That relationship begins in childhood, but it does not stay there. In this episode, Vipin, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath unpack Parental Orientation, the Obje...
Falling in Love with Every Enneagram Type
How do we fall in love with the Enneagram Types? In the same way we fall in love with people in real life: by understanding both their gifts and their suffering.In this episode, Michael, Hari Prasada, and Rasanath explore what it tr...
The Predominant Emotions: Anger, Shame, and Fear
Each of us lives from one of three distinct inner stances, yet hardly ever realizing it…“Don’t mess with my world.”“See me the way I want to be seen.”“What can I trust?”In this episode, Michael, Hari Prasada, and...
The Wings
The Wing is one of the most powerful forces shaping personality. In addition to the primary Type, it strongly influences what we want, how we show up, and even whether we experience ourselves as more introverted or extroverted. In this episode,...
The Behavioral Patterns: The Go-Getters, the Withdrawns, and the Dutifuls
Do you tend to push forward and make things happen? Pull back and feel easily overwhelmed? Or constantly track how much you are giving so you can be sure you are giving more than you receive?In this episode, Michael, Hari Prasada, a...
The Directional Movements (the Lines on the Enneagram Symbol)
“What are those lines on the symbol?” is one of the questions we get most frequently during our Enneagram workshops. In this episode, Hari, Rasanath, and Michael explore the critical dimension of the Enneagram: the Directional Movements. They d...
The Instincts: Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social
Each of us is wired with a specific hierarchy of three core instinctual drives, shaping how we move through the world. The Instincts (sometimes referred to as Instinctual Variants) is part of the Enneagram framework and plays a powerful role in...
The Head Center
There might be a lot going on in your head, but that does not mean that you are making good use of it. In this episode, Michael, Rasanath, and Hari Prasada discuss the Head Center’s essential role in managing the complexity of life and the floo...
The Heart Center
Just because you feel a lot does not mean you are present in the Heart Center. In this episode, Hari, Michael, and Rasanath explore what it really means to live from the heart. They look into the realm of emotion, identity, and our longing to b...
The Body Center
In this episode, Michael, Hari, and Rasanath turn their attention to the Body Center of the Enneagram. They explore how presence is experienced as groundedness, sensation, and gut-level knowing, as well as how energy can move from intuition int...
The Three Centers of Intelligence: Body, Heart, and Head
Do you really want to settle for being one third of a human? In this episode, Michael, Hari, and Rasanath build off this very provocative question from Russ Hudson to explore the three Centers of Intelligence: the Body, the Heart, and ...
Summing up the first 14 episodes, how to use the Enneagram in our everyday lives, the need for spiritual practice
In this episode, we explore how to use the Enneagram in our everyday lives in order to make sure that it has the profound impact on us that it is capable of having. We also discuss how the Enneagram can only take us so far and how a spiritual p...
Why Mistypings Happen and the Most Common Mistypings
Typing is one of the most critical aspects of the Enneagram, and yet, mistyping is rampant. In this episode, we explain why this is case and what we can do about it. We also explore the one Type that is more likely to mistype than any other Typ...