Are you currently dissatisfied with your parent teenager relationship? Are you looking for new insight that can help you create greater bonds of love and respect that you have yet to experience? If so, let me introduce you to the Enneagram, an ancient body of wisdom related to personality types.
Let be said that, being ignorant in the parent teenager relationship may be bliss and the path of less resistance. However ignorance exacts a price. That price is mistakes that could lead to deep despair and unhappiness.
So what is the Enneagram all about and how can it work for you to assist you in your parent teenager relationship? The Enneagram is the study of the nine basic human personality types and explains why we behave the way we do, pointing to specific directions for growth. It is a powerful tool to improve relationships.
The Enneagram explains that early on in life each individual learned to feel safe and to cope by developing certain patterns of behavior based on our natural abilities and talents. In this way each person cultivated a certain personality type.
By working with the Enneagram in our parent teenager relationship we can develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and our teenager and what makes each of us tick. From here we can gain a greater awareness and appreciation of behavior patterns and learn new alternatives ways of responding to the same situations that will serve us better.
What this means is that we can experience liberation from old useless coping strategies and open our eyes to a larger perspective of life. Through such a process, new ways of being beckon us, which subsequently enables us to upgrade our relationships.
There is a school of thought which says to stay clear of any kind of personality profiling system based on the belief that we should not be putting ourselves or others 'into a box'. The truth is that you cannot change your personality but you can learn to manage it. In addition, by knowing your own personality type you can live your life so as to avoid being pigeonholed.
Applying the Enneagram in my parent teenager relationships I have been able to identify my own self limiting beliefs and discover new ways of being and relating. As a consequence I have come to embrace more effective parenting strategies which have assisted our teenagers on their life journey to becoming independent, responsible, caring and happy adults.
Let be said that, being ignorant in the parent teenager relationship may be bliss and the path of less resistance. However ignorance exacts a price. That price is mistakes that could lead to deep despair and unhappiness.
So what is the Enneagram all about and how can it work for you to assist you in your parent teenager relationship? The Enneagram is the study of the nine basic human personality types and explains why we behave the way we do, pointing to specific directions for growth. It is a powerful tool to improve relationships.
The Enneagram explains that early on in life each individual learned to feel safe and to cope by developing certain patterns of behavior based on our natural abilities and talents. In this way each person cultivated a certain personality type.
By working with the Enneagram in our parent teenager relationship we can develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and our teenager and what makes each of us tick. From here we can gain a greater awareness and appreciation of behavior patterns and learn new alternatives ways of responding to the same situations that will serve us better.
What this means is that we can experience liberation from old useless coping strategies and open our eyes to a larger perspective of life. Through such a process, new ways of being beckon us, which subsequently enables us to upgrade our relationships.
There is a school of thought which says to stay clear of any kind of personality profiling system based on the belief that we should not be putting ourselves or others 'into a box'. The truth is that you cannot change your personality but you can learn to manage it. In addition, by knowing your own personality type you can live your life so as to avoid being pigeonholed.
Applying the Enneagram in my parent teenager relationships I have been able to identify my own self limiting beliefs and discover new ways of being and relating. As a consequence I have come to embrace more effective parenting strategies which have assisted our teenagers on their life journey to becoming independent, responsible, caring and happy adults.
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