What is the Enneagram? Who is Helen Palmer?
  The Enneagram is a highly sophisticated system of nine personality profiles that are meant to help us know ourselves and to better understand the people in our lives, “as they are to themselves”. Each type serves as a customized road map for personal growth and spiritual development with the intended result of healthier relationships and the potential to develop a more authentic spirituality.
1 The Perfectionist
2 The Giver
3 The Performer
4 The Tragic Romantic
5 The Observer
6 The Loyal Skeptic
7 The Epicure
8 The Protector
9 The Mediator		   The Mediator The Perfectionist The Giver The Performer The Tragic Romantic The Observer The Loyal Skeptic The Epicure The Protector
  
Set in a non-denominational framework, the Enneagram is arranged on a nine point diagram with each of the nine types being identical to those used in psychological counseling and spiritual direction. So, the Enneagram is far more than a hot new pop psych system. It is real, it is valid and it is observable in our everyday lives. To learn how you can apply its wisdom and guidance for creating a better and more fulfilling life read on for more about specific Enneagram types. 		    Helen Palmer is a leading authority and preeminent teacher of the ancient wisdom system known as the Enneagram. Helen teaches Enneagram courses and workshops in a variety of settings, including online courses that are available for continuing education and for those who are interested in understanding themselves and others better. To this end, Helen co-founded the Enneagram Professional Teacher Program which trains and certifies presenters of the Enneagram worldwide. In addition, Helen is a founding director of the International Enneagram Association and co-chaired the first International Enneagram Conference held at Stanford University in 1994. This website is devoted to Helen Palmer's unique understanding and presentation of the Enneagram.  
What is the Inner Observer?
  “If you don’t get the Inner Observer, you don’t get the Enneagram.” — Helen Palmer 

Each type serves as a customized road map for personal growth and spiritual integration that depends on an aspect of self-awareness known as the Inner Observer.  The Inner Observer is the agent through which we discover ourselves and each other in ways that are psychologically unique, authentically spiritual and ultimately compassionate. Indeed, the vocation of the Enneagram is to awaken this self-reflective faculty inherent to our common humanity. Consider purchasing "The Inner Observer - A Guided Meditation" from the Enneagram.com store to experience your own "Inner Observer".

  
             
How can I learn more? Helen's E-Course

The Inner Observer Meditation
  1.) Accurately identify your type. Take a typing test or arrange for a typing interview with a Helen Palmer/EPTP certified Enneagram practitioner.

2.) Tour this website and enjoy video clips of each of the Nine Types highlighted with bullet-point self-observations shared by long-term students of the Enneagram;

3.) Sign-up here for our quarterly newsletter. It's free, informative, and appropriate for any serious student of the Enneagram.

4.) Take one of Helen's workshops or online courses. An e-course is an especially effective and efficient way to learn the system.

5.) Visit our shopping cart and choose from a variety of Enneagram-based products. It's one way to refresh your knowledge and application of type-based principles as you grow in fluency of the system. 		    Now in its third year running, "Using the Enneagram for Psychological Assessment and Practice" continues to get rave reviews from those who have taken the course. "Brilliant" is the one word most often used to describe the e-course by those who have taken it so far. This is because the material is challenging, the insights unique and the benefits multiple. Team-taught by Helen Palmer and Marlene Cresci-Cohen, Phd., this first-ever Enneagram-based online course is available for continuing education credit. It is also suitable for any serious student of the Enneagram who is interested in deepening their self-understanding and those with whom they are in relationship. And if that isn't enough, you can learn at your own pace according to your own schedule. Click here to learn more.     Enneagram.com is pleased to announce another “first”! Never before in the recent history of the Enneagram has a guided meditation by Helen Palmer ever been made available for purchase by the “virtual” public.  Now, thanks to the wonder of the internet, Helen is able to introduce the reality of the Inner Observer in a way that is at once experiential, unique, and undeniable to anyone who takes the time to listen and learn. Helen's gift of language and intuitive capacity are evident in this approximately thirty minute download as she skillfully moves the listener through the categories of attention and into an experience of their Inner Observer, that self-reflective faculty of awareness so critical to the activation of the Enneagram. According to Helen, it’s the Inner Observer  that distinguishes the Enneagram from every other personality typology such that,  no Inner Observer, no true understanding of the Enneagram! Click here to order.