Enneagram Gathering Place Articles Creating Community within the Family Using the Enneagram by Lynette Sheppard, RN, CHT, 1996. The following article was first published in Quest, the newsletter of the Spirituality Track of the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Oral Tradition with Helen Palmer.
Spirituality begins at home - in every day life.
Although I knew I would use the Enneagram with my children, I never dreamed it would become the unifying force in creating a small intentional community - our family. We never set out to teach our children the Enneagram. We answered the questions specific to their age group. We always started with a short answer and only gave more information if they asked for it. Initially, we thought the kids would tire of the Enneagram and move on to something else.