EPP MEDIA + PRESS
A course based on the Enneagram Personality Test helps incarcerated people process their trauma and forge a new path forward. Here is one woman's story.
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Meet The Woman Working Behind Bars To Uncover Human Potential
Susan Olesek is revolutionizing human potential, self-awareness and emotional well-being in the global prison system. She has grown her nonprofit, Enneagram Prison Project, to change systems that often fail basic human needs. Based on the Enneagram, her work uses an incisive psychological system that teaches people how to identify entrenched patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and how they can unconsciously work against us.
Google’s VP of Design Says Human Connection is Essential To Bottom Line
Ross believes that “To create trust people have to understand their true nature and how it relates to others on the team. Then they, as well as the leader, can see how to ensure that people complement each other understanding each other’s character, behavior, and motivation. To ensure that this happens Ross suggests using tools like the Enneagram…”
Enneagram Prison Project: The Key to Learning from Within
Facing an eight-year prison sentence, Alex Senegal wasn’t planning to become an ambassador for the Enneagram or one of its most compelling proponents. But that’s exactly what happened. And the awakening – if we can call it that – came at a particularly low point in Senegal's life. “I was drowning in guilt and shame when the Enneagram came into my life,” he says.
Follow the Little Lights
The Enneagram Prison Project and The Hero's Journey
Susan is the founder of Enneagram Prison Project (EPP), a grassroots nonprofit full of fascinating characters united in their commitment to invite life into historically inhospitable places and call powerful leaders out of an unlikely population: correctional facilities and the human beings within them.
Enneagram Prison Project empowers teens through pilot program at Los Gatos High School
Formerly incarcerated individuals engage in a dialogue with high school students about their shared experience studying the Enneagram
Jeff Limon had envisioned a “perfect life,” but those plans were derailed when he began struggling in graduate school. Eventually he dropped out, became deeply depressed, and turned to drugs to numb the pain. His addiction ultimately landed him in Santa Clara County Jail, which is where he first learned about the Enneagram — an incisive psychological tool that teaches people how to identify entrenched patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that underlie our actions.
Jan 24, 2020
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PODCASTS
THE LONG WAY BACKTransforming Lives Behind Bars: Enneagram Prison Project
Susan Olesek showcases the power of self-awareness and self-regulation for prisoners using the Enneagram system, somatic awareness, and mindfulness meditation. Her programs help inmates become "change agents," driving a new approach to criminal reform and personal transformation.
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PULLING THE THREADSusan Olesek: The Power of the Enneagram
Pulling the Thread features 45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's biggest questions: Why do we do what we do? How can we come to know and love ourselves better? How can we come together to heal and build a better world?
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PERSONALITY HACKER
The Enneagram Prison Project Part 1 (With Susan Olesek)
In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk with the founder of the Enneagram Prison Project Susan Olesek about her work, passion, and mission to help people heal in one of the hardest places to do healing work.
The Enneagram Prison Project Part 2 (With Sue Lambert)
In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk with Ambassador Liaison of the Enneagram Prison Project Sue Lambert about her personal story.
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NEW VENTURES WEST
The Prison of Personality
Adam talks with Susan Olesek, founder of the Enneagram Prison Project. They delve into the distinction between personality and essence, what power actually means, and how the Enneagram can help us shed ego and access the truth of who we are. Susan shares how this work has impacted folks who are behind bars—and all she has learned from them.
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MIKE'S SEARCH FOR MEANINGThe Prison of Personality
Mike‘s Search For Meaning is the intersection between philosophical and practical. How do leaders organize their inner world? What tools and tactics can we use to enhance our relationships and careers? Join host and life coach Mike Trugman as he seeks to unlock the keys to living a deeply fulfilling life.
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RIGHT SIDE UP LEADERSHIP PODCASTEnneagram Prison Project " Freedom from our own prisons"
On todays episode, Alan interviews the founder and current leader of the Enneagram Prison Project about how the Enneagram his helpful to leadership and marriage and how they had to adapt when prisons were closed.
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