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​The Prison Program Healing Lifetimes of Pain

​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.
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Forbes.com
NOV 14, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
By Rimma Boshernitsan

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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…”
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Forbes.com
NOV 14, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
By Rimma Boshernitsan

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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.  
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Truity.com
SEPT 11, 2023
By Lynn Roulo

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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.
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Good Grit Magazine
April 3, 2020
Words by Evan Barbee
Illustration by Chris Koelle


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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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THE LONG WAY BACK

Transforming Lives Behind Bars: Enneagram Prison Project
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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 THREAD

Susan Olesek: The Power of the Enneagram
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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.
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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 MEANING

The 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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FLOWING EAST AND WEST

​Freeing ourselves from the prisons of our own making and the Enneagram
In this episode, we speak with Susan Olesek, Founder of the Enneagram Prison Project (EPP). Early in her journey of learning the Enneagram, Susan was invited into a prison in Texas to work with a group of incarcerated individuals. She was both inspired and blown away by the power of the work and the life-changing impact of the participants. She knew she’d found her purpose and she EPP was created to bring the Enneagram teachings into more prisons.  Susan shares how the Enneagram provides an opportunity to be more honest and kind with ourselves and to learn how to get out of our own way. 
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RIGHT SIDE UP LEADERSHIP PODCAST

Enneagram 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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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Mission, Vision, and Values
    • Our Impact
    • The Enneagram
  • Our Community
    • About Our Founder
    • Our Ambassadors
    • Our People
    • EPP Around The World
  • Our Programs
    • EPP In-Custody Self-Awarness Training Program
    • Public Offerings
    • EPP Guide Training Program (GTP)
  • Media
    • EPP Podcasts
    • EPP Media + Press
  • Events
  • Contact Us