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

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

What’s the Enneagram Test? Plus, What to Do with Your Results

Enneagram is basically a psychological system that helps explain why we do what we do, and links together our thinking, feeling, instincts, and motivations, says Susan Olesek, executive coach and founder of the Enneagram Prison Project, where she works with incarcerated individuals.
Shape.com
MAR 30, 2020
By Jennifer Nied

A Short History of Personality Tests

I talked to Susan Olesek, a consultant and “human potentialist,” about the Enneagram, one of the more popular tools for discerning the lay of the land inside. The Enneagram, (pronounced any-ah-gram) sorts people into nine different types, identified with numbers, from Type 1 to Type 9. “The type that we first pick is our entry point that starts to show us something about ourselves, that we feel like is deeply, deeply true, and at the same time may show us things we deeply, deeply wish were not [true],” Olesek explains.”
Verilymag.com
MAR 24, 2020
By Margaret Brady

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

PODCASTS

THE ART OF GROWTH

Susan Olesek- The Enneagram Prison Project
"The Art of Growth" is an organization that does coaching, corporate training, and this podcast. Check out our work and keep in touch at www.theartofgrowth.org to find out more about our work and our upcoming online test.Email us thoughts and questions!This episode features Susan Olesek!Susan is the founder of the Enneagram Prison Project and today she explains the mission behind that work as well as what led to it's creation.

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.

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.

PACE SMITH

Susan Olesek of the Enneagram Prison Project teaches the Enneagram to inmates, to help them free themselves from the bars of their own personalities.
Freeing People from the Prisons of Our Own Making - 12/22/2016
9 Prisons One Key - 01/26/2017
Enneagram Type 1
9 Prisons One Key - 02/23/2017
Enneagram Type 8
9 Prisons One Key - 03/23/2017
Enneagram Type 9
9 Prisons One Key - 04/27/2017
Enneagram Type 2

REVOLUTIONARY WELLNESS

EPP Founder Susan Olesek co-hosts Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio alongside its founder Rochelle McLaughlin, interviewing and offering her compassionate understanding of the human condition – type by type – in a thorough tour of the Enneagram.
9 Prisons One Key - 05/25/2017
Enneagram Type 3
9 Prisons One Key - 06/29/2017
Enneagram Type 4
9 Prisons One Key - 07/27/2017
Enneagram Type 5
9 Prisons One Key - 08/24/2017
Enneagram Type 6
9 Prisons One Key - 09/28/2017
Enneagram Type 7

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