Psychodrama and Enneagram

I am deeply grateful to each one of you for being unconditional love and acceptance that made it possible for the protagonist to feel safe enough to do the work he needed to do to begin the process of releasing the darkness trapped inside of him for him to progress on his good to great journey.

Even though there's one protagonist, work happens for each one in the Surplus Reality of the Psychodrama space - whether they are auxiliaries or audience. Each one moves forward on their Good to Great journey, if you allow yourself to be touched by the drama instead of disconnecting yourself which can also show-up sometimes as a self-defence mechanism.

Going within in search of darkness is not a pleasant experience, so 90% of humanity avoids it and is denied the privilege of dissolving the darkness within to step into their undeniable greatness.

Tele is an invisible, unconscious connection that connects human beings. It is Tele which has got all of us together because each one of us wants to travel our Good to Great journey to realize our highest potential and make a massive positive impact in the world through our work.

It is through Tele, the protagonist chooses the right auxiliary for their drama, the specific person in the audience who will most benefit by playing that auxiliary role.

Our emotions are our best friends on our Good to Great journey. They are our Truth Tellers, the Way Show'ers.

Our default response to an uncomfortable emotion is to:
i. Suppress it - This is called Being Brave. - Super Hero Martyrs do this. - Enneagram Style 7, 1, 4 typically use this strategy to protect themselves from feeling the pain of their emotions.

ii. Vomit it on other people - Bring everyone down along with us. - Fighters do this. - Enneagram Style 8, 2, 5 typically use this strategy.

iii. Numb ourselves from feeling it - We don't even know we have an uncomfortable emotion - Avoiders do this - Enneagram Style 9, 3, 6 typically use this strategy.

iv. Give in to it - Victims do this. Each Enneagram style will find themselves here and will use their favourite strategy to get out from being here.

8-9-1 enneagram styles are a Triad called the Body Type. Their primary emotion is Anger, which they need to explore and release.

2-3-4 enneagram styles are a Triad called the Heart Type. Their primary emotion is Shame, which they need to explore and release.

5-6-7 enneagram styles are a Triad called the Mind Type. Their primary emotion is Fear, which they need to explore and release.

Super Hero Martyrs, Fighters, Avoiders, Victims are all expressions of the hole-in-the soul and small mind.
 
A Peaceful Warrior on the journey from Gear 1 to Gear 5 have another response. They PROCESS the uncomfortable emotion:
i. They acknowledge it exists. Before I could work on Grief, I had to acknowledge it existed. I had to raise my consciousness to become aware of it.

ii. They allow themselves to feel it to release it.

iii. That creates the window for deeper level inner work to dissolve it's source within us (hole-in-the-soul, small-mind) to support us to step into Joyous Freedom.

Psychodrama is a safe space to explore unmentionable, scary emotions so that we can find a pathway to process and release them.

The path of the Peaceful Warrior is difficult because it is the path of going to dark places within that we don't want to go to, dark places within that scare us, dark places within that we don't even know exist. That is outside our comfort zone because we are not in control there and we don't know what will happen. We feel most safe when we are in control. But, our growth lies outside our comfort zone.

It is interesting how some of you heard every word of the journey I took you all to the golden palace. Some of you heard parts of it, some of you heard nothing at all. Some of you took guides, some of you didn't take guides, some of you took guides but didn't ask the guide for support.

Here's my hypothesis for all of you to reflect on - The above was in response to your discomfort of not being in control and the need to be in control.

The journey till Good happens because we are in control, the journey from Good to Great happens when we are comfortable about not being in control:
i. not being in control of the outcome - then can we can dream crazy and play a big game in the face of failures and lack of no agreement from the environment.

ii. not being in control of the direction the journey is progressing - then we necessarily need to raise our consciousness to have childlike trust and faith in the Universe, in the process of life. Childlike trust and faith is available to us in Gear 3. It is different from Surrender in Gear 0, which is usually what religions demand of the devotees.

iii. not being in control of how life shows up - then we can use our limiting circumstances to raise our consciousness by accepting that how we experience people is a mirror of our experience of our own self and transform every breakdown into a breakthrough.

Trust this helps in expanding your understanding of your Good to Great journey, and gives you greater courage and commitment to continue doing your inner work of Leadership Depth, your outer work of Business Excellence and your outer-inner-outer work of Craft Mastery.

Thank you for your love, trust and belief that has each one of you take actions outside of your comfort zones to progress on your Good to Great journey 💜

Loving you,
j.