The Art of Growth

What if everything you believe about why you are the way you are is only half the story? In this episode, Joel and Jim take on the most common explanation people give for their own personality: I am this way because of what happened to me. It is not wrong, they argue. It is incomplete. Personality forms from a mix of what you were born with, the environment you interacted with, and what you keep building in response. From there the conversation opens up into why so much growth work quietly fa...

Joel Hubbard and Jim Zartman explore the Enneagram’s three centers of intelligence: Head, Heart, and Body. They discuss the function of each center, what happens when it is overused, what it costs us when it is missing, and what becomes possible through integration. Head thinks. Heart connects. Body acts. Find out more about The Art of Growth Take a free Enneagram Test HERE. Sign up for the “Your Enneagram Starting Point” course HERE. Get Enneagram Certified HERE. Find out more about Te...

In this episode, Jim and Joel return after a break to explain the deeper work happening behind the scenes at The Art of Growth. They revisit the foundations of the Enneagram, clarifying what they mean by “type” through three key components: core motivation, schema, and expression. They also introduce a major shift in their current work: moving beyond the idea of nine types with separate instinctual subtypes and toward a more integrated model of 54 types, where each Enneagram type is inseparab...

Find out more about The Art of Growth Take a free Enneagram Test HERE. Sign up for the “Your Enneagram Starting Point” course HERE. Get Enneagram Certified HERE. Find out more about Teams Training HERE. Order our book on the Instincts: HERE Set up One-on-One coaching HERE. www.theartofgrowth.org Email us your thoughts and questions! Follow us on Instagram at ArtofGrowth for more on this subject this month and let us know what you are doing. © The Art of Growth ™ 2025 Support t...

Find out more about The Art of Growth Take a free Enneagram Test HERE. Sign up for the “Your Enneagram Starting Point” course HERE. Get Enneagram Certified HERE. Find out more about Teams Training HERE. Order our book on the Instincts: HERE Set up One-on-One coaching HERE. www.theartofgrowth.org Email us your thoughts and questions! Follow us on Instagram at ArtofGrowth for more on this subject this month and let us know what you are doing. © The Art of Growth ™ 2025 Support t...