Articles
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
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
JUL 3, 2018 @ 05:42 PM
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
Video
Podcasts
Babysteps Nutrition Podcast
The Enneagram Prison Project: Unravelling the Human Potential
On this powerful episode of the Baby Steps Nutrition Podcast, Argavan speaks with Susan Olesek, the founder of The Enneagram Prison Project (EPP), a non-profit offering self-awareness education to the incarcerated through the Enneagram.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baby-steps-nutrition-podcast/id1580301084?i=1000550960601
Enneagram Prison Project (EPP) Podcast
EPP and friends – hosted by Clay Tumey
EPP Podcast is a production of Enneagram Prison Project (EPP). Hosted by EPP Ambassador Clay Tumey, these raw conversations unpack the amazing journey of EPP over the past decade.EPP is on a mission to help people to understand why we do what we do, using the Enneagram to inspire transformation – on both sides of the bars – through self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion.
https://podcast.enneagramprisonproject.org

The Art of Growth
Susan Olesek- The Enneagram Prison Project
https://open.spotify.com/episode/67At7t5IZ53bDJ8hLFKOLO?si=3X4L9C-4SveaS_42qkniRw&fbclid=IwAR0X8PVBuxpUcbH3lsmheF6zOhMOw2qbx9MdJHom44SA1blB-9h1S4Ug5t0

Personality Hacker
The Enneagram Prison Project Part 1 (With Susan Olesek)
https://personalityhacker.com/podcast-episode-0305-the-enneagram-prison-project-part-1-with-susan-olesek/
The Enneagram Prison Project Part 2 (With Sue Lambert)
https://personalityhacker.com/podcast-episode-0306-the-enneagram-prison-project-part-2-with-sue-lambert//

New Ventures West
The Prison of Personality
https://www.newventureswest.com/prison-of-personality/

Pace Smith
The Enneagram Prison Project, with Susan Olesek
http://pacesmith.com/wcme-040/

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.
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