The Buddhist Enneagram: How Mindfulness Transforms Your Personality Patterns with Susan Piver

S9E43 - The Buddhist Enneagram: How Mindfulness Transforms Your Personality Patterns with Susan Piver

Published: April 30, 2026

Duration: 56:16

What happens when two powerful paths—Buddhism and the Enneagram—sit down for a conversation?

In this episode, Ian welcomes author and Buddhist teacher Susan Piver (The Buddhist Enneagram) to explore the overlap between these two systems. Susan's new book, The Buddhist Enneagram, offers a fresh lens on personality—not as something to fix, but as something to understand, soften, and ultimately hold with compassion.

This conversation goes beyond personality labels and into something deeper: How your patterns form, why they stick, and how awareness—not willpower—is what actually creates change.

If you've eve...