‘Enneagram’
We brought ‘Enneagram’ to Asia, outside Israel, in 1999 as a PhD thesis under this author’s guidance and supervision. To the best of our knowledge and belief, it was the first academic adventure in Asia after Israel. No one had any inkling of Enneagram till that date except our team. To the best of our knowledge, it was the first academic attempt in the whole of Asia which thus became an academic land-mark. Enneagram was brought by us as a practical way to healthy living.
The Enneagram which is pronounced as “Any-A Gram ” ws derived from Greek terminology ‘Ennea’ means nine and ‘grammos’ means points. So, Enneagram deals with the nine points and each point is a personality type. It is a map of human nature which answers the quest about human nature which people have long been seeking to answer almost since time immemorial.
Enneagram first surfaced among certain orders of the Sufi’s mystical tradition.
‘The Enneagram’ was brought to the Western world by the Russian Spiritual guru George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff around the turn of the 20th century and was further developed by the Bolivian mystic Oscar Ichazo beginning in 1960s. The Enneagram was brought to U.S. in 1970 by the Psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo.
In India, to the best of our knowledge and belief, it was Osho who introduced the concept and, then, we created the Enneagram Personality test first time in 1994.
Dr Chittranjan N Daftuar, Lucky Daftuar
Dr. Chittranjan. N. Daftuar, an internationally known specialist in the areas of Competency Mapping, Sensitivity Training, Assessment Centre, HRD, OD, Organizational Behavior, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Ergonomics & Social Psychology is a PG diploma from I.I.T. Kharagpur, and D.Litt in Organizational Behavior.
With more than 35 years of teaching, research, & consulting experiences Chittranjan was selected National Associate of the University Grant Commission at a very young age of 28 and was later involved as visiting scholar in various roles to several national and international organizations including the University of Technology, Loughbourough, U.K., University of Cambridge, U.K., Railway Staff College, Baroda, Bank of Baroda Staff College, Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad, IIT, Kanpur, Academy of HRD, etc.
