Joel McKerrow, HUMAN and Enneagram 3

The Unfolding Enneagram

My guest today is performance poet, Joel McKerrow. To try and describe what that means and what he does in a these show notes would be like asking me to describe what crème brûlée taste like. I can’t. You must experience it.

I’m so excited to share his latest project, HUMAN - An Exploration of the Inner Life.

Through the visual arts, the zoological, the poetic and the musical, HUMAN is an exploration of the drive that makes us...well...human. With a philosophical base in the identity framework of the enneagram (plus a few extras), this is your chance to explore your deeper desires, your compulsions, your hopes and your fears and how they shape your life for better and for worse.

Joel McKerrow is an award winning writer, speaker, educator, artist, creativity specialist and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful, internationally touring, performance poets. Based out of Melbourne, Australia he is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEARFUND Australia’ and was the co-founder of community arts organisation, 'The Centre for Poetics and Justice' (2010-2013). Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA and is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and festivals all over the world. He has four published books and four spoken word/music albums, is a successful play-wright and is a co-founder/host of the The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality Podcast.

I hope you’ll allow yourself to take in the visual along with the spoken word by visiting his website and choosing your animal symbol, seeing the meaning of each one while you hear the exploration of the inner life of each of type.

To be HUMAN is to live in tension with oneself.

It's the way we want to be fully known and the fear that stops us. It's the ache of our longing and the hope of our finding. It’s the pain of our sorrow and the joy of our love. It’s the dark that hides and the light that reveals. It's the despair and it is the beauty.

This inner conflict, or perhaps truer to say, this inner confluence, is where the wellspring of what impels us overflows into our everyday realities.

Ask the animals, they know.

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