Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Creativity and the Enneagram with Sleeping at Last

May 4, 2020

56:06

What can we learn about ourselves from and through art? Sleeping At Last, an incredible musician, joins us to explore the Enneagram, the creative process, art and emotion, and how we can become ever more true to ourselves.

About Our Guest: Sleeping at Last, also known as Ryan O’Neal, is a well-known singer, songwriter, and composer who's written music for shows like Grey's Anatomy. Over the last seven years Ryan has worked on his Atlas series, an ongoing project that includes an incredible series of songs based on the Enneagram of Personality, which is my favorite personality typing system.

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Key Topics:

3:00: Sleeping at Last’s background and artistic origin story.

6:30: Music as a kind of journal.

8:30: How masks allow for vulnerability.

11:10: Writing in theme, and finding safe spaces for emotion through art.

17:00: Sleeping at Last’s creative process.

20:00: The Enneagram.

25:00: Forrest and Type 6

30:30: Ryan and Type 9.

33:50: 6 by Sleeping at Last

38:15: Learning about people through art.

43:00: Pressure.

44:45: Increasing creative output.

53:00: A message to Ryan's younger self.

Listen to the fantastic Sleeping at Last Podcast! On it, Ryan explains the process and inspiration behind his music, and I couldn’t recommend it more strongly.

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