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The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self Paperback – October 1, 2021
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"An Outstanding book that offers precise steps to take to wake up to the self-limiting habits of your personality, get out of your own way, and give yourself the gift of accessing more of your higher – more authentic – self." —Ian Cron, author of The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
A fresh approach to the Enneagram that encourages readers to embark on their own hero’s journey for transformation.
This is a personal transformation book rooted in the wisdom of the Enneagram system of personality types. It is a book about waking up and growing into the best version of yourself. It is a book that shows you how to discover who you are and what you can be. It is a book about finding your path, facing your shadow, and discovering your true self.
It is a good news–bad news–good news story. The good news: you survived childhood. The bad news: in order to grow, you are going to experience some pain. The really good news: you can use your negative habits as a springboard to move beyond them. With a commitment to self-observation and reflection, you can develop greater self-awareness and open yourself up to a life filled with exciting choices and opportunities.
Each of the nine chapters includes these features:
- The problematic perspective, the process of self-discovery, and the path forward for that type
- How the main issues for that type get played out in 3 different ways—the 3 distinct sub-types of the main type (necessary for pinpoint accuracy in describing your personality and your path of growth)
- Print length280 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHampton Roads Publishing
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2021
- Dimensions6.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-10164297031X
- ISBN-13978-1642970319
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You Are Not Your Personality. But Who Are You?
If you’re like most people, you picked up this book because you want to understand more about why you are the way you are. Why do you do the things you do or react the way you do to certain things? Why, no matter how many times you think you’ve learned something, do you keep making the same mistakes? How you can make your relationships better and what happened in the one that didn’t work out? Why is there one issue in your life that you just can’t get past?
This book can help awaken you from this state by introducing you to the Enneagram, a powerful growth tool based on timeless wisdom that can help you come to know your true self. The Enneagram can free you from defensive self-limiting patterns and help you grow into an expanded version of yourself. It can show you who you really are by showing you who you think you are. Only then can you know who you actually - and who you are not.
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a complex and meaningful symbol that relates to many different systems of knowledge, including psychology, cosmology, and mathematics. It forms the basis of a highly accurate typology that describes nine distinct personality types and serves as a sense-making framework for understanding the human ego and mapping out a process of growth. As a psychological and spiritual model that lays out specific paths of self-development, it helps us “wake up” to ourselves by revealing the habitual patterns and blind spots that limit our growth and transformation.
The Enneagram is based on nine personality types grounded in three “centers of intelligence” that determine how we take in and process information from the outside world.
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"While there are many new books and podcasts about the Enneagram these days, most of them are simply describing the nine types--sometimes in amusing ways, but often as simple stereotypes. It takes many years to really master this material, and Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes have done so. In The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up, they provide lucid descriptions of the types, but also guide the reader beyond this to an understanding of the original purpose of the Enneagram work. They offer wonderful, clear insights and practices that will help you find your dominant type as well as the crucial teachings of what to do with this knowledge. They present accessible methods for transforming your life and 'waking up' as the title suggests. Beatrice and Uranio are true leaders and pioneers in the field of Enneagram studies, and I highly recommend this book to those seeking a deeper understanding of these powerful teachings." -- Russ Hudson, author of The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence, and co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram
“The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up pays special attention to the all-important arcs of transformation for each enneagram type. Includes many suggestions for making the journey to healing and wholeness.” -- Susan Piver, author of The Four Noble Truths of Love
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- Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing (October 1, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 280 pages
- ISBN-10 : 164297031X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1642970319
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Beatrice Chestnut grew up in Palo Alto, California, went to college in Los Angeles, and attended graduate school in Chicago and San Francisco. A licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco, she has graduate degrees in communication and clinical psychology. Her PhD dissertation describes how Reagan and Bush got away with their Iran-Contra crimes in the 1980s by managing public opinion (and Congress) through the story they created for a lazy press corps. She has taught at Northwestern University and facilitated interpersonal learning groups at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and University of San Francisco’s School of Law. She has been studying and working with the Enneagam for 23 years. She was certified to teach the Enneagram in 1997 through the Helen Palmer/David Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program. She served as president of the International Enneagram Association in 2006 and 2007 and was founding co-editor of the IEA’s Enneagram Journal in 2008.
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What you get with this book is a separate chapter for each of the nine enneagram types. Within each chapter, you will find a check list of traits common to that specific type; the different subtypes and so- called wings for each, and more.
One cool feature of this book is that, rather than merely tell you about your enneagram type and what makes you tick, it also challenges you to improve your less- than- ideal tendencies and become a better person. It mentions what it calls the pain points and blind spots for each type, then suggests actions you can take immediately to turn these weaknesses into strengths.
Because of the way this book is written, with a separate chapter for each type and similar format for each chapter, it is more like a reference guide than anything. If you want to know more about your enneagram type or the type of someone close to you, just turn to that specific chapter and start reading. If you don’t know of anyone who fits a certain type and have no interest in that type, just skip the chapter. Or, if you really want to brush up on all the different enneagram types and what each personality type is like, then you can read the book in full. It is completely up to you.
As an enneagram type 1, Reformer, I was curious to learn more about my type and subtypes and what I can do to improve. The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up proved a useful guide to understand myself better and to see what I can do to be the best version of myself. You are often your own worst enemy, and this book is ready to help you learn more about yourself and those close to you, and show you how to strive to reach your highest potential.
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2023
What you get with this book is a separate chapter for each of the nine enneagram types. Within each chapter, you will find a check list of traits common to that specific type; the different subtypes and so- called wings for each, and more.
One cool feature of this book is that, rather than merely tell you about your enneagram type and what makes you tick, it also challenges you to improve your less- than- ideal tendencies and become a better person. It mentions what it calls the pain points and blind spots for each type, then suggests actions you can take immediately to turn these weaknesses into strengths.
Because of the way this book is written, with a separate chapter for each type and similar format for each chapter, it is more like a reference guide than anything. If you want to know more about your enneagram type or the type of someone close to you, just turn to that specific chapter and start reading. If you don’t know of anyone who fits a certain type and have no interest in that type, just skip the chapter. Or, if you really want to brush up on all the different enneagram types and what each personality type is like, then you can read the book in full. It is completely up to you.
As an enneagram type 1, Reformer, I was curious to learn more about my type and subtypes and what I can do to improve. The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up proved a useful guide to understand myself better and to see what I can do to be the best version of myself. You are often your own worst enemy, and this book is ready to help you learn more about yourself and those close to you, and show you how to strive to reach your highest potential.
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There are several things wrong with this book. The main thing is that each type begins with a fictional ‘story’ about how this type came to be due to early experiences. The problem with this is that the stories immediately alienate anyone of that Type who doesn’t ‘fit’ that story. For example, Type Four describes a child who feels special and loved before a sibling is born and the loss triggers the familiar Four characteristics and particular pain. I am a Four whose sibling was older than me and I suspect my loss came from being a baby and toddler who was regularly ignored when crying, by a mother who would walk out the house slamming the door behind her and leaving me alone when I was just desperate to be held. We never bonded so in some ways there wasn’t much ‘loss’ there. This odd addition to the book would have made more sense with an introduction explaining that the key feature is ‘loss’ which can come about in many different ways and ‘here is an example of one possible way’.
The other thing I did not like was the use of language. For some reason the authors decided to go with the original Enneagram language of ‘gluttony’ and ‘avarice’ and ‘passion’ (different from the modern meaning of the word) which makes it seem outdated, hard to read and understand and because language evolves, needs additional explanations as to what those words mean in this context. Even the ‘sexual’ subtype I was surprised to see: many books have moved on to substitute this for Relational although there was a concession to this with the term ‘one to one’.
Finally, the constant reference to needing to wake up from the ‘zombie’ state jarred with me. Not the need to wake up, but referencing zombies. WHY?! This made the book seem weirdly American-centric, and for those of us who have no interest in zombies or find the notion of zombies very movie-specific it was off-putting to say the least. A bit like suddenly referencing vampires and bats all the way through. Bizarre.
I will say one good thing about this book. I recognised my complex mother in one of the seven subtypes and had never managed to type her after 3 decades. So thank you for that!