The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self
Living beyond Your Type
You are much more than your personality type. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self is an invitation to see ourselves as more than we believe we are, to learn and engage in practices that liberate us from automatic patterns.
With clarity and consistency, this book shows how to understand your Enneagram type without reinforcing the patterns of your type. Certified Narrative Enneagram teacher Sandra Smith, MDiv, has taught the Enneagram internationally as a tool for personal, professional, and spiritual development for over twenty-two years. She shows readers how to deepen their use of the Enneagram in support of their spiritual lives as well as psychological health.
The gift of the Enneagram is its accuracy to show us the motivations beneath behaviors and egoic patterns that limit us and keep us from growing. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self discusses the makeup of these patterns and gives us a greater capacity to unhook from them. Free from these habits, we are able to live more mindfully and grow into our full dimensionality, becoming more of ourselves.
Smith provides a detailed teaching of the components of the Enneagram type structures along with type-specific practices to counter automatic patterns. Also included are contributions from a diverse range of Enneagram practitioners. With their help, Smith dives into the components of the Enneagram types to tease out the patterns and pitfalls preventing us from living our radiance. Prayers, poems, and practices beckon us out of our confining comfort zones and into witnessing and honoring our lives.
'This is a great guide for those beginning their Enneagram journey and those who want to go deeper into the essence of their being.' — Deborah Threadgill Egerton, PhD, author of Know Justice Know Peace and Enneagram Made Easy
Sandra Smith, MDiv, teaches the Enneagram internationally as a tool for personal, professional, and spiritual growth. She is a certified Narrative Enneagram teacher and an IEA (International Enneagram Association) accredited professional. Through her business, AlchemyWorks, she offers organizational Enneagram trainings, public workshops, and retreats. Drawing from her business background and theological education, she weaves the practical and the compassionate in her teaching and consulting.
Sandra cocreated and cohosts the podcast Heart of the Enneagram, which explores dimensions of the nine unique Enneagram perspectives through interviewing guests of all nine types. Since its release, the podcast has been distributed to listeners in eighty countries. She lives in North Carolina.