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The Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide

By David Daniels, MD and Virginia Price, PhD

Stanford University Medical School clinical professor of psychiatry David Daniels and counseling psychologist Virginia Price offer the only scientifically developed Enneagram test based upon extensive research combined with a self-discovery and personal-development guide. They then guide you in your discovery of what your type means for your personal well-being and your relationships with others, and they show you how to maximize your inherent strengths. Brimming with empowering information for each of the nine personality types, this one-of-a-kind book equips you with all the tools you need to dramatically enhance your quality of life.

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The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and Others in Your Life

By Helen Palmer

This classic book on the Enneagram is based on the Narrative Tradition and Helen’s deep, intuitive understanding of the types. Written by a leading teacher on the Enneagram and The Narrative Enneagram co-founder Helen Palmer, it offers a framework for understanding ourselves and those around us as well as a wealth of practical insights for anyone interested in personal development.

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The Enneagram in Love and Work

By Helen Palmer

The San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–now in paperback. The wisdom of the Enneagram as it applies to our relationships in love, friendship, and work is explored in the latest book from Enneagram expert Helen Palmer.

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The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry

By Chichi Agorom

For too long, conversations about the Enneagram and its personality types have been centered on and by whiteness. In The Enneagram for Black Liberation, certified Enneagram teacher and trained psychotherapist Chichi Agorom reclaims the Enneagram as a powerful tool for Black women to rediscover our wholeness and worth that existed long before systems of supremacy told us we weren’t enough.

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Heart of the Enneagram: A Companion for Deepening Personal and Spiritual Growth

By Sandra C. Smith and Christopher T. Copeland

For those who want to take their exploration of the Enneagram deeper, Heart of the Enneagram and the accompanying podcast facilitate the opening of the heart, a liberating act that releases limitation and fear and expands gratefulness and compassion. The book offers practices in the form of quotes, questions for reflection, and statements that help cultivate the inner observer and interrupt our habitual thinking.

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The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self

The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type

By Sandra C. Smith

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.

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The Enneagram, Relationships and Intimacy: Understanding One Another Leads to Loving Better and Living More Fully

By David Daniels, MD and Suzanne Dion

People can’t sustain something they don’t fully understand, that they don’t know how to nurture, that they don’t know how to develop and grow. The nine Enneagram types reveal that there are nine ways to love and receive love. Shown by both modern science and ancient wisdom, leaning into understanding oneself and others through the Enneagram leads to loving better and living more fully. Enneagram expert and psychiatrist David Daniels, MD and certified Enneagram relationship teacher and coach Suzanne Dion present a relationship-changing guidebook packed with practical tips, specific guidance, and stories of working with couples on communication, anger, judgment, forgiveness, love, intimacy, and sexual fulfillment for all nine types.

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Personality and Wholeness in Therapy

Personality and Wholeness in Therapy: Integrating 9 Patterns of Developmental Pathways in Clinical Practice

By Daniel J. Siegel and the PDP Group

Personality and Wholeness in Psychotherapy applies the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to a traditional wisdom framework widely known as the Enneagram of Personality. This framework describes a lifespan developmental personality model of nine distinct, key strategies that people use to make sense of and cope with their experiences and interactions with the world. These strategies can be understood as nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs. This book provides mental health practitioners with both a theoretical understanding of PDPs and practical tools for implementing the framework in clinical settings.

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The  Conscious Enneagram: How to Move from Typology to Transformation

By Abi Robins

As the Enneagram has grown in popularity over the past 30 years, the insights offered have focused either on the present or the future, with little guidance on how to move from Point A to Point B. In the The Conscious Enneagram Abi Robins offers a rich, insightful guide for those seeking to move from patterns to promise.

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The Pocket Enneagram

By Helen Palmer

Acclaimed Enneagram expert and bestselling author Helen Palmer condenses the ideas from her popular books into a compact guide that will appeal to newcomers as well as to longtime Enneagram enthusiasts, with its succinct presentation of the nine types, how to optimize them, and how the different types relate to one author.

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The Enneagram Advantage: Putting the 9 Personality Types to Work in the Office

By Helen Palmer and Paul B. Brown

Adapting a centuries-old psychological system of personality profiling, The Enneagram Advantage gives invaluable insight into your own business persona as well as those of your colleagues, bosses, clients, and corporate cultures. Best-selling author Helen Palmer has written the ultimate guide to using this remarkable system at the office and in business relationships.

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Inner Knowing: Creativity, Insight, Intuition

Edited by Helen Palmer

Helen Palmer has compiled a collection of short essays by well-known psychologists, writers, and scientists on the hidden powers of intuition. Inner Knowing illustrates that the human mind possesses the capability to consistently function at significantly high levels of perception, creativeness, and intuitiveness.

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