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From Chapter 12 of Mary Bast and Clarence Thomson’s Out of the Box Coaching with the Enneagram, 4th Edition, available at Amazon.com in Not only clients get stuck in boxes. So do coaches. Each Enneagram style has a corresponding coaching style that will be [...]
Editor’s Note: For those of you who are coaches, here’s an article about “closing the deal” using your knowledge of the Enneagram. From Chapter 12 of Mary Bast and Clarence Thomson’s Out of the Box Coaching with the Enneagram, 4th Edition, soon to appear at [...]
Now that we’ve shared abbreviated life stories from our forthcoming book on transformation with the Enneagram, C.J. Fitzsimons and I thought Nine Points readers might be interested in excerpts from our own stories. Mary and CJ, you’re both Nines, you’ve known each other for [...]
This ninth life story from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with a Nine. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style “The word transformation definitely has a positive meaning for me. [...]
This abbreviated life story from my forthcoming book with C.J. Fitzsimons is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Eight. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. I can remember the exact date of what was probably my biggest [...]
This abbreviated life story from my forthcoming book with C.J. Fitzsimons is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Seven. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. “My transformation has been in ideas about what is, learning something that [...]
This sixth life story, from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Six. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. “One of my friends had told me several times you [...]
This fifth life story, from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Five. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. “Transformation is moving from one consistent and orderly psychic state [...]
This fourth life story, from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Four. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. “Transformation is a word we use in the West because [...]
This third life story, from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with an Enneagram Three. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style. “Until I started doing some real work, all my energy [...]
This second life story from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with a Two. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style Style Two: Staying Awake “To me transformation is becoming anew, changing from [...]
This first life story from the forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, is condensed from an interview with a One. In the book there will be eighteen life stories, two for each Enneagram style Style One: Evolution of Consciousness “My notion of goodness or [...]
There will be eighteen life stories in a forthcoming book co-authored by C.J. Fitzsimons, two for each Enneagram style. We trust that the ones we post on Nine Points will provide readers with companions along their own paths, and a better understanding of all styles. [...]
Mortificatio, Killing Ego Attachments Mortificatio—killing or dead-making, consciously working on reduction of ego attachments; in Jungian terms ‘bringing home’ our projections, going inside ourselves to embrace the shadow so our being reflects the whole instead of a dissociated part. Before I knew anything about mortificatio, [...]
Solutio, Releasing Buried Emotions Solutio uses the purifying and dissolving properties of water to return to its most basic state the whitened ash left from burning away our ego-based illusion of reality. This dissolution works on the heart to release buried emotions. Some people find [...]
First published in Enneagram Monthly, October 2011 Our collective predicament depends much on individual human transformation and… we cannot afford not arousing the potential and motivation of individuals to work on themselves to the extent that they can.” Claudio Naranjo, “Suggestions for Further Work on [...]
[NO RECORDING] The power of personal metaphor in change work is presumed; the question raised is how to better elicit the most powerful of these metaphors--those of the client's own creation. Theatre exercises will reveal participants' own improvisational style, exploring this as a subset of, [...]
[NO RECORDING] Those doing change work may unwittingly help people get better at what they've always done to keep themselves stuck in a box. In contrast, significant shifts can occur by moving beyond first-order change (doing something better without examining the Enneagram worldview, or "box") [...]
[NO RECORDING] When we "break out of the box," we see something in a radically new light or behave in a totally different way. But breaking free of life-long patterns can be difficult. Sometimes in coaching others we only help them get better at what [...]
