Publisher's Synopsis
This is the best introductory book you will find on the Enneagram. Wagner's guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching ID for workshop presenters and counselors.
This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet descriptions, yields an experiential understanding of basic Enneagram principles such as:
- Authentic values and their personality substitutes
- Resourceful and non-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and behavioral schemas and how they shift under stressful and flow conditions
- Developmental influences
- The three centers of sorting and deciding
- The defense mechanisms, principles and paradigms, virtues, passions, and both healthy and maladaptive instincts of each of the nine Enneagram personality types.
