Back in June of 2023, in a piece in Sojourners Magazine, Enneagram teacher and coach Ari Robins called this personality-type system “a tool,” one meant to “transform our lives.” Built around nine personality types, this self-assessment instrument helps us to “become more deeply aware” of our “patterns, feelings, actions, and authentic self,” one blogger reports in a review of Experiencing the Enneagram.
This book, a composite of talks given at a seminar for scholars, seems geared towards those already acquainted with the Enneagram, and who are keen to “get away from one’s own compulsions,” as one of its contributors puts it. Another writer puts it this way: greater self-knowledge “proves fruitful…only when it…leads to change.”
Edited by Andreas Ebert and Marion Küstenmacher, both members of the Ecumenical Enneagram Work Group in Germany, the book “goes into some quite deep spiritual ideas,” a UK reviewer observes; so it is that one of its contributors is the noted Franciscan priest and writer on spirituality, Richard Rohr.
“If knowing why you do what you do, or understanding how you see things the way you see them, is important to you,” reviewer Jeanne Befano prods, “this well-written, in-depth book…is a must-have.”
Experiencing the Enneagram
Edited by Andreas Ebert & Marion Küstenmacher
The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992
