The format for most the chapters in The Dynamic Enneagram is the same. Each concentrates on a particular Enneagram style and offers a mixture of original observations, case histories, and everyday examples of the style in action. The purpose of each chapter is to offer a comprehensive portrait of an Enneagram style and present its core dilemmas. Then Tom offers solutions, evoke resources and demonstrate customized techniques for change. Chapters 1-5 of The Dynamic Enneagram are each broken up into four sections: Introduction, The Trance of the Style, Keys To Change, and Fine Distinctions. Each Introduction includes: * A detailed description of the Enneagram style in question, * The healthy and unhealthy expressions of the style, * Everyday examples of the style in action, * Typical dilemmas and conflicts, * The gifts and talents of the style, * What you may not know about people with
this style. * The core strategy driving this style, * The way people with this style perceive the world through their senses, * Original insights into the "inner architecture" of this style, * Body types and physical expressions, * Everyday examples of the specific defense mechanisms, * Characteristic hypnotic phenomena. Keys to Change includes: * What specifically motivates people to change and grow within this style, * Approaches that work and fail, * Ecology, chunking, and useful goals, * Hidden natural resources, * How people with this style change naturally, * Ways to evoke the strengths of the style, * Stories of successful ways of working therapeutically with this style, * Ideas, exercises, behavioral tasks, and
suggestions for personal growth.
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Who should read The Dynamic Enneagram? Enneagram enthusiasts seeking a fresh, open interpretation
of the system Psychotherapists who need rapid, powerful choices
for working with clients. With the advent of HMOs, therapists
are especially interested in tools that work deeply and quickly
Therapists-in-training and their schools Practitioners of NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, Brief
Therapy and Family Therapy Parents wanting alternative constructive ways to
relate to their children Anyone looking to make sense of their marriages and
personal relationships General Self-Help audiences Business people and professional communicators Priests and spiritual counselors Enneagram teachers and their students Catholics in general. The Enneagram has a sizable
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To TopThe subject of several recent best-selling books, the Enneagram is a powerful overview of human psychological types. The Enneagram is about people - how we are the same, how we are different, what makes us tick. It presents an organized system that describes the nine core personality styles that human beings tend to favor. The Enneagram's description of these styles is profound, comprehensive and penetrating. Newcomers to the system are often stunned to discover uncannily accurate portraits of themselves, their friends, coworkers, parents and intimates. The Enneagram is on a fast and steady-rising arc of popularity. 1994's First International Enneagram Conference at Stanford University attracted 1400 people. 1997's Conference at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland was similarly well-attended. Helen Palmer's The Enneagram In Love and Work was on the New York Times Bestseller list. Her recent business book, The Enneagram Advantage, has spent several weeks on the San Francisco Bay Area Bestseller list. The popular media has showcased the Enneagram with articles in Newsweek, Mademoiselle, Esquire, Psychology Today, Teen, Selling, and dozens of newspapers. The Enneagram has been featured in a new Time-Life series on psychology and figured significantly in Tony Schwartz's recent book, What Really Matters. Upcoming magazine articles are slated for Cosmopolitan, Common Boundary and Self. The two earliest books on the Enneagram, published in 1987 and 1988, continue to sell steadily and well. While there are well over a million books already sold on the Enneagram but they are primarily about diagnosis. There is a dearth of solid material about what to do after you have identified your personality style. With the subject well established by the best-selling works of Helen Palmer and Don Richard Riso, the next big area of interest is in the Enneagram's applications, especially as a tool for personal evolution. Thomas Condon has worked with the Enneagram since 1980. He has taught classes at Antioch University, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as hundreds of workshops in the U.S. and Europe. He is the author of 50 cds, 19 videos and two books.
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