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- Preface
- Introduction
- Three Zones and Nine Sectors
- Wings and Moves and other functions
- Biblical Journeys
- Prayer
- The Enneagram
- From the Enneagram to the Strategy Board
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Sources and resources
Writers in the Jesuit tradition of Robert Ochs
All of these writers belong in different ways to the Jesuit enneagram tradition of Robert Ochs:
Maria Beesing, Robert Nogosek, and Patrick O’Leary, The Enneagram: a journey of self discovery (Dimension, 1984). The earliest book in print.
Richard Rohr and Adreas Ebert, Discovering the Enneagram: an ancient tool for a new spiritual journey (Crossroad, 1990), now in a new edition The Enneagram, A Christian Perspective (Crossroad, 2001). An excellent compendium of Christian resources on the nine types.
Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, The Wisdom of the Enneagram (Bantam, 1999). The definitive textbook of Riso and Hudson’s material. Written in accessible ‘secular’ language but very much part of the Jesuit tradition.
Éilís Bergin and Eddie Fitzgerald, An Enneagram Guide: a spirituality of love in brokenness (SDB Media / Twenty-Third Publications / Bayard, 1993). Catholic resources from the Irish Republic.
Writers in other enneagram traditions
Using the same distinctive diagram but taking different routes in the development of the material – great rivals of each other and of the Jesuit tradition:
Helen Palmer, The Enneagram: understanding yourself and the others in your life (HarperCollins, 1988). Material derived directly from Naranjo, not via Ochs. ‘Psychodynamic therapy’ rather than ‘spiritual direction.’
Anthony George Edward Blake, The Intelligent Enneagram (Shambhala, 1996). In the Gurdjieff tradition rejecting any connection with nine types of people – and extraordinarily obscure.