Using Insight and Healing Techniques

The ancient symbol of the Enneagram has become one of todayÕs most popular systems for self-understanding, based on nine distinct personality types. Whatever your spiritual background, the Enneagram will give you a clear understanding of . . .

• Your unique spiritual gifts, strengths and evolutionary pattern
• An understanding of the personal ego structure and fears that drive and motivate you
• Your deepest direction in life and contribution to the world
• Life lessons for overcoming your inner barriers to living your fullest potential
• Individual exercises and practical strategies for letting go of troublesome habits and core addictions, improving relationships, and increasing inner freedom.

You will receive:

• A simple questionnaire for quickly determining each core type
• Revealing insights into the deepest motivations, fears, and desires of each type
• Individual profiles focused on maximizing each types potential and minimizing predictable pitfalls
• Spiritual jump starts, wake-up calls and red flags for each type
• Lost and unconscious childhood messages for each type

As we take an in depth look at all the archetypes and their shadow sides, you may be able to recognize these patterns in yourself and others. No matter what type you are, you have all nine types within you, to some degree. To explore them all and see them all operating in you is to see the full spectrum of human nature. This awareness will give you far more understanding of and compassion for others, because you will recognize many aspects of their particular habits and reactions in yourself.

Knowing our types is not the final destination. While this knowledge helps to stop automatic ego reactions and addictions by bringing awareness to them, the Enneagram also invites us to look deeply into the mystery of our True Identity and see our unique gifts and capacities for enlightenment.

Kalie Marino, M.S.W., M.S.C., spiritual and holistic counselor, was personally trained as a teacher of the Enneagram by two of the world's foremost Enneagram authorities, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, co-authors of many Enneagram books, including their latest bestseller, "The Wisdom of the Enneagram."