Books
- The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
This book is a perfect primer for people new to the Enneagram. It is simple, relatable, and the lists at the beginning of each chapter, “What It’s Like to be a Four,” go a long way toward helping you identify your type.
- The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr
A step up in complexity, Rohr’s book brought the Enneagram into cultural, and personal, awareness. It includes the same sort of descriptions of each type, but with a bit more depth than The Road Back to You.
- Mirror for the Soul: A Christian Guide to the Enneagram by Alice Fryling
Once you’re sure of your type and asking, “Okay, now what?” this is the book for you. Fryling’s focus is personal transformation and using the Enneagram to identify your God-given gifts, how your false self twists them, and how to reclaim your true self. Really excellent.
- The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge by Beatrice Chestnut, PhD
If you want the equivalent of an Enneagram textbook, Chestnut’s book is what you’re looking for. Whereas other books devote sixteen pages to a type, this book offers forty-two. It also delves into the three subtypes (self-preservation, social, and sexual) found in each type, which can help you narrow in even further on who you are.
Podcasts
- The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
Much like their book by the same name, this podcast is an introduction to the Enneagram. Each episode interviews someone famous-ish from the Christian world, highlighting their type and how it affects their life. Quite good for hearing practical examples of what it looks like to be aware of your Enneagram type.
- Typology by Ian Morgan Cron
After their book was released, Cron continued similar work with his own podcast. This one goes a bit deeper, though, offering a variety of interviews (so far there has been a panel of Nines and of Sixes) sharing personal experiences AND educational episodes by authors Richard Rohr and Beatrice Chestnut.
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