This book was about…achieving balance in your life though understanding how you relate to the three centers of thinking, feeling and doing. Suzanne walks you through how each number relates to these centers. Enneagram triads are determined by which centers is the dominant. Enneagram stances are determined by the centers each number suppress. The work of recognizing the center you are suppressing and incorporating it into your daily life is moving toward wholeness. In-depth teaching on Stances. Stances are an essential and often overlooked element of the enneagram. Learning stances has been, for me, one of the most healing tools in my marriage. If you know your type but don’t know your stance, you are missing a big piece of the puzzle, particularly when it comes to personal growth. Suzanne is fond of saying that “we can’t change how we see, but we can change what we do with what we see.” Her insights help us to identify our strategies for getting needs met, and consider other, more balanced possibilities. The reward of this diligent soul work is a healthy working relationship with thinking, feeling, and doing. Suzanne Stabile’s description of each triad’s response to stress and way of being in the world is gently eye-opening, and the spiritual practices she suggests for movement toward health are ambitious and involve the right degree of discomfort to let me know their true growth potential.

This book is concerned with the three centers of intelligence, and is broken down into two major sections: Triads and Stances. Understanding the mechanisms at play within our type is essential for two reasons. First, it provides helpful, objective tools for determining type and for helping to prevent mistyping. Second, it answers the question, “what now?” for those who know their type but feel at a loss for how to begin the work of transformation. Suzanne lays out two important arenas for personal growth: how we see, and what we do with what we see. Wisdom from a master teacher. Suzanne graces readers with humorous, poignant illustrations, powerful insights, and hard-won wisdom. She is vulnerable in sharing her own experience, and offers great examples from others. Her introduction on liminal space is particularly moving, stirring readers to take action in this season marked by the anxiety and uncertainty of the covid pandemic.Enneagram godmother, Suzanne Stabile, offers readers an engaging resource in her new book, The Journey Toward Wholeness. Her book invites intermediate students of the enneagram to journey beyond diagnosis, into a process of growth and exploration. The book is full of stories and specific tools for taking the next step on the journey.

Things I liked about this book I have a much better grasp of the stances and the beginnings of understanding about my repressed center. I can’t wait for the print copy of the book where I can underscore and tab the areas really important to my continual development. This will be a valuable addition to my enneagram bookshelf. The first half of the book focuses on Triads, where each type is dominant in their Center of Intelligence, and how that can cause an imbalance. The second half begins with Stances, and the "soul work of the repressed center." She masterfully guides the reader through each stance, then each type within the stance, and does so by graciously pointing out where our imbalances come from. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone wanting to dig deeper into their study of the enneagram, and for those looking for practical ways to apply enneagram wisdom to their lives.

Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation

Why you should read this book A read through this book will not only give you a greater understanding of the choices your are making, but will also give you insight into the choices of those you walk with in this life. We all want achieve more balance in our lives. I also found the anecdotal chapter introductions unsatisfying. Some of them are short and end so abruptly that we're left hanging, and others go on with so many superfluous details that I couldn't help but skim. I ended up skimming through quite a bit of this book, because even though I didn't skip any of the chapters, the advice was generally very repetitive for the same and different types. The whole book is written in a way that feels narrative and guiding, rather than an encyclopedia of terms or behaviors. She closes with a question and challenge that leads to potential transformation, and does so (as she does throughout the book) with vulnerable and telling stories from her own personal experience. Her new book takes a fresh approach to the Enneagram, focusing less on the Nine individual types and viewing it instead through the lens of Triads and Stances. Stabile is well-known for her work on Stances, and her wisdom and experience show in her writing. The second half of the book is dedicated to Stances, which explains how we process or respond to how we see the world. Stances are determined by the repressed center of intelligence; types 4, 5, and 9 repress doing and are in the Withdrawing Stance, types 3, 7, and 8 repress feeling and are in the Aggressive Stance, and types 1, 2, and 6 repress thinking and are in the Dependent Stance. Suzanne provides ample stories, type descriptions, as well as testimonials from members of each type. She offers advice in the form of “Transformative Possibilities” for each type, along with questions to ponder.

The conversation about transformation at the heart of all stance work challenges readers to consider how the tendency to be dependent, withdrawing, or aggressive impacts our encounters with others. Helpful stories from real people functioning within their own number provided excellent clarification of the many ways of seeing the world and the transformative possibilities across the board. Summary: Draws on the wisdom of the Enneagram to help focus on our responses to stress, both as they reflect our dominant and repressed centers of intelligence intelligence. For those who want to dive deeper into Enneagram wisdom, this book and companion six-session study guide from expert teacher Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence: thinking, feeling, and doing. When we learn to manage these centers, each for its intended purpose, we open a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, growing spiritually, and finding wholeness. Drawing on the dynamic stability of the Enneagram, she explains each number's preferred and repressed Center of Intelligence and its role in helping us move toward internal balance.In this, her third book about the enneagram, Stabile discusses how soul transformation can occur when we use enneagram wisdom to become more aware of our natural response to stress and situations where we feel out of control – something we all experience every day. I was attracted to this book because… In my short time of studying the enneagram, Suzanne Stabile has been one of my guides. I was thrilled to learn she had a new offering. I have been searching for information on understanding stances and in particular, how to use my number in a healthy way during stress. Astute, nuanced observations about each type. Suzanne does a terrific job of capturing and communicating the distinctive thinking, feeling and doing patterns of each type. She goes way beyond stereotypes and holds up a compassionate, honest mirror for self-reflection.