
Out of
the Box Coaching and
Breakthroughs with the Enneagram,
Mary R. Bast, Ph.D.
Copyright © 1999. All rights reserved. Revised:
July 09, 2010
Readers' Workshop:
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Everything Belongs (a quote from Richard Rohr in a sermon on nine spiritual paths)
The Prescriptive Solution (how to change)
Writing the Book that Wants to be Written (stuck with writer's block?)
How Boundaries Can Set You Free (what do you tolerate that keeps you from being all you can be?)
A Window to the Soul (what makes the Enneagram so powerful?)
More Than One Path (books that speak to personal growth and the role of "healer")
The Heart Aroused (for those who don't "get" poetry--how to get started)
Who's at the Helm? (aggressive, compliant, and withdrawing styles of leadership)
Training Workshop Design (ideas for Enneagram training)
Discovering Enneagram Style (the short version)
Conscious Type Development (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram)
Enneagram "Temperaments" (statistics from my own records)
A Little Slapstick is Perfect (Ones can be Seven-ish)
Sitting in the Fire (ways to deal with anger, and advice for a One about "fixing" people)
Does Your Mirror Reflect Betty Friedan, OR Golda Meir? (Two & Eight can look alike)
The Glass Is Half-Empty (Dylan Thomas' poem, Fern Hill, illustrates some Four dynamics)
The Sky is Falling! (a Four married to a Six experiences the stresses of new parenthood)
The Shadow Knows... (a Four wants distance from a Two)
Two Peas in a Pod (Well, One is a Snow Pea)--a Four-Five couple
Out of the Box (how Fours can get stuck in their own "boxes")
The Independent Style (will a Five respond to the team's interest in the Enneagram?)
...Like a Flower (a Five opens up...)
Living From the Heart: Something To Be Learned (a Five asks how to feel)
What's the Point? (how the Five's "dissertation" talk style differs from the Nine's "epic tale")
Do You Have Any Feet Left to Shoot? (how Sixes create their own ruts and keep themselves there)
Whistling in the Dark (Sixes & Eights)
Not Waving, But Drowning (poetic metaphors for the Seven)
Is This Normal? (a Seven mother compares her own teenage experience with that of her Nine daughter)
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! (about the Seven's fear of confinement)
Head to Head (two Eights working together or in relationship)
Staying on the Wagon (Eights will test you)
It Takes Three to Tango (the two who dance together, and the dance instructor)
Nip and Tuck (we all require surgery on ourselves when we face up to our relationship problems)
The Dynamic Duo--Not!! (a Nine mom anguishes over her counterphobic Six son)