Readers' Workshop:
Answers to Readers' Questions

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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?)

• Working with Healthcare Providers

• 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)