The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type

Certified Narrative Enneagram teacher Sandra Smith, MDiv, will be at The Garden District Book Shop to share insights and information from her new book, The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type.  We are much more than our personality type. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self is an invitation to see ourselves as more than we believe we are, to learn and engage in practices that liberate us from automatic patterns.

With clarity and consistency, her book offers insights into each of the nine  Enneagram types in order to better understand our automatic patterns without reinforcing these patterns. Sandra has taught the Enneagram internationally as a tool for personal, professional, and spiritual development for over twenty-two years. She shows readers how to deepen their use of the Enneagram in support of their spiritual lives as well as psychological health.

In this book, Smith provides a detailed teaching of the components of the Enneagram type structures along with type-specific practices to counter automatic patterns. Also included are contributions from a diverse range of Enneagram practitioners. With their help, Smith dives into the components of the Enneagram types to tease out the patterns and pitfalls preventing us from living our radiance. Prayers, poems, and practices beckon us out of our confining comfort zones and into witnessing and honoring our lives

The evening will kick off at 5:30 PM. Smith will offer a general overview of her book as well as engage in some readings. Then one of the book’s guest writers, Ann Rabin, will share insights from her contribution. Afterwards the two will host a Q&A before Smith personalizes copies of her book. The event is open to the public but the shop encourages guests to reserve their books ahead of time. Books can be reserved on Eventbrite. 

The gift of the Enneagram is its accuracy to show us the motivations beneath behaviors and egoic patterns that limit us and keep us from growing. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self discusses the makeup of these patterns and gives us a greater capacity to unhook from them. Free from these habits, we are able to live more mindfully and grow into our full dimensionality, becoming more of ourselves.

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