What's My Type?: The Enneagram Guide to Unconscious Motivation―Transform Weaknesses into Strengths - Softcover

Kathleen V. Hurley; Theodore E. Dobson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062504215 ISBN 13: 9780062504210

Publisher: HarperOne, 1992

Synopsis

Hurley and Dobson explore how the wisdom of the Enneagram allows you to bring out the best in yourself and others. Delving deeper than other systems of personality exploration, the Enneagram system of nine distinctive patterns of unconscious motivation reveals the primary sources of our behavior and the reasons we live as we do.

Through detailed descriptions and discerning self-inventory questions, Hurley and Dobson make discovering your personality type fun and easy. They provide simple, proven methods for neutralizing negative attitudes about self and others and releasing untapped potential. Armed with the Enneagram's insights, readers learn to transform weaknesses into strengths, break free of crippling patterns, choose new ways of relating to others, and enjoy balance and harmony. For example:

• The Achiever can move from dissatisfied perfectionism to effective leadership and become a Pathfinder.


• The Observer can move from fear of commitment to curiosity and courage and become an Explorer.


• The Helper can move from over-involvement in the lives of others to mutual relationships and become a Partner.

Inspirational, easy-to-use and practical -- What's My Type? puts the Enneagram system to work for you.

About this title

About the Author

Kathleen V. Hurley and Theodore E. Dobson, the authors of What's My Type?, are counselors and Enneagram workshop leaders. They live in Lakewood, Colorado.

From the Back Cover

Hurley and Dobson explore how the wisdom of the Enneagram allows you to bring out the best in yourself and others. Delving deeper than other systems of personality exploration, the Enneagram system of nine distinctive patterns of unconscious motivation reveals the primary sources of our behavior and the reasons we live as we do.

Through detailed descriptions and discerning self-inventory questions, Hurley and Dobson make discovering your personality type fun and easy. They provide simple, proven methods for neutralizing negative attitudes about self and others and releasing untapped potential. Armed with the Enneagram's insights, readers learn to transform weaknesses into strengths, break free of crippling patterns, choose new ways of relating to others, and enjoy balance and harmony. For example:

• The Achiever can move from dissatisfied perfectionism to effective leadership and become a Pathfinder.


• The Observer can move from fear of commitment to curiosity and courage and become an Explorer.


• The Helper can move from over-involvement in the lives of others to mutual relationships and become a Partner.

Inspirational, easy-to-use and practical -- What's My Type? puts the Enneagram system to work for you.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062504215
• ISBN 13: 9780062504210
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208