The Enneagram and Nlp: A Journey of Evolution

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Summary: A Merging of the Enneagram and NLP
Review: The intent of this book is to provide a "powerful" methodology for therapy and personal evolution. It does this by combining the Enneagram personality typing system and the understandings of how people work derived from the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). The book identifies how the functioning of people 'fits' into the Enneagram, which seems to be accurate. As I am not a big fan of the Enneagram to begin with, I perhaps did not draw as much insight from this work as I would have otherwise. While interesting, I believe the NLP model, in and of itself, is a powerful methodology for therapy and personal evolution. Adding the Enneagram seemed to me to apply more constraints than were necessary.

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Summary: just a stream of jargon
Review: The intent of this book is to provide a "powerful" methodology for therapy and personal evolution. It does this by combining the Enneagram personality typing system and the understandings of how people work derived from the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). The book identifies how the functioning of people 'fits' into the Enneagram, which seems to be accurate. As I am not a big fan of the Enneagram to begin with, I perhaps did not draw as much insight from this work as I would have otherwise. While interesting, I believe the NLP model, in and of itself, is a powerful methodology for therapy and personal evolution. Adding the Enneagram seemed to me to apply more constraints than were necessary.

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Summary: just a stream of jargon
Review: This book consists of a restatement of the Helen Palmer version of the Enneagram (which is probably the worst one in print to start with), with a bunch of meaningless NLP jargon fired aimlessly at the reader to spice it up a little. You can do much better on either of these two subjects. I'm sorry I bought this thing.

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Summary: A great starting and meeting place for both systems
Review: Without over-elaborating on either NLP or Enneagram, the authors set a useful framework from which innumerable questions and experiments may arise. For those who doubt the efficacy of NLP, I say try it, and to those who believe the Enneagram is too rigid a tool to enhance NLP, you might try thinking of the latter as a directionalizing tool, a short-hand personality typing system, rather than something that wills a personality into stone. Each brings leverage to the other and engenders intelligent interpersonal living... An added bonus is that this book includes very useful NLP models that you won't find anywhere else, ie., most happily Anne Linden's Boundaries Model and Process.

Rating:
Summary: A great starting and meeting place for both systems
Review: Without over-elaborating on either NLP or Enneagram, the authors set a useful framework from which innumerable questions and experiments may arise. For those who doubt the efficacy of NLP, I say try it, and to those who believe the Enneagram is too rigid a tool to enhance NLP, you might try thinking of the latter as a directionalizing tool, a short-hand personality typing system, rather than something that wills a personality into stone. Each brings leverage to the other and engenders intelligent interpersonal living... An added bonus is that this book includes very useful NLP models that you won't find anywhere else, ie., most happily Anne Linden's Boundaries Model and Process.