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What’s the deal with the Enneagram, and why is it so popular? Alexis Neal, Carla Godwin, and Katie Grubbs discuss the potential–and problems–of the popular personality model.

INTRODUCTIONS

• KNOWING
  • Enneagram: A Primer
  • Personal experiences with the Enneagram, familiarity, and types
• READING
  • “Enneagram: The Road Back to You, or to Somewhere Else?” by Kevin DeYoung (Gospel Coalition)
    • Summary & responses
    • The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey of Self-Discovery, by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
    • “Can We Do Better Than the Enneagram?” (Christianity Today)
  • Popularity & proportionality
    • The Sleeping at Last Podcast, episode “’One’ & the Enneagram” and following
    • Annie F. Downs’ That Sounds Fun podcast, EnneaSummer episodes
  • Potential
    • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman
    • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
  • Problems
• PASSING ON
  • www.integrative9.com
  • Enneagram Institute
  • “The Gospel Message for All Nine Types” (Your Enneagram Coach: The Podcast)
  • Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies