This book offers you important questions that impact your personal and professional life and bears witness to how people of different Enneagram styles have found or are finding their own answers. Over the years, Mary interviewed people of all nine Enneagram styles about their everyday experience of the transformation process. In the beginning, she thought the path would be somewhat linear, even expected there might be a point of arrival. From our own experience and reflections by our clients weve found that observing and letting go of habitual patterns is a complex and continuing journey. In Paths Beyond Ego John Engler wrote, You have to be somebody before you can be nobody, suggesting we cant surrender our ego-patterns until weve developed a sense of self and can begin to see how that self operates. This explains what weve found in these interviews. In keeping with the subject matter, we have opted for a simple format. Each of the nine main chapters contains two stories of how representatives of that Enneagram style are seeking and finding answers to the Somebody? Nobody? conundrum. Rounding out each chapter, CJ has added a brief commentary that underlines the major shifts in the stories from an Enneagram perspective and provides a few questions to ponder. We close by reflecting on our own journeys and how development of the book has impacted us.

About the Author

Mary R. Bast, Ph.D. is a coach and coach mentor who works by phone with clients worldwide. She has published Social Research: Guides to a Decision-Making Process, Out of the Box: Coaching with the Enneagram, Out of the Box Coaching Field Guide, Out of the Box Self-Coaching Workbook, Out of the Box Coaching for Managers, and contributed two essays to The Enneagram of Death. Mary also writes poetry, paints with oils, and plays the lap dulcimer in Gainesville Florida, where she cares for her 102-year-old mother Ruth (also an Enneagram Nine) and her Four cat Timmy. CJ Fitzsimons, Ph.D. is a Leadership Sculptor living in Germany and working internationally; he previously enjoyed a career in academic and industrial research. Clients include leading research institutes in Europe as well as companies like Airbus, BASF, Bayer and Daimler. He was vice-president of IEA in 2012-13. He is co-editor and co-author of Internationales Projektmanagement - internationale Zusammen-arbeit in der Praxis, the first book to apply the Enneagram in project management, and three other books on project management. When not working, he enjoys long walks with his wife Nora in the Black Forest, occasionally ignoring his smart phone, and even less occasionally writing poetry.