Interesting but please let someone else read it !

I am very much interested in a content , but find it very hard to listen to the author read it. He swallows his words and the intonation is off.

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Lord, Christopher. The narration.

I love the enneagram, respect Heuretz's work. All that. But his own narration of his work... it's like a male valley girl. SO distracting and annoying. I just have not been able to get past it. Please, please get someone else to read this.

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So rich! Excellent explanation of Enneagrams.

The author introduces the essential concepts and language for the critical task of understanding and accepting all the facets of oneself. Listeners are presented with a very approachable and powerful tool that can support the hardest and most critical work we will ever have to do. The author digests the fascinating history and the powerful insights of the Enneagram in a surprisingly short amount of time given the richness and complexities of the tool. That would be enough for me, but I also found this book to be an oasis. I have thirsted for a way to describe the disconnectedness I experienced in my communities like my church or my family. I was supposed to belong, but I didn’t feel like I did. It’s been painful beyond words. I’ll be listening to this again. It won’t be because I need to know my number or that of others. It’s because I am on that journey of becoming. The author offers some beautiful tools for a practice that starts with me accepting all of myself and expands to accepting all others. That is the belonging I need and want. That is my work. That healing clarity is priceless.

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I'm disappointed 😞

Honestly I thought it would be like a book that shows me how to put myself into knowing how I can now belong or help others belong. By telling me what needed to be done. Just seems to give short intros on the concept. Wish it could of been better.

You know I got to say that I love that the Forward by Brene Brown mentioned her experience with the first book this author did. Because I decided to get that also and listened to it first, than excited for this book it being so advanced. Unfortunately I was very disappointed with this book. I even questioned if it was by the same author. I was very disappointed with how nothing related to Christian literature is mentioned in the majority of the book. He now using other concepts like Buda, Asian gods or other cultures.

Chapter 1: felt like it was full of his complaining as he went over different origins of the enneagram with references.
Chapter 2: sounded like he was saying too much for something that could of been minimized. It not even sounding descriptive.
Chapter 3: He just gives his opinion but doesn't feel concrete to consider. With only 10 minutes of interesting overview on the numbers of the enneagram.
Chapter 4: In this chapter he says "the enneagram is worse than religon. The chapter being a short summary of the wing types.
Chapter 5: Is when he mentioned a bible story only to make a single short point.
Chapter 6: Already half way through the book and he is still talking about disturbances that we go through, how they work together, stories to make a point or the input comparison with other references over the concept. But still not going over what we can do to belong. An how to get to healing feelings for us to finally belong. 😱

So i skipped ahead to chapter 8 to see if it finally goes into that at the end of the book. But it took 15 minutes to finally come to talking about the 9 enneagram types for a bit.
So i continued skipping ahead but than looked into the pdf file outline. It made more sense but I've read other enneagram books that describe these facts so much better and focused on the topic. So I can't grade this book high even returned it.

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Compassionate and knowledgeable perspective

Chris provide compassionate and knowledgeable perspective on individuals through the enneagram. He adds depth to the enneagram that is new to me and creates hope for positive change and fullness of life while being true to the way God has made me. Thank you Chris for this body of work.

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Great author, terrible reader

Needs a professional reader I couldn’t even understand so asked for it to be returned. His other book was great so will get hard copy of this book

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Getting to know yourself.

For several years, my life skills coach has been using the Enneagram in our meetings. This work is certainly the best explanation of all parts of this particular personality study. I highly recommend it.

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informative

new topic new ideas very interesting informative perspective. would like to delve further into the subject

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Great book, horrible read

The author has crafter a great book, but unfortunately destroys it by reading it himself. What a pity. Reading such a profound book certainly requires skills that we cannot find here, making it really really hard to follow and absorb

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Excellent book!!

highly recommend! well written, thoughtful and very useful. listening to it again. master Enneagram scholar at his best.

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