Advancing Spiritual Discernment
'Discovering The Enneagram' introduced readers to a Christian understanding of this ancient tool of discernment. 'Enneagram II' shares the experience of Richard Rohr and others in how this understanding of type can help individuals grow in the spiritual life.
The reflections and insights shared here come from a two-day workshop in which people of each of the nine Enneagram types were gathered into groups to discuss the ways in which the gifts and shortcomings of each type worked in the concrete events of everyday life. Rohr, as leader of the gathering, both comments on each of the types and shares his own twenty-year experience of working with the Enneagram.
In the Enneagram theory of personality, each individual has a central compulsion or preoccupation arising from inherited traits and the influences of environment. This central personality type also has one chief gift, and from these central traits emanate a whole configuration of preferences and tendencies. This book explores ways of using the unique gifts and strengths of each type.
