Book Details
Author: Stephanie Spencer
Title: Out of the Box & Into the Wild: An Enneagram Journey Through the Triads of Nature
Release Date: June 2023
Publisher: Punchline Publishers
Book Description
Perhaps the most well-known and foundational Triad grouping of Enneagram Types is the Intelligence Centers: the head, heart, and gut. All three Intelligence Center Triads are important, yet many of us have only experienced Enneagram content through our head in an information-based approach. This approach is instructional, but also limited. If we aren’t careful, reading too many Enneagram Type descriptions can become more like boxes of limitation than pathways of growth.
Author Stephanie Spencer has coached many clients over the years in understanding their Enneagram Types. She has observed how imagery helps take down defense mechanisms and transforms how people see the Enneagram, themselves, and each other.
Just like she does with her clients, Spencer’s book will assist you in getting out of the box and into the wild using powerful natural imagery. She begins with the foundational Triad of the Intelligence Centers, in which the gut center is represented as earth, the heart center as water, and the head center as air. Continuing into Types, 8s are represented as rock, 9s as soil, 1s as clay, 2s as rivers, 3s as waves, 4s as icebergs, 5s as wind, 6s as clouds, and 7s as rainbows. This imagery deepens and expands with the layers of three other Triads and the Types within them.
Spencer has seen the power of rooting in imagery and is confident this book will provide you with a way to see both yourself and others with more clarity and compassion.
“This is the Enneagram book I’ve been waiting for! ”- Scott Erickson, author of Honest Advent and Say Yes
"Out of The Box & Into the Wild is a creative approach to the enneagram you aren't going to want to miss." - Sarajane Case, author of The Enneagram Letters
"Stephanie weaves poetic writing into memorable prose, along with beautiful graphics to illuminate every key concept. Whether you are new to Enneagram and like breadth and depth or if you are already Enneagram savvy and want to go deeper, you’ll want to read this book.” - Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD, part-president of the International Enneagram Association and author of Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work
"The use of nature imagery moves beyond dry descriptions of personalities and cuts straight to the heart." - Chelsea Forbrook, Enneagram Educator and author of Blessing My Demons: How to Name, Tame, and Transform Your Inner Critic