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	Essential Self, Essential Style Align Your Inner Essence and Outer Expression
	Discover Your Soul Potential Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality Award Winning Book
	My Best Self Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul
	What's My Type? Use the Enneagram System of Nine Personality Types to Discover Your Best Self

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Essential Self, Essential Style

Essential Self,
Essential Style
Align Your
Inner Essence
And Outer Expression

Co-authored with Alyce Parsons, AICI, CIP

What happens when three leading innovators in their respective fields collaborate? They create an entirely new model of who we are, how we live and how we can dress. Hurley and Donson, innovators in personality systems, and Parsons, a leading creator of style systems, join forces to give you a new, simple yet profoundly accurate way to identify your Essential Self and from it create your own Essential Style.

Three centers of intelligence: thinking, feeling and doing. Three corresponding styles: Elegant, Traditional and Sporty.

Three kinds of people: Go-getters (doers and thinkers), Networkers (feelers and doers), and Introspectives (thinkers and feelers). What does each group need to discover its Essential Self and express its Essential Style?

“Essential Self, Essential Style made me feel deliciously connected and all of a piece. It elevates the often overlooked relationship between who we are and how we appear. I highly recommend it.” — Victoria Moran, author, Fit From Within: 101 Simple Secrets To Change Your Body and Your Life

CONTENTS

What Is Essential Self and Essential Style?, 1

Part A
Inner Essence: Who You Are Inside

Chapter 2: Three Groups of People, 9

Chapter 3: What’s My Group?, 29

Chapter 4: Your Hidden Resource Is the Key, 37

Part B
Outer Expression: How You Communicate Yourself to the World

Chapter 5: Three Classic Styles, 53

Chapter 6: Three Everyday Styles, 59

Chapter 7: Your Hidden Resource Style is the Key, 71

Part C
Essential Style: How You Manifest Your Essential Self

Chapter 8: Inner Essence and Outer Expression United, 81

Chapter 9: What Essential Style Can Do For You, 93

Epilogue, 113

Glossary, 115

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MULTIPLE AWARD WINNING BOOK!

Discover Your Soul Potential
Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality

Winner in the "inspirational" category in Writer's Digest Magazine's prestigious book awards for 2000 and in the "personal growth" category of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association's 2000 book contest.

Presenting practical applications
of an insightful system
to the issues of everyday life!

Published by WindWalker Press, 232 pages, quality paperback.
$16.95

" . . . a concise and practical guide for personal transformation and spiritual development." — Miroslav Borysenko, co-author of The Power of the Mind to Heal

"This straightforward, optimistic book has a charming lack of pretension, which makes it remarkable in the Enneagram world and more suitable than most to offer to someone new." — Michael J. Goldberg, author of The 9 Ways of Working

"Discover Your Soul Potential is a fresh and coherent new presentation of the Enneagram. The authors convincingly relate the nine types to the three evolutionary layers of the human brain, making it very easy to understand why the types function as they do. In also developing the concept of 'repressed centers,' they offer a sensible and practical approach to transformation." — Gerald May, author of Will and Spirit and Addiction and Grace

"The Enneagram is coming to spiritual maturity in this book. Hurley and Donson show an amazing level of insight and experience with the genius of the Enneagram." — Richard Rohr, O. F. M., co-author of Discovering the Enneagram and Everything Belongs

"Hurley and Donson’s teaching of the Enneagram is a highly effective, inspiring, and positive approach which greatly reduces the time and effort needed to come to an in-depth understanding of the essential elements of each personality type. Beginning with an appreciation of the three centers of intelligence and their interrelationships, Hurley and Donson unfold each Enneagram type in a clear, logical, and easily assimilated manner. If you feel left out or left behind by the rapidly growing volume of Enneagram knowledge and want to come up to speed in a hurry, I highly recommend Discover Your Soul Potential." — Paul Bonham, past president, International Enneagram Association

"Kathy and Theodorre’s new model of the Enneagram has transformed and enriched the lives of those who have studied with them. This book will allow their wisdom to reach the wider audience it demands." — Robert Siudzinski, Ph.D., professor, University of North Florida

"In Discover Your Soul Potential, Hurley and Donson answer the many people who say the Enneagram is not positive enough. . . . Their contribution is welcome. Their theories underscore what is so often overlooked: our enneagram type is about an energy, it is not a series of characteristics or behaviors. Hurley and Donson detail just how these energies work." — Clarence Thomson, author of Parables and the Enneagram and owner and editor of Enneagram Central web site

"A wonderful way to understand our souls' desire." — Denie Hiestand, dean, International Academy of Vibrational Medical Science and author of Electrical Nutrition and Journey to Truth

"Readers will refer again and again to this small but mighty volume, which is an uncomplicated but greatly expanded Enneagram guide for attaining a deep understanding of who we are, and who we could be. The possibilities it offers for soul growth are stunning." — Betsy McGee, senior consultant, The McGee Group, Inc.

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Discover Your Soul Potential presents an innovative model of the Enneagram that:

Simplifies and deepens the Enneagram.

Makes the Enneagram easier to learn, remember and use.

Presents a positive approach to the Enneagram.

Uses new and refreshing categories to explain each type.

Provides tips of overcoming each type's limitations that are built into the description of each type.

Relates the Enneagram to healing the inner child.

Explains why there are only nine types.

Illustrates why certain qualities are associated with one type but not others.

Unveils how the compulsion or passion for each type arises from the configuration of the three centers for that type.

Shows how working with your Enneagram type can set you on a spiritual path in everyday life.

Uncovers how working with your type and that of your partner, friends, and co-workers can create understanding, compassion, and clarity in your relationships.

Pinpoints where to place effort in your inner work to attain maximum benefit.

Reveals how to achieve balance and allow your compulsion to dissolve.

Unveils how to attain inner tranquility.

C O N T E N T S

INTRODUCTION
Journey Into Soul, 1

CHAPTER 1
The Awakening Soul, 17

CHAPTER 2
The Potential for Change in the Nine Enneagram Types, 41

One: The Achiever, 48
Two: The Helper, 62
Three: The Succeeder, 76
Four: The Individualist, 90
Five: The Observer, 104
Six: The Guardian, 118
Seven: The Dreamer, 132
Eight: The Confronter, 146
Nine: The Preservationist, 160

CHAPTER 3
Soul Strength: Living in the Present Moment, 175

The Dependent Stance, 178
The Aggressive Stance, 183
The Withdrawing Stance, 187

CHAPTER 4
Soul Expansion: Becoming Spiritually Alive, 193

CHAPTER 5
Soul Healing and Spiritual Vitality, 211

GLOSSARY
Ideas That Support the Journey Inward, 233

INDEX
253

ISBN: 0-9673866-2-4
Published June 2000 by WindWalker Press, 260 pages, quality paperback.
$16.95 (U.S.)

Related Audio Cassette Series: Activate Your Deep Heart Energy

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Reviews

"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg

"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.

"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson

Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

Essential Self, Essential Style
Align Your Inner Essence and Outer Expression

Discover Your Soul Potential
Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality
Award Winning Book

My Best Self
Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul

What's My Type?
Use the Enneagram System of Nine Personality Types to Discover Your Best Self

My Best Self
Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul

An Enneagram book that goes beyond typing
and reveals your unique path
to wholeness and happiness!

My Best Self is a breakthrough book that takes the Enneagram’s healing power to a new level. In the authors’ highly praised, readable type, this book describes the origin of each Enneagram type by naming its Repressed Center of intelligence. With this knowledge, for the first time, the path from compulsion to freedom becomes dramatically clear. A breathtaking vision of individual and world soul making is revealed.

"Hurley and Donson’s My Best Self offers many subtle insights into the personality types, and their theories point to new directions well worth investigating. They are doing original work." — Don Richard Riso, author of Personality Types and Enneagram Transformations

"Seldom do authors combine clear thinking with soul work and Spirit as Hurley and Donson do in this book. They have moved the Enneagram to a new level of creativity and practicality at the same time. These insights add feeling, freedom, and flight." — Richard Rohr, author of Discovering the Enneagram

Published by Harper San Francisco, 289 pages, quality paperback.
$15.00

To order:

Call 303.985.1889 in the Denver Metro Area

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Essential Self, Essential Style
Align Your Inner Essence and Outer Expression

Discover Your Soul Potential
Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality
Award Winning Book

My Best Self
Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul

What's My Type?
Use the Enneagram System of Nine Personality Types to Discover Your Best Self

What's My Type?
Use the Enneagram System of Nine Personality Types
to Discover Your Best Self

The most readable and complete
introductory book on the Enneagram!

What’s My Type? is the only Enneagram book with all these unique features!

Accurate, crisp (5 pages) descriptions of the nine Enneagram types.

A hopeful perspective on type that views weaknesses as overused strengths.

The three Centers of intelligence fully explained.

The process of transformation for each type.

A readable type with stories and anecdotes.

"What’s My Type? does the valuable work of making this important teaching available to the broadest possible readership." — Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life

"The most outstanding, useful, interpretation of the Enneagram written yet." — Betsy McGee, Director of Corporate Relations, University of Denver

Published by Harper San Francisco, 186 pages, quality paperback.

$16.00

To order:

Call 303.985.1889 in the Denver Metro Area

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Essential Self, Essential Style
Align Your Inner Essence and Outer Expression

Discover Your Soul Potential
Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality
Award Winning Book

My Best Self
Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul

What's My Type?
Use the Enneagram System of Nine Personality Types to Discover Your Best Self

For more information, contact:

E-mail: ERI@hurleydonson.com

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