The Complete Enneagram - by Beatrice Chestnut (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Discover the 27 paths to transformation in Beatrice Chestnut's definitive guide to the Enneagram

Beatrice Chestnut's The Complete Enneagram has become a modern classic for anyone seeking to understand themselves and others. In this renewed edition, Chestnut offers her signature depth and clarity as she explores all nine Enneagram types and their 27 subtypes--revealing how our core patterns shape behavior, relationships, and growth.

Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition invites readers into Chestnut's latest thinking after more than a decade of teaching and global Enneagram work. She offers new context, fresh insight, and guidance for using the Enneagram as a tool for awareness and transformation in today's world.

Comprehensive, compassionate, and endlessly illuminating, The Complete Enneagram remains the definitive guide to unlocking the patterns that keep us stuck--and the paths that set us free.

Review Quotes

"Few books have advanced the practical understanding of the Enneagram as meaningfully as The Complete Enneagram. In a field where we are all continually learning, there are rare scholars who elevate the work for everyone--Beatrice Chestnut is one of those voices. Her extraordinary clarity around the instinctual subtypes--often the most misunderstood dimension--reveals how they shape motivation, behavior, and leadership in powerful, practical ways. This is an indispensable resource for coaches, leaders, and anyone committed to genuine self-knowledge and growth." -Jim McPartlin, author of The Enneagram at Work

About the Author

Beatrice Chestnut, PhD MA is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco. She has a PhD in communication studies, and an MA in clinical psychology. A student of the Enneagram system since 1990, she is author of the books, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge and The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st-century Workplace, and co-author of the book, The Enneagram Guide to Waking up: Find Your Path, Face Your Shadow, Discover Your True Self. She has taught at Northwestern University and trained in group facilitation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She currently offers Enneagram workshops internationally through the school she co-founded with Uranio Paes, Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy. In their work around the world, Beatrice and Uranio focus on using the Enneagram as a tool for personal and professional transformation.