Marilyn Vancil - Beyond the Enneagram: An Invitation to Experience a More Centered Life with God

Some books you read, and others, well, they read you. Marilyns book does just that. And some books inspire, others educate, but few motivate you to put those feelings to action. Marilyns book does this too. Her analogies and word pictures dont just spark a different way of thinking, they spark a different way of becoming. Her words stay with you and demand something to change as a response. Beyond the Enneagram came into my life before I even knew I fully needed it, just like spiritually attuned best friends seem to do.

Krista Breilh, founder of Live Salted, a movement equipping authentic, bold, and compelling disciple makers

Marilyn has taken us to a deeper place with Beyond the Enneagram whereby we can begin to understand that our journey is not only to discover who we are but also to move toward healing of whats been lost along the way. Four years ago, sitting across a caf table from her, I remember the moment she said, I want people to be healed at a deep level. God wants to lead us toward wholeness. Her conviction runs true in this new book of her own evolving faith, given to us in a simple and profound manner through the use of her unique diagram and personal stories.

Mary Pandiani, D.Min., executive director of Selah Center

In sensing something significant missing from the model of the Enneagram as weve known it, Marilyn has expanded it to reflect its intent, as she says, to experience a more centered and free life with God and to live more fully as the person you were created to be. Beyond the Enneagram is a fresh approach that challenges the reader to face and journey along both the inward transformation and outward expression of who God created us to be and to enjoy a more centered life with God.

Beth McCord, Founder and CCO, Your Enneagram Coach

Marilyn Vancil has done it again. Her book, Beyond the Enneagram, is a must-read for all of us who want to do more than understand our Enneagram numbers. Marilyn has the posture of a pilgrim, and from the confident cadence of her steady walk with God, she offers us this beautiful invitation: God is actively drawing us into a centered life where we fully and freely experience the perfect, transforming, love relationship of the Trinity. Thanks to Marilyns practical, relatable wisdom from her own journey with God, were invited to come further in. And after realizing the true vision of Gods heart for us from the beginning, one question remains: What are we waiting for?

Adam Ormond, executive director of Grafted Life Ministries

Marilyn Vancil has done it again. Her first book, Self to Lose, Self to Find, has proven to be an invaluable resource for our Identity Exchange Seminars, but now her second work, Beyond the Enneagram, takes us to an even deeper spiritual level. It will now be required reading for all our courses.

Jamie Winship, co-founder of Identity Exchange and author of Living Fearless

Marilyns Self to Lose, Self to Find was the very first book I ever read on the Enneagram. As a Christian, I loved the simple-yet-profound approach to the Enneagram through a Christian perspective. Beyond the Enneagram is an even more innovative work, centered around a new diagram called The Drawing which visually lays out our protective strategies, false beliefs, and more that get in the way of experiencing our union with God. If you are a Christian who loves the Enneagram and wants to pursue deeper transformation, this is the next step! Reading this book felt like sitting down and having a conversation with a wise sage who was delighted to share a lifetime of valuable lessons and timeless truths.

Tyler Zach, pastor and author of The Gospel For Enneagram devotional series

This book is a holy, helpful work of art! With tender care, Marilyn invites those of us who may have felt boxed in by the Enneagram to remember (and maybe see for the first time) how limitations tend to lead to abundance in our stories. If you are someone like me who is tempted to discard trends, I beg you to reconsider by taking a deeper look beyond the Enneagram (with Marilyn as your guide), toward a more whole and centered perspective with this ancient tool that, when used well, leads us Home to the One who made us all in His image.

Meredith McDaniel, MA, LCMHC, author of In Want + Plenty

This new work by Marilyn Vancil is a powerful, breathtaking gold mine for every Christian seeking all that God has in store. Filled with paradigm-shifting insights and quotes, framed creatively and thoughtfully to walk the reader through step by reflective stepI look forward to recommending this book to every leader I know!

Rev. Sue Nilson Kibbey, director, Bishop Bruce Ough Innovation Center, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.Come further up, come further in!

C. S. LEWIS, THE LAST BATTLE

Our greatest need then is to return to the deep center of our being where Gods very self is present to us in cruciform love as our true being.