Deborah Threadgill Egerton - Know Justice Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism, and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram

Deborah lays out the background and possibilities in the healing of othering while also providing an excellent introduction to the Enneagram. Doing this all in one book is no small feat! More importantly, she lays out how the methods of inner work are crucial for doing social justice work and racial healing, and how our awakening demands our participation in the healing of the world.

RUSS HUDSON, co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram

Know Justice Know Peace is a brilliant new field guide, based on an ancient spiritual blueprint, that will inspire a new generation of activists to work with lovethat is the greatest force in the universe and heartbeat of the moral cosmosto bring about social justice, end racism, and create a better world for us all.

ROBERT AND HOLLIE HOLDEN, creators of Everyday Miracles

Dr. Egertons revolutionary book illuminates the Enneagram in a way that has never been done before. A must-read for all who want to encourage real justice and peace within themselves and the world.

CATHERINE R BELL, MBA, founder of The Awakened Company, and best-selling and award-winning author

In working with Dr. Egerton over the past couple of decades, I have been awestruck by her understanding of the most complex and challenging organizational issues, her sensitivity, and her incredible common sense in solving problems. She gets to the heart of peoples motivations, and her input has enabled me to set the direction for my agency and for myself.

GWEN WRIGHT, director of the Montgomery County Planning Department of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Dr. E is diligent, nuanced, and brave in the way she does Enneagram and anti-racism work. The work she does comes from a deep spiritual and loving place within her. Ive learned so much from her around healing my own heart that I now have the capacity to really be effective in the DEI work that I do.

MILTON C. STEWART, MBA, founder of Kaizen Careers, Coaching and Consulting, and host of Do It For The Gram: An Enneagram Podcast

While many have cautioned Dr. Deborah Egerton not to highlight the issues of IDEA with the Enneagram, shes elected to bravely expose all the reasons why it has to happen now. The exploratory dimensions of Enneagram combined with viewing the constructs of race and other-isms lead us to unimaginable levels of healing. Her book serves as a light to guide us through the journey using these two lenses. Dr. Egerton serves as the Enneagram harbinger for our times; for this, we are grateful.

ERLINA EDWARDS, board president of The Narrative Enneagram

Dr. Deborah Egerton brings to her work with the Enneagram powerful and persuasive insight into how best to infuse workplace culture with compassion and innovation. Her unique talent and wisdom help establish greater communication among teams resulting in better diversity and inclusion outcomes for all. Working with her inspires confidence in her teachings as she approaches her informed lectures with warmth, intelligence, and, above all, kindness. Deborahs brilliant, funny, and highly effective manner is simply the best.

CHARLES JOHNSON, executive producer at CBS Television Studios

Copyright 2022 by Deborah Threadgill Egerton

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Project editor: Melody Guy

Cover design: Lisi Mohandessi

Interior design: Claudine Mansour Design

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For all the lives lost while humanity watched with eyes that would not see. We honor you and continue the work so that humanity can know justice and know peace.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

MAYA ANGELOU

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

MOTHER TERESA

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

FR. RICHARD ROHR

In my many decades on this planet, I have had the opportunity to travel widely and interact with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. And while that diversity makes for so much of what is beautiful and delightful about humanity, there are also some striking truths that I find pretty much everywhere I go. Deep down, everyone wants to love and be loved. Everyone wants to contribute something worthwhile to this world. Everyone wants to know that their life matters.

Yet, despite the universality of this shared knowledge that we are here primarily to love and help each other, it is tragically rare for human beings to consistently live according to these values. We can all agree about the importance of kindness, compassion, wisdom, love, and generosity, but for some mysterious reasons, these qualities elude us with regularity. Even people who have been on genuine spiritual paths or who share such truths professionally would, in a moment of honesty, have to admit that they fall short more often than they would prefer.

As a young man, I became fascinated by this strange paradoxthat we all knew much deeper truths about human nature than we were able to live. This led me into an interest in science and our great spiritual traditions. Some social scientists argued that aggression and competition were built into our instinctual nature just as much as were care and affiliation. The great religious traditions accounted for the problem with the idea of humanitys fall from grace or with the idea of karma. Classical psychology spoke of conditioning and how we were largely programmed by previous experiences that tended to overwhelm the possibility of free choice. I explored theories from various scientific, philosophical, and sociological perspectives as well as immersed myself in studies of the mystical traditions of the world. All these ideas were interesting, and each accounted for different elements of the issue, but what was often lacking was a method for transforming this tendency. Seeing our inability to live our real values, what are we to do?