Resources for Adaptive Change and the Enneagram

Here are some of the books and videos that went into my ideas about the enneagram and adaptive change. I hope you find them as inspirational and challenging as I did.

Remember this is hard, uncomfortable work. If you feel yourself moving from discomfort to distress it’s ok to stop for a while. Respect your own journey and take time to digest and process what you’ve read. You may find your response is more open and accepting after some time away.

Nonfiction

Adaptive Change in Leadership, 12 minute Ron Heifetz video

Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage, by Philip Goldberg

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, by Katherine May

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown

Fiction

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E. Butler

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers

I didn’t mention this during our time together, but this little science fiction novel has some of the best examples of radical acceptance of others I have read. Outside of the other books by this author, that is.