Enneagram Global Summit
The Enneagram and Grieving
Grieving a loss is natural and healthy. Our cultural has difficulty grieving openly, honestly, and in an overall healthy way. In Suzanne's life’s work with the Enneagram, she became aware that we all grieve in different ways. However, the behavior associated with grief is likely to be number specific and personality type plays a significant role in where a person is likely to be stuck in the grieving process. It is to our advantage to learn what we can, using the wisdom of the Enneagram, so that we can grieve in ways that are life giving, enhancing our ability to accept loss and enabling us to keep moving forward.
In This Session:
- The inability or unwillingness to grieve is a major contributor to the epidemic of addictions to alcohol, drugs, work, sex, etc.
- According to Miriam Greenspan, one of my favorite authors on the subject, “aborted grief, fear and despair are at the root of the characteristic psychological disorders of our time, including depression, anxiety, addiction, irrational violence, and psychic
- Every Enneagram number deals with grief in ways that are both predictable and yet different from every other personality type.
Suzanne Stabile
Suzanne Stabile, an internationally recognized Enneagram Master, has conducted over 800 Enneagram workshops over the past 35 years. She has spoken to college audiences at Baylor and Drury Universities, Hendrix College, Perkins School of Theology (SMU) and Brite Divinity School (TCU), Formation Gathering 2017 (Harvard Divinity School), Pepperdine Bible Lectures, Seminary of the Southwest, as well as at hundreds of churches across America, and she also teaches in the Baylor Health Care System Cancer and Transplant Hospitals.
Additionally, she has taught at Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation and has been a speaker for conferences offered by the CAC. She taught with Father Rohr to an international audience in Assisi, Italy, on The Enneagram and Paradox. She co-authored The Road Back to You and is the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness. Suzanne received her B.S. in social sciences from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where she also completed additional graduate work in the schools of sociology and theology. She has served as a high school professor, the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX, and as the founding director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas.
