July 2024

ForewordBY RUSS HUDSON The popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions ofpeople, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a newfriend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Manyare reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their“number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram expands,the understanding of its true

Acknowledgments I want to thank Russ Hudson and Don Riso, my teachers at theEnneagram Institute, who laid the foundation for my understandingof the Enneagram through my certification and faculty process. Myfirst serendipitous encounter was in 2006 at a Part One Trainingat the Mercy Center in Burlingame, San Francisco, when, minutesafter Russ had started in on

Praise forThe Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction“The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction is inspiring,informative, deeply personal, and uplifting, offering objective hope withoutdenying the heavy work and self-responsibility of recovery, and self=realization. Michael imparts the invaluable teachings of the Enneagramin a way that is personal, passionate, engages the mind, and touches theheart.