The Way of the Bold Ones: An Exploration of Enneagram Energies

By Peter David Thibado

A personal autobiography put together to aide in using the Enneagram for self-development rather than as a Type indicator. Too often students of the Enneagram box themselves and others into the confines of their individual Type. The greater purpose for the Enneagram is to live as a whole person through aligning the centers; head, heart and gut. If we can recognize our tensions and reactions we can release ourselves from them and gain compassion for ourselves and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982240004

Peter David Thibado

My name is Peter Thibado I have been studying and teaching the Enneagram for about 20 years. I am soon to be a 9th Degree Black Belt in the art of TaeKwon-Do. For many years I have called my school Thiba-Do TaeKwon-Do. Thibado is an archaic French name which means The Bold Ones, TaeKwon Do literally translated mean The Way of Hands and Feet. This is why I have titled the book The Way of the Bold Ones. I grew up in a large family, I am the seventh of eleven children. Rural Wisconsin is where we lived. I left home at an early age and moved to Colorado where I was an underground hard-rock miner. I left there in 1985 and moved to Florida and became a building contractor. I have operated a TKD school all my life. One year after the earthquake in Porta prince Haiti. I went there for a couple of years to help an orphanage and teach TKD. I live in Florida now still building and remodeling homes.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-4002-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4001-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4000-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019920526

Balboa Press rev. date:  12/12/2019

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1   Virtuous Mind

Exercise: Mountain pose, tense the body, relax the body. Sense the tensions in your body. Check your posture, your sense of righteousness, or lack thereof. Your inner self-talk could be your inner critic or closer to the truth.

Chapter 2   Hero’s Journey to Haiti

Exercise: Meditation and mandala. As you draw, use your heart; stay with the feelings and make an effort not to explain anything verbally. Alternative exercise: The Chinese symbol for human demonstrates that at times we need to hold others up, and at other times, we need to be held up. Pairs create this symbol by one person leaning on the other.

Chapter 3   Nikos

Exercise: Magazine collage. Self-image is key to the three in us. Find images that support and portray your best self. Alternative exercise: martial arts spot exercise low block. Lead the entire group through a simple movement series. Discuss the self-talk and how people felt about their performances.

Chapter 4   Orion Night Guard: A Poem

Exercise: Write a poem. This formula will assist in using your imagination; the four in us likes to live there. Alternative exercise: Qigong energy ball, using imagination to form an energy ball to absorb or pass to another.

Chapter 5   Past Lives

Exercise: Body clapping and massage. As you sense your body ringing out and vibrating. notice the separation of your thoughts from the sensations.

Chapter 6   Adventure with a Trusted Friend

Exercise: Standing back to back, side by side, and facing each other. Loyalty, friendship, and partnership is a strength of type 6. As we take these postures with a partner, notice the reactions and/or compliant nature that arises.

Chapter 7   Renaissance Person

Exercise: Qigong energy gathering for the three centers followed by qi body cleansing. Take this outside, and sense different energies around water, rocks, and trees. There is a subtle field of energy. If we can quiet down and focus, it has influence.

Chapter 8   Stope Miner

Exercise: Martial arts Push hands, Type eight has a very good sense of adjusting to others energy. Keep your balance, keep your center, and cooperate. As you receive feel the push and turn the body to return the energy.

Chapter 9   Legacy

Exercise; Gratitude circle, we will stand in a circle and go around clockwise with each person making a one- or two-word statement of gratitude.

PREFACE

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T he Enneagram has been a great tool of self-discovery for me. The modern Enneagram is a personality typology developed from some ancient wisdom and combined with modern psychology. Ennea mean nine in Greek and the symbol you see on the cover of the book has