Imagine an awakened world in which contemplative practices and the Enneagram inform our way of life.
Hello, I’m Nhien!
I’m the founder of Evolving Enneagram and the upcoming author of The Enneagram of the Soul (Hampton Roads, April 7, 2025) (available for previewing and preordering today). I’m hosting a book marketing fundraiser and asking for your help in getting this book to as many people from diverse walks of life and spiritual and religious backgrounds as possible. I believe this book can be instrumental in bringing contemplative practices and the Enneagram to our world.
As I write in The Enneagram of the Soul:
“My main purpose is to offer a practical, Enneagram-informed inter-spiritual companion guide to support fellow wisdom seekers in applying this symbol’s remarkable powers to their everyday lives. This book is intended especially for those of you whose spirituality, like mine, doesn’t fit into a particular religious box. Rather, your spirituality thrives on curiosity, openness, and wonder. It focuses on embodying a dynamic love and mystical truth rather than on consensus around a prescribed dogma or belief system.”
Read on to preview the book and learn how you might support via a contribution of any amount or by becoming an e-Anam Cara Circle member….
The Enneagram of the Soul: A 40-day Spiritual Companion for the 9 Types
✨ Imagine ✨
9 Principles
9 principles to guide your journey of transformation using the Enneagram, starting with the principle: “You are not your type.”
9 Practices
9 practices to propel and sustain the transformational process, starting with the practice of Centering Prayer
9 Prayers
9 prayers to lend heart to our individual and collective journey—prayers rooted in a belief in our fundamental wholeness.
PLUS 40 Activations, which consist of very brief questions, reminders, or practices, on forty different themes customized for each of the nine Enneagram personality types, to be applied one day or one week at a time, alone or in community.
"It’s not just difficult to do ‘the work’ alone; it’s impossible.”
Gurdjieff
When I founded Evolving Enneagram on September 9, 2019, I didn’t do it alone–and, frankly, maybe I wasn’t meant to. A group of people, including the amazing souls in my Founders Circle, ushered me beyond the safety of my Unity church walls (where I served as a minister) and out into this wide world with the blessing of their love and generosity.
At times, I felt baffled by this outpouring of support. Yet more than one of those founders shared the same reason for financially contributing: They don’t have the time or energy to do what I am doing but they believe in the mission and wholeheartedly trust and believe in ME, so they wanted to support the work energetically through their financial support. Wow!
5 years later, I feel even more “on mission.” This ever evolving INTERSPIRITUAL and INTERNATIONAL community-based business known as Evolving Enneagram has since traveled the world! As a community, we’ve offered loads of scholarships to individuals of diverse backgrounds around the globe, volunteered in local prisons, and our Contemplative Practices & the Enneagram groups went from fee-based to Pay What You Can so that anyone could participate, irrespective of ability to pay.
Check out our “just for fun” EE 5th birthday reel I dropped here.
A fun reel to celebrate EE’s 5th Birthday!
Check out the cool cover!
You can peek inside the book here.
During these past 5 years, I also somehow managed to finish my book AND Hampton Roads Publishing reached out to ME!
Individually, I knew that could only spiritually companion so many people at once–yet, I wondered, what might be the potential impact of an interspiritual book on contemplative practices and the Enneagram that seeks to reach beyond the “historical divides of religion, race, nationality, age, and gender.” (EOS, p. 1) Perhaps some will be exposed for the first time to even the idea of joining contemplation with Enneagram wisdom for their personal and for our collective evolution.
Surely, there are many ways you, dear reader, might already be supporting this work–ways that are not financial and yet highly impactful, and I want to honor that explicitly. At the same time,
Today, as of September 29, 2024 (my birthday!), I am inviting those of you who feel inspired to contribute at this time to help to launch this book into the world.
Any and all contributions are welcome. For those contributing a whopping $500 or more (the same amount that qualified folks for our Founders Circle), I’d like to add you to this new book launch circle, which I’m calling
- JoMarie Andrews
- In Loving Memory of George Benner
- Macha & John Greenleaf-Maple
- Angela Joy Johnson
- Colby Kirk
- Mom & Dad
- Joyce Mosiman
- Paul Mosiman
- Jan & Keith Stanley
The “e” is for the Enneagram. “Anam Cara” is Gaelic for soul friend. If you feel particularly excited at the idea of being an Enneagram “soul friend” to those questing for a transformative way of life and don’t yet know this one exists. Perhaps your contribution will help this book to find and befriend that person.
e-Anam Cara Circle members will be listed here along with a running tally of financial contributions. As of October 11th, we have an astonishing $7,215 in contributions from 12 donors!
The link to contribute is below.
Contribute here
Note that the below links are offered for your convenience and because they are trustworthy ways to send funds. However, they do come with fees. If you prefer to use another means of money transfer or want to directly pay for a marketing idea, please contact me directly at revnhien@evolvingenneagram.
Make a personal gift to Nhien here or by check or Zelle (legally, all gifts must be explicitly without strings if you don’t want your gift to be taxable income).
Make a directed contribution toward marketing The Enneagram of the Soul (this goes into EE business income and is taxed as such). My hope is to use these funds for an author/speaker website, social media marketing, and marketing through channels such as the International Enneagram Association, Spiritual Directors International, etc. I’m open to recommendations as to where to invest these book marketing funds!
If you’re joining our e-Anam Cara circle, please email me to let me know how you would like your name listed in our circle. Also, if you’d like 1 to 2 autographed copies of the book sent to you, please send your address (and any names for the book dedication) as well.
With Gratitude, Nhien
