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Every day listeners email asking, \\u201cI know my type, now what?\\u201d Well, the truth is that simply knowing your Enneagram type doesn\\u2019t change anything in and of itself other than to arm you with a little bit of self-knowledge. Understanding where you go in points of stress and where you go in growth helps explain a lot about why each of us has particular struggles.

But to really begin to heal and experience true transformation, we have to be willing to face our shadows because that\\u2019s where the distortions of our reality live and multiply.\\xa0 It\\u2019s tough to start doing the work but we\\u2019re simply not going to grow unless we\\u2019re willing to look in the places that are going to create moments of shame and self-reflection that are uncomfortable.\\xa0 But that\\u2019s one of the many gifts of the Enneagram.\\xa0 The Enneagram provides us with an opportunity to compassionately look into our shadow\\u2026to hold up a mirror to those behaviors that we can change.\\xa0

In today\\u2019s episode, Mark Scandrette joins Ian and shares some simple steps you can start using today to help you begin to move from unconscious to conscious living.\\xa0 This episode was so full of great insights that we split it into two parts to help you really absorb the content.\\xa0

Mark Scandrette has written five books on practical spirituality that seek to apply spiritual wisdom to everyday life: FREE, Practicing The Way of Jesus, Soul Graffiti, Belonging and Becoming (Co-authored with Lisa Scandrette) and The Ninefold Path Notebook (with Danielle Welch). He regularly teaches and offers workshops and training events based on themes from these books. Before each book is published he usually spends several years piloting the concepts and processes explored with groups in multiple contexts.\\xa0\\xa0He is currently working on a 6th book on self-awareness, personality and transformation.

He also speaks nationally and internationally at universities, conferences and churches and offers training to leaders and organizations through workshops, retreats and group intensives. Mark teaches a\\xa0doctoral course on spiritual formation\\xa0at Fuller Theological seminary and has taught courses at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Church Divinity School of the Pacific.\\xa0Wherever Mark travels he speaks with the goal of awakening imagination and inviting audiences to take new steps into life and wholeness. \\xa0

For more about Mark, visit www.markscandrette.com.\\xa0