Elizabeth Wagele
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| Born | May 31, 1939 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Occupation | writer, musician, cartoonist |
| Genres | psychology, self-help, children's literature, articles |
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Elizabeth Wagele (born 1939) is an American artist, musician, writer of books on personality types: the Enneagram of Personality and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
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[edit] Life
Wagele was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, until she was 10, when her family moved to Berkeley, California.[1] She spent much of her time drawing, playing the piano, or making up stories with her dolls as a child. Music played a major role in her life as a friend and spiritual guide, especially Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Charles Mingus, Billie Holliday, and other classical and jazz composers. A gifted pianist who majored in music composition, she studied piano with Tanya Ury and Bernhard Abramowitsch and composition with Andrew Imbrie and graduated cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley,[2] in 1961. She studied, taught, and performed piano while raising her four children, and began writing books in 1993 with her friend, Renee Baron. Wagele partially supported herself in college by playing in a jazz combo. She still occasionally presents musical events.
Wagele now lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Gus.[3] They have seven grandchildren.
[edit] Works
[edit] Books
Wagele is one of the best selling authors on the subject of the Enneagram and has written about the Myers-Briggs system, especially introversion. An award-winning cartoonist,[4] she also illustrates her books with many cartoons[5] and is known for her humor[6] in her writing.
Baron and Wagele broke ground in 1994 with the first book on Enneagram personality typology geared toward the general reading public:[7][8] The Enneagram Made Easy, which has been translated into 17 languages. This book was on the San Francisco Chronicle’s best sellers list for Quality Paperbacks in the Bay Area in November 1994.[citation needed]
Are You My Type, Am I Yours? was published in 1995. In 1997, Wagele wrote The Enneagram of Parenting, the first book[9] to suggest that teachers and parents use the Enneagram to broaden their acceptance and understanding of children.
The Happy Introvert – A Wild and Crazy Guide for Celebrating Your True Self was published in 2006. She included a section on the movie Napoleon Dynamite, along with chapters on relationships, children, Jung, neurology, personality, and creativity.[10]
Finding the Birthday Cake – Helping Children Raise Their Self-Esteem, a book for children, was published in 2007. It seeks to help children build high self-esteem.[11]
The Career Within You, in 2009, was co-authored with Ingrid Stabb. It has been called "the perfect career book".[12] David Daniels, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Stanford Medical School, and author of The Essential Enneagram called The Career Within You "a groundbreaking work." He described how the book provides for nine personas "thoughtful and clear descriptions, how each style relates to the spectrum of career choices, and a powerful method to determine the path that best fits you. You will discover what career best fits for your style and in the process a more fulfilling life."[13]
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On Wagele’s The Beethoven Enneagram CD (1999) she discusses Beethoven’s personality and life and plays from his piano sonatas to demonstrate her belief that the nine Enneagram types can be heard in his music.
On her Enneagram Variations CD (2006) she improvises variations on "Jack and Jill" and "Chop Sticks", playing them in ways that she believes expresses each of the nine Enneagram styles. Both of these CDs were performed at International Enneagram Association conferences.[14]
[edit] See also
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- ^ [1] Elizabeth Wagele Biography at Amazon
- ^ [2] Elizabeth Wagele About the Author at Harper Collins Publishers
- ^ [3] Elizabeth Wagele Biography
- ^ San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 1991
- ^ "Help Yourself" The Dallas Morning News, June 19, 1994
- ^ Enneagram Monthly, July, 1997
- ^ "Theory helps understand people and their behavior", The Daily Times, Maryville, June 7, 2003
- ^ "Self-discovery includes knowing your personality", Plainview Daily Herald, October 24, 1996
- ^ [4] HarperCollins December 2009
- ^ [5] Lime interview, June 12, 2006.
- ^ [6] Review by Lila Caffery MA., CCHT
- ^ [7] Liebel Career Associates
- ^ [8] HarperCollins December 2009
- ^ [9] The International Enneagram Association
