Elizabeth Wagele
Encyclopedia
Elizabeth Wagele is an American artist
, musician
, [writer]] of books on personality types: the Enneagram of Personality
and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI).
, until she was 10, when her family moved to Berkeley, California
. 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
, 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. They have seven grandchildren.
authors on the subject of the Enneagram
and has written about the Myers-Briggs system, especially introversion. An award-winning cartoonist
, she also illustrates her books with many cartoons and is known for her humor in her writing.
Baron and Wagele broke ground in 1994 with the first book on Enneagram personality typology geared toward the general reading public: 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.
Are You My Type, Am I Yours? was published in 1995. In 1997, Wagele wrote The Enneagram of Parenting, the first book 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
.
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.
The Career Within You, in 2009, was co-authored with Ingrid Stabb
. It has been called "the perfect career book". 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."
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.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, [writer]] of books on personality types: the Enneagram of Personality
Enneagram of Personality
The Enneagram of Personality is a model of human personality which is principally used as a typology. Principally developed by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo, it is also partly based on earlier teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff...
and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions...
(MBTI).
Life
Wagele was raised in Salt Lake City, UtahUtah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
, until she was 10, when her family moved to Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. She spent much of her time drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
, playing the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, or making up stories with her dolls as a child. Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
played a major role in her life as a friend and spiritual guide, especially Bach
Bạch
Bạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
, Billie Holliday, and other classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
composers. A gifted pianist who majored in music composition, she studied piano with Tanya Ury and Bernhard Abramowitsch and composition with Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...
and graduated cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, 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. They have seven grandchildren.
Books
Wagele is one of the best sellingBestseller
A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and...
authors on the subject of the Enneagram
Enneagram of Personality
The Enneagram of Personality is a model of human personality which is principally used as a typology. Principally developed by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo, it is also partly based on earlier teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff...
and has written about the Myers-Briggs system, especially introversion. An award-winning cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
, she also illustrates her books with many cartoons and is known for her humor in her writing.
Baron and Wagele broke ground in 1994 with the first book on Enneagram personality typology geared toward the general reading public: The Enneagram Made Easy, which has been translated into 17 languages. This book was on the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
’s best sellers list for Quality Paperbacks in the Bay Area in November 1994.
Are You My Type, Am I Yours? was published in 1995. In 1997, Wagele wrote The Enneagram of Parenting, the first book 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
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....
, along with chapters on relationships
Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment, or sexual activity. The term is also sometimes used euphemistically for a sexual...
, children, Jung
Jung
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.Jung may also refer to:* Jung * JUNG, Java Universal Network/Graph Framework-See also:...
, neurology
Neurology
Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...
, personality, and creativity
Creativity
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...
.
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.
The Career Within You, in 2009, was co-authored with Ingrid Stabb
Ingrid Stabb
Ingrid Stabb is an American author and an innovator in the field of personalization. Her innovations have been applied to product management, loyalty marketing, and career management at global Fortune 500 companies and international startups...
. It has been called "the perfect career book". 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."
CDs
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.