Maura Amelia Bonanno

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I have a Master degree in Literature with specialisation in Ethnology of religions, the International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC ICF) credential and the European Coaching and Mentoring Council (EMCC) Senior Practitioner credential.

I’m a member of Assocounseling register as professional Counselor, accredited as Enneagram Professional by the International Enneagram Association, as Somatic Movement Educator and Infant Development Movement Educator by the Body-Mind Centering Association (BMCA) and as Registered Somatic Movement Therapist by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).

I’m an Enneagram Institute Certified and Authorised Enneagram teacher and an Enneagram in The Narrative Tradition Certified teacher.

I have obtained the certification in Solution Focus Business Professional with the institute SF Work/University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

I’m trained in Non Violent Communication, Spiral Dynamics, Sociocracy, Aura-Soma®, Neuro Linguistics Programming, Creative Problem Solving.

I founded EnneagrammaIntegrale® in 20025 and I work a in different fields: private, professional, social, educational, artistic.

I work in different fields: private, professional, social, educational, artistic. With individuals and families, in organisations, corporations, communities, training companies, counseling and coaching schools, drama and dance schools.

My approach is based on the principles of cultural anthropology, the encounter with other beings who have habits and conceptions of the world different from their own, combining theoretical knowledge with observation, listening, reflection, investigation, research, study and practice.

I embrace a cultural orientation that goes beyond simply imparting technical information and methods, but rather fosters opportunities for the dissemination of constructive values ​​and attitudes.

I aim to help one to be. Not to add resources, but to bring out one’s resources.

I encountered the Enneagram in 2002 while translating the Brazilian teacher Maisa Branco Castelo - Ma Amrit Racily - and since then I have deepened my knowledge of it by training in the United States with the Enneagram Institute as a direct student of Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, with the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition as a direct student of Helen Palmer, David Danielas, Peter O’Hanrahan and Terry Sarracino, in Enneagram in Business and Coaching with the Enneagram with Ginger Lapid Bogda and in Enneamotion with Andrea Isaacs. I have also attended trainings with Claudio Naranjo, Sandra Maitri, Olivier Clousot, Richard Rohr, Tom Condon, Katerine Chernich-Fauvre, Deborah Ooten, Uranio Paes and Beatrice Chestnut.

I’m authorised by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson to use their Insight Approach® method and to teach the Enneagram Institute training programme. I’m a member of the International Enneagram Association since 2004 and I have been accredited as a professional Enneagram teacher by the International Enneagram Association since 2009.

In the field of Somatic Movement I am a graduate of the Body-Mind Centering® Institute as a Somatic Movement Educator and as a Infant Development Movement Educator, in addition I have training in Embryology with Jaap van der Wal, Expression Primitive with Herns Duplan, Bioenergetics and Body Reading (Lowen), Osho Dance Therapy and Life Moves and experience in Classical and Contemporary Dance, improvisation, dance theatre and martial arts.

I approached the practices of meditation as a young girl, initially encountering the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, followed by Vipassana and then Zazen practices.

In 2000, I lived in Pune (India), experienced commune life with a special focus on childhood issues and meditative therapies, and became a sannyasin of Osho Rajneesh.

Later I met Maulana Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani al-Qubrusi in Cyprus, since 2005 I have been his disciple and transmit the Enneagram with his blessing.

I have taught in several European countries and have been a speaker at the International Enneagram Conferences in Brussels in 2009, in Denmark and San Francisco in 2010, in Portugal in 2014, in Sweden in 2015, in Finland in 2017, at the online Global Conference in 2021 and in Egypt in 2020 and 2022. I presented the Enneagram as a support for Ken Wilber’s Integral Approach at the European Integral Approach Conference in Budapest in 2014.

In 2018 I published the book“Crescere con l’Enneagramma”” con Armenia edizioni, la cui seconda edizione è uscita nel 2024.

My ongoing research is oriented towards knowledge and self-awareness and inner transformation and is founded on the vision of the Integral Approach.

I use the Enneagram map, somatics, experience in movement disciplines and integrative approaches such as Non-Violent Communication and meditative practices in a coherent integration that awakens and engages emotional intelligence, intuition and instinctual wisdom in a harmonious way.

I live in Italy, in a village on the sea called Lavagna, in Genoa region.