Copperfield’s Books: Author Meet & Greet – Rosanne Annoni & Sandra Maitri

Copperfield’s Books welcomes author, psychotherapist, and spiritual teacher Rosanne Annoni to Santa Rosa in celebration of her moving debut memoir — Unfolding the Heart: One Woman’s Quest for True Nature! Rosanne will be joined in conversation by Sandra Maitri, Santa Rosa author, teacher, and longtime practitioner of the Diamond Approach. Join us for an intimate evening of reading and conversation exploring healing, grief, spiritual awakening, and the lifelong search for our truest selves, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing with photo opportunities. This event is free and open to the public. Registration recommended for seating. For fans of memoirs by spiritual seekers and therapists, a contemporary memoir of healing, loss, and awakening set between East Coast retreats and everyday life. “Touching and honest; we can journey with her as she opens each door of healing and discovery.” — Jack Kornfield, cofounder of Spirit Rock meditation center and author of Path With Heart At the age of ten, Rosanne Annoni had a vision of Christ calling her to become a nun—only to have her devout Catholic mother respond to this news with a slap across the face. Traversing the time between that childhood vision and a solitary winter in Pema Chodron’s cabin at Gampo Abbey, Unfolding the Heart weaves together raw personal storytelling, spiritual discovery, and psychological insight. Through the highs of spiritual clarity and the depths of trauma, she searches relentlessly for her true path—and finds it not in renunciation, but in presence. Spanning decades of grief, motherhood, cancer, and healing, this memoir explores the messy beauty of a life lived with courageous self-inquiry. Through the Diamond Approach, Buddhist practice, and deep personal relationships, Rosanne unearths wisdom from adversity and uncovers grace in the ordinary. For spiritual seekers, healing professionals, or anyone navigating loss, midlife change, or a desire for inner truth, Unfolding the Heart is a cathartic, hopeful story of letting go, leaning in, and discovering that spiritual path isn’t somewhere far away—it’s right here, within. Author: Rosanne Annoni was a successful psychotherapist for thirty-five years in the Bay Area before becoming an ordained teacher of the Diamond Approach in 2000. She has taught students and mentored teachers in the United States, the UK, and the EU. In 2024, she was awarded an Emerging Writer Fellowship from Aspen Words. She is married, has one son, and lives with her husband and dog on Cape Cod. Sandra Maitri was a member of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the U.S. almost three decades ago. In addition to her work with Naranjo, she has studied with various Eastern and Western spiritual and psychological teachers, including A.H. Almaas, founder of the contemporary spiritual path, the Diamond Approach. As one of the principal and supervising teachers of the Diamond Approach, she teaches the enneagram as part of the larger work of personal transformation, working with hundreds of students each year in the U.S. and Europe. She lives in Santa Rosa, California.