The Enneagram
The Enneagram is a dynamic personality typing system that presents nine personality types each operating out of a mix of both one’s natural gifts and one’s developed defensive strategy. Once these gifts and defensive strategies are recognized, self-awareness and behavioral choice increase. The areas of life where these changes can take place are numerous resulting in increased success and decreased suffering for us and those around us.
For some of us there is a resistance to being seen as a type, it can feel we are being put in a box. At the same time when a person’s behavior is observed objectively we see a surprisingly narrow band of behavioral options being expressed. It can also be surprising to learn the narrowing of options is a function of defensive strategy, not natural gifting. Exploring the information offered by the Enneagram on the nine personality types can free us from the box we have put ourselves in without knowing. Awareness brings the possibility of balance and freedom to the many parts of life.
What’s
Your Type’s
Natural Gift?
Type 1
To know what is best.
Type 2
To know the importance of connection.
Type 3
To participate in work being done.
Type 4
To discover the depths of a thing.
Type 5
To take in the whole in its distinguished parts.
Type 6
To come from a place of relative certainty.
Type 7
To discover what is possible.
Type 8
To use power to help make something happen.
Type 9
To know the inherent worth of everything.