The Enneagram is a method for discovering your fundamental personality, inner motives, and unconscious habits. But it is also a blueprint that guides you beyond your personality and leads you to your inner self. It is a tool for transformational personal growth that begins with understanding your Type. This is the starting point for unleashing all of the Enneagram’s power.
This course will introduce you to the nine personality types, including their attentional focus, behavioral patterns, motives, and limiting beliefs. We will also review the three Intelligence Centers and Triads
Definition and Meaning of the Enneagram
An model for understanding personality types based on nine distinct personality archetypes. Enneagrams provide insights into individuals' core motivations, fears, desires, and patterns of behavior. The term "enneagrams" is used in its plural form because it represents multiple instances or instances of different enneagram types.
Each Enneagram type has a home base in one of the three centers of intelligence – head, heart or body – that shapes our way of being in the world. While everyone experiences all three, each personality type has a particular strength in one of them. This primary center is a key to overcoming blind spots, developing our potential and improving our relationships. Balancing the three centers helps us achieve a more balanced life.
Each of the 9 main enneagram types also has three subtypes which means there are actually 27 enneagram subtypes! This gives much more understanding to a person’s type and provides more potential for growth!
It is important to note that Levels of Development are different that Stress Numbers or Growth Numbers.
Levels of Development are based on your type and your type’s traits only.
As you reach the healthy levels, the traits are more positive but they are still positive traits of YOUR type.
Likewise as you dip into the unhealthy levels, the traits are more negative but they are still negative traits of YOUR type
The enneagram types can be split into three Centres with three types in each centre: The Gut Centre (8, 9, 1), The Heart Centre (2, 3, 4) and the Head Centre (5, 6, 7).
We all have one core type, but we also have a secondary and tertiary type within each of the other two centres that are each called a fix (a short form for the word “fixation;” the original terminology for each type’s problem was “passion” and “fixation”). Those two fixes combined with our core type produce our Trifix.
The core motivations of the enneagram are broken up into two main groups: core desires and core fears.
Technically, these both go together or can even be considered one and the same because to want to be something is to fear not being that thing.
The Enneagram wings are the enneatypes located on both sides of your Enneagram type. If you’re a type 9, for example, your Enneagram wings would be type 8 and 1.
Our Wings are other types that have lots in common with our own type, as they are directly related. They can enhance or diminish our Type traits according to their own traits.
Enneagram types in growth will look differently as we all grow in different ways. The great thing about the enneagram is it can point us in the direction that we need to head towards in order to grow.
Each enneagram type goes towards and takes on some of the healthy traits of another type when they are growing.
Each number on the enneagram symbol has two lines attached to it. One of those lines shows where you are prone to go when growing (the other for when in stress). This growth line is often called a “growth line” or “line of integration”.
Knowing the enneagram types under stress can help us understand when we are stressed, predict when we are stressed (or moving towards stress), and even know better ways of handling stress.
Some people get angry, some need isolation, some get moody, some get indulgent… we all get stressed from time to time but we all handle stress differently.
Every person is different and thus responds to stress differently but each enneagram type in stress follows a path so there are nine main ways that each type responds to stress.
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