More About Enneagram Typing
You best learn your type through a face-to-face interview and/or listening to a panel of exemplars as they answer questions and share their experiences, motivations and behaviors.
As you work with and listen to others, you gain invaluable insight into others and your relationships. You also deepen your understanding and compassion as you gain insight into the complexity of other world views.
The Enneagram is a constellation of energy patterns. As you learn your type, you learn your body’s responses to your mental and emotional patterns.
It’s developmental. People who work with the Enneagram, report significant, identifiable changes in themselves and their relationships.
It’s not the byproduct of psychology. Rather, it’s been developed through a long, oral tradition of real people who reflect upon their own inner patterns. With that said, prestigious academic universities like Harvard and Stanford embrace the Enneagram.
There are countless Personality Profiles, but the Enneagram’s profundity lies in its accuracy and its honoring of our human complexity.
IT'S DIFFERENT FROM OTHER TYPING SYSTEMS BECAUSE:
1. It doesn’t box you in. Rather, the Enneagram gives you tools for self-management which loosen the grip from the box you are already in. Many of us trained in the Enneagram are fully aware of the rich complexity of each human being and honor your uniqueness beyond type. You are more than your type.
2. It’s not what you do. It’s why you do it. The Enneagram is so powerful because it helps you see what you couldn’t see. You must PAUSE to notice when you “go on autopilot.”
3. It invites compassion. You learn your type and you learn about others through a face-to-face interview and/or listening to a panel of exemplars as they answer questions and share their experiences. You deepen your understanding and compassion as you gain insight into other world views.
4. It is three centered. It doesn’t all happen in the head! It identifies your mental, emotional and sensory/instinctive patterns which often affect your health and well-being.
5. Like anything worth learning, it requires practice. You learn “Pause Practices” which enable you to pause and identify patterns you choose to work with in order to grow in awareness of yourself and others.