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What are the 9 Types?
The nine personality Types specifically describe your unique behavior tendencies, motivations, and desires. Each Type has distinct differences, but there are even more variations within each Type depending on your Subtype, Instincts, levels of awareness, growth, and maturity.
For this reason, the Enneagram is a helpful tool for personal & professional development and engaging in your most important relationships. There are common descriptors for each Type, but the Enneagram is not intended to stereotype or define you.
It's meant to help you become more self-aware, learn how to move through stuck places, and change habits that no longer serve you.
We are more than our Enneagram Type or patterns,
but the more we know ourselves, the more access we have to self-awareness and growth.
“When you understand someone else’s Type, you realize that they have a different but equally valid, way of seeing the world with their own underlying concerns and emotional impacts.”
-Peter O’Hanrahan (The Narrative Enneagram)
Being able to understand the basic motivations of different personality Types can help you more effectively communicate and relate to others. It helps us build better relationships and creates cohesion.
Everyone has innate fears, desires, motivators, and triggers that cause frustration. We also have ways we seek support, acceptance, and understanding. But we figure out how to meet our needs in unique ways and for different reasons depending on our Enneagram Type.
When you know a bit about what makes yourself and others tick, it can help you understand and empathize with them. And you may be surprised that you will find that the world works just fine for those who think differently than you!
principled | focused | critical | reliable | dependable | advocating
helpful | people-centered | warm | generous | intuitive | advising
productive | confident | charming | efficient | motivated | capable
expressive | passionate | empathetic individualistic | creative | introspective
analytical | objective | self-sufficient | intellectual | private | competent
cooperative | skeptical | prepared | loyal | vigilant | responsible
spontaneous | optimistic | energetic | opportunistic | quick thinking | visionary
action oriented | limit-pushing | assertive | persistent | direct | decisive
easygoing | agreeable | flexible |
mediating | steadfast | conflict avoidant
“One of the greatest gifts of the Enneagram is helping us to have better relationships at home and at work. When we understand our own type, we can learn about our patterns of reactivity and how to manage these with self-awareness and practice.”
- Peter O’Hanrahan (The Narrative Enneagram)