The 9 types (and 18 subtypes) of the Enneagram

The 9 types (and 18 subtypes) of the Enneagram

Type One;    The Judge          (1w9; "The Patriarch". 1w2; "The Crusader")

Type Two;    The Helper       (2w1; "The Nurturer". 2w3; "The Hostess")

Type Three; The Achiever   (3w2; "The Transgressor". 3w4; "The Superstar")

Type Four;   The Artist         (4w3; "The Aristocrat". 4w5; "The Visionary")

Type Five;     The Thinker     (5w4; "The Eccentric". 5w6; "The Scientist")

Type Six;       The Partisan   (6w5; "The Frontiersman". 6w7; "The Provocateur")

Type Seven; The Enthusiast (7w6; "The Sprite". 7w8; "The Connoisseur")

Type Eight;   The Powerhouse (8w7; "The Supernova". 8w9; "The Boss")

Type Nine;    The Peacemaker (9w8; "The Diplomat". 9w1; "The Dreamer")


 

What is the Enneagram?

The Enneagram is a circular diagram

on which personality types

numbered one through nine are symbolically represented

at nine equidistant points on the circumference.

The numbers are then connected
by arrows in significant patterns
which point the way
to health ("integration") or
to neurosis ("disintegration").

Each human personality is said
to fall into one of these nine types.

This number is said to reveal the hidden motivation
for everything a person does.

Intelligence is given three centers: thought, emotion, and instinct,
which are always imbalanced.

The result of this imbalance is
that a person's "true self" is always hidden beneath a "false self".

The Enneagram is supposed
to enable a person to gain knowledge of his true self,
exposing the true motivations for actions and illusions developed
regarding himself and regarding how to deal with the world.