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The Enneagram works by identifying your core personality type through tests, introspective evaluation or coaching. Tests ask questions about your behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns. Each of the nine types on the wheel has specific traits that influence how you interact with the world around you, both positively and negatively.
Beyond identifying your core type, the Enneagram system also explores "Enneagram wings", “Enneagram TriCenter Types”, “sub-types” and "levels of development." These aspects further explain how you might react under stress or in comfortable situations, giving you a complete roadmap for personal growth and self-improvement.
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In the Enneagram system, wings refer to the two types adjacent to your primary type on the Enneagram diagram. Each person’s primary type can be influenced by one or both of these adjacent types, adding nuanced layers to their personality. For example, a Type 4 can have a wing of Type 3 (4w3) or Type 5 (4w5), or sometimes elements of both.
Wings help explain variations within a type, providing a more detailed and dynamic picture of an individual. They can influence behaviors, motivations, and coping mechanisms, leading to richer and more personalized insights. Understanding your wing can offer additional clarity and depth to your Enneagram exploration, enabling more targeted personal growth and development.
The Enneagram Triads are the fundamental way the nine types are categorized into three distinct groups. Each group is defined by the core emotional issue its types are organized around.
Each Triad corresponds to one of the three Centers of Intelligence (Head, Heart, and Gut), revealing the primary lens through which that group of types processes the world.
Understanding your Triad helps you identify the core theme of your personality type. But the real work begins when you explore how all three Centers of Intelligence operate within you, which is the foundation of the TriCenter concept.
The Enneagram TriCenter concept expands on the primary triad system to provide a deeper understanding of how individuals process the world. Each person uses three centers of intelligence—Emotional (Heart), Intellectual (Head), and Instinctual (Gut)—with a dominant, a supporting, and a repressed center. The dominant center guides primary responses and behaviors, while the supporting center provides additional strengths, and the repressed center can lead to challenges. Understanding TriCenter dynamics fosters balanced personal development, encouraging the use of all centers for greater emotional, cognitive, and instinctual harmony.
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Enneagram subtypes are variations within each of the nine main types, influenced by three instinctual drives: Self-Preservation, Social, and Sexual (One-to-One). The Enneagram expert Mario Sikora calls these "instinctual biases" and names them "preserving bias," "navigating bias," and "transmitting bias" - an approach also better suited for the corporate world. Each type has three subtypes, creating 27 variations in total. These subtypes add depth by offering detailed insights into behaviors and opportunities for personal growth, making them particularly useful for understanding relationship dynamics and facilitating professional development.
The Enneagram lines of development are represented by the 9 lines forming the Enneagram's 9-pointed star. They illustrate interaction patterns under different circumstances for each type, showing stress (disintegration) and growth (integration) behaviors. For instance, a Type 1 (The Reformer) may exhibit Type 4 (The Individualist) traits when stressed, becoming withdrawn and moody, while under growth, they take on Type 7 (The Enthusiast) traits, becoming more spontaneous and joyful.
Each of the nine types has both an integration and a disintegration line, totaling 18 lines of development. Understanding these pathways helps individuals recognize growth and stress patterns, providing a roadmap for personal development and self-awareness.
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