"Preserving"
Enneagram Type 6
for Professionals

"As a risk management director at a financial institution, Michael's Preserving 6 Saboteur had hijacked their natural drive for responsible stewardship. Their compulsive need to secure resources and prevent threats disconnected them from their deeper purpose as a leader.
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Team members experienced their 'security guardian mode' as paralyzing, where every decision became an exercise in worst-case scenario planning. Behind this behavior lay a deeper struggle: their Saboteur's inner critic kept them believing that their only value came from preventing all possible threats to stability.
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Despite tireless efforts to maintain perfect security, their purpose-disconnected Saboteur created operational paralysis. Every opportunity required exhaustive risk assessment, stifling innovation and growth. Team initiative suffered as their constant focus on threat prevention overshadowed potential development.

The final wake-up call came when a significant market opportunity was lost to excessive risk mitigation - a direct result of their Saboteur's grip on security over strategic growth."

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Through AI-assisted Pi9™ Enneagram courses and coaching, Michael discovered how to transform their Preserving 6 Saboteur patterns into Guardian wisdom. Their innate desire for security evolved from rigid protection into a Purpose Intelligence tool, allowing them to create what they called the 'Conscious Security Framework' - a balanced approach that aligned prudent safeguards with courageous growth.

Their Guardian wisdom now expressed through Purpose Intelligence in several ways:

• Converting threat-focus into strategic awareness
• Transforming rigid protection into flexible resilience
• Shifting from survival mode to sustainable growth

Team members began experiencing them as a wise protector rather than a fearful guardian. Their Guardian wisdom created space for both security and opportunity, leading to confident advancement while maintaining prudent protection. Most significantly, Michael's Purpose Intelligence helped them channel their security instinct into purposeful leadership, no longer carrying the burden of constant threat prevention. Their new Guardian mantra became 'Wisdom guides protection; courage enables growth.'"

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