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Slide1
The Enneagram
Spiritual Care Partners
Slide2What is the Enneagram?
A tool that helps us develop self-knowledge and understanding;Helps us live as our authentic selves;Helps us understand others in order to improve communication and strengthen relationships.
Slide3Limitations
The self is not a commodity; can’t be measured.The self is hidden in God; can’t be “found”.No one has actually seen “the self.”The Enneagram and other personality typing systems are necessary because self-knowledge is necessary but are insufficient/incomplete/not enough. - Fr. Martin Laird – Encountering Silence PodcastSystems are at risk of serving as rationalization of or justification for bad behavior.“Well, I just behave this way because I am a 5 on the Enneagram.”- Cassidy Hall - Encountering Silence Podcast
Slide4A Brief History
The Enneagram system as we know it dates to the 1960’s due to the work of Oscar Ichazo (Argentina).Synthesis of a number of ancient wisdom traditionsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and ancient Greek PhilosophyIchazo integrated these traditions with the ancient Enneagram symbol to a create personality typing structure for the purpose of self-development.
Slide5The Symbol
(Riso and Hudson, 2003, 5)Geometric
figure
delineating
nine basic
personality types and their
interrelationships.
Each type has own way of approaching life
and relating
to
others.All nine have something of value to contribute to a thriving and balanced world.
Slide6We have
all nine types within us.Our most dominant type is our default type.
(
Riso
and Hudson, 2003,
9
)
Slide7How
Is It Useful?Helps us to be fully present, frees us from living reactively due to our preoccupations.
Helps us
recognize and understand overall patterns in human behavior:
External behaviors
Underlying attitudes
Emotional reactions
Conscious
and unconscious
motivations
Defense mechanisms
Slide8Helps
us appreciate the differences in each other which helps communication and interaction. (Riso and Hudson, 2003, 10)
Slide9Helps us
be authentic/true self:“The Enneagram takes us to the threshold of spirit and freedom, love and liberation, self-surrender and self-actualization. Once we have arrived at that uncharted land, we will begin to recognize our truest self, the self beyond personality, the self of essence.”(
Riso
and Hudson, 2003, 11)
Slide10TYPES
Slide11Types
The ReformerPrincipled, purposeful, self-controlled, perfectionisticThe HelperGenerous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, possessiveThe AchieverAdaptable, excelling, driven, image-consciousThe Individualist
Expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, temperamental
The Investigator
Perceptive, innovative, secretive, isolated
Slide12Types
The LoyalistEngaging, responsible, anxious, suspiciousThe Enthusiast Spontaneous, versatile, distractible, scatteredThe ChallengerSelf-confident, decisive, willful, confrontationalThe Peacemaker
Receptive, reassuring, accommodating, complacent
(
Riso
and Hudson, 2003, 66-67)
Slide13Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUGotSc2nA
Slide14The Triads or Centers
“Each type results from a particular relationship with a cluster of issues that characterize that Triad. Most simply, these issues revolve around a powerful, largely unconscious emotional response to the loss of contact with the core of the self.” [Core of the self meaning true self].
Thus, when not living authentically:
Instinctive Center is dominated by
Anger/Rage
Feeling
Center is dominated by
Shame
Thinking
Center is dominated by
Anxiety (Riso and Hudson, 2003, 68)
Slide15www.enneagraminstitute.com
Slide16The Wing
No one is one personality type. Everyone has a dominant type which is complemented by one of the adjacent “wings.”It is the “second side” of your personality.Located adjacent to your dominant type. (Riso and Hudson, 2003, 74-75)
Slide17Example:
Type 9 has an 8 or 1
wing:
Slide18Levels of Development
Levels = a measure of one’s capacity to be presentThe more we move down levels (regress):The more identified we are with our ego. The more defensive and reactive we become.The less freedom and consciousness we have.The more self-destructive our behavior becomes.
Slide19Moving up levels (progress) leads to:Being less identified with our personality (our dominant type on the Enneagram).
Being more present and awake.Being less fixated on the defensive structures of our personality.Being more open to our self and the environment.(Riso and Hudson, 2003, 78)
Slide20The Levels
HealthyLevel 1: Level of Liberation
Level 2: Level of Psychological Capacity
Level 3: Level of Social
Value
Average
Level 4: Level of Imbalance/Social Role
Level 5: Level of Interpersonal Control
Level 6: Level of
Overcompensation
UnhealthyLevel 7: Level of ViolationLevel 8: Level of Obsession and CompulsionLevel 9: Level of Pathological Destructiveness
(
Riso
and Hudson, 2003, 77)
Slide21Actualization
“When we are less identified with our personality, we find that we respond as needed to whatever life presents, actualizing the positive potentials in all nine types, bringing real peace, creativity, strength, joy, compassion, and other positive qualities to whatever we are doing.”
(
Riso
and Hudson, 2003, 79)
Slide22Thus, our
main goal in regard to the Enneagram (and our personality) is to maintain balance by:avoiding over-identification with our dominant type. integrating the strengths of each type as we engage the world.
Slide23Integration/Disintegration
Two lines connect to each type. Directions indicate how a person responds under times of stress or security.Direction of Integration (growth) = Behavior when under control, secure.Direction of Disintegration (stress) = Behavior under stress.
Slide24Direction of Integration (growth):
Healthy 1 behaveslike healthy 7, a healthy 5 like an 8,e
tc.
Sequence:
1-7-5-8-2-4-1
9-3-6-9
Slide25Direction of Disintegration (stress):
Under stress, an average to unhealthy 1 behaves
like
average to
unhealthy
4
,
an
average to
unhealthy 2 like an
average to unhealthy 8,etc.Sequence:1-4-2-8-5-7-19-6-3-9
Slide26The 3 Instincts
Represent our instinctual hard-wiringNecessary for survival as individuals and speciesAll 3 instincts are active in us, but we have a dominant instinct (the area of life we attend to first). “Dominant” meaning the instinct we prioritize.(Riso and Hudson, 2003, 82)
Slide27Self-Preservation Instinct
(preserving body and its functioning)Sexual Instinct (extending ourselves in environment and throughout generations)Social Instinct (getting along with others, forming secure social bonds)
Slide28Full Picture of Personality
Full picture of personality represented by:Dominant TypeCenters/TriadsWingLevels of DevelopmentDirections of Integration and DisintegrationDominant Instinct
Slide29Goal
Ultimate Goal = BalanceIntegrate what each type symbolizesAcquire healthy potentials of all types (“move around” the Enneagram) Draw on power of each personality type as needed(Riso and Hudson, 2003, 82)
Slide30Balance Leads to Presence
Having balance in our personality helps us to live authentically and be fully present
.
Slide31Sources
Riso, Don R. and Russ Hudson. Discovering Your Personality Type. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2003.
www.enneagraminstitute.com
Encountering
Silence Podcast:
www.encounteringsilence.com