Enneagram Coaching
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If you're not familiar, the Enneagram is a powerful personality typing system that dives into nine interconnected personality types, each represented by a number.
You might think, “I'm more than just a number'“ and you're absolutely right. At SOAR Clarity Coaching., we believe in the uniqueness of every individual, each a perfect masterpiece created by God.
One of the key benefits offered by the Enneagram is that you are able to increase your self-awareness and understand your true motivations, desires, and fears.
The Enneagram provides great insights, including how each personality responds to times of stress or growth. It’s a tool to enable your personal growth and self-discovery.
Let’s Dive In!
From The Enneagram Institute…
Identifying Your Basic Personality Type
From one point of view, The Enneagram can be seen as a set of nine distinct personality types, with each number on the Enneagram denoting one type. It is common to find a little of yourself in all nine of the types, although one of them should stand out as being closest to yourself. This is your basic personality type.
Everyone emerges from childhood with one of the nine types dominating their personality, with inborn temperament and other pre-natal factors being the main determinants of our type. This is one area where most all of the major Enneagram authors agree—we are born with a dominant type.
Subsequently, this inborn orientation largely determines the ways in which we learn to adapt to our early childhood environment. It also seems to lead to certain unconscious orientations toward our parental figures, but why this is so? Short answer, we still do not know.
By the time children are four or five years old, their consciousness has developed sufficiently to have a separate sense of self. Although their identity is still very fluid at this age, children begin to establish themselves and find ways of fitting into the world on their own.
The Facts
People do not change from one basic personality type to another.
The descriptions of the personality types are universal and apply equally to males and females, since no type is inherently masculine or feminine.
Not everything in the description of your basic type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly among the healthy, average, and unhealthy traits that make up your personality type.
The Enneagram uses numbers to designate each of the types because numbers are value neutral— they imply the whole range of attitudes and behaviors of each type without specifying anything either positive or negative. Unlike the labels used in psychiatry, numbers provide an unbiased, shorthand way of indicating a lot about a person without being pejorative.
The numerical ranking of the types is not significant. A larger number is no better than a smaller number; it is not better to be a Nine than a Two because nine is a bigger number.
No type is inherently better or worse than any other. While all the personality types have unique assets and liabilities, some types may be considered to be more desirable than others in any given culture or group. Furthermore, for one reason or another, you may not be happy being a particular type. As you learn more about all the types, however, you will see that just as each has unique assets, each has unique liabilities. The ideal is to become your best self, not to imitate the assets of another type.
If taken properly, a questionnaire will identify your basic personality type for you. We will offer a service to discover your Enneagram Type. If you’d like to receive updates regarding the Enneagram as part of our service menu, sign-up here.
Typing
As you think about your personality, which of the following nine roles fits you best most of the time? Or, to put it differently, if you were to describe yourself in a few words, which of the following word clusters would come closest? These one-word descriptors can be expanded into four-word sets of traits. Keep in mind that these are merely highlights and do not represent the full spectrum of each type.
Type One: is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.
Type Two: is generous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, and possessive.
Type Three: is adaptable, excelling, driven, and image-conscious.
Type Four: is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental.
Type Five: is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated.
Type Six: is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious.
Type Seven: is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered.
Type Eight: is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational.
Type Nine: is receptive, reassuring, complacent, and resigned.
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