Learn about the Enneagram and how to use it as a tool to live your healthiest life, nourish your relationships, and grow in compassion for others.
This is not a self-improvement tool. It’s a way back to your true self - who you were designed to be. Learn how to treat yourself the way you are meant to be treated and how to treat others the way THEY want to be treated. Start living in alignment today!
5. The Enneagram
• Not a normal personality assessment
• Tool: Internal GPS to your healthiest self
• 9 lenses of everyday life circumstances
“See yourself with astonishing clarity”
– Beth McCord, Your Enneagram Coach
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6. So That
free from fears (get out of your own way)Break
who you are designed to beExperience
compassion towards yourself and othersShow
authentically & more harmoniouslyLive
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8. The Enneagram
• 9 Main Types: stem from childhood
• Numbers are value neutral
• Influenced by 4 other types
• 3 Levels of Development within each main type
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16. Type 2: Supportive Advisor
Qualities: warm, nurturing, demonstrative
Core Fear: being unloved or unwanted
Core Desire: feel loved and wanted for who they are
Core Weakness: pride
• Inability/unwillingness to acknowledge their own needs
• Response: focus feelings outward
Under Stress à 8 (needy, blame, more controlling)
Growth Point à 4 (self-nurturing & self-compassionate)
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17. Type 3: Successful Achiever
Qualities: self-assured, driven, adaptive
Core Fear: being worthless, a failure, incapable
Core Desire: feel valuable and worthwhile by being
themselves
Core Weakness: deceit
• Believe that they are the image they show
• Response: deny feelings
Under Stress à 9 (disengaged & apathetic)
Growth Point à 6 (more cooperative & aware of feelings)
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18. Type 4: Romantic Individualist
Qualities: authentic, compassionate, creative
Core Fear: inadequate, emotionally cutoff, ordinary, flawed
Core Desire: find themselves & their unique significance
Core Weakness: envy
• Something is missing in them & others possess what
they lack
• Response: focus feelings inward
Under Stress à 2 (clinging to others; manipulation)
Growth Point à 1 (more principled, disciplined, grounded)
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19. Type 5: Investigative Thinker
Qualities: analytical, perceptive, sensitive
Core Fear: incompetent, ignorant, obligation, overwhelmed
Core Desire: be capable and competent
Core Weakness: avarice
• Feel a lack of inner resources
• Have a grudge over not getting time and space needed
• Response: isolate
Under Stress à 7 (hyperactive & scattered, distracted)
Growth Point à 8 (more self-confident & decisive)
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20. Type 6: Loyal Guardian
Qualities: trustworthy, prepared, likable
Core Fear: fear itself, uncertainty, chaos, no support
Core Desire: have security, support & guidance
Core Weakness: fear/anxiety
• Constant state of apprehension & worry about possible
future events
• Response: internalize anxiety
Under Stress à 3 (competitive & arrogant, keeping busy)
Growth Point à 9 (more relaxed & optimistic, empathetic)
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21. Type 7: Entertaining Optimist
Qualities: fun-loving; spontaneous, extrovert
Core Fear: being incomplete, inferior, limited, bored, sad
Core Desire: be fully satisfied & content
Core Weakness: gluttony
• Pursue stimulating activities to overcome feelings of
inner emptiness
• Response: deny anxiety
Under Stress à 1 (critical, cynical)
Growth Point à 5 (more focused, profound, & accepting)
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22. Type 8: Protective Challenger
Qualities: self-confident, decisive, commanding
Core Fear: being weak, vulnerable, harmed, controlled
Core Desire: protect themselves (and others of injustice)
Core Weakness: lust
• Causes them to push and assert themselves for control
• Response: express anger
Under Stress à 5 (secretive & fearful, withdrawn)
Growth Point à 2 (open-hearted, empathetic &
compassionate)
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23. Type 9: Peaceful Mediator
Qualities: pleasant, laid back, accommodating, receptive
Core Fear: in conflict, loveless, separate, uncomfortable
Core Desire: have inner stability & peace of mind
Core Weakness: sloth
• Resist bringing full selves to all of life
• Response: deny anger
Under Stress à 6 (anxious & worried, testy & defensive)
Growth Point à 3 (self-developing & energetic, take flight)
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24. Type 1: Moral Perfectionist
Qualities: ethical, dedicated, and reliable
Core Fear: being bad, wrong
Core Desire: live the right way & improve the world
Core Weakness: anger (resentment)
• Inner critic
• Response: repress anger
Under Stress à 4 (anger over unfair treatment)
Growth Point à 7 (more enthusiastic, fun, optimistic)
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27. 3 Levels of Development
Degree of self-mastery:
1. Unhealthy: trapped by your behavior & driven by core
fear
2. Average: autopilot – aware but still using control to get our
motivations met
3. Healthy: self-awareness and compassion (self & others)
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29. Ways to
Get Along
with Each
Type
1: be responsible for your share of responsibilities
2: tell them specifically what you appreciate about them
3: tell them you’re proud of them & affirm who they are, not just
what they do
4: acknowledge and affirm the unique qualities you see in them
5: respect their alone time & be independent
6: be clear and direct
7: give them companionship, affection, & freedom
8: be confident, strong, & direct
9: be patient and know that they need downtime
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30. Thanks! Q&A
Additional resources:
• Enneagram Institute
• Your Enneagram Coach
• Assessment: 9Types
Kristianna George
www.wellnesswithkristianna.com
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Kristianna.George@gmail.com
