9 Enneagram Types
Enneagram Type 1: Judge
Identifiers
Critical awareness, self-improving
Core Belief
I am not accepted for who I am and must be good to avoid punishment
- Body Triad
- Concerned with correctness and perfection, primarily of self.
- Tend to present as tense and rigid in posture and speech.
- Underlying sense of anger
- Over analyzing and over criticizing
- Tends to be good, responsible, and conscientious to assuage the internal critic.
- High level of integrity, industriousness, and idealism.
- Always looking for ways to improve.
- Tendency to be highly principled, moralistic, and ethical.
Key Characteristics
Hard-working self-reliant, critical of self and others, responsible, integrative
Ennegram Type 2: Provider
Identifiers
Give to get, relational
Core Belief
I must meet the needs of others to be cared about.
- Heart Center
- Focus of attention is on relationship with others
- Believes knows about what the other in a relationship needs
- The power behind the throne
- Engaging, seductive and charming
- Skillful in the maneuvering or manipulation of others (often unconsciously)
- Innate sense of knowing the right thing to say or do in difficult situations
- Verbally and physically expressive
- Avoids being rejected or unappreciated
- May have a sense of being a gift to others
Key Characteristics
Helpful, presents well, supportive, seductive, and manipulative
Enneagram Type 3: Doer
Identifiers
Performing, achieving, success
Core Belief
I am rewarded for "doing" not "being".
- Heart Center
- Confident, competent, efficient, fast paced, multi tasking
- Driven to, for and by success
- Can be chameleon-like in order to get the "job done".
- Seeks outside approval
- Forward moving in leadership style and energy
- Success is the only option.
- Can be neglectful of relationships
- Competitive and self-promoting
- Positive mirroring
- Focus on work, success, competing and achieving
- Emotions to recede into the background
Key Characteristics
Practical, competent, efficient, self-assured, poised, charming, self absorbed
Enneagram Type 4: Idealist
Identifiers
Sweet melancholy, unique expression of self and emotions
Core Belief
I fear being abandoned or being seen as ordinary.
- Heart Center
- Presents as passionate and authentic.
- Tendency to be in search of the object or ideal that is missing or lost
- Sense of esthetics, deep meaning, intensity, emotional expressiveness.
- Self-oriented
- Feels abandoned, rejected, misunderstood and insignificant
- Creative, artistic, and unique
- Sensitivity, intuition and a deeper knowing
- Nonconformist
Key Characteristics
Unique, emotionally intense, creative, cutting edge thinking
Enneagram Type 5: Sage
Identifiers
Gatherer of information, conserver of energy
Core Belief
Too much is demanded from me with little given in return.
- Head Center
- Paucity of emotions
- Focused on wisdom and omniscience.
- Thirst for knowledge
- Fears around energy depletion
- Tendency to hold onto thoughts, feelings, resources, energy and material possessions
- Feelings are to be processed alone and in private
- Compartmentalizes thoughts, feelings, and needs
- Detached observational presence
Key Characteristics
Omniscience, being knowledgeable, energy conserving, self-contained, detached, appearing unemotional
Enneagram Type 6: Questioner
Identifiers
Doubting, dutiful, and problem solving
Core Belief
The world is a dangerous place.
- Head Center
- Sharp logical analytical mind that tends to question and doubt self and others.
- Two basic stances; one phobic and the other counterphobic
- Trust, decision making, internal consistency and clarity are often difficult
- Loyalty to the family, the group or the underdog
Key Characteristics
Responsible, persevering, intuitive, worst case scenario thinking and attention to what can go wrong
Enneagram Type 7: Adventurer
Identifiers
Optimistic, future planning
Core Belief
Life is limiting causing frustration, constriction and pain.
- Head Center
- Charming
- Mental exuberance and zest for life
- Optimistic
- Fear avoidant
- Positive reframing and future planning
- Understand interconnection between ideas
- Abhors constrictions and limits
- Difficulty with constancy and commitment
- Creates a world of playfulness, imagination, possibilities and limitlessness
- Great at inception but difficulty with follow through
Key Characteristics
Enthusiastic, playful, inventive, full of life, difficulty limiting options
Enneagram Type 8: Defender
Identifiers
Energetically large, truth seeking
Core Belief
The world is a dangerous place, unjust and power imbalanced
- Body Center
- Large energetic presence
- Controlling and dominating so that are not controlled
- Moment oriented, taking action in the now.
- Focuses on injustice, deceptions, manipulations and untruths
- Direct, concise, clear, strong, just
- Often defenders of those weaker or less capable
- Energize and mobilize themselves and others toward the completion of any task or goal.
- Appears self-confidence and strong to hide innocence and vulnerability
- Excessive
Key Characteristics
Strong, decisive, sometimes seen as a bully, energetically driven and not afraid of conflict
Enneagram Type 9: Moderator
Identifiers
Mediating, harmonizing
Core Belief
I will not be appreciated for myself so I blend in to be safe, comfortable and connected
- Body Center
- Affable, pleasant and engaging style
- Able to see all points of view
- Difficulty setting priorities self
- Merging with or taking on other people’s agendas
- Avoids confrontation, conflict and anger
- Passive aggressive expression of anger
- Maintains and mediates the peace and harmony for a group
- Forgets own agenda (self forgetting).
- Feels unseen and unheard
Key Characteristics
Adaptive, supportive, self-forgetting, receptive and accepting