The Enneagram and Motivation
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What difference does the Enneagram make?
Why would an accomplished psychologist with many different tools at her disposal find the Enneagram useful?
Why would major corporations encourage their employees to understand their own Enneagram type - and the types of people with whom they interact?
What will change in your life when you explore the Enneagram?
We have an almost infinite amount of information about our own experience. It's a big haystack when we go looking for the one thing that will allow us to make an important choice or change. We need patterns that simplify and emphasize: we need templates for choice. The Enneagram allows us to apply patterns to get to the right information more quickly.
What will change when you get to the heart of the matter faster and more accurately?
Why would major corporations encourage their employees to understand their own Enneagram type - and the types of people with whom they interact?
What will change in your life when you explore the Enneagram?
We have an almost infinite amount of information about our own experience. It's a big haystack when we go looking for the one thing that will allow us to make an important choice or change. We need patterns that simplify and emphasize: we need templates for choice. The Enneagram allows us to apply patterns to get to the right information more quickly.
What will change when you get to the heart of the matter faster and more accurately?
Behaviour. . . and the motivation driving it
The Enneagram is a system for thinking about what people want, what people do, and what makes people feel safe. At its core is the understanding that what we want will drive us to our greatest strengths and also lead to our deepest vulnerabilties and blindspots. Understanding the enneagram is one way to get our heads around the central paradox of human life: what we know both frees and limits us.
Explore the resources and links on this page if you want:
1) To know more about how your memories, beliefs and instincts are shaping the choices you make and the results you get;
2) To recognize different patterns in different people so that you can work with them more effectively;
2) To be more intentional in the choices you make about how to influence other people.
The Enneagram says that we have nine fundamental patterns for interacting with ourselves and our world. Each pattern has characteristic assumptions, abilities, and vulnerabilities. Each pattern is a strategy for defining what we want and taking action to preserve or acquire what we want. Each pattern is also a strategy for shutting ourselves away from our fullest potential.
How much are you willing to risk to stretch your limits? What price will you pay to be more complex, more resourceful, and more flexible? Explore your style - explore other styles. Identify more choices.
Explore the resources and links on this page if you want:
1) To know more about how your memories, beliefs and instincts are shaping the choices you make and the results you get;
2) To recognize different patterns in different people so that you can work with them more effectively;
2) To be more intentional in the choices you make about how to influence other people.
The Enneagram says that we have nine fundamental patterns for interacting with ourselves and our world. Each pattern has characteristic assumptions, abilities, and vulnerabilities. Each pattern is a strategy for defining what we want and taking action to preserve or acquire what we want. Each pattern is also a strategy for shutting ourselves away from our fullest potential.
How much are you willing to risk to stretch your limits? What price will you pay to be more complex, more resourceful, and more flexible? Explore your style - explore other styles. Identify more choices.
Five reasons to take a course on the Enneagram
- Reading a book is great - but what you take from it is filtered by your own personality, patterns and preferences.
- You want to know how the Enneagram works in real life. In a course, you can ask real people how it is working for them.
- It is hard to trust a new system. It is easier to decide to trust a teacher (after you look into her eyes and listen to her voice).
- A course is dynamic: you get to watch as different patterns interact in the different people attending the course.
- If you're fascinated by people's patterns, there is no substitute for learning concepts by connecting with living examples!
Is it time to follow a new path?
Quick tips on Enneagram Applications
Short articles to read and republish.
- The Enneagram in Coaching
- As a coach, you facilitate change in clients. Some of those changes stick and some of them are harder to sustain. The Enneagram is one way to think about which changes work and why the pattern of change that works for one client can have different results for a client in a similar situation. People can follow the same patterns of behaviour for different reasons. The better your tools for identifying the motivations that are driving behaviour, the better your chance of producing positive and sustainable change.
- The Enneagram for Corporate Consulting
- Managing change in corporations means influencing both the whole system and the individuals who comprise it. The Enneagram provides an invaluable tool for recognizing patterns of thought and behaviour in individuals and in the corporation as a whole. Using the Enneagram allows a consultant to make faster, more accurate judgments of the impact of specific changes on corporations and their employees.
- Personal Growth through the Enneagram
- Have you ever spent hours on a jigsaw puzzle only to realize that a key piece is missing? Your first response is probably: "It can't be missing. It must be here somewhere." You pick up every available piece in turn. You search under the table and across the floor.
- The Enneagram: Coaching in Troubling Times
- As a coach, you can use the Enneagram two ways. First, it will help you stay grounded and form that fast, deep connection you need to make best use of the coaching session. Using Enneagram types as a template, you will very quickly develop a working hypothesis about what is driving your client's attitudes and behaviours. When it seems 'like you can read my mind,' you can create deep, effective rapport very quickly. You can also use the Enneagram to help your clients develop self-awareness about their characteristic attitudes.
- Developing Rapport for Telephone Coaching
- As good as you are at connecting with your clients quickly, you can move faster and deeper. Simple matching of voice, physiology and language open the door: only a more comprehensive understanding of the patterns at work will allow you to walk through it. The Enneagram is one system of thinking that allows coaches to develop and maintain strong rapport so that clients can get to the changes they want.
- Rapport Tips for Coaching Fearful Clients
- You can form a rapid, effective hypothesis about the precise cause of your client's fear. This allows you to offer strategies and stories that directly leverage points and move your client from fear to freedom of choice. As a coach, you are most effective when you make your clients aware that they have choices and they are capable of making good choices. Through rapport, you can allow your clients to connect with your confidence and discover their own.
Enneagram wikis
- Enneagram of Personality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- The Enneagram (also sometimes called Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diagrammatic figure used for various purposes in a number of teaching systems. In recent years the figure has come to prominence in its use with what is often called the Enneagram of Personality. The historical origins of the figure ar
Great Places to Start Your Exploration of the Enneagram
Online Tests are Only the Beginning
Use these online tests to begin to get a sense of how the enneagram works and where you fit. You will probably get different results from different tests: it is more important to 'try on' the types that arise than to find the most accurate test.
- www.9types.com
- Includes two different tests.
- Eclectic Energies Enneagram Tests (free)
- A choice of two online enneagram tests (free), to learn your personality type. A longer, and a quicker enneagram test (with wing and instinctual variant).
- Enneagram Institute: Enneagram Testing & Training
- Home of the best-selling Enneagram authors Don Riso and Russ Hudson, and the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator. Training, workshops, online testing, and discussion board.
- Enneagram Test & Instinctual Subtype Tests by Chernick-Fauvre & Fauvre
- Home of leading Enneagram & Instinctual Subtypes educators and authors Katherine Chernick Fauvre and David W. Fauvre, MA, founders of Enneagram Explorations. Featuring Enneagram consulting, workshops, online Enneagram and Instinctual Subtypes tests, color collages for each type, extensive Instinctua
What's your Enneagram number?
They are called types and trances and patterns. There are nine basic ones and lots of variations. If you've done a test or read a book, you have an idea what number you are willing to own.
The titles with the numbers are from Enneagram Central (see the links list).
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Amazon suggests these books
Have you read these Amazon picks? What would you recommend to other people beginning their explorations of the Enneagram?
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson
The first definitive guide to using the wisdom of more...0 points
The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People by Renee Baron, Elizabeth Wagele
<p>The first easy, and fun %u57E7uide to the more...0 points
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr
Rohr and Ebert show that the Enneagram was develop more...0 points
The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others In Your Life by Helen Palmer
<p>It would be impossible for most of us to more...0 points
Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson
" The Enneagram is an extraordinary framework more...0 points
Enneagram on the Web
Lots of information to get you started
- Enneagram Central - your online Enneagram resource
- Clarence Thomson's site with type descriptions, free articles, and insights into issues like weight management.
- Helen Palmer and Enneagram Training
- Helen Palmer's site.
- Enneagram Institute: Enneagram Testing & Training
- Home of the best-selling Enneagram authors Don Riso and Russ Hudson, and the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator. Training, workshops, online testing, and discussion board.
- International Enneagram Association
- The International Enneagram Association (IEA) provides a worldwide hub for the sharing of all developments in the theory and ethical application of the Enneagram.
- Enneagram Web Sites
- A long list of web sites related to the Enneagram.
What do you do when you do not know what to do?
Enneagram patterns describe ways of dealing with the world. One way to understand how they might be working in your life is to begin to notice that we all have times when we do not know what to do. We are aware that we are stuck or we are aware that we have too many choices. You will also notice that the people you know well handle these kinds of situations in different ways.
Think of a time when you did not know what to do, or think of a situation in which you feel stuck or ambivalent now. Then choose the response that most clearly corresponds to what you notice about yourself in that situation.
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- Wendy shared that during the 1960s and 70s the Enneagram Typing System was developed when the centuries-old, multi-faceted symbol was merged with modern personality theory to represent a spectrum of possible personality styles and archetypes.
- Dangers seen in Catholic use of Enneagram
- Writing for Catholic World Report, Anna Abbott reports that Church officials have real concerns about the use of the Enneagram in Catholic retreat centers and other institutions. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has characterized the Enneagram as a ...
- Ancient tool can help find new paths
- Allison Rennie, a trained spiritual director, will introduce Enneagram, the Nine Faces of the Soul Friday and Saturday Feb. 10 and 11. Hosted by First United Church, the Friday night introduction at SAGA Public Art Gallery and Saturday workshop will ...
- Linda Jo Scott: 'A Born Again Episcopalian' is worth reading
- In fact, he has now written and published four books: "The Geography of the Soul: The Enneagram in Christian Perspective," "A Christian Spiritual Psychology," "Dimensions of the Enneagram," and, over the past four years, "A Born Again Episcopalian: The ...
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Apr 14, 2010 @ 1:33 pm | delete
- Thanks for all the information you delivered this has kept me occupied I
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KarenTBTEN
Feb 8, 2010 @ 1:44 am | delete
- In some ways, I prefer the enneagram over other types of personality typing because of the focus on motivation (as opposed to just static personality traits). I order to understand people, we need to understand motivation.
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kimmanleyort
Jul 13, 2009 @ 4:51 pm | delete
- Nice list of resources for the Enneagram. This has been very helpful for me personally and in a group I am part of. More people should know about it.
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J Wilson
Apr 1, 2009 @ 2:23 pm | delete
- Here is the app that I mentioned. http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/enneagram
Sorry for doing two posts.
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J Wilson
Apr 1, 2009 @ 2:16 pm | delete
- I too find a lot of insight in the Enneagram. I find it hard to remember what my friend's type are. I am trying out this iphone app to record this. I think it is just called Enneagram
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Bernard McHugh
Aug 12, 2008 @ 7:05 am | delete
- Dear Linda,
good luck with your exploration of the enneagram and your own life journey. I have been a student of the enneagram for some years and have found it extremely insightful and helpful in my life. Why it is a means to an end, it is the end itself but a really helpful tool in understanding oneself and others.
I wish you well,
Bernard McHugh
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