The Committed, Security-Oriented Type: Engaging, Responsible, Anxious, and Suspicious
Sixes are full of contradictions. They can be dependent on others, yet value their independence. They want to be trusted and to trust others, yet constantly test others to allay their own suspicions. They want the protection of authority, yet fear it. They are obedient yet, disobedient; fearful of aggression, yet sometimes highly aggressive themselves. They search for security, yet feel insecure. They are likable and endearing, yet can be mean and hateful. They are reassured by traditional values, yet may subvert those values. They want to escape punishment, yet may bring it on themselves. Sixes are full of contradictions because anxiety makes them ricochet from one psychological state to another. And in response to anxiety, Sixes look to structures, beliefs, allies, and authorities to put their anxiety to rest.
Source: Riso-Hudson Enneagram Institute
Type Six
The ancient Enneagram is a profound and elegant approach to communication, character and culture. Based on ancient sources--versions of the Enneagram appear in Homer, HaKaballah, Chaucer, Dante, and in modern times, the Gurdjieff Work -- the Enneagram describes nine different character types or worldviews: the ways that people and groups think, act, feel, and most especially, relate to one another.
Each of the nine primary types manifests a distinct mental style, body language and aesthetic sensibility, with attention rigidly over-focused in some areas and avoidant in others. When we use Somatics in conjunction with the Enneagram system, specific patterns of physical and emotional holding and expression actually become visible by type.
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Each of the nine primary types manifests a distinct mental style, body language and aesthetic sensibility, with attention rigidly over-focused in some areas and avoidant in others. When we use Somatics in conjunction with the Enneagram system, specific patterns of physical and emotional holding and expression actually become visible by type.
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- Motivation: To feel safe, secure and prepared in a threatening and dangerous world.
- Strengths: Courageous, Trustworthy, Intuitive, Warm, Great Trouble Shooters, Loyal
- Limitations: Paranoid, Doubtful, Anxious, Insecure, Cowardly
- Body Armoring: Anxiety (chronic fear in the mind) blocks access to the sensations of pleasure and the natural instinctive responsiveness of the body.
- Recommended Body Modality: Polarity Therapy, Shait-su, Relaxation massage
- Famous Sixes: Sigmund Freud, J. Krishnamurti, Hamlet, Jane Fonda
Sixes at Their Best
- loyal
- likeable
- caring
- warm
- compassionate
- witty
- practical
- helpful
- responsible
Sixes at Their Worst
- hypervigilant
- controlling
- unpredictable
- judgemental
- paranoiod
- defensive
- rigid
- self-defeating
- testy
How to get along with a six
- Be direct and clear
- Listen to them carefully
- Don't judge them for their anxiety
- Work things through with them
- Reassure them that everything is OK between you two
- Laugh and make jokes with them
- Gently push them to experience new things
- Try not to overreact to their overreacting
What's good about being a six
- they are committed and faithful to family and friends
- they are responsible and hardworking
- they are compassionate to others
- they have intellect and wit
- they are non conformists confronting danger bravely
- they are direct and assertive
What's difficult about being a Six
- they may have a constant push and pull to make up their minds
- they procrastinate because of fear of failure, have little confidence
- they fear abandonment and being taken advantage of
- they exhaust themselves by worrying and scanning for danger
- they are too critical of themselves, phobic-think the worst is yet to come
Sixes as Children
- are anxious and hypervigilant
- are friendly, likable and dependable and/or stubborn, bossy and sarcastic
- form a team of us against them with a best friend or parent
- look to groups or authorities to protect them/or question authority and rebel
- are neglected or abused from alcoholic families or take on the fearfulness of an overly anxious parent
Sixes as Parents
- are often loving, nurturing and have strong sense of duty
- are sometimes reluctant to give their children independence
- worry more than most that their children will get hurt
- sometimes have trouble saying no or setting boundaries
Six
Sixes seek harmony with the world by complying to group standards. As mental types, they are preoccupied with danger, as their minds think of one dangerous scenario after another. They seek safety through group membership, perhaps because there is safety in numbers. Being keenly aware of the possibility for danger, they can react quickly when something seems amiss. At their best, Sixes make very loyal friends.
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Six: The Networker
a responsible, opinionated, community-oriented moralist. Sixes experience life as a series of responsibilities which they are never quite sure they are fulfilling. Often energetic and lively, they enjoy having full schedules and keeping busy. Loyalty and commitment are virtues they value and they find it difficult to deal with people who do not share their values. Highly dedicated, they devote their energy to the group or groups that mean the most to them and need back from those people their affirmation and respect.
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- Focus of Attention
SIX: loyalist, committed, dutiful, passive-aggressive, fearful, doubting, imaging worst case scenarios
Who am I according to the Enneagram?
I am a loyal person, obedient, dutiful, doing what I have to do. I like to be approved of by someone in authority: if I'm the favorite, all the better. I'm a God-fearing person, doing and believing what I should. I'm most comfortable when I have a strong leader: life can be pretty fearful and threatening. Indeed, to face my fear is the most difficult thing of all. Perhaps I don't trust others because I don't altogether trust myself, and I can be rebellious. God, however, is faithful. - Life Script
Type Six - Guardian, Problem Solver, Devil's Advocate:
The Six strategy is to focus on danger, to scan the environment for all possible threats and to program his/her behavior to avoid it. An alternative is to meet danger head on and defuse it. They are loyal to the cause or project, and can be innovative and creative. They are concerned with figuring things out ahead of time, anticipating problems, playing the devil's advocate. They are also concerned with either developing group agreement or operating within clear rules and lines of authority.
Loyalist Links
- Type Description: The Loyalist-Type Six
- Riso-Hudson Enneagram Institute
- Break Out of the Box
- Style Six
Description
Leadership Style - Point Six - the Loyal Skeptic
- Lynette Shepphard
- Enneagram Type Six
- The Loyalist is committed to being faithful and dependable. The Loyalist has a compulsive need to receive approval, feel taken care of, and to avoid being seen as rebellious.
- Enneagram World Online
- Enneagram Type Six
Tour the Types
Key Themes
Practices for Growth - Enneagram Personality Type Six: The Doubter
- Enneagram Explorations
- Point Six: The Devil's Advocate
- The Enneagram
- Eclectic Energies
- Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist
Personality Type
Energy Healing - Storey Genres and Enneagram Types
- Understanding the Enneagram through Literature and Film
- Type Six Discussion
- Similiar Minds forum
- Enneagram: Type Six
- greatfullness.org
- 6 - The Loyal Person
- Enneagram Spectrum
- Type Six -- The Loyal Skeptic
- Employee Development - What Enneagram Type are You?
- The 27 Subtypes
- Electric Enneagram
- Nine Personality Types
- USHA Mullan
- Six : The Wary Loyalist/The Questioner
- Sixes are motivated by the need for security.
- Six (Enneagram)
- According to Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, the Loyalist is synonymous with the Enneagram's type Six.
- Point Six Page
- The following discussions are organized according to the chief issues or characteristics of Point Six. These personal accounts illustrate how people of this type have experienced the main characteristics of the type.
- PTypes
- Personality Types
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