The Enneagram Types

• • Core Desire: To be good, ethical, and morally upright.
• • Core Fear: Being corrupt, evil, or defective.
• • Key Traits: Principled, disciplined, idealistic.
• • Strengths: High standards, integrity, and responsibility.
• • Challenges: Prone to perfectionism, criticism (self and others), and rigidity.
• • Focus: Seeking moral improvement and justice.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They strive to fix things around them, and when stressed, they may become overly critical or judgmental. In growth, they embrace relaxation and acceptance.

• • Core Desire: To feel loved and appreciated.
• • Core Fear: Being unloved or unwanted.
• • Key Traits: Generous, empathetic, supportive.
• • Strengths: Warmth, care, and the ability to connect deeply with others.
• • Challenges: Struggles with boundaries, people-pleasing, and self-neglect.
• • Focus: Building relationships and being indispensable to others.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They prioritize others' needs over their own, sometimes to the point of resentment. In growth, they learn self-care and independence.

• • Core Desire: To be valuable, successful, and admired.
• • Core Fear: Being worthless or failing.
• • Key Traits: Ambitious, energetic, adaptable.
• • Strengths: Driven, confident, and results-oriented.
• • Challenges: Over-identification with achievements, image-consciousness, and workaholism.
• • Focus: Recognition, accomplishments, and setting an example.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They constantly strive to excel, sometimes at the expense of authenticity. In growth, they connect with their true feelings and values.

• • Core Desire: To find identity and authenticity.
• • Core Fear: Having no personal significance or being ordinary.
• • Key Traits: Creative, introspective, expressive.
• • Strengths: Depth of emotion, artistic talent, and authenticity.
• • Challenges: Prone to melancholy, envy, and self-absorption.
• • Focus: Exploring their inner world and expressing their uniqueness.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They seek meaning through self-expression and often feel misunderstood. In growth, they balance their emotions and connect outwardly.

• • Core Desire: To be capable and knowledgeable.
• • Core Fear: Being helpless, useless, or overwhelmed.
• • Key Traits: Analytical, curious, self-sufficient.
• • Strengths: Intellectual depth, focus, and independence.
• • Challenges: Emotional detachment, overthinking, and withdrawal.
• • Focus: Gaining mastery and understanding the world.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They tend to withdraw to conserve energy and process information. In growth, they engage more emotionally and socially.

• • Core Desire: To feel secure and supported.
• • Core Fear: Being abandoned or unsafe.
• • Key Traits: Loyal, cautious, responsible.
• • Strengths: Reliability, preparedness, and commitment.
• • Challenges: Anxiety, skepticism, and indecision.
• • Focus: Anticipating problems and creating safety nets.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They oscillate between fear and trust, seeking reassurance. In growth, they embrace courage and trust in themselves.

• • Core Desire: To experience joy and satisfaction.
• • Core Fear: Being deprived or in pain.
• • Key Traits: Optimistic, spontaneous, adventurous.
• • Strengths: Enthusiasm, creativity, and resilience.
• • Challenges: Difficulty with commitment, impulsivity, and avoiding discomfort.
• • Focus: Seeking new experiences and possibilities.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They distract themselves from pain with constant activity. In growth, they embrace stillness and focus.

• • Core Desire: To protect themselves and control their environment.
• • Core Fear: Being controlled or vulnerable.
• • Key Traits: Assertive, confident, protective.
• • Strengths: Leadership, decisiveness, and courage.
• • Challenges: Intensity, confrontation, and a fear of vulnerability.
• • Focus: Seeking strength and justice, protecting the weak.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They take charge but may come across as domineering. In growth, they soften and embrace vulnerability and they use it as a personality test.

• • Core Desire: To have inner peace and harmony.
• • Core Fear: Conflict, loss, or disconnection.
• • Key Traits: Calm, accepting, supportive.
• • Strengths: Mediating, adaptability, and steadiness.
• • Challenges: Passivity, avoidance, and difficulty asserting themselves.
• • Focus: Maintaining peace and avoiding tension.
• • Behavioral Patterns: They prioritize others' desires to avoid conflict. In growth, they assert their needs and take action.

• • Each of the Enneagram types has “wings” (adjacent types that influence behavior).
• • Types also have stress and growth lines, which show how they behave under pressure or personal growth:
  • ○ Stress: When under stress, a type may take on unhealthy traits of another specific type.
  • ○ Growth: In a healthy state, a type may integrate positive traits of another type.

The Enneagram personality test, also known as Enneagram 9 can:

• 1. Improve self-awareness by helping individuals understand their core motivations and reactions.
• 2. Enhance relationships by fostering empathy and understanding of others' perspectives.
• 3. Provide a roadmap for personal growth by identifying areas to develop or challenges to overcome.