ENNEAGRAM

( also called

ENNEAGRAM of PERSONALITY )

Summary
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What is Enneagram ? Historycal figures and their contributions Brief description of the Enneagram system Identifying your personality type Fields of aplication Bibliography

What is Enneagram ?
The word ENNEAGRAM comes from the greek words ENNEA nine and GRAMOS figure ENNEAGRAM a nine pointed figure

What is Enneagram ?
A three part figure
Circle Triangle Hexad

Wholeness

Trinity

Change

What is Enneagram ?
Geometric figure maping out the nine fundamental human personality types

What is Enneagram ?
Development of modern psychology
Roots in many different ancient traditions (Christianism,Buddhism, Islamism especially Sufism, Judaism the Kabbalah)

Historycal figures and their contributions

No history of the Enneagrams evolution as spiritual method or system
Supposed to be 3000/5000 years old Only a history of human understanding of it

Historycal figures and their contributions

The Sufis
Sufism main muslim religious current Sufis or Dervishes people practicing this tradition

Historycal figures and their contributions

Some sufi teachers deny the Enneagram ever being part of their tradition

Some, not

Historycal figures and their contributions

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866? 1949)

Greek -Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher Enneagram the central and most important symbol in his philosophy - a model of natural processes, not a psycological typology

Historycal figures and their contributions

Oscar Ichazo ( b.1931-)

Bolivian-born philosopher Founder of Africa School of human potential movement ( USA - 1968) Cosidered the father of the Enneagram as a form of personality typology ( the Enneagram as we now it today )

Historycal figures and their contributions

Oscar Ichazo

Contribution in some deeper details and aspects of human personality from Enneagrams point of view

Historycal figures and their contributions

Claudio Naranjo (b.1932-)

Chilean psychiatrist studied Enneagram with Ichazo Apllied Enneagram in the diagnostic area of psychiatry and clinical psychology Its teachings in this area made Enneagram emerge into public conscience

Historycal figures and their contributions

Ali Hameed Almaas (b.1944-)

Kuwaitian author and psychospiritual teacher, raised in the Sufi tradition, established in USA

One of the most valuable and original contributions to the modern development of the Enneagram Founder of Rhidwan Institute (USA)

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Enneagram

nine distinct personality types and their interrelationships

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Each map of Each personality type

attributes
HIGHLIGHTS
patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving

a map of

attributes

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Type One is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic. Type Two is demonstrative, generous, people-pleasing, and possessive. Type Three is adaptive, excelling, driven, and imageconscious. Type Four is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental. Type Five is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated. Type Six is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious. Type Seven is spontaneous, versatile, distractible, and scattered. Type Eight is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational. Type Nine is receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent.

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Knowing ones type and the patterns and habits associated with An effective tool for
self-understanding

and self-development

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Each Enneagram personality type

things
one habitually attends to and puts energy into

A pattern of where attention goes

Brief description of the Enneagram system

Learning the path described above ONE can : observe oneself more accurately develop more self-awareness exercise more choice about ones functioning

And
Avoid to engage in patterns of thought, emotion and behavior in an automatic, habitual, unconscious way

automatic, habitual, unconscious behavior is responsible

for

Repeating mistakes in our lives and maintaining the unhappiness

Identifying your personality type

TESTS
QUEST (QUick Enneagram Sorting Test) *2 groups of 3 different descriptions each to choose 2 descriptions from *70% accuracy TAS (Type Attitude Sorter) *15 statements highly characteristic to the type under consideration

Identifying your personality type

RHETI
(Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator)

*Self-scoring computerized test *Choose between 144 paired statements *80% accurate www.EnneagramInstitute.com

Fields of aplication
Business
To understand, improve Individual and group behavior

in work situations:

communication team performance coaching leadership conflict issues.

Fields of aplication
Psychotherapy
To provide clearer "understanding" of psychological processes and the unconscious patterns underlying human experience, relationships, suffering, healing and growth To design therapeutic interventions to correspond to different personality styles

Fields of aplication
Spiritual Work
To provide frameworks for clarifying the spiritual paths, tasks, biases and practices most relevant and useful to individuals of the nine types

Fields of aplication
The Arts
To create more dimensional and credible characters in literature

To understand characterization in film making and acting

To understand the creative processes of artists of the nine types

Fields of aplication
Education
To "understand" the specific strengths and challenges corresponding to each of the distinct personality types in order to tailor teaching to different styles of learning

To help parents improve their own parenting styles and learn how to more effectively parent children of the nine types

Bibliography
Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson

- The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Bantam Book, June 1999 Renee de Lassus - ENEAGRAMA-Cele 9 tipuri de personalitate, Teora, 2000

Other sources
www.EnneagramInstitute.com Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia