The Enneagram
Gain insight into your character and personality.
Using The Enneagram is a helpful tool for anyone looking to better understand themselves. It reveals amazing insight into the nature of the human psyche and different temperaments.
What is The Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a typology system that reflects our unique traits and interprets them as a collection of connected personality types.
Unlike many personality systems the Enneagram is dynamic and can be used as a roadmap to personal growth.
- Self-Awareness: By identifying your Enneagram type, you gain insights into your core motivations, fears, and desires, leading to a deeper understanding of yourself.
- Personal Development: The Enneagram highlights both strengths and areas for growth. By recognizing patterns in behavior, you can work on transforming negative traits and enhancing positive ones.
- Stress and Growth Paths: Each Enneagram type has specific directions of stress and growth, offering a guide on how to cope with challenges and capitalize on opportunities for improvement.
- Improved Relationships: Understanding the Enneagram types of others can foster empathy and better communication, enhancing personal and professional relationships.
- Adaptability: The dynamic nature of the Enneagram allows for continuous learning and adaptation, encouraging lifelong personal development and self-improvement.
What Are The Enneagram Types?
There are a total of nine basic personality types within the Enneagram system. These types encompass our attitudes, behaviors, temperament, motivations, and fears. By understanding our type we have an opportunity to move beyond these limiting patterns towards our potent
The Reformer
- The Rational, Idealistic type
- Seek to improve self and others
- Perfectionistic qualities
- Strong sense of what is the “right” and “wrong”
The Helper
- The Caring, Nurturing type
- Generous, attention-giving
- People pleasing, ulterior motives
- Tends to disregard own needs
The Achiever
- Successful-oriented, Adaptable type
- Constantly striving
- Image-conscious
- Overlooks authentic self and feelings
The Individualist
- The Sensitive, Withdrawn type
- Creative and emotional
- Tends be temperamental and self-absorbed
- Identifies with feelings
The Investigator
- The Intellectual, Analytical type
- Innovative and highly perceptive
- Objective and logical
- Detached from body and unemotional
The Loyalist
- The Committed, Traditionalistic type
- Anxiety leads to seeking security
- Devoted and courageous
- Tends to seek guidance outside self
The Enthusiast
- The Hyperactive, Uninhibited type
- Highly adventurous and are always on the lookout for fun
- Easily distracted and unfocused
- Good at maintaining a positive attitude
The Challenger
- The Powerful, Dominating type
- Often successful in leadership roles
- Often seen as aggressive and forceful
- Outspoken and action-oriented
The Peacemaker
- The Easy-going, Agreeable type
- Avoid conflict whenever possible
- Promotes peace and harmony s
- Neglects anything that contradicts ideal worldview
What’s Your Personality Type?
Bjorn Nagle of McNulty Counseling joins Gayle Guyardo on Bloom with tips to figure out your true personality type and explains how knowing this information will help you better navigate through life.
How We Use it
Bjorn Nagle, McNulty Counseling and Wellness
Although there are different interpretations and approaches to using the Enneagram, Bjorn uses the Riso/Hudson model to help clients understand their personality type.
He has trained with Don Riso and Russ Hudson and finds their model and teaching of the Enneagram to be most applicable to counseling and psychological growth.
The Enneagram is relatively new and becoming increasingly popular in therapeutic circles and support groups. Over the past 15 years Bjorn has used The Enneagram for his own personal growth and to help others achieve more insight and objectivity in their own lives.
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