| Authentic Enneagram | About the Enneagram |
| Short text about my type Romanticus: Practises for Growth Longing For That Which Is Missing. How has my attention and energy being going to what is missing that seems important? How did longing and envy for something or someone come up? For fuller connection? For my ideals? How did I experience disappointment in myself? In others? Basis: Fours� strategy for a fulfilling life is to have nothing of substance missing. Therefore, attention has to go to what is missing of importance. Emotional Intensity. What have I been feeling during the past interval of time? What range of feelings? What intensity? Did my feelings go to extremes? Or did they stay appropriate to the situation? How did my feelings influence my action? Was I able to sustain a steady course of action in the presence of strong feelings? Basis: For Fours the depth of feelings say what is real, vital, and important which makes them susceptible to fluctuating feelings and moods. Idealizing Specialness. How have I been drawn to that which seems special or unique? In what ways have I put down or disdained (perhaps quite subtly) the ordinary or mundane? Have I been feeling a pride in my being different? In eliteness? Or have I felt shame in being less than my ideal? In what ways have I ignored others and related events and situations back to me personally? Basis: Fours long to be special and unique as part of making up for an underlying belief in their own deficiency and sense of lack. My Instinctual Subtypes |
The Enneagram is a powerful and dynamic personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking feeling, and acting. The word ennea is Greek for nine and gram means a figure or something drawn. Hence, the Enneagram is a diagram or star with nine points representing the nine personality patterns. Each of these nine patterns is based on an explicit set of perceptual filters that determine our worldview. Underneath each of the nine patterns is a basic proposition or belief about what you need in life for survival and satisfaction. As you discover your personality type and the underlying basic proposition, you will also discover what motivates you, your coping strategy, and keys to personal development. Read the brief descriptions of the nine types that follow then click on any of the numbers on the Enneagram diagram below if you wish to start the Tour of the Types. Why this subject? My mother came to me a little while ago and said my aunt had been doing some kind of course figuring out her type. Then my aunt also recognised my type, and while my aunt was calling my mum she said this. But nothing more. I guess my mother found it interesting, because this weekend she showed my a small book she had lend about this "Enneagram"-thing. So I did a small test and found a type...It's not very objective, because I had 1 point more for this type then two other types...Anyway, thought it was kind of fun putting someting about it on my site, maybe it will interest you =). |