The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People
By Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele
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The first easy—and fun—guide to the Enneagram, the fascinating and revealing method of understanding personality types, for the beginner, the expert, and everyone in between. This witty and informative guide demystifies the ancient Enneagram system with cartoons, exercises, and personality tests that reveal our motivations and desires and show how to put that knowledge to use in our everyday lives.
The 9 Types of People:
The Perfectionist: Motivated by the need to live life the right way, improve oneself and others, and avoid anger.
The Helper: Motivated by the need to be loved and appreciated and to express your positive feelings towards others.
The Achiever: Motivated by the need to be productive, to achieve success, and to avoid failure.
The Romantic: Motivated by the need to understand your feelings and to be understood to search for the meaning of life, and to avoid being ordinary.
The Observer: Motivated by the need to know everything and understand the universe, to be self-sufficient and left alone, and to avoid not having the answer or looking foolish.
The Questioner: Motivated by the need for security, to feel taken care of, or to confront your fears.
The Adventurer: Motivated by the need to be happy and plan fun things, to contribute to the world, and to avoid suffering and pain.
The Asserter: Motivated by the need to be self-reliant and strong, to make an impact on the world, and to avoid being weak.
The Peacemaker: Motivated by the need to keep the peace, merge with others, and avoid conflict.
Renee Baron
Renee Baron has been in private practice for more than twenty-five years and has taught countless workshops and seminars on the value of understanding your personality type. She uses the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ personality assessments to give people practical yet powerful tools to develop clarity into their own and other people's behavior. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and include The Enneagram Made Easy, What Type Am I?, and Are You My Type, Am I Yours?
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Helpful tool. This is especially helpful when working with couples in counseling.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I find that this book is a really great way to introduce people to the Enneagram for the first time. It's approach is nonthreatening, nonjudgmental and breaks each number down to it's basics in a real world way that helps people connect them with their lives.And I love the illustrations, they capture the essence of each number perfectly.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funny, useful and reaaaly accurate in my case!!! EnneaType9 , infp-a <3
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thanks so much! Very Informative! I found that I am a 1 and it fits better than I want it to.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice overview and intro book. It's age appropriate for young adults (late teens) too.
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The Enneagram Made Easy - Renee Baron
The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele
Dedication
To Liz (a Five) for all the years of laughter and friendship, and for your ability to get to the kernel of truth in your writing. To my children: Jodi, Tami, and Dan, and to my friends, with thanks for your love and support. With gratitude to the Twelve-Step community and the guidance of my Higher Power.
—Renee
To Renee (a Two) for your friendship, wit, and knowledge, and most of all for your honesty. Also to my family: Gus, Nick, Martha, Augie, and Miranda, and friends. Thanks for your help.
—Liz
This book was illustrated by Liz with Renee looking over her shoulder and is proof that any two people can work together using the Enneagram.
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
About the Enneagram
The Perfectionist (the One)
The Helper (the Two)
The Achiever (the Three)
The Romantic (the Four)
The Observer (the Five)
The Questioner (the Six)
The Adventurer (the Seven)
The Asserter (the Eight)
The Peacemaker (the Nine)
How the Enneagram and the Jungian Types Fit Together
Suggested Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Other Books by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele
Copyright
About the Publisher
ABOUT THE Enneagram
The Enneagram is a study of the nine basic types of people. It explains why we behave the way we do, and it points to specific directions for individual growth. It is an important tool for improving relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.
The roots of the Enneagram go back many centuries. Its exact origin is not known, but it is believed to have been taught orally in secret Sufi brotherhoods in the Middle East. The Russian mystical teacher G. I. Gurdjieff introduced it to Europe in the 1920s, and it arrived in the United States in the 1960s.
The Enneagram (pronounced ANY-a-gram) system is represented by a circle containing a nine-pointed starlike shape. Ennea is Greek for the number nine, and gram means a drawing.
Enneagram means a drawing with nine points.
The Enneagram teaches that early in life we learned to feel safe and to cope with our family situations and personal circumstances by developing a strategy based on our natural talents and abilities.
By working with the Enneagram we develop a deeper understanding of others and learn alternatives to our own patterns of behavior. We break free from worn-out coping strategies and begin to see life from a broader point of view.
People of the same type have the same basic motivations and view the world in some fundamentally similar ways. Variations within each type stem from such factors as maturity, parents’ types, birth order, cultural values, and inherent traits such as being naturally introverted or extroverted.
As you learn the Enneagram, you will readily begin to type
people you know. We urge you to keep your guesses to yourself and to keep an open mind. Deciding one’s type accurately is important and must be done by each person according to his or her own internal perception.
It may be a comfort to know that millions of people have the same coping strategy as you. The behavior patterns that emerge from the nine types are, however, as numerous, mysterious, and unique as the individuals involved.
Moving Around the Enneagram
1. The Enneagram Drawing
The nine points on the circumference of the circle are divided into a triangle and a six-pointed shape:
2. The Arrows
Each point on the Enneagram connects to two other points. These two points or types are called your arrows. When relaxed, you take on the positive qualities of the number that connects to yours in this order: 1-7-5-8-2-4-1 and 3-6-9-3. One goes to Seven, Seven goes to Five, and so on. When under stress, you reverse directions: One takes on the negative qualities of Four, Four of Two, and so on. The arrows are a dynamic tool for personal growth and are explained in each chapter.
3. The Wings
Your personality may blend into or be influenced by the types on either side of yours. For instance, a Nine may have some characteristics of a One or an Eight. These neighboring types are called your wings.
Some people seem to have been different types as children than as adults. Usually these types are related by the arrows or wings.
A Brief Description of the Nine Types
1. Perfectionists are realistic, conscientious, and principled. They strive to live up to their high ideals.
2. Helpers are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people’s needs.
3. Achievers are energetic, optimistic, self-assured, and goal oriented.
4. Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.
5. Observers have a need for knowledge and are introverted, curious, analytical, and insightful.
6. Questioners are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty to family, friends, groups, and causes. Their personalities range broadly from reserved and timid to outspoken and confrontative.
7. Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.
8. Asserters are direct, self-reliant, self-confident, and protective.
9. Peacemakers are receptive, good-natured, and supportive. They seek union with others and the world around them.
The Three Centers
Finding your center
is a key to finding your type. Each center is made up of three adjacent types, corresponding to the three centers of the body: the heart, the head, and the gut.
The Heart or Feeling Center (Image)
Helpers (Twos) are interested in people and in nurturing. They want to present a loving image.
Achievers (Threes) like to be seen in a good light, according to socially agreed-upon norms.
Romantics (Fours) have strong needs to express themselves and to be seen as original.
The Head or Thinking Center (Fear)
Observers (Fives) rely on their own resources and find safety in knowledge.
Questioners (Sixes) seek relief from fear through the permission and