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  • Understanding the Enneagram
    • Centers of Intelligence
    • Triads
    • Passions
    • Fixations
    • Virtues
    • Holy Ideas
    • History
  • The Nine Types
    • Type Insights
      • Type 1
      • Type 2
      • Type 3
      • Type 4
      • Type 5
      • Type 6
      • Type 7
      • Type 8
      • Type 9
    • Instincts and Subtypes
    • Childhood Wounds
    • The Arrows
    • The Wings
  • Applications
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  • Comparative Systems
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Type Insights

Instincts and Subtypes Type 6

Dynamic Enneagram-Fine distinctions: sixes

Self Preservation Sixes  Self-preservation Sixes can be warm and ingratiating; have a graceful, diplomatic sociability. Try to bring out the best in others and...

by Tom Condon January 1, 2009September 23, 2023
Type 8

Let’s Talk About Eights

By Jim Jennings Ph.D. If you’re willing to listen, I’m willing to talk.  I’m an Eight.  Funny thing about being an Eight.  If I...

by Jim Jennings Ph.D. October 1, 2008September 8, 2023
Type 8

Let’s Talk About Eights

by Jim Jennings, Ph.D. If you’re willing to listen, I’m willing to talk.  I’m an Eight.  Funny thing about being an Eight.  If I...

by Jim Jennings, Ph.D. October 1, 2008September 8, 2023
Type 7

The Dynamic Enneagram – All About Sevens

In the 1945 movie Children of Paradise, there is a pivotal moment when all seems lost. The story concerns a love triangle set in a...

by Tom Condon June 1, 2008September 23, 2023
Type 5

Dynamic Enneagram: Fine Distinctions, Fives

Subtypes, Self Preservation Fives Often exceptionally knowledgeable, possibly about obscure subjects. When healthy they use their knowledge to contribute to the world. Sensitive to...

by Tom Condon May 14, 2008September 26, 2023
Type 2

Type Two’s War With Fat

by Shadrach Smith, M.D. and Clarence Thomson Here's how I (Shadrach) came to the Enneagram integrations by Clarence Thomson. A Doctor’s Discovery Gwen was...

by Shadrach Smith, M.D. and Clarence Thomson May 1, 2008September 8, 2023
Instincts and Subtypes Type 4

The Dynamic Enneagram: Fine Distinctions, SP 4

Subtypes — Self-Preservation 4 Self-Preservation Fours are often risk takers.. They take chances to stir up emotional intensity, collect new experiences, play out inner...

by Tom Condon March 14, 2008September 14, 2023
Type 8

Listening to the Dog Whisperer Part 2:

Be the Pack Leader By Susan Rhodes In the Dec. 2007 issue of the EM, I wrote about the work of Cesar Millan, the...

by Susan Rhodes January 1, 2008September 8, 2023
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