
Learn your Enneagram type to understand:
- What drives you forward
- What is most likely to hold you back
- What a healthy version of your personality can be like
- What you can be like when you’re at your worst!
- How your type interacts with others you want to get along with
What you need to know about the Enneagram:
- Description of your basic personality type (one of 9 categories)
- Tries to describe what growth and dysfunction look like within your type
- Goes to greater lengths than most systems of personality description to explain personal uniqueness – therefore is more complicated!
- There are free tests online to help direct you toward what your type is, but you can also read the descriptions to identify yourself if you’re somewhat self-aware
- It’s not religious or cultic even though the name and symbol kind of give that impression 🙂
What I found most helpful:
- Learning my own type shed light on my motivations for being a missionary – and how strange it feels to step out of ministry for the time being
- Learning my husband’s type helped me understand why we approach life so differently and what motivates him
- I loved the “Levels of Development” described for my type. It was like seeing a ladder from myself at my weakest to my most healthy and effective self.
- I could easily see myself in my type when I read the description – if you have the patience to read the descriptions and if you know yourself well, this may be enough for you. Otherwise try an online test!
Helpful links:
Descriptions of types from Enneagram Institute
Official test ($12 and 40 minutes)
Share your discoveries about your own personality in the comments!
I saw some books on this at the bookstore last week but didn’t have time to take a look at them. Looking forward to reading the links and checking this out:)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep it’s pretty interesting stuff! You’ll have to let me know what your type is 🙂
LikeLike