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• Choose two words that your family would use to describe you?• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #

• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself?• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #

• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you are at your best?• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #

• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you deal with stress?• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #

THE ENNEAGRAMPresented by Yvonne Pacula & Alex Shaw

Fort Hays State University

WHAT IS IT?

• It is a model of human personality which is principally used as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.

LEARNING OUTCOMES1. Professional Staff members will be able to recognize which Personality

Type they are within the Enneagram.2. Professional Staff members will be able to recognize which Personality

Types their co-workers are.3. Professional Staff members will be able to explain how their Personality

Type can help or hinder them from relating to other co-workers.4. Professional Staff members will identify how they can help their co-

workers be successful by recognizing their co-workers personality type.5. Professional Staff members will be able to explain which personality

type they reach for when they are at their best and which personality type they lean towards when they are stressed or pressured.

THIS IS KILLING ME!What does the Enneagrom look like?

What haven’t you given me any handouts yet?PATEINCE

We don’t want you to try to pigeon-hole yourself. Be open to being surprised.

LETS GET STARTED! EVERYONE LOVES A PERSONALITY TEST!

The CardsChoose two words that your family would use to describe you?

Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself?

Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you are successful?

Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you deal with stress?

Personality Type Indicator

Check or cross out the areas that you think describe you!

1-9 rating quizzesComplete all 3Get ready to do some math at the end

THE BOOKLET• At this point, use all the information you have to determine which

type you are. You might need to use your best judgment on this.• Hand Out: The Enneagram Map & Booklet• Things to Notice:

• Did you stay in your gut, heart, or head grouping?• Are you surprised?• The arrows do mean something…it’s coming! • Lets step through the Personality Types together!

YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD…MORE HAND-OUTS!

• Main Themes & Harmonic Groups• Practical Thoughts & Suggestions• Thought of the Day

THE ENNEAGRAM…

…AT LAST

TYPE ONES

The rational idealists, the reformers, principled, purposeful, self-controlled perfectionists

Key Motivations: desire to be “right”, to strive higher & improve everything, be consistent with their ideals, to justify themselves, to be beyond criticism

Famous Ones: Mahatma Gandhi, Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, Pope John Paul II, Martha Stewart, Meryl Streep

TYPE TWOS

The helpers, care givers, interpersonal types, demonstrative, generous, people-pleasing & possessive

Key Motivations: desire to be loved, to express their feelings for others, to be needed & appreciated

Famous Twos: Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Bishop Desmond Tutu

TYPE THREES

The success oriented achievers, pragmatic, adaptive, excelling, driven and image conscious

Key Motivations: want to be affirmed, to distinguish themselves from others, to have attention, to be admired, to impress others

Famous Ones: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama

TYPE FOURS

The sensitive individualists, withdrawn, expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed and temperamental

Key Motivations: need to express themselves & their individuality, to create & surround themselves with beauty, to maintain certain moods & feelings

Famous Ones: Alanis Morrisette, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Johnny Depp, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, Prince

TYPE FIVES

The intense, cerebral investigators, perceptive, innovative, secretive and isolated

Key Motivations: to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out Famous Ones: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Stephen King, Tim Burton, Jane Goodall

TYPE SIXES

The loyalists, committed, security-oriented type, engaging, responsible, anxious and suspicious

Key Motivations: possess security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the attitudes of others towards them

Famous Ones: Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Princess Diana, Tom Hanks, Jay Leno, Woody Allen

TYPE SEVENS

The enthusiastic, fun loving type, spontaneous, versatile, distractible, scattered

Key Motivations: want to maintain their freedom & happiness, avoid missing out on experiences, to keep themselves excited & occupied

Famous Ones: Leonardo DiCaprio, Elizabeth Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jim Carey, Elton John, Gianni Versace

TYPE EIGHTSThe powerful, dominating challenger, self-confident, decisive, willful & confrontational

Key Motivations: need to be self-reliant, to prove their strength and resist weakness, to be important in their world, to dominate the environment, to maintain control

Famous Ones: Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin Roosevelt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Walters, Donald Trump

TYPE NINES

The easygoing, self-effacing peacemakers, receptive, reassuring, agreeable, complacent

Key Motivations: want to create harmony in their environment, to avoid conflict & tension, to preserve things as they are

Famous Ones: Abraham Lincoln, Carl Jung, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Walter Cronkite, Walt Disney, Norman Rockwell

THE CENTERS

• Each Center consists of three personality types that have in common the assets and liabilities of that Center.

• Instinctive (gut)• Feeling (heart)• Thinking (head)

DOMINANT EMOTION• Each type has a particular way of coping

with the dominant emotion of its Center.• Anger or rage• Shame• Anxiety

• In the Instinctive Center, Eights act out their anger and instinctual energies.

THE WING• No one is a pure personality type: everyone is a unique mixture of his or

her basic type and usually one of the two types adjacent to it on the circumference of the Enneagram.

• Your basic type dominates your overall personality, while the wing complements it and adds important, sometimes contradictory, elements to your total personality.

GROWTH & STRESS• Direction of disintegration (stress)

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• Direction of Integration (growth/relax)1-7-5-8-2-4-1 9-3-6-9

• No matter which personality type you are, the types in both directions are important influences.

HARMONIC GROUPS

Positive Outlook Intensity Group Competency Group

HOW DO I COPE?•Harmonic Groups• Positive Outlook Group: Deny that they have any problems• Competency Group: Cut off feelings and solve problems logically• Intensity Group: React strongly and need response from others

SO WHO IS MY “TYPE?”

• Everyone share their “type”• Break off into groups that share the same “type”

QUESTIONS FOR YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE

• 1. Why would someone want you on their staff? What would you bring to the team?

• 2. What is something you would need from your coworkers in order to be successful?

• 3. What is something your coworkers might misinterpret in your behavior?• 4. What is something your type often struggles with? In a relationship?• 5. What is something you excel at when in relationships with others?• 6. What is one thing you could practice with yourself and others to

develop healthier relationships?

TAKE AWAYS…Differences are great

Communication is key and is main reason for conflictJourney takes a lot of personal reflection

Well-rounded person exudes characteristics from all 9 types

RESOURCES• www.enneagraminstitue.com• Meggan Gronli RD Regina Hall St. Benedict & St. John’s University

THANK YOU!