About the Enneagram

The Enneagram is a powerful system that can be used to better understand ourselves and others in ways that can promote deep understanding and personal growth. It looks deceptively simple, appearing to place all people into nine distinct personality types. However, it is, in fact, quite rich and complex, just like human beings. The Enneagram can help us identify the motivations that drive our thoughts, feelings, and actions, giving us a window into ourselves that allows us to see ourselves more clearly.

You are not your personality. Your true self and your personality type are two separate things, but over the course of life, we humans become so identified with our personality that we lose a sense of who we really are. The Enneagram gives us a way to understand personality types using the numbers 1-9 to symbolize these different ego structures.

Our personality type becomes a way that we see ourselves as well as what the world is like. Our motivations, thought patterns, emotional reactions, and how we relate and interact with others are all done through the lens of personality.