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Jeanette van Stijn. Enneagram For Dummies
Enneagram For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Enneagram For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
About the Examples
The Various Enneagram Movements
How to Read This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Part 1: Getting Started with the Enneagram
Part 2: Examining the Enneagram Types
Part 3: Working with the Information You Get
Part 4: I Know My Type — Now What?
Part 5: The Roots of the Enneagram
Part 6: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Getting Started with the Enneagram
The Enneagram in a Nutshell
Let’s Get Going!
What is an Enneagram?
Gaining an understanding of human differences
Nine prisms to view the world
People like different things about the Enneagram
The model …
… and the method
The map of your inner self
Leveraging the Enneagram's 2-in-1 concept
Seeing What the Enneagram Can Offer You
Choosing to develop
Committing to your inner work
Benefitting from self-management
Seeing the downside of developing without tools to help you
Examining some practical applications
Psychological? Or Spiritual?
What's psychological about the Enneagram …
… and what about the spiritual?
Two sides of the same coin
The psychospiritual Enneagram
Being human
WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU!
A Helpful Summary
What is the Enneagram?
The benefits of using the Enneagram for development
Before You Get Started
A Heads-Up
What’s in a name?
Seeing what's working inside of you
HELP — I DON’T WANT TO BE CATEGORIZED!
You’re not a type — you have a type
Using the Enneagram as a tool
Dealing with stereotypes
LETTING GO MEANS DEVELOPING
YOUR DEVELOPMENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR TYPE
Using your type as an excuse for your mistakes
Don’t believe the hype — try it yourself
May I Introduce You to My Type?
Type 1: The Perfectionist
Type 2: The Provider
Type 3: The Achiever
Type 4: The Individualist
Type 5: The Observer
Type 6: The Loyal Skeptic
Type 7: The Optimist
Type 8: The Boss/Protector
Type 9: The Mediator
Numbers, archetypes, names
Only the Sun Rises for Free
Tips for Optimal Learning
Mental Fitness
All Good Things Come in Threes
The Three Little Rules of Behavior
Recognizing the importance of attentiveness
Uncovering your underlying driving forces or unconscious motivations
Energy follows attentiveness
Recognizing what holds your attention
Managing attentiveness and energy
Self-observation — a natural habit?
Three centers of knowledge
HEAD TYPES
GUT TYPES
HEART TYPES
The Rule of Threes
On the Path to Inner Freedom
Discovering Your Type
Why Type Yourself?
Working with Types
Knowing which type you have
Finding your own type means becoming active yourself
Respecting every step of the journey
Getting started
Task 1: Take an inventory of your characteristics
Task 2: Recognize the archetypes
Task 3: Recognize that strengths are easier to see
Task 4: See what your attention is focused on
Finding an anchor to act as your type's good foundation
Working with Enneagram tests
Short but sweet
Measuring means knowing
Good and not-so-good questionnaires
A few notes on the side
The Enneagram and the Narrative Tradition
Sharing the (Knowledge) Wealth
Gathering knowledge in the narrative tradition
Spreading knowledge in the narrative tradition
Working with type assessment interviews
What is a type assessment interview?
Doing your own type assessment interviews
Doing panel interviews
BUT YOU’RE THE ONE DRAWING THE CONCLUSIONS
Nothing is self-evident
People of one type become increasingly alike
Learn from panel interviews
Panel interviews arouse empathy
NINE PERSPECTIVES OF REALITY
Attend a panel meeting
Examining the Enneagram Types
What We Think About When We Think
My Mind Belongs to Me
A Sixth Sense: The Internal Observer
Helpful and nonhelpful thoughts
The four activities of the head center
Trapped in your own fixations
The nine objects of attention
To each their own fixation
Your Convictions
Perfectionists: Resentment
Providers: Flattery
Achievers: Vanity
Individualists: Melancholy
Observers: Stinginess
Loyal skeptics: Doubt
Optimists: Making plans
Bosses/Protectors: Revenge
Mediators: Self-effacing
Talking about the Passions
And How Do You Feel Today?
Getting the Passions — and Getting Rid of Them
Passions create suffering
Emotionally charged thoughts
Vices fly to you
Reverting to childhood
Living in a fantasy world
Developing a capacity for memory and anticipation
Recognizing that everything has a price
The Nine Deadly Vices (Reprise)
Seeing vices or passions as cornerstones of our personalities
Caution: Detour ahead
Living with the Passions
No Motion without Energy
The Individual Passions
Anger
Pride
Deception
Envy
Greed
Fear
EVERY TYPE KNOWS ALL ABOUT FEAR
Insatiability
Lust
Sloth
Examining Our Actions
Thinking, Feeling, Acting
Defining Defense Mechanisms
The head center
The Type 6 type mechanism
The Type 5 type mechanism
The Type 7 type mechanism
The gut center
The Type 9 type mechanism
The Type 1 type mechanism
The Type 8 type mechanism
The heart center
The Type 3 type mechanism
The Type 4 type mechanism
The Type 2 type mechanism
The Final Word on Types
Taking a Look at Two Quirky Tables
Working with the Information You Get
Applying the Enneagram in the Workplace
A Workplace Overview
Mastering self-management
Defining self-management
Recognizing that what works for you doesn’t always work for others
Overcoming obstacles
INCREASING YOUR CAPACITY FOR EMPATHY
IF I ONLY DID [BLANK] MORE, OR LESS, OR DIFFERENTLY …
Working with Hypotheses
Improved consultation techniques
DIFFERENT INFORMATION (AND DIFFERENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION)
Effective communication
Checking your effectiveness
Working with Specific Enneagram Applications in the Workplace
The Enneagram Approach to Management
AWARENESS IS IMPORTANT
I see myself as your boss, but do you see me the same way?
Examining relationship definitions in practice
Looking at Interventions
Knowing when and how to intervene
Putting the Enneagram to good use as an aid for interventions
Remembering that every type handles interventions differently
Giving Feedback
Mediating When There's a Conflict
THE VALUE OF MEDIATORS WITH ENNEAGRAM TRAINING
Engaging the Enneagram Types in Conflict Situations
Developing the Personal Abilities of Others and Ensuring Their Well-Being
Accompanying a Client on Their Career Path
Seeing the benefits
Listing the phases when it comes to offering guidance with the Enneagram
Dealing with common concerns in a therapeutic context
Transference: “The coach isn’t your father”
Countertransference: “The client isn’t your little sister”
Interaction patterns and reactivity
The Six A’s of a Conversation
Attending to the discussion partner
Attending to your own signals
Attuning
Examining how rapport works
Benefiting from the fact that people are herd animals
Adding
Assertiveness
Alternatives
Recognizing the Need for a Healthy Foundation
Recognizing when you’re in a position to work with others
EVEN THE BEST CONSULTANTS MAKE THE OCCASIONAL MISTAKE
Recognizing when therapy can help — and when you need to send a person on to a specialist
Knowing what to pay attention to in an emotional crisis
Recognizing that consultants are also biased because of their type
Extras for therapists (and others)
Seeing the Enneagram's professional benefit for therapists
Seeing how each type behaves in therapy as a client
Seeing what works and what doesn’t work for each type
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
I Know My Type — Now What?
Developmental Aspects of the Enneagram
Levels of Learning, Acting, Developing, and Awareness
Level 1: Broadening your experience, step-by-step
Level 2: Self-reflection and breaking new ground
Level 3: Transformational learning
Examining Action and Developmental Levels
Looking at Unhealthy Personality Structures
Seeing how the type structures describe your neuroses
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (Type 1)
Histrionic personality disorder (Type 2)
Borderline personality disorder (Type 4)
Schizoid personality disorder (Type 5)
Paranoid personality disorder (Type 6)
Narcissistic personality disorder (Types 3 and 7)
Antisocial or asocial personality disorder (Type 8)
Dependent personality disorder (Type 9)
THE NINE LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT, ACCORDING TO RISO/HUDSON
Exploring the Different Levels of Consciousness: Internal States
THE TRANSPERSONAL OR TRANSCENDENT SELF
Falling Down and Getting Back Up Again
You have wings, and you can fly
To everything, a season
ALL TALK, NO ACTION
There Is a Path You Can Take
Looking at Psychospiritual Integration
Who is the best monk?
Doing a cost-benefit analysis
I don’t want to surrender to the gods!
Evolution doesn’t stand still
FOUR CONDITIONS FOR GOOD PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Becoming Your Own Guru
How many steps are on this path?
Training your attention: Letting go of your fixation
Practice, Practice, Practice
Balancing and developing the centers
Center practices — exercises for the centers
Getting out of your comfort zone
Attention training
Attention training in everyday life
Mindfulness is attention training
Meditation
Center practices for the gut and heart center
Tips for center practices
Breathing helps
Lessons in breathing?
Humor: A special kind of center practice
Jumpstarting Further Development
Moving from Type Mechanisms to Growth Mechanisms
Using the type mechanism as a tool for development
Reactivity
Seeing how you become reactive
Finding your way back
Letting go of fixations and consciously steering your attention
The Spiritual Enneagram
Seeking Your Higher Self
Acting on your own or being receptive to what comes from without
What’s so great about receiving when I can take what I want?
Looking reality in the face
Being receptive
Many roads lead to Rome
Traveling the via negativa
THE VIA NEGATIVA AS A PATH WITH THE ENNEAGRAM
PRACTICE SLOWLY AT FIRST
FORMS AND EXAMPLES OF THE VIA NEGATIVA
Via positiva
FORMS AND EXAMPLES OF THE VIA POSITIVA
THE VIA NEGATIVA AS A PATH WITHIN THE ENNEAGRAM
Of Higher Virtues and Ideas
Moving from vice to virtue: A gift
The higher mental center
The higher ideas of the individual types
Type 1: Higher perfection
Type 2: Greater freedom and higher will
SACRED IDEAS
Type 3: Greater hope or higher law
Type 4: A more profound connection to primordial nature
Type 5: Greater omniscience
Type 6: Higher power, higher faith, and higher trust
Type 7: Higher work
Type 8: Higher truth
Type 9: Higher love
The Roots of the Enneagram
The Origin and Development of the Enneagram
Believing That Older Is Better
YOU OFTEN FIND THE SAME THING UNDER THE SAME ROCK
There are myths and there are gossips
It ain't necessarily so
The First Versions of the Enneagram Symbol
The man who knew everything
Pioneers of the Enneagram in the West
Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT SECRET BROTHERHOODS?
GURDJIEFF’S TEACHINGS
Oscar Ichazo
Claudio Naranjo
Current Enneagram Schools and Movements
Seeing That the Readers Are the Winners
Sorry, completeness is not an option
The Sufi Enneagram: Laleh Bakhtiar
Kabbalah and the Enneagram: Howard A. Addison and Hannah Nathans
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, Richard Rohr
The oral tradition: Helen Palmer and David Daniels
The Helen Palmer and David Daniels approach
The diamond approach: Hamid Ali and Sandra Maitri
The levels of development: Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
The Inner Work Tradition
Assessing the Truth and Value of Ancient Texts
On the trail of the Egyptians
Tangible and intangible, visible and invisible worlds
The divine system of Heliopolis
The third level: The human mind
Seth and Nephthys, Egyptian symbols for fixation and passion
The Sphinx holds up a mirror to humans
About the mystery schools
The myth of Isis and Osiris
The wisdom of the Greek philosophers
The cradle of wisdom
ORIGIN OF THE THERAPISTS
Pythagoras — God seeker and spiritual guide
PYTHAGORAS — MORE THAN JUST A THEOREM
Number theory as the consequence of a spiritual search
Mathematical harmony in music and scale
Of acousticians and mathematicians
Other examples from Pythagoras’s teachings
No friendship comes close to the Pythagorean one
The path of development in the Pythagorean school
About exoterics and esoterics
Plato
The allegory of the cave
About gnosis
Plotinus and the Enneads
THE HOLY NUMBER 9 AND THE STAR WITH NINE RAYS
The Desert Fathers
Evagrius Ponticus
Finding scriptures believed to have been lost
The gospel of truth and C.G. Jung
Back to the Future
The Part of Tens
Ten Ways to Apply the Enneagram in Daily Life
Starting with the Personal
Dealing with Change
Putting Relationships On a Solid Foundation
Achieving More Success in Mediation
Gaining Effectiveness as a Manager
Learning Organizations, Successful Project Management, Winning Teams
Instruction
Staff Recruitment
Education
Parenthood
Ten Books for Your Enneagram Library
The Enneagram
The Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul
The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul
The Enneagram Field Guide: Notes on Using the Enneagram in Counseling, Therapy, and Personal Growth
Character and Neurosis: An Integrative View
Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide
Wie Anders Ist der Andere?
The Meditation Handbook
In Search of the Miraculous
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Spiritual Growth; The Spectrum of Consciousness
Ich Bin Anders — Du Auch?
Das Enneagramm: Neun Weisen, die Welt zu Sehen, Neun Typen der Persönlichkeit
Ten Further Enneagram Resources
Enneagram Holland
Enneagram USA
Enneagram Germany
Enneagramm@work (Germany)
The Enneagram at Work (USA)
Typology
The Enneagram Journey
The Enneagram Institute
The Diamond Approach
The Naranjo Institute
Summary of the Enneagram Types
Type 1
Resentment as an emotionally charged thought
Anger as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Serenity as a higher virtue
Perfection as a higher idea
Type 2
Flattery as an emotionally charged thought
Pride as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Humility as a higher virtue
Freedom and will as a higher idea
Type 3
Vanity as an emotionally charged thought
Deception as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Honesty and sincerity as higher virtues
Hope as a higher idea
Type 4
Melancholy as an emotionally charged thought
Envy as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Innocence as a higher virtue
The primordial as a higher idea
Type 5
Stinginess as an emotionally charged thought
Greed as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Non-attachment as a higher virtue
Omniscience as a higher idea
Type 6
Doubt as an emotionally charged thought
Fear as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Courage as a higher virtue
Faith and trust as higher ideas
Type 7
Making plans as an emotionally charged thought
Insatiability as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Sobriety as a higher virtue
Sacred work as a higher idea
Type 8
Revenge as an emotionally charged thought
Lust as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Innocence as a higher virtue
Truth as a higher idea
Type 9
Forgetting yourself as an emotionally charged thought
Slothfulness as a passion
Strengths
Strategies for further personal development
Right action as a higher virtue
Love as a higher idea
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About the Author
Dedication
Author’s Acknowledgments
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