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The panel interviews originated as a method to gather knowledge about the Enneagram types. Having panel audiences quickly proved to be an inspiring and instructive method for learning more about the types. This method turned out to be useful for learning new things, for both the study leader and the participants.

Enneagram trainers can, of course, explain all nine types (and talk endlessly about them). As experts, they have many interesting things to say. Enneagram trainers also have their own type — only on the basis of this type can Enneagram trainers share stories from within themselves and describe what life is like with Type X. Even the best trainer can’t talk about the other eight types from their own, internal experience — they can only lecture about them. There’s always a difference between an expert’s explanation and an eyewitness report provided by someone about their own type. When people talk about themselves, their words are accompanied by their own facial expressions, aura, posture, and other characteristics. All this info often provides just as much information and insight into a type as the narrative itself, which makes the type easy to recognize and the story valuable. The narrative tradition has no abstract type definitions — you get the complete image of a real person of each type.