The 9 Enneagram Styles

Enneagram Style One Ones seek a perfect world and work diligently to improve both themselves and everyone and everything around them. Areas for Areas of Strength Development Strive for quality Reactive Organized Critical Perceptive Opinionated Honest Impatient Enneagram Style Two Twos want to be liked by those they want to like them, try to meet the needs of others, and attempt to orchestrate the people and events in their lives. Areas for Development Areas of Strength Accommodating Empathic Indirect Supportive Feeling Motivating unappreciated Warm Tend to overextend

Enneagram Style Three Threes organize their lives to achieve specific goals and to appear successful in order to gain the respect and admiration of others. Areas of Strength Energetic Entrepreneurial Confident Results oriented Areas for Development Competitive Abrupt Overly focused Selectively disclosing

Enneagram Style Four Fours desire deep connections both with their own interior worlds and with other people, and they feel most alive when they authentically express their feelings and personal experiences. Areas for Areas of Strength Development Inspiring Intense Creative Self-conscious Introspective Moody Expressive Guilt-ridden

Enneagram Style Five Fives thirst for information and knowledge and use emotional detachment as a way of keeping involvement with others to a minimum. Areas of Strength Areas for Analytic Development Objective Highly private Systematic Detached Expert Overly autonomous Underemphasize relationships Enneagram Style Six Sixes have insightful minds, are prone to worry, and create anticipatory or worst-case scenarios to help themselves feel prepared in case something goes wrong. Some Sixes (called counterphobic Sixes) go headlong into risky situations to prove they have no fear. Areas for Areas of Strength Development Loyal Worrying Collaborative Dislike Persevering ambiguity Anticipate "Analysis problems paralysis" Martyring

Enneagram Style Seven Sevens crave the stimulation of new ideas, people, and experiences, avoid pain, and create elaborate future plans that will allow them to keep all of their options open. Areas for Areas of Strength Development Imaginative Impulsive Enthusiastic Unfocused Engaging Rebellious Quick thinking Pain avoidant Enneagram Style Eight Eights pursue the truth, like to keep situations under control, want to make important things happen, and try to hide their vulnerability. Areas for Areas of Strength Development Direct Controlling Strategic Demanding Protective Disdain Action oriented weakness Intimidating Enneagram Style Nine Nines seek peace, harmony, and positive mutual regard and dislike conflict, tension, and ill will. Areas of Strength Areas for Diplomatic Development

 Easygoing Accepting Affable

Conflict avoidant Unassertive Procrastinating Indecisive