Saturday 14 November 2026 · Live on Zoom
Principles of Enneagram Typing
A three-hour class on how to identify the nine types, built from the 2021 lexical analysis research, microexpression work, and several hundred typing sessions. Twelve to three Central, recording included.
Register, $89Most people find their type by reading nine descriptions and picking the one that sounds right. That method is wrong often enough that we rebuilt how we teach typing around it. Behavior is the easiest evidence to see and the least reliable, because two people with different fears underneath can act almost the same. Language, microexpressions and energy are far more reliable, and all three can be taught in an afternoon.
Where the method comes from
What the 2021 study found.
Between 2019 and 2021 we collected 4,300 questionnaire responses from all seven continents and ran about 300 follow-up interviews. Of the 323 people who came in certain they were Fours, 34 wrote like Fours. Type Six made up about 43 percent of the sample and mistyped as nearly every other type, usually Four, Eight or One.
Smaller patterns held too. Gut types wrote the least, Fours used the most adjectives, and Eights swore the most. Sixes took about 60 minutes on a questionnaire most people finished in 30, and were the likeliest to take it twice. Nines said “I don’t know” more than anyone, and Sixes said “it depends.”
4,300
questionnaire responses collected between 2019 and 2021, from all seven continents
34 of 323
people who came in certain they were Fours wrote like Fours
43%
of the sample coded as Type Six, the most mistyped type of the nine
Figures from the Enneagram Lexical Analysis Research Report, Mosley and Addonizio, 2021. The study was modelled on Katherine Chernick Fauvre’s 1995 Enneastyle research and uses Naranjo’s original type descriptions as its coding frame.
The afternoon
What the three hours cover.
The centers
Mistyping usually starts at the center, not the type. Put yourself in the wrong center and you have already ruled out the six types that could have been right. We teach the gut, heart and head as habits of attention, which cuts nine options to three before motivation comes up.
Microexpressions
Ichazo typed by looking: the tension around the mouth and eyes, plus what he called the energetic blueprint. Gut types read as rooted, head types as dispersed, heart types as leaning toward you. We teach the specific expressions we have learned to read for each of the nine, and how to check the face against what the person is telling you.
The lexicon
Every type reaches for its own set of words. What matters is what those words defend against, since two people can both write “loyal” and mean different things by it. We teach you how to hear which fear a word is covering.
The nine types
Then each type in turn: the microexpressions that show under pressure, how it holds energy, the words it reaches for and the words it avoids, and the two or three types it gets confused with.
For coaches, therapists and teachers who type people as part of the work, and for anyone who has changed their own type at least once. No prior training needed. Most of the lexical material has never been taught outside our certification.
The details
Saturday 14 November, twelve to three.
- Date
- Saturday, November 14, 2026
- Time
- 12:00pm to 3:00pm Central, three hours
- Format
- Live on Zoom, recording sent afterward
- Taught by
- Sterlin Mosley and Aaron Addonizio
- Prerequisite
- None
- Price
- $89, one payment
$89
One payment, recording included
Three hours on a Saturday afternoon, live on Zoom. The recording goes to everyone who registers.
Register for the classSterlin Mosley, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else and Center of the Universe. Aaron Addonizio, MHR, MPA, is a certified Enneagram teacher and coach who worked with Katherine Fauvre Consulting. They ran the 2021 lexical analysis study together and developed the typing method taught here across the sessions that followed.
