Reference guide
The nine types, close at hand.
Most people meet the Enneagram as nine descriptions and then spend the following months quietly forgetting which fear belongs to which number, because the system asks you to hold a great deal at once while giving you very little scaffolding to hold it with, and this guide is meant to be that scaffolding, which is a modest ambition and, more often than not, the one that turns out to be useful.
It was built for the stretch when the whole system is still settling and the numbers have not yet fixed themselves to faces. You have landed on your own type by then, and are still working out why the person across the table reacts in a way that makes no sense at all from inside it.
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Inside the guide.
Nine type spreads
Each of the nine types is given its own spread, with the center of intelligence it belongs to and the motivation running underneath it.
The core fears
The core fears follow, the ones the personality organized itself early on to avoid, described in something closer to the terms the type would use.
The interior logic
There is prose on how each type experiences itself from the inside, since a list of traits describes the outside of a person and rarely explains anything.
The archetype names
The Excited Enthusiast, the Powerful Protector, the Peaceful Accommodator and the rest are shorthand rather than verdicts, useful mainly for holding the nine apart in memory.
Made to be returned to
It is formatted so you can find a single type quickly, in the middle of a conversation rather than at a desk. That matters more than it sounds, since a reference read once and then shelved joins the other books that were going to change how you think.
Free
Yours for an email address.
There is no cost attached, and the guide is meant to sit alongside whatever else you are reading (Ichazo, Naranjo, whoever) rather than to lead anywhere in particular. The system is easier to learn when the reference is simply available, though having it will not spare you the slower work of watching the types move in the people you actually know. That is where the learning happens, and no printed spread, however well made, has ever been much help with it.
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