WELCOME!
PLEASE GET STARTED
• Choose two words that your family would use to describe you?
• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #
• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself?
• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #
• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you are at
your best?
• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #
• Choose two words that you would use to describe yourself when you deal
with stress?
• Look on the back to the card and write down the color & #
THE ENNEAGRAM
Presented by Yvonne Pacula & Alex Shaw
Fort Hays State University
WHAT IS IT?
• It is a model of human personality which is principally used
as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Professional Staff members will be able to recognize which Personality Type
they are within the Enneagram.
2. Professional Staff members will be able to recognize which Personality
Types their co-workers are.
3. Professional Staff members will be able to explain how their Personality
Type can help or hinder them from relating to other co-workers.
4. Professional Staff members will identify how they can help their co-workers
be successful by recognizing their co-workers personality type.
5. Professional Staff members will be able to explain which personality type
they reach for when they are at their best and which personality type they
lean towards when they are stressed or pressured.
THIS IS KILLING ME!
What does the Enneagrom look like?
What haven’t you given me any handouts yet?
PATEINCE 
We don’t want you to try to pigeon-hole yourself. Be open to being surprised.
LETS GET STARTED!
EVERYONE LOVES A PERSONALITY TEST!
The Cards
Choose two words that your family
would use to describe you?
Choose two words that you would
use to describe yourself?
Choose two words that you would
use to describe yourself when you are
successful?
Choose two words that you would
use to describe yourself when you
deal with stress?
1-9 rating quizzes
Complete all 3
Get ready to do some math at the
end 
Personality Type
Indicator
Check or cross out the areas that
you think describe you!
THE BOOKLET
• At this point, use all the information you have to determine which type
you are. You might need to use your best judgment on this.
• Hand Out: The Enneagram Map & Booklet
• Things to Notice:
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Did you stay in your gut, heart, or head grouping?
Are you surprised?
The arrows do mean something…it’s coming!
Lets step through the Personality Types together!
YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD…
MORE HAND-OUTS!
• Main Themes & Harmonic Groups
• Practical Thoughts & Suggestions
• Thought of the Day
THE ENNEAGRAM…
…AT LAST
TYPE ONES
The rational idealists, the reformers, principled, purposeful, self-controlled perfectionists
Key Motivations: desire to be “right”, to strive higher & improve everything, be consistent with their ideals, to
justify themselves, to be beyond criticism
Famous Ones: Mahatma Gandhi, Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, Pope John Paul II, Martha Stewart, Meryl Streep
TYPE TWOS
The helpers, care givers, interpersonal types, demonstrative, generous, people-pleasing & possessive
Key Motivations: desire to be loved, to express their feelings for others, to be needed & appreciated
Famous Twos: Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Bishop Desmond Tutu
TYPE THREES
The success oriented achievers, pragmatic, adaptive, excelling, driven and image conscious
Key Motivations: want to be affirmed, to distinguish themselves from others, to have attention, to be admired,
to impress others
Famous Ones: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama
TYPE FOURS
The sensitive individualists, withdrawn, expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed and temperamental
Key Motivations: need to express themselves & their individuality, to create & surround themselves with
beauty, to maintain certain moods & feelings
Famous Ones: Alanis Morrisette, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Johnny Depp, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe,
Prince
TYPE FIVES
The intense, cerebral investigators, perceptive, innovative, secretive and isolated
Key Motivations: to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out
Famous Ones: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Stephen King, Tim Burton, Jane Goodall
TYPE SIXES
The loyalists, committed, security-oriented type, engaging, responsible, anxious and suspicious
Key Motivations: possess security, to feel supported by others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the
attitudes of others towards them
Famous Ones: Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Princess Diana, Tom Hanks, Jay Leno, Woody Allen
TYPE SEVENS
The enthusiastic, fun loving type, spontaneous, versatile, distractible, scattered
Key Motivations: want to maintain their freedom & happiness, avoid missing out on experiences, to keep
themselves excited & occupied
Famous Ones: Leonardo DiCaprio, Elizabeth Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jim Carey, Elton John, Gianni
Versace
TYPE EIGHTS
The powerful, dominating challenger, self-confident, decisive, willful & confrontational
Key Motivations: need to be self-reliant, to prove their strength and resist weakness, to be important in their
world, to dominate the environment, to maintain control
Famous Ones: Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin Roosevelt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Walters,
Donald Trump
TYPE NINES
The easygoing, self-effacing peacemakers, receptive, reassuring, agreeable, complacent
Key Motivations: want to create harmony in their environment, to avoid conflict & tension, to preserve things
as they are
Famous Ones: Abraham Lincoln, Carl Jung, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Walter Cronkite, Walt Disney,
Norman Rockwell
THE CENTERS
• Each Center consists of
three personality types that
have in common the assets
and liabilities of that Center.
• Instinctive (gut)
• Feeling (heart)
• Thinking (head)
DOMINANT EMOTION
• Each type has a particular way of coping
with the dominant emotion of its Center.
• Anger or rage
• Shame
• Anxiety
• In the Instinctive Center, Eights act out their
anger and instinctual energies.
THE WING
• No one is a pure personality type: everyone is a unique mixture of his or her
basic type and usually one of the two types adjacent to it on the
circumference of the Enneagram.
• Your basic type dominates your overall personality, while the wing
complements it and adds important, sometimes contradictory, elements to
your total personality.
GROWTH & STRESS
• Direction of disintegration (stress)
1-4-2-8-5-7-1
9-6-3-9
• Direction of Integration (growth/relax)
1-7-5-8-2-4-1
9-3-6-9
• No matter which personality type you
are, the types in both directions are
important influences.
HARMONIC GROUPS
Positive Outlook
Intensity Group
Competency Group
HOW DO I COPE?
• Harmonic Groups
• Positive Outlook Group: Deny that they have any
problems
• Competency Group: Cut off feelings and solve
problems logically
• Intensity Group: React strongly and need response
from others
SO WHO IS MY “TYPE?”
• Everyone share their “type”
• Break off into groups that share the same “type”
QUESTIONS FOR YOUR
PERSONALITY TYPE
• 1. Why would someone want you on their staff? What would you bring to the
team?
• 2. What is something you would need from your coworkers in order to be
successful?
• 3. What is something your coworkers might misinterpret in your behavior?
• 4. What is something your type often struggles with? In a relationship?
• 5. What is something you excel at when in relationships with others?
• 6. What is one thing you could practice with yourself and others to develop
healthier relationships?
TAKE AWAYS…
Differences are great
Communication is key and is main reason for conflict
Journey takes a lot of personal reflection
Well-rounded person exudes characteristics from all 9 types
RESOURCES
• www.enneagraminstitue.com
• Meggan Gronli
RD Regina Hall
St. Benedict & St. John’s University
THANK YOU!