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The Enneagram – Understanding Personality

The Enneagram is a powerful and insightful framework that provides a deep understanding of personality. Represented as a geometric figure with nine interconnected points, it encompasses a diverse range of archetypes—fundamental personality patterns that shape human motivation and behaviour. The term “archetype” originates from the Greek word meaning “original pattern,” signifying the core characteristics that influence an individual’s thoughts, emotions, and actions.

A Historical Perspective

The origins of the Enneagram are deeply rooted in ancient wisdom, drawing from various philosophical, spiritual, and psychological traditions. Spanning across different cultures, ethnicities, and ideologies, this system has been refined over centuries as a means of promoting self-awareness and personal growth.

Today, the modern Enneagram framework seamlessly integrates ancient wisdom with contemporary psychology and neuroscience, ensuring a scientifically valid approach to understanding human nature. It serves as a dynamic model that acknowledges each individual’s capacity for transformation, growth, and self-improvement.

How the Enneagram Works

The Enneagram is structured around nine distinct personality types, each positioned at a unique point on a nine-pointed diagram. These types reveal not just outward behaviours but also the deeper motivations, fears, and subconscious patterns that drive individual actions.

Unlike traditional personality profiling tools, the Enneagram delves beneath the surface to uncover the underlying psychological drivers that shape a person’s character. It provides valuable insight into how individuals:

Perceive the world
Process emotions
Interact with others

These insights make the Enneagram an invaluable tool for self-awareness, leadership development, and interpersonal relationships.

FAB Consulting’s Approach

At FAB Consulting, we subscribe to the practices of Integrative Enneagram Solutions, ensuring that our approach aligns with reputable methodologies and research-backed assessments. Our Enneagram-based assessments enable individuals and organisations to:

Unlock potential
Enhance communication
Foster deeper personal and professional growth

What our Clients Say

I was lucky enough to complete the Enneagram process as a collective, with my team. It is a useful tool that delivers accurate insights into leadership and team member styles, of which there are nine. The outcome of the process delivered valuable guidelines in terms of how to better engage with different personality types on the team, as well as with our stakeholders. It very precisely indicates behavioral and human traits and how to best work with them. If you are looking to build a high performing team of individuals who value effectiveness, trust and empathy, then the Enneagram is for you.

Wendy Bergsteedt

Learning about the Enneagram and how to use it as a tool for self-discovery and growth has helped me both personally and professionally. The Enneagram process is thorough and enjoyable which I believe sets it apart from other tools and programs used for awareness training and development.

Having been originally introduced to the Enneagram through friends, my wife and adult children sought to apply the concepts more regularly and deeply. Coincidentally, several employees within our company also became interested in exploring the benefits of the Enneagram and how it might improve our team’s culture and effectiveness. Our team decided to work with a trained Enneagram consultant to apply the principles and concepts individually and corporately. Once complete, my family also worked with the Enneagram consultant to help us delve more deeply into our own Enneagram types while gaining an understanding and appreciation for the other Enneagram types. The greatest benefit of the Enneagram has provided to me is an awareness of my own strengths, weaknesses and pathways for personal growth and healthy relationships.

George G. McPherson