Enneagram Types
Understanding the nine different Enneagram types can provide valuable insights into yourself and others, fostering greater empathy, communication, and personal growth.
Explore your type and discover the path to a more aware and fulfilling life.
Type 1: The Reformer
Type 1: The Reformer
Core Motivation:
To be good, right, and ethical.
Key Traits:
Principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.
Strengths:
Strong sense of justice, integrity, and dedication.
Challenges:
Can be critical, perfectionistic, and overly serious.
Type 2: The Helper
Type 2: The Helper
Core Motivation:
To be loved and appreciated.
Key Traits:
Caring, generous, people-pleasing, and possessive.
Strengths:
Empathetic, nurturing, and supportive.
Challenges:
Can become overly involved, needy, and self-sacrificing.
Type 3: The Achiever
Type 3: The Achiever
Core Motivation:
To be successful and admired.
Key Traits:
Ambitious, adaptable, image-conscious, and driven.
Strengths:
Goal-oriented, efficient, and hardworking.
Challenges:
Can be overly competitive, status-seeking, and workaholic.
Type 4: The Individualist
Type 4: The Individualist
Core Motivation:
To be unique and true to themselves.
Key Traits:
Creative, introspective, sensitive, and temperamental.
Strengths:
Artistic, emotionally deep, and authentic.
Challenges:
Can be moody, self-absorbed, and envious.
Type 5: The Investigator
Type 5: The Investigator
Core Motivation:
To be knowledgeable and self-sufficient.
Key Traits:
Analytical, detached, insightful, and isolated.
Strengths:
Independent, curious, and intellectually capable.
Challenges:
Can be withdrawn, secretive, and emotionally distant.
Type 6: The Loyalist
Type 6: The Loyalist
Core Motivation:
To feel safe and supported.
Key Traits:
Loyal, responsible, anxious, and cautious.
Strengths:
Reliable, hardworking, and trustworthy.
Challenges:
Can be indecisive, overly cautious, and anxious.
Type 7: The Enthusiast
Type 7: The Enthusiast
Core Motivation:
To be happy and satisfied.
Key Traits:
Enthusiastic, spontaneous, scattered, and adventurous.
Strengths:
Fun-loving, versatile, and optimistic.
Challenges:
Can be impulsive, distractible, and avoidant of pain.
Type 8: The Challenger
Type 8: The Challenger
Core Motivation:
To be strong and in control.
Key Traits:
Assertive, confident, confrontational, and protective.
Strengths:
Decisive, powerful, and protective of others.
Challenges:
Can be domineering, aggressive, and unwilling to show
vulnerability.
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Core Motivation:
To have inner peace and harmony.
Key Traits:
Easygoing, accommodating, complacent, and reassuring.
Strengths:
Calm, accepting, and diplomatic.
Challenges:
Can be complacent, avoidant, and self-forgetting.
Type 1: The Reformer
Type 1: The Reformer
Core Motivation:
To be good, right, and ethical.
Key Traits:
Principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.
Strengths:
Strong sense of justice, integrity, and dedication.
Challenges:
Can be critical, perfectionistic, and overly serious.
Type 2: The Helper
Type 2: The Helper
Core Motivation:
To be loved and appreciated.
Key Traits:
Caring, generous, people-pleasing, and possessive.
Strengths:
Empathetic, nurturing, and supportive.
Challenges:
Can become overly involved, needy, and self-sacrificing.
Type 3: The Achiever
Type 3: The Achiever
Core Motivation:
To be successful and admired.
Key Traits:
Ambitious, adaptable, image-conscious, and driven.
Strengths:
Goal-oriented, efficient, and hardworking.
Challenges:
Can be overly competitive, status-seeking, and workaholic.
Type 4: The Individualist
Type 4: The Individualist
Core Motivation:
To be unique and true to themselves.
Key Traits:
Creative, introspective, sensitive, and temperamental.
Strengths:
Artistic, emotionally deep, and authentic.
Challenges:
Can be moody, self-absorbed, and envious.
Type 5: The Investigator
Type 5: The Investigator
Core Motivation:
To be knowledgeable and self-sufficient.
Key Traits:
Analytical, detached, insightful, and isolated.
Strengths:
Independent, curious, and intellectually capable.
Challenges:
Can be withdrawn, secretive, and emotionally distant.
Type 6: The Loyalist
Type 6: The Loyalist
Core Motivation:
To feel safe and supported.
Key Traits:
Loyal, responsible, anxious, and cautious.
Strengths:
Reliable, hardworking, and trustworthy.
Challenges:
Can be indecisive, overly cautious, and anxious.
Type 7: The Enthusiast
Type 7: The Enthusiast
Core Motivation:
To be happy and satisfied.
Key Traits:
Enthusiastic, spontaneous, scattered, and adventurous.
Strengths:
Fun-loving, versatile, and optimistic.
Challenges:
Can be impulsive, distractible, and avoidant of pain.
Type 8: The Challenger
Type 8: The Challenger
Core Motivation:
To be strong and in control.
Key Traits:
Assertive, confident, confrontational, and protective.
Strengths:
Decisive, powerful, and protective of others.
Challenges:
Can be domineering, aggressive, and unwilling to show
vulnerability.
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Type 9: The Peacemaker
Core Motivation:
To have inner peace and harmony.
Key Traits:
Easygoing, accommodating, complacent, and reassuring.
Strengths:
Calm, accepting, and diplomatic.
Challenges:
Can be complacent, avoidant, and self-forgetting.