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Identifying Different Personality Types and Working With Them

Identifying Different Personality Types and Working With Them. By Julie Dienno-Demarest, M.Ed. What is the Enneagram?. Personality Assessment ennea – Greek word for “nine” grammos – “figure” “nine pointed figure” Development of modern psychology

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Identifying Different Personality Types and Working With Them

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  1. Identifying Different Personality Types and Working With Them By Julie Dienno-Demarest, M.Ed.

  2. What is the Enneagram? • Personality Assessment • ennea – Greek word for “nine” • grammos – “figure” • “nine pointed figure” • Development of modern psychology • Roots in philosophical and spiritual wisdom of ancient traditions (2500 BCE) • Primarily concerns with self-knowledge

  3. Why the Enneagram? • Myers-Briggs / Keirsey Temperament Sorter • ENFJ / ISTP / ESFP / INTJ… etc • Good for forming balanced teams, understanding gifts and talents of each person • Focus on appreciating differences • No “good/bad” …Just “different”

  4. Why the Enneagram? • Enneagram  underlying motivation • This is why I do what I do • Basic motivation leads to behavior: • Healthy behavior • Average behavior • Unhealthy behavior

  5. Why the Enneagram • USEFULNESS • Personal growth • You will always be you. • Healthy… Average… Unhealthy… • Better understand others • Motivation, priorities, and behavior of others • Habit 5: seek first to understand, then to be understood • Enhance relationships • Work, Family, Friends, Children

  6. How Does It Work? • Symbolic Image • Circle: unity, wholeness, oneness • Triangle: The Law of Three • Everything that exists is the result of the interaction of three forces • Hexad: The Law of Seven • Process and development over time • Nothing is static; everything evolves over time.

  7. 1. The Perfectionist/Reformer • Principled, idealistic, orderly, strong sense of right and wrong • Healthy: conscientious, ethical, wise judgment • Average: critical, methodical, detailed • Unhealthy: self-righteous, inflexible, obsessive • If you want it done right, you’ve got to do it yourself.

  8. The Helper / Giver • Concerned, helpful, love and be loved • Healthy: empathetic, sincere, warm, appreciative, encouraging, generous, thoughtful, altruistic • Average: gushy, lots of good intentions, need to be needed, meddling “mother,” possessive • Unhealthy: if unappreciated  resentful & complain, play martyr & guilt others • I love you, you love me…

  9. 3. The Achiever / Performer • Self-assured, ambitious, success oriented, motivates others, networking • Healthy: high self-esteem, feel desirable, adaptable, energetic, charming, popular, authentic • Average: competitive “winner,” pragmatic, goal-oriented, image conscious, problems with phoniness, arrogance, egotistical • Unhealthy: success at all costs  exploitative, opportunistic, immoral, pathological liars • Look at me!

  10. 4. The Individualist / Artist • Creative, unique, individualistic, genuine expression of self • Healthy: self-aware, introspective, intuitive, profoundly creative, genuine internal expression • Average: “artistically” expressive, fantasy & imagination, emotionally expressive (moody) or overwhelmed (withdrawn) • Unhealthy: if dreams/fantasies fail  angry at self, severely depressed, worthless, emotional paralysis • Nobody really understands me…

  11. The Observer / Investigator • Perceptive, analytic, eccentric, thinker • Healthy: observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness, love learning, excited by possessing knowledge • Average: specialized with knowledge, detached and preoccupied with data (live in their head), arrogant sense of intelligence • Unhealthy: reclusive, secretive with knowledge, “mad scientist” • Knowledge is power…

  12. The Loyalist / Trooper • Likable, loyal, dependable, highly value trust • Healthy: engaging and friendly, trustworthy and hardworking, cooperative and reliable • Average: “team player” does what they’re told, indirect with conflict, indecisive, anxiety (“what if…”) • Unhealthy: insecure, dependent and clingy, inferiority complex, over-react to everything • I belong

  13. 7. The Enthusiast / Epicure • Enthusiastic, busy, versatile, playful, generalist • Healthy: excitable extrovert, productive and prolific, joyful appreciation of life’s experiences • Average: insatiable appetite for new experiences, constant activity (“flighty”), fear being bored • Unhealthy: quickly and easily frustrated , impulsive, escapist • Carpe Diem!…Try anything once

  14. 8. The Challenger / Protector • Powerful, assertive, confident, strong, decisive, action-oriented LEADER • Healthy: courageous, noble and honorable leader, use power constructively • Average: “rugged individualists,” dominate people/situations, use power for self-interest • Unhealthy: ruthless and hard-hearted, dictatorial, hold on to power and prevail at all costs • Might makes right… Use your power for good not evil…

  15. 9. The Peacemaker / Mediator • Peaceful, reassuring, passive, easy-going • Healthy: deeply receptive, open, patient • Average: overly accommodating, agreeable, avoid conflicts • Unhealthy: stubborn, neglect problems, fatalistic • Go with the flow… Don’t make waves…

  16. Resources • The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson • This is an all-around great resource; probably my favorite book on the topic, but also more in-depth understandings… offers a lot of comments on healthy-average-unhealthy as well as suggestions for spiritual growth.

  17. Resources • The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele • This has a lot of comic-style images and cartoon-like explanations that make it an easy read to acquaint folks with the Enneagram for the first time.

  18. Resources • Are You My Type, Am I Yours? : Relationships Made Easy Through The Enneagram by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele • High school students love, love, love this book… and so do adults.  The thing I like best about this one is how it explains what a given number likes and struggles with when it comes to interacting with others (of their same number and all the others).

  19. Resources • Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Types by Russ Hudson and Don Richard Riso • This one has a great, easy to comprehend explanation of each type.  I like that it calls out the characteristic virtue and vice of each number.  I also appreciate the section it has on “mis-typing,” which helps participants figure out which number they are.

  20. Contact • Julie Dienno-Demarest • julie.dienno@gmail.com • MomiliesAndMore.wordpress.com

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