Ennagram
Today’s Enneagram is derived from philosophies dating back at least far as Pythagoras in ancient Greece. It also incorporates components from early Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Sufism, Taoism and Buddhism. The first modern use of the Enneagram is attributed to Oscar Ichazo in the 1960s.
Ichazo distinguishes between the unblemished ‘essence’ of a person and that person’s personality or ego. The latter is a distortion of the former: as our personality develops, so we move away from our pure ‘essence’. Adapted to the language that we use, this essence represents a perfect balance of the head, heart and gut centres – the ability to draw on each of these at any time. It is the peak of emotional health. Our personality, by contrast, is our tendency to behave according to our Enneagram type, which includes a tendency towards one of the three centres. The lower our emotional health, the more rigidly we adhere to type.
The nine personality types describe what our core motivations and beliefs are and taken together they provide us with a map of how to see ourselves and one another more clearly.
This map of the Nine Types help us to understand our own typical way of seeing, relating and responding to the world around us, as well as the typical way that others see, relate and respond to the world as well.
What’s most powerful about this map that describes the different lens by which we see the world is that it enables us to see into our unconscious minds. We don’t typically see what we are NOT conscious of!
https://globalleadershipfoundation.com/a-quick-introduction-to-the-enneagram/