Enabling Peace at a Cost

The Disservice to Type Nine

In the 24 years since I started working with the Enneagram, I have heard more than my share of Enneagram stereotypes. Many of these well-worn concepts illuminate facets of truth, but even more of them represent fundamental misunderstandings about the psychological underpinnings of the types themselves.

One of the types I find to be the most wholly misconstrued, not due to the incomprehensibility of their psychological processes, but by virtue of their misrepresentation both in Enneagram literature and within the broader Enneagram community, is the Nine.