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The Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram which helps to illustrate how the types relate to one another.- Truity.com

To find out if you’re a Type Nine. You can take a free Enneagram Personality Test Here. 

After taking the test, read about the core fears and motivations, as well as what happens in stress and growth with each of your top 3 here so you can make sure you get the correct type.

Here’s The Enneagram Institute’s description of the Type Nine: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-9

Even if you aren’t 100% sure if you’re a Type Nine, you’re more than welcome to join The Academy! What we do there can help anyone who relates to the issues that are common in a Nine.

Heather has coaching available for all levels of budget and needs. The Bold Nine community (complete with a private podcast, a library of lessons and an app) is a great starting place.

For more targeted, deep help with overcoming your patterns that hold you back, consider her Quiet Power Leadership small group/1:1 hybrid program or her 1:1 coaching program.  You can learn more about each of these options on the Services page.

There are different levels of development for each of the Enneagram Types. Below, I have listed these levels for the Nine, as described by The Enneagram Institute.

I recommend coaching if you find yourself at “healthy” or “high-average” levels (levels 1-5) most of the time. Coaching helps a person who is on solid ground with their emotional and mental health, to enjoy and get more out of their lives.

I recommend a body-based therapy like ART, EMDR, or Somatic Therapy for trauma healing if you often find yourself at “low-average to unhealthy levels” (levels 6-9.) 

The Bold Nine Academy is the perfect companion to therapy, though. It’s helpful for anyone! You may just need more than what we can provide as coaches.

TYPE NINE – Levels of Development -The Enneagram Institute:

Healthy Levels

Level 1 (At Their Best): Become self-possessed, feeling autonomous and fulfilled: have great equanimity and contentment because they are present to themselves. Paradoxically, at one with self, and thus able to form more profound relationships. Intensely alive, fully connected to self and others.

Level 2: Deeply receptive, accepting, unselfconscious, emotionally stable and serene. Trusting of self and others, at ease with self and life, innocent and simple. Patient, unpretentious, good-natured, genuinely nice people.

Level 3: Optimistic, reassuring, supportive: have a healing and calming influence—harmonizing groups, bringing people together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and communicator.

Average Levels

Level 4: Fear conflicts, so become self-effacing and accommodating, idealizing others and “going along” with their wishes, saying “yes” to things they do not really want to do. Fall into conventional roles and expectations. Use philosophies and stock sayings to deflect others.

Level 5: Active, but disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want to be affected, so become unresponsive and complacent, walking away from problems, and “sweeping them under the rug.” Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly comforting fantasies, as they begin to “tune out” reality, becoming oblivious. Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on problems: indifference.

Level 6: Begin to minimize problems, to appease others and to have “peace at any price.” Stubborn, fatalistic, and resigned, as if nothing could be done to change anything. Into wishful thinking, and magical solutions. Others frustrated and angry by their procrastination and unresponsiveness.

Unhealthy Levels

Level 7: Can be highly repressed, undeveloped, and ineffectual. Feel incapable of facing problems: become obstinate, dissociating self from all conflicts. Neglectful and dangerous to others.

Level 8: Wanting to block out of awareness anything that could affect them, they dissociate so much that they eventually cannot function: numb, depersonalized.

Level 9: They finally become severely disoriented and catatonic, abandoning themselves, turning into shattered shells. Multiple personalities possible. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid and Dependent personality disorders.