9️⃣ The Enneagram| Free Course
Updated: Oct 22
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Personality Series Help us reach the people who may need this most by sharing this free course with friends, family, colleagues, online communities, social media or on your own website.
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9️⃣Welcome to the Free Enneagram Course for Everyday People
The Enneagram is one of the most widely loved personality systems in the world, and it arrived by an unusual road: a striking nine-pointed symbol brought West by George Gurdjieff in the early 1900s, transformed into a map of human character by Óscar Ichazo in the 1950s and 60s, and shaped into the psychological portraits we know today by psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo in the 1970s. What those remarkable minds built together is a mirror: a way of understanding people not by what they do, but by why they do it, and millions have found in it the most precise language for their inner life they have ever been handed.
This course teaches the pure Enneagram, with no other systems blended in, and it's written for beginners. The Enneagram is a system that rewards a lifetime of study, with devoted teachers, schools, certification programs, and a rich library behind it, and this course is meant as a clear first step into that world, not a replacement for it. Here you'll find the foundation in plain language: every type in its own portrait, with real-life examples and the wings, arrows, and growth paths the system is famous for, so you can find yourself in the mirror and understand the people you love while you're at it. And if the Enneagram takes hold of you the way it has taken hold of so many, the deeper teachings will be waiting.
Course Outline
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The Basics 1. What Is the Enneagram 2. Where Does the Enneagram Come From 3. The Three Centers of Intelligence
How the Enneagram Works 4. How a Type Works 5. Wings 6. The Arrows 7. The Levels of Health 8. The Three Instincts and the Subtypes
The 9 Enneagram Types
9. Type One: The Reformer 10. Type Two: The Helper 11. Type Three: The Achiever 12. Type Four: The Individualist 13. Type Five: The Investigator 14. Type Six: The Loyalist 15. Type Seven: The Enthusiast 16. Type Eight: The Challenger 17. Type Nine: The Peacemaker
Living It 18. Enneagram in Everyday Life
Going Deeper 19. The Hornevian Stances and the Harmonic Groups
Bonus
20. The Enneagram Explained
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