Free IFS Enneagram Course

A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy

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The Enneagram is often reduced to personality labels, social media memes, or quick typing systems. Approached this way, it becomes a tool for categorizing people rather than understanding them — and its depth is easily lost.

But the Enneagram was never meant to describe behavior on the surface. It maps motivation beneath behavior the inner strategies people develop to feel safe, valuable, and intact in the world.

This free course explores the Enneagram through its historical roots, psychological structure, and lived inner experience, thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace psychology, spirituality, or the Enneagram tradition itself. It is designed for readers who want clarity without oversimplification, and depth without overwhelm.

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What This Course Offers

This course invites you to encounter the Enneagram as a system of awareness — one that reveals why people think, react, strive, withdraw, or protect in the ways they do.

Inside the course, you’ll explore:

• The historical origins and development of the Enneagram

• Motivation as distinct from behavior or personality traits

• Core fears, desires, and unconscious strategies of each type

• How stress, security, and distortion show up across types

• Differences between mistyping and lived recognition

• Growth paths that emphasize presence rather than self-improvement

Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how Enneagram patterns live inside the inner system how parts organize around safety, approval, control, belonging, and worth, and how awareness creates space for choice.

This approach does not replace the Enneagram. It does not turn the Enneagram into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.

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Course Outline

Orientation Section — For Beginners

Module 0 — What Is the Enneagram?

Module 1 — Where the Enneagram Comes From

Module 2 — How the Enneagram Works

Module 3 — Enneagram and the Human System

Module 4 — The Nine Types at a Glance

Core Teaching Section — The Nine Enneagram Types

Module 5 — Type One: The Reformer

Module 6 — Type Two: The Helper

Module 7 — Type Three: The Achiever

Module 8 — Type Four: The Individualist

Module 9 — Type Five: The Investigator

Module 10 — Type Six: The Loyalist

Module 11 — Type Seven: The Enthusiast

Module 12 — Type Eight: The Challenger

Module 13 — Type Nine: The Peacemaker

How This Course Is Different

You won’t find:

• Simplistic typing quizzes or surface-level descriptions

• Enneagram language used to excuse behavior

• Pressure to identify a type quickly or definitively

You will find:

• Careful explanation of motivation beneath behavior

• Space for uncertainty, reflection, and lived recognition

• An emphasis on awareness, compassion, and responsibility

Each module includes historical context and optional reflective elements, encouraging slow, thoughtful engagement and helping the Enneagram function as a tool for insight rather than identity fixation.

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