The Enneagram

How do you find your Enneagram type? This blog explores why online tests are often inaccurate, how mistyping can hold back real growth, and why a guided, relational approach offers a more reliable way to discover your type. Learn how the Narrative Tradition helps people understand their motivations, patterns and possibilities for growth through conversation, insight and lived experience.

The Enneagram is often introduced through books, podcasts or type descriptions, but its deepest insights are rarely found in isolation. Learning in community allows us to hear lived experience, recognise our patterns more clearly, and grow in compassion for ourselves and others. In the Narrative Tradition, this relational way of learning brings the Enneagram to life.

This blog looks at the three Enneagram centres - head, heart, and gut - and how each one shapes the way you think, feel, and act. You’ll see what happens when one centre takes over and simple ways to bring more balance into daily life. With the Narrative Tradition at its core, it offers steady guidance, real insight, and gentle steps to help you understand which part of you is leading.

You may have heard of the Enneagram through a podcast, a friend, or a leadership course ... but what is it really? The Enneagram is a dynamic system that helps us understand our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaviour. It describes nine core personality types, each with its own strengths, challenges, motivations, fears and inner beliefs. Unlike many other personality tools, the Enneagram goes beyond surface traits. It invites deep self-reflection and offers a path for re