The Integrative Enneagram for Individuals
What is the Enneagram?
What is the Enneagram?
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a useful guide on your journey towards self-development, relationship building, conflict resolution and the improvement of team dynamics. It is however not aimed at "boxing" limiting or categorising you. As an individual you are more complex, unique and distinct than your Enneagram style reflects.
While your Enneagram style remains the same throughout your life, the characteristics of your style may either soften or become more pronounced as you grow and develop.
The Enneagram is an archetypal map. It is powerful, practical and rich in the content and insight it offers. You may find that at different times, different aspects of this report will resonate with you and that certain aspects of your style may be more prominent at certain times in your life, or in particular circumstances.
Meeting the inner you.
What is the Enneagram?
What is the Enneagram?
At its heart, the Enneagram suggests that everyone develops a core worldview early in life as a way of feeling safe, loved, and in control. Each of the nine types represents a different strategy for navigating the world. Over time these strategies become habits that are sometimes helpful, sometimes limiting. By understanding your type, you gain insight into the unconscious beliefs that drive your reactions, fears, and desires.
Unlike many personality systems, the Enneagram isn’t about traits on the surface it’s about inner mechanics:
- Core fear
- Core desire
- Automatic patterns
- Stress and growth pathways
- Blind spots and strengths
Because it’s dynamic, the system shows how you move under stress, how you grow, and how you can shift into healthier levels of functioning. It also highlights the deeper qualities you’re capable of expressing when you’re not acting from fear.
Ultimately, the Enneagram is a tool for awareness, compassion, and transformation. It helps you understand yourself more honestly and relate to others with greater empathy—an incredibly powerful combination for personal growth, relationships, and therapeutic work.
Discover your Enneagram Style
So what are you waiting for?
If you’re feeling curious about who you really are beneath the surface, the patterns, instincts, strengths, and hidden motivations that shape your life then the Enneagram is an incredible place to begin. Understanding your Enneagram type can help you:.
1. Start your journey of self-discovery
All meaningful growth begins with awareness. Finding your type gives you a powerful framework for understanding why you think and feel the way you do
2. Gain deeper insight into your inner world
Once you know your type, you can explore your motivations, strengths, challenges, preferences, and potential. This is the process where the subconscious begins to become conscious and a genuine shift toward clarity and empowerment.
3. Build greater balance and presence
The Enneagram encourages a more mindful connection to your three centres of intelligence Head, Heart, and Body helping you stay grounded, aware, and resilient.
4. Navigate stress and burnout more effectively
If you’re under pressure, overwhelmed, or on the edge of burnout, your type reveals your specific “line of release” the qualities and strategies that can bring relief, perspective, and healthier functioning. It also helps you recognise what in your environment you can actually influence and change.
5. Break out of stagnation and rediscover motivation
If life feels dull, routine, or uninspiring, the Enneagram highlights your “line of stress” and the energetic direction that helps you wake up, reconnect with your drive, and break out of old habits.
The Nine Enneagram Individual Types
Introduction to Clair
About me:
I’m Clair, an Integrative9 Accredited Enneagram Practitioner and Executive Business Coach with 19 years of experience in team development. My work spans diverse cultural contexts, including South African, British, and Chinese, giving me a nuanced understanding of how teams thrive across different environments.
Alongside my coaching expertise, I bring extensive experience in Finance and ISO standards, with a proven track record of leading teams to higher performance both individually and collectively. This real-world leadership background ensures that my approach is not only insightful but also deeply practical and results-oriented having experience and leading finance teams first hand.
I combine practical expertise with contemplative practice to create safe, supportive spaces where individuals deepen self-awareness and teams learn to collaborate more skilfully. My approach is warm, grounded, and responsive to the unique needs of both individuals and teams. I help groups move from insight to action, translating understanding into observable behaviours that strengthen trust, communication, and performance. I work with confidence and sensitivity, treating the team as a dynamic, ever-changing organism and ensuring every step is respectful and impactful.
INSPERATION
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, it’s that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most challenges us.
We often ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, talented, and exceptional?
The real question is: Who are you not to be?
Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing gained by shrinking so that others feel more comfortable. We are all meant to shine to bring forward the strengths and potential that exist within each of us.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. When we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Adapted from Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (1992)