Understanding the interplay between your Enneagram type and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership can be a game-changer in your journey towards becoming a more effective and conscious leader. Each Enneagram type tends to find certain commitments more challenging than others.
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a powerful and nuanced tool for self-awareness and transformation. It categorizes personalities into nine types, offering insights into our core motivations and fears. These in turn impact how we lead and collaborate.
Understanding your Enneagram type can help you navigate The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. This guide sheds light on the commitments that might be more challenging for each type and offers targeted resources for overcoming these hurdles. Focus on your type’s these commitments to support you in living and leading above the line.
Type 1 - The Reformer
The Type One is on a journey to move from judgment to acceptance. Commitments that may be particularly challenging include:
- Commitment 2: Be curious when you want to be right
- Commitment 3: Feel feelings (especially anger)
- Commitment 7: Appreciate the way things are now before reforming
- Commitment 9: Rest and play more!
Type 2 - The Giver
The Type Two is on a journey from pride (I don't have needs) to humility. Key commitments include:
- Commitment 1: Take only 100% responsibility
- Commitment 4: Reveal your needs and wants
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
- Commitment 14: Creating a win-for-all means there must be a win-for-you
Type 3 - The Achiever
The Type Three is on a journey from vanity (image) to authenticity. Essential commitments involve:
- Commitment 3: Feel your feelings, especially your sadness
- Commitment 4: Reveal your authentic thoughts and feelings versus concealing them
- Commitment 9: Value rest and play as you achieve
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
Type 4 - The Individualist
The Type Four is on a journey from envy (longing for what's missing) to equanimity (knowing what is here is sufficient and being balanced with emotions). Commitments that may be particularly challenging include:
- Commitment 1: Take 100% responsibility for your circumstances without blaming yourself or others
- Commitment 8: Work in your Zone of Genius
- Commitment 9: Value not taking things too seriously
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
Type 5 - The Observer
The Type Five is moving from avarice (beliefs in scarcity) to non-attachment. Key commitments include:
- Commitment 3: Feel your feelings
- Commitment 4: Reveal yourself and let others know what you think and feel personally
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
- Watch this video to understand the concept, costs, and benefits.
- Use this meditation to redirect where you source your sense of approval, control, and security from.
- Commitment 12: Experience that you have enough of everything
- Take our Scarcity Inventory to explore the areas in your life where you believe you do not have enough.
- Listen to this meditation for a path to a direct experience that you have enough of everything.
Type 6 - The Loyal Skeptic
The Type Six is on a journey from anxiety to courage. Important commitments for them may be:
- Commitment 9: When things seem serious, find a way to play with it
- Commitment 10: When skeptical, see how the opposite of your story is at least as true
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
- Watch this video to understand the concept, costs, and benefits.
- Use this meditation to redirect where you source your sense of approval, control, and security from.
- Commitment 13: Practice seeing everyone and everything as an ally
- In this meditation our co-founder Jim Dethmer guides you to see how all of life is an ally and for you.
- Watch an example of how to discover how something "negative" can be an ally.
Type 7 - The Enthusiast
The Type Seven is on a journey from seeking endless new experiences to finding fulfillment in the present moment. For Sevens, crucial commitments likely involve:
- Commitment 3: Feel your feelings, especially fear and other uncomfortable ones
- Commitment 6: Only make agreements that you have a Whole Body Yes to
- Commitment 8: Work in your Zone of Genius
- Commitment 12: Experience that you have enough of everything, now
- Take our Scarcity Inventory to explore the areas in your life where you believe you do not have enough.
- Listen to this meditation for a path to a direct experience that you have enough of everything.
Type 8 - The Challenger
The Type Eight is on a journey from a need for control and intensity to embracing vulnerability and gentleness. Important commitments for them may be:
- Commitment 3 Feel your feelings, especially the vulnerable ones like hurt and fear
- Commitment 10: See how the opposite of your story is at least as true
- Commitment 11: Seek approval, control and security from the inside
- Watch this video to understand the concept, costs, and benefits.
- Use this meditation to redirect where you source your sense of approval, control, and security from.
- Commitment 13: See that all people and circumstance are your allies
- In this meditation our co-founder Jim Dethmer guides you to see how all of life is an ally and for you.
- Watch an example of how to discover how something "negative" can be an ally.
Type 9 - The Mediator
The Type Nine are on a journey from avoiding conflict to asserting their own voice. Key commitments for Nines include:
- Commitment 3: Commit to feeling your feelings, especially your anger.
- Commitment 4: Reveal your needs and wants, even if it might cause conflict
- Commitment 8: Express your full magnificence
- Commitment 9: Remember to play with what seems serious
Ready to Grow?
In exploring these potential blind spots, remember to approach yourself with acceptance and curiosity. Start small, choose one commitment to focus on over the coming weeks, and use the linked resources to help you practice.
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