The lenses · The Enneagram
Nine types, wings, arrows of integration: the Enneagram is probably the second most popular personality framework in the world — and one of the least measured.
A system of nine types defined by their core motivation (the perfectionist, the helper, the achiever…), with 'wings' towards neighbouring types and supposed paths of growth and stress. Its origin is spiritual and oral-traditional, not psychometric.
The honest version: Enneagram questionnaires show uneven reliability, and the nine-type structure does not emerge cleanly from the data. What does exist are correlation studies between Enneagram types and the Big Five (the types overlap with combinations of traits) — and that is exactly the thread we use. As a map for conversation it's rich; as a measuring instrument, it isn't equal to its promises.
We don't give you 'the Enneagram test': we measure your five traits with a real instrument and compute which type (and wing) they project — your Enneagram echo. If the echo rings true, the map will serve you; if it doesn't, at least you know which of the two systems actually measured something.
USE IT FOR
For a vocabulary of motivations, for personal-growth conversations, and for understanding why certain dynamics keep catching you.
DON’T USE IT FOR
For important decisions, hiring, or diagnosis: those demand measurement, not tradition.
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