The Enneagram Model of Personality | Steve Wasserman

As a Personality-Focused Psychotherapist, I use a number of Psychology Models or Systems in my work. One of my favourites is the Enneagram Model. How Does The Model Work? The “Enneagram of Personality” details nine personality descriptions or categories and the interconnections among them. Each of the nine personality “types,” or “styles,” represents a distinct way of operating in the world based on a specific “focus of attention”: what you pay attention to and what you don’t pay attention to. For instance, what do you typically pay attention to when you first wake up in the morning? Different people with different personality types tend to start the day with different moods and different thoughts. Some types wake up angry, some immediately start thinking about their mental list of “things to do,” and others feel happy and excited at the possibilities of the new day. This idea that different people pay attention to different things in different ways plays a central role in defining the

As a Personality-Focused Psychotherapist, I use a number of Psychology Models or Systems in my work. One of my favourites is the Enneagram Model. How Does The Model Work? The “Enneagram of Personality” details nine personality descriptions or categories and the interconnections among them. Each of the nine personality “types,” or “styles,” represents a distinct way of operating in the world based on a specific “focus of attention”: what you pay attention to and what you don’t pay attention to. For instance, what do you typically pay attention to when you first wake up in the morning? Different