At its core, the Enneagram is a powerful tool for understanding yourself and others on a profound level. It reveals 9 distinct patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, each offering unique insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and areas of energy.
By exploring these patterns, you can gain clarity on your stress triggers, identify your anger responses, and unlock a deeper awareness of your personal dynamics.
Today, we understand it as an archetypal framework consisting of nine unique personality types. This model of human psychology and personality theory is based on the idea that each person has a unique and innate personality structure, or "essence," that shapes the way they see the world and themselves.
These types are characterised by a unique combination of strengths, weaknesses, unconscious motivations, fears, and triggers that shape and inform their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
The first step in self-development is knowing what drives behavior, and why. The Enneagram helps us do that by offering in-depth insight into ourselves, and our relationships. It does not box people in, but rather opens a pathway to self-discovery and greater personal awareness.
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Motivation, not behaviour
Unlike most psychometrics, the Enneagram goes a level deeper into the WHY behind our actions, thoughts and feelings.
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The box you've chosen
We choose our Enneagram numbers as children in response to our context. The Enneagram reveals the box that we have chosen for ourselves and helps us step out of it.
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Stronger relationships
The Enneagram is a powerful tool for improving all types of relationships, offering the gift of compassion and understanding for those around us.
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One part of the whole
While we all have 1 dominant core type, we also have varying degrees of all the other types in us too. The goal is to integrate all of these 9 ‘energies’.
The Enneagram is not who you are, it is WHY you are.
Its casts a light on what’s available within you to break out of the boxes you have put yourself in to become an active participant in your life’s narrative. We view the Enneagram as a map; a map that shows you how to return to your essence, paving the road back to you.
How it works
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1. Take the Test
Learn MoreStart your Enneagram journey by taking the iEQ9 Enneagram Test. This comprehensive assessment will reveal your dominant personality traits and energies, and provide you with a detailed report on your core motivations, fears, and growth opportunities.
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2. Book a Feedback Session
Book NowMaximise the impact of your Enneagram results by booking a feedback session with one of our coaches. During this personalised session, you'll gain deeper insights into your report, ask questions, and receive tailored guidance on how to apply your newfound knowledge to your daily life.
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3. Integrate the Findings
Learn MoreTurn your Enneagram insights into real-life change by integrating the findings into your daily routines. Learn practical strategies for personal development, improve your relationships, and align your actions with your true self. Our resources and support will help you make lasting, positive changes.
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Core Enneagram Type
Do you want to get to know yourself better? Identifying your Enneagram Type will help you understand your unique thinking, feeling, and acting patterns. Working with your Type empowers you to take responsibility for your behaviours and growth through a greater understanding of why you act and react the way you do.
Motivation, Behaviour, Psychodynamics
Much more than just a personality profile that tells us how we might behave, the Enneagram highlights the underlying motivations, defence mechanisms, and fears buried in the unconscious layers of the psyche. The Enneagram unlocks potential and change from a deeper level that connects to personal values by enabling us to understand the motivational patterns that drive us.
Blindspots, Strengths and Challenges
Discover your natural strengths which arise from your internal worldview or perspective. This section helps you tap into and appreciate your Enneagram Type's strengths and positive aspects. When harnessed healthily and balanced, these strengths will support your well-being, goals and relationships. No development journey should ignore weaknesses.
27 Subtypes
When your dominant Instinct merges with your core Enneagram Type, the two together is known as your Subtype. Subtypes sheds light on why people with the same Enneagram Type, can behave in different ways. Grasping your Subtype can create an instrumental, detailed and nuanced description of your personality and offers meaningful shifts and targeted development paths.
Self-Awareness and Integration
This section reveals your level of integration, indicating the degree to which you're living on 'autopilot' or in a state of self-awareness. For many people, discovering their Enneagram Type is a turning point, as they see for the first time how their Ego has been limiting them and how disconnected they may be from their true Essence. The path of Integrative with the Enneagram is a journey back to Essence, escaping the limitations of personality and connecting to a more unlimited, liberated self.
Strain Levels
Your strain profile reflects your subjective sense of how much stress you experienced at a point in time across five domains:
- Interpersonal Strain - Evaluating stress within your relationships.
- Environmental Strain - Measuring stress induced by your environment.
- Psychological Strain - Your current level of “mental health” stress.
- Physical Strain - Gauging your physical health's stress levels.
- Vocational Strain - Determining stress levels related to your work.
- Happiness - A variable that’s often hard to determine.
*Once you've completed the test and received your report, we recommend booking a Feedback Session to gain deeper insights, ask questions, and receive tailored guidance. Please connect with us at hello@backtoyou.biz to book your session.
Who We Are
We are an Enneagram-based experiential development brand that uses the transformative power of expriences, whether in-person or online, to support your self-development journey.
Let's meet the team.
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Karin Wellman
Master coach specialising in Executive coaching, organisational performance, C-suite leadership development, as well as Enneagram coaching and resilience training.
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Bianca Church
Accredited Enneagram Practitioner specilalising in team development, interactive workshops, and tailored coaching.
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Alexis Wellman
Accredited Enneagram Practitioner specialising in youth guidance, millennials, young professionals, as well as resilience training.
