Enneagram Tritype is 4-5-9
Enneagram Tritype with wings is 4w5-5w6-9w1
Type preference is:
⒈ Type 4 with Type 5 wing (Heart Center)
⒉ Type 5 with Type 6 wing (Head Center)
⒊ Type 9 with Type 1 wing (Gut Center)
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Katherine Chernick Fauvre and David W. Fauvre created and trademarked the term Tritype®. The Tritype concept evolved from Oscar Ichazo's trifix concept. Tritype basically looks at an individual in terms of three types. An individual identifies the dominant type from each center or triad.
» Heart Center (Feeling): 234 - Shame and Image
» Head Center (Thinking): 567 - Anxiety and Fear
» Gut Center (Instinctual): 891 - Anger and Self-Forgetting
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𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑
People in this group are chiefly guided by the emotional qualities that sustain relationships with others — things like recognition, social inclusion and emotional support. Whereas gut types focus on their inner sense of control, heart types direct the focus outwards. How am I perceived by others? Do people like me? What can I do to develop these relationships? Above all, heart types want others to pay attention to them. They want to be noticed. Yes, they are emotionally intelligent and can both access their own feelings and adapt well to the moods and feelings of others. But the driver is less about supporting others in a truly altruistic way, and more about deriving a sense of self-worth from the appreciation they receive for their efforts. If their needs for recognition are not met, then a heart-type will react with panic, longing, sadness and, above all, shame. They feel flawed and undeserving if others are not actively appreciating their contributions. When heart types feel their self-esteem plummeting, then it’s a sure sign that their center of intelligence is out of balance.
𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑
This does not mean that these types are smarter than the others. Rather, their head center is the place where the desire for safety, competence and predictability are the primary instincts. The focus of the head types is analysis. For this group, the world is primarily perceived through a series of factual concepts. The goal is to gain security through the mental processes of planning, thinking and foresight. Head types trust these processes as the best way to help them gain control over potentially painful or dangerous situations. What you’ll notice with head types is they navigate a new situation by first distancing themselves from it. Unlike gut types who act immediately, head types will not leap until they have looked and planned the situation very, very carefully. When safety, reliability and predictability are in short supply, head types will react with fear, caution, mistrust and doubt. They can often be paralyzed by fear, risking inaction and complete detachment from their heart and gut if their safety is compromised. This is why, for head types, connection to the Instinctual and Feeling triads is essential for their well-being. Analyzing your experiences from a distance is not bad, but analysis in and of itself, without action, will not get you anywhere.
𝐆𝐔𝐓 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑
These types are driven by the need for independence, both from other people and from the restrictive conditions of their environment. For these types, responses are extremely visceral. A strong gut feeling or intuition informs their decision-making, and they react almost immediately to their surroundings without ever really pausing to think about whether their impulses are meaningful, or how their reactions might affect others. More than anything, these types want to live with autonomy and self-determination in a clear-cut world of good and bad, right and wrong, where they can defend their territory and be grounded in the world. If they feel bad, they usually blame themselves. When their freedoms are restricted, they get angry, or sometimes they'll act with resentment or impatience at their own powerlessness. When gut types start to get angry or impatient for no obvious reason, it’s a sure sign they’re out of balance. The gut has much to say when it feels under threat, but it needs support from the head and heart centers to even things out.
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The 459 are intuitive, knowledgeable and accepting. They want to be original, wise and peaceful. Highly self-aware and reflective, they are very shy, reserved and self-conscious. 459s need regular quiet time to reflect on their thoughts and emotions. Easily flooded with emotion, it is difficult for these people to voice their ideas and feelings. Their life mission is to delve deeply into the mysteries of life and share their insight with others. A true philosopher (also, contemplative), they are happiest when they can write about their discoveries and discuss them with others. Making sense of their world is a never ending quest. 459s can be so focused on their inner world that they can become inhibited and appear to be indifferent to others. Insecure, they become moody and expect others to initiate and come towards them. Their growing edge is to recognize that their need to pull away into the private world of their making to ponder their thoughts and feelings keeps them from engaging with others. True contemplation leads to higher knowing that we are all connected in the universal unconscious.
459s wait to be included. They are approachable but hope that others will come towards them. They are quiet in their demeanor. They project a sense of stillness. Their energy is soft and yielding. The 459 is the most reclusive type on the Enneagram. They are humble, modest and discreet. They can be ethereal and dreamy. They are passive and unassertive. They are shy but usually display a pleasant countenance. They have complex inner worlds. The objective with the subjective. They are gentle, sensitive and avoidant. Since they are so reserved, they express their anger in a passive-aggressive manner. 459 is a triple withdrawn, more removed and cut off as a way of addressing any inner anxiety. Their withdrawal and withholding feels harsh or very uninvolved. That's the type most likely to not realize their anger until much later, or not express it at all because they get stuck in not expressing themselves and experiencing everything more internally.
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𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 𝟒 - 𝟒𝐖𝟓
The 4 feels that they have lost contact with their value and with their identity. They adopt a false belief that they are worthless, leading to an underlying feeling of shame. To compensate, the 4 tends to project a self-image of a mysterious, authentic, and unique individual. 4s over-express their feelings, preferring indirect methods to share and communicate what they feel. 4s spend a great deal of energy directing their self-image inward. 4s are seeking their true identity and are trying to make sure that it is based on their inner feelings and imagination. 4s reject many of their positive qualities and common characteristics that they share with others (it's hard to be unique if you are like others). 4s seek attention through withdrawal (which may at first seem like a contradiction) and withdraw to pull others in (especially into their inner world). They want others to notice their depth of character and to obtain sympathy for what they feel is their unjust suffering. 4s believe that Life has dealt them a bad hand and their underlying feeling of shame may lead to hostility against Life (despair). In addition, they may feel hostility at their parents (or others in their past), themselves (for being defective), and at others (for not recognizing how special they are).
The Enneagram Type 4 with the 5 Wing, desires to be avant-garde. They see themselves as original, sincere, mysterious, subtle, artistic and independent. The traits of 4s and of 5s tend to reinforce each other. Both are withdrawn types: 4s withdraw to protect their feelings, 5s to protect their security. 4w5s will be markedly more observant of the environment, particularly of other people. There is an intellectual depth and intensity here which is not found in the other subtype, but also a corresponding social insecurity. 4w5s are given not merely to self-absorption, but to philosophical and religious speculation. Their emotional world is the dominant reality, but with a strong intellectual cast. 4w5s tend to be extreme loners, more lacking in social connectedness than the other subtype. Thus, their artistic expressions more completely substituted for the person than in 4w3s. These people also frequently have an otherworldly, ethereal quality about them; they are extremely independent and unconventional to the point of eccentricity. They also tend to be secretive, intensely preoccupied with their thoughts, and purposely enigmatic in their self-expressions. Their creative ideas may also be somewhat unusual, possibly even surreal. Members of this subtype care little for communicating with those who cannot understand them. Rather, they are interested in expressing their inner vision, whether sublime or terrifying, bleak or lyrical.
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𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 𝟓 - 𝟓𝐖𝟔
The 5 believes that they don't have enough to cope with life and that they lack the inner guidance to know what to do, leading to underlying feelings of fear and anxiety. To compensate, the 5 becomes motivated to find sources of security and confidence. They try to anticipate and prepare for the future, and spend their time trying to find and maintain a sense of inner guidance and support, pursuing mental strategies to create a (false) sense of security against anxiety.
The Enneagram Type 5 with the 6 Wing, desires to appear intellectual. They see themselves as changeable, receptive, careful, whimsical and trustworthy. This subtype is the one that has been most often associated with 5s – the intellectual who is interested in science, technology, acquiring facts and details. 5w6s are the analysts and catalogers of their environments; they are problem solvers and excel at dissecting the components of a problem or thing to discover how it works. The traits of the 5 and those of the 6 combine to produce one of the most “difficult” of the personality types to contact intimately or to sustain a relationship with. Both components, the 5 and the 6, are in the Thinking Triad, and 5w6s are perhaps the most intellectual of all the subtypes. They also tend to be more disengaged from their feelings than 5w4s. Persons of this subtype have problems trusting others, both because they are essentially 5s and because the 6 wing reinforces anxiety, making any kind of risk-taking in relationships difficult. However the comping mechanisms of the 5 and the 6 are somewhat at odds, creating an inner tension between the two components. 5s find security by withdrawing from others while 6s find security by working cooperatively with others. Hence, their interpersonal relations are erratic and in general are not an important part of their lives.
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𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 𝟗 - 𝟗𝐖𝟏
The 9 believes that they have no sense of self and that they cannot assert their wants. Being unable to express themselves leads to an underlying feeling of rage. 9s are out of touch with their instinctual drives. They believe that expressing their views or asserting their needs will cause conflict or lack of harmony. 9s shut down most of their instincts by repressing and denying their own wants and needs. 9s try to maintain their autonomy by resisting change (both external pressures and passionate feelings). 9s often accommodate and go with the flow (in a sense giving up their independence), but they do so with the agreement to give the 9 their own space to do their own thing. If they don't get that space, their underlying rage may come out in passive-aggressive forms.
The Enneagram Type 9 with the 1 Wing, desires to appear elusive. They see themselves as pragmatic, clear, collected, funny, calm and harmonious. The traits of the 9 and those of the 1-wing tend to reinforce each other. 9s repress their emotions to maintain their peace, while 1s repress their emotions to maintain self-control. They are less adventurous and more reserved than people of the other subtype. In this subtype we see people who are more emotionally controlled and cooler than those in the other subtype, although they may well express anger with restraint and smolder indignation. The 1-wing adds a thinking component to this subtype, balancing the 9's unselfconscious, receptive orientation. Complacent and disengaged, they want to avoid all personal conflicts and antagonisms, but may be easily moved to anger since there is a testiness and edginess in this subtype. They are also concerned with respectability and often feel morally superior to different classes, cultures, and lifestyles. There may be a puritanical streak to them, as well as a prim and proper, perfectionistic quality to their personal style.
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