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Changing enneagram type

Risen

Permabanned
Joined
Mar 19, 2008
Messages
3,185
MBTI Type
ISTP
Enneagram
9w8
Is this possible? Can people naturally and/or consciously change their dominant enneagram type? Like with me, my dominant type is 9, followed by 5, then 8. I'd like to develop my 8 side more. How does one go about doing that?
 

Jeffster

veteran attention whore
Joined
Jun 7, 2008
Messages
6,743
MBTI Type
ESFP
Enneagram
7w6
Instinctual Variant
sx
Spin the wheel and see what it lands on! :cheese:
 
G

garbage

Guest
From here:

Ultimately, the goal is for each of us to "move around" the Enneagram, integrating what each type symbolizes and acquiring the healthy potentials of all the types. The ideal is to become a balanced, fully functioning person who can draw on the power (or from the Latin, "virtue") of each as needed. Each of the types of the Enneagram symbolizes different important aspects of what we need to achieve this end. The personality type we begin life with is therefore less important ultimately than how well (or badly) we use our type as the beginning point for our self-development and self-realization.

So, yes, it seems that learning from all of the Enneagram types and developing the virtues of each is one of the major ideas of the Enneagram.

As far as how to do so? That I'd like to know.
 
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