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The Enneagram For Beginners

Joe Forrest
16 min readOct 7, 2019

“What’s your number?”

People, for the most part, like to talk about themselves and what they’re learning.

If you’ve been to a party, corporate retreat, Bible study, or group hangout over the past year or so, odds are pretty good you’ve heard someone talking about the Enneagram, even if you didn’t know what they were talking about.

I briefly touched on the Enneagram and how it affected my marriage in my second year-in-review marriage post. Since then, I’ve had several people tell me that was their first exposure to the Enneagram, and they wanted to know where they could learn more about it.

This post was born out of those conversations. I wanted to create a handy resource for Enneagram first-timers and a place for Enneagram veterans to send first-timers. It includes a Q&A-style introduction to the Enneagram, brief descriptions of each Type and the associated healthy/unhealthy behaviors, and some Other Stuff. At the end of the post, I’ve also included some resources I’ve found helpful.

I hope to see you along on the journey!

The Basics: Q&A

So, what is the Enneagram?

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Joe Forrest
Joe Forrest

Written by Joe Forrest

Joe Forrest writes on the intersection of faith, culture, secularism, and politics.

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