TAKE A TEST? OR MEET WITH A HUMAN?…

I’m occasionally asked if I can point to the best Enneagram test currently available. My response:

There is no profiling test that’s keeping up with the myriad key developments in the Enneagram. (Changes including: the three instincts of self-preservation, social, and sexual have been massively stripped of early erroneous assumptions, and clarified; the trifix has earned its rightful and invaluable place; Object Relations is fully integrated into the triads.)

Even if there were an up-to-date test, self-profiling tests are hugely influenced by the subjectivity of the test-taker. Given that the Enneagram’s aim is to help bring to light the trappings we’re in, an Enneagram test is very possibly intrinsically and ironically unhelpful in our endeavor to more clearly understand ourselves — because we are, simply stated, incredibly biased. And our test results may very likely reflect our biases and blind spots, further reinforcing our incapacity to see ourselves clearly.

I’ve been on a journey with the Enneagram for over a quarter century. I’m in the river of this elegant and wild leviathon of a system — learning from the earliest pioneers (Gurdjieff, Ichazo, Naranjo) to the modern day masters (Palmer, Riso & Hudson, Chestnut & Paes, etc) to the new vanguard (Luckovich, Okorafor, Gray, etc).

And I distill my love-obsession into something that can make a difference in your life. For real evolution.

And, for some, revolution.

Bottom line: There’s nothing like an in-person sleeves-rolled-up exploration. No test can go to the places we travel together. We’ll aim for a clarifying sense of what you’re up to in your trifix, which center you’re most addicted to (which determines you main type), and touch into the instinctual drives when helpful. Whatever serves you best, that’s our focus.