Katherine is an IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction. In the Spring of 2023, Katherine Chernick Fauvre was inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who in America Biographical Registry. In the Summer of 2023, she was inducted into the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) and was awarded the Top Enneagram Coach of the Year for 2023. In the fall of 2023, the City of Menlo Park named her the Best Consultant of the Year for 2023 and 2015. In January, IAOTP selected Katherine as the Empowered Woman of the Year, 2024.

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Free Enneagram History Series: Interviews

Katherine interviews fellow Enneagram Teachers about their experiences learning the Enneagram. They also discuss using the Enneagram and what they are doing with it now.

• Mark Sheehan - Memories of Oscar Ichazo and as a Teacher for Arica Institute
• Tom Condon - History of the Enneagram, NLP, Subtypes, and Centers
• Patrick O'Leary - Enneagram History at Loyola, Chicago circa 1971-1972
• Jerome Wagner - Enneagram History, MBTI, Tritype® Tristar, and Karen Horney

What is Tritype®?

Discover your blind spot and experience lasting change

Learning the Enneagram Tritype® System and understanding how to apply it to your life can open the door to rapid personal and professional growth that will positively impact every area of your life.

Learning the 27 Tritypes® brings a level of specific personalization that makes this possible.

Katherine uses her 40 years of Enneagram study and 30 years of research. She has conducted 24 research studies, completed three certification programs with the original Enneagram authors, and attended week-long intensives with both Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo. As a result, she has developed a diverse and integrated view of type.

What you will discover:

Tritype® teaches how people use all three centers of intelligence. She introduces advanced ways to work with the Enneagram and the Tritype® Archetypes. This will empower you to make more confident decisions and understand where you and others are coming from and why. And you will learn how to recognize limiting beliefs, negative emotions, and repetitive behaviors.

Once you know your Tritype®, Life Mission, Innate Strengths, Focus of Attention, and Inherent Blind Spots, you can focus on your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses.

Understanding the basic needs and concerns of the 27 Tritype® Archetypes will allow you to understand how to get the best from yourself and others.

Gaining more access to your individual path of transformation can lead you to aspects of your higher self. Discovering the archetypal qualities of the 27 Tritype® Archetypes through imagery lets you more quickly and accurately type yourself and others.

Finally, you will gain a better ability to distinguish between common Enneagram look-a-likes, which can help you avoid or clear up mistypings. Truly understanding which types you use and in the order you use them can help you understand what motivates you and others. Knowing why you think, feel, and act the way you do can radically increase your capacity for self-compassion and transformation.

Understanding your Tritype® helps you to:

• Find your Truetype™.
• Understand what motivates you and others.
• Know why you think, feel, and act as you do…
• Which can radically increase your capacity for self-compassion and transformation.
• Transform your relationships with others by understanding their unique personality.
• And what motivates them because you will know how to get the best from them.
• Move through your life with greater social effectiveness.
• Gain more confidence because you know where people are coming from.
• Learn the tools that will enable you to draw out the best from everyone around you.
• Expand your sense of compassion and ability to honor other’s approaches to life.
• Understand the important nuances about your natural strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots (making it easier for you to evolve, grow, and help others do the same).

More Tritype® below and on www.katherinefauvre.com/tritype/

History and Evolution of Tritype®

What is Tritype®? What is Trifix, What are Trigrams, 3Types, TriTypes, Tri Type, TriCenter, Tritype® Tristar, Personality Numbers, and More?

In Katherine's own words…Each Enneagram type is an innate, elegant defense strategy built around a corresponding set of core fears. These core fears are based on the needs and concerns of the nine Enneagram types.

This dynamic gives rise to a complex personality structure and defense system. This is a unique way to understand the personality, not as only a collection of traits and behaviors but rather as an efficient defense structure that is trying to manage our core fears and protect us from harm.

Of course, each of us can recognize in our own experience that we have more than one core fear, so being able to relate those different flavors of fear to a powerful map like the Enneagram Tritype® Personality System is essential to truly understanding what is driving each of us.

So, that is why I created the Tritype® System, a map that comprehensively lays out the significant influences operating within our personalities, which takes more of the mystery out of why people do what they do, which then makes it easier to understand ourselves and others better.

What you can discover with your Tritype®!

Many teachers and many teachings…including many research participants!

I have had the good fortune of learning from many great teachers -- and certified with Helen Palmer-David Daniels, Don Riso-Russ Hudson, and Kathy Hurley-Theodorre Donson, as well as being able to attend intensives with the creator of the Enneagram of Personality, Oscar Ichazo, and the creator of the Subtypes, Dr. Claudio Naranjo. I even had the honor of Naranjo validating my research findings on my 1994-1995 Instinctual Types and Subtypes Research.

I have enjoyed every training I have attended. I appreciated Ichazo's sharp mind and the way in which he created the Enneagram of Personality that we all use today, and I have great respect for Dr. Claudio Naranjo, the first to disseminate Ichazo's information on the Enneagram of Personality actively, and is the originator of the Instinctual Subtypes.  Their teachings have greatly enriched my view of the types.

How I discovered Tritype®…

Tritype® and Instinctual Stackings are based on tens of thousands of coaching sessions, in-depth qualitative interviews, EQ surveys, and Enneacard test results; from it, I developed a body of work I called 3Types or Tritype®, with the Tricenter and Trigram symbols. I still use all the terms, including 3Types and the Tricenter and Trigram symbols. But the overarching concept is known as Tritype®. I have also added the Tritype® Tristar symbol that shows the unfolding of the Tritypes®.

More specifically, it is based on the contributions of the 9 Enneagram types.

The In-depth Inquiry Process revealed a distinct pattern

When I gathered data from my initial studies on “the internal experiences” of the Enneagram, the Instinctual Types, and Subtypes, I recognized a typical pattern of clients and test-takers identifying with the idealized images and core fears of three Enneagram types, not just one set of core fears.

At first, this might be explained by someone's wing types or types along the lines of connection to the primary type. But too frequently, the types were not connected by a wing or a line. Notably, these clients and participants used the idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies of three types, not just one. Types 6 or 9 might have four types, but of the four, they are always identified with a type from each center.

There is much more to say about how types 6 and 9 test in all testing instruments. It is a study within a study and why I poured so much time, energy, and money into creating a testing instrument to alert them when they should consider Type 6, Type 9, or both.

For years, these types were often mistyped as other types and reported they only really felt the full transformational changes once they were accurately typed. I call this one’s TrueType™. When someone finds their correct Enneagram Type, Tritype®, Instinctual Type, and Subtype, they have identified their “Truetype™” and can much more readily work with their core type at a much deeper level. Identifying one’s Truetype makes this possible.

So, I just kept recording the patterns…

I even ran a mini-study focused on the core fears each type identified with to gather more data about the phenomena of people identifying with the core fears of three types. This was a new pattern that others had yet to notice.

I first researched the idealized images and core fears in the 1970s and 1980s when hiring, training, and managing others as an executive in the cosmetic industry. I worked with all levels and from all parts of the country. I used every typology I could find. I quickly had clusters of adjectives and expressions for each type I had seen before learning about the Enneagram.

In 1985, when I found the Enneagram, I saw very similar patterns! And they turned out to be essential facets of the nine Enneagram types, not all of which were known in 1985. I also discovered that the Enneagram typology could hold all other typologies based on motivations rather than behaviors and identifications. All different personality typologies were based on behaviors and identifications.

Many students and teachers of the Enneagram discovered that people seemed to use two or even three types. This could be explained when the lead type and lines or wings to their other types. But far too many did not. So, I kept compiling and testing the data.

Teachers and enthusiasts who noticed these confusing patterns also noticed that some people were extremely hard to type because two or three types were so close. I hypothesized that Tritype® might explain this difficulty as to why some types were so hard to type and why some people strongly identify with more than one type.

Consistently Identifying with more than one type.

People identifying three sets of fears rather than just one also suggested to me that there was a reason people might identify with more than one type.

So, I began working with the interventions recommended for all three types they used, and my clients began to have faster results and more significant breakthroughs.

Katherine Fauvre added Tritype® to her work in 1994

Not overthinking it, I called this 3Types (individual types), TriCenter (the three triads), Trigrams (the Tritype Symbol with the interconnecting lines to the other types), and continued documenting my findings for two more years.

Then, in January of 1997, after teaching the Enneagram for 11 years, I attended an NCIEA morning event taught by a teacher from the Arica Institute, the spiritual school founded on the work of Enneagram pioneer Oscar Ichazo.

The instructor casually mentioned that she had recently learned about her "Trifix" but said nothing more. I had just heard about this term from Jack Labanauskas and Andrea Isaacs of the Enneagram Monthly a few weeks earlier. They had recently interviewed Ichazo. In the interview, Ichazo gave Jack his Trifix and Andrea hers, but they did not know more than that…

So, after the morning class for the IEA, I approached the instructor. I shared that I had found that my clients and research participants appeared to have the idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies of three types, not just one… and that these types included a type from each center: head, heart, and gut. I called these 3Types, TriCenter, and Trigrams.

The instructor confirmed that my research findings were meaningful as Ichazo had also realized people use all three triads and have three “fixations,” the mental preoccupations and fixed beliefs of the types of the types… not just one. 

Two years later… in 1997,
Oscar Ichazo added Trifix to the Arica Institute

Before 1997, we did not know what is now Trifix because it was not a part of Ichazo’s early teachings. He added the term Trifix in an email to Jack and Andrea of the Enneagram Monthly1996 when he was interviewed by the Enneagram Monthly, 26 years after his first 10-month intensive in Arica Chile, which began in 1970.

Ichazo did not specify that the Trifix was only the “mental fixations” of the three types in the Trifix: no head, heart, and gut. The name implied this, but Jack, Andrea, and others assumed it was a term that meant types. Instead, Ichazo only focused on the three fixations of the three types and why he called it Trifix.

In 2007 an Arican attended my course. Afterward, we realized this critical distinction when talking about our experiences with the Enneagram. Then, I added the term Tritype® because my research uses the whole type, including each type's head, heart, and gut type in the Tritype®, not just the three head type fixations like Ichazo. Tritype® included the whole dynamics of the types: passions, fixations, and convictions of all three types, as well as the types’ wings and lines.

So we felt that the terms Trifix and Tritype® could name this distinction. I used Tritype® from then on.

In his book The Nine Constituents, published in 2019, Ichazo finally documented five paragraphs on the concept of Trifix. However, he still never taught anything about using the head, heart, and gut fixes. Nor did he teach about the combinations in the Trifix.

My explanations of Tritype® identified the variables that occurred with the 27 Tritype® Archetypes, not Trifix. Using three co-fixations for Ichazo still meant three head fixes only. It is still noteworthy that…

Independent of one another…

Both Katherine Fauvre and Oscar Ichazo
Discovered people use 3 Enneagram types, one from each triad…

So Ichazo and I had both discovered that people use all three triads. However, after that, the theories are very different from one another.

Errors in the Transmission of Tritype® and Trifix 2017

Once understood by all in 2007, with the name clarifications after that, the systems were fairly easy to understand. New Enneagram Enthusiasts understood the concepts, and more were participating in the research, so more were accurately Trityping® and sharing their experiences.

However, circa 2017, these two systems' transmissions needed to be more accurate and based on both systems. These inaccuracies in the transmission of Tritype® and Trifix seem to have caused the most significant confusion. This is because “how to determine one’s Tritype®” was lost along the way.

I have documented this and other inaccurate transmissions of the Enneagram to clear up misunderstandings that will hopefully guide Enneagram enthusiasts to find their accurate Enneagram Type, Tritype®, and Instinctual Type and Subtype.

Some enthusiasts have mistakenly defined Trifix as having a head, heart, and gut type. This is incorrect but can quickly happen if people have only read about these systems on social media. One needs to have studied with Ichazo, Arica, myself, or those who have to understand these critical distinctions accurately.

Adding a heart and body fix to Trifix has been an unfortunate misunderstanding of Ichazo’s work. Instead, it is the Tritype® that has a head type, heart type, and gut type. Trifix is the three mental preoccupations only.

From the beginning, Ichazo’s work included recognizing that man inherently seeks to answer critical questions about life according to the triad in which his dominant type resides.

Typing and Trityping®

Just as with a single Enneagram type, it is imperative to confirm one’s Tritype® based on internal motivations, idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies that one employs. Avoid basing it on identifications, behaviors, or associations.

Pay attention to the irrational fears associated with idealized images and observe which defense strategy you actually utilize. It is not determined by our actions or words or any changes we may have undergone, as those are examples of behaviors and identifications.

The Enneagram and Tritype® are rooted in the reasons behind what we do, not just the actions themselves, and in understanding the nature of our suffering at our core rather than attributing it to external sources of hurt. Instead, it's about exploring why we respond to hurt in the specific ways we do. What are we afraid of enduring if we acknowledge that we are the source of our problems?

What if someone we dislike is correct, and we are fundamentally wrong? What irrational fears do we need to confront or endure, and why? If we are denied what we believe we need to feel safe, how will we cope, and why?

Tritype® has proven to be a more complete "map" of the unconscious influences driving behavior…

The journey of making progress in life requires being able to see and identify the things that we fear, our reactivity to situations, the beliefs that reinforce our reactivity, and our understanding of why we react to people and situations the way we do.

As with the first teachings of the Enneagram in 1970, my initial 1994 qualitative research studies on the “Internal Experiences” of the types reveal key insights into the world of the types, which led to the discovery of the mathematical “Unnfolding of 27 Tritype® Archetypes,” the three Tritype® Stackings, and the three Instinctual Stackings. These findings were so illuminating that all 24 qualitative studies are ongoing.

The first study began with 500 Enneagram-savvy participants, followed by a control group of 100 participants who were unfamiliar with the Enneagram and the Subtypes. The number of participants increased exponentially from 600 participants to thousands, then tens of thousands, and now, hundreds of thousands of international participants.

The latest research studies have included my 2020 testing instrument, the Enneagram Tritype® Test, version 8 (ETTv8). This test has nine testing instruments in one test and, among other features, has been specially programmed to gather the test-taker’s lexicon use, vocabulary, and ranking of the Enneacards and Enneasentences and to “detect” the important patterns used by the Enneagram types, Tritypes®, and Instincts and Subtypes. Types and Subtypes.

Introduced in 2020, the ETTv8 has been taken by over 200,000 participants in less than 2 years. detect the test-taker’s lexicon use and selection patterns that reached over 200,000 participants in the first two years.

It continues to reveal patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that shed light on theTritype® added additional nuanced perspectives of the types by identifying the Idealized Images, Core Fears, and Defense Strategies. paved the way for the emergence of It provided an incredible shortcut on the path of personal growth and how to recognize the Blind Spots that are missed. Once we accurately identified our Enneagram Type, Tritype®, and Instinctual Stacking, we have access to a detailed map that clearly lays out many of the things we need to see and work with in order to become the happiest and most functional versions of ourselves.

We can, of course, get to all of this through the In-depth Inquiry Process, but having the benefit of a map like the Enneagram and Tritype® can cut years off the process.

Once you know the Enneagram Tritype® System and learn to identify the patterns of each type accurately, you will be able to quickly understand the unique drivers inside each person in your life. and why they do what they do…

Understanding someone's Core Fears and Motivations increases access to your empathy and compassion…

Understanding Tritype® enables you to help others feel seen as well as know what they need, how to relate to them in the best way, and how to avoid triggering their unconscious fears and insecurities.

Developing a deep knowledge and understanding of your Enneagram Tritype® is like removing the fog of perception from your eyes, both for your own journey of personal development and with how you relate to everyone in your life.

Tritype® identifies a more specific Focus Attention

‘Tritype® made my own coaching work so much deeper.’

...said Iris, a coach, about working with the Enneagram Tritype® System. If you're a healer, therapist, life coach, leadership coach, business consultant, or spiritual director, using the Enneagram and Tritype® in your work will give you access to a level of individualized insights that can significantly accelerate your impact and return on investments with your clients.

If clients are accurately typed, they will report significant changes in the way they view others and themselves.

By itself, Tritype® offers an In-Depth understanding of your personality and comes alive when you apply it.

By itself, Tritype® is the map, but you also need to know how to follow that map. Whether understanding yourself, breaking old patterns, or helping clients improve the quality of their lives, you need to know how to apply it to have the greatest results.

You will know how to correctly determine and work with your Tritype®, Life Mission, Innate Strengths, Focus of Attention, and Blindspot, as well as the basic needs and concerns of the 27 Tritype® combinations. You will also be able to better understand key distinctions within a type.

Can those with the same Tritype® look-a-like?

Once you learn the qualities of the 27 Tritype® Archetypes, you can more accurately "type" people and know how to distinguish between common Enneagram look-a-likes to avoid common mistypings.

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Katherine Chernick Fauvre has been an internationally recognized Personality Expert and Transformational Coach since 1984. In May 2023, she was inducted into the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America Biographical Registry for her repeated rise to prominence in multiple respected fields. Her progressive and innovative leadership, creative problem-solving skills, qualitative research studies, significant achievements, including the creation of the Enneagram Tritype® Archetypes, the Enneagram Stacking Patterns, the In-depth Inquiry Process, and her social advocacy have made her a respected leader in the field.

Remarkably, Katherine holds Triple Enneagram Certifications from luminaries in the field: Helen Palmer-David Daniels, Don Riso-Russ Hudson, and Kathleen Hurley-Ted Dobson, and is the only person worldwide to have attended Enneagram intensives with both Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo, with Naranjo validating her 1994-1995 research on the Instinctual Types and Subtypes. In addition to her work with clients, she is devoted to her role as a teacher and mentor in the field of Personality Typologies, creating methodologies that focus on “Personal Empowerment”  and “Personality Diversity” while actively engaging in civil advocacy to support those in need. Her extensive body of work encompasses research findings from 24 studies, masterclasses, books, videos and products, certification programs, and contributions, co-creating a non-profit TV Series, Types: Your Personality Revealed.

Katherine is an internationally recognized personality expert. She has worked as an Enneagram author, researcher, teacher, and transformational coach since 1985 and has an integrated and holistic view of the Enneagram.  She is an International Enneagram Association (IEA) Accredited Professional with Distinction and a former IEA board member. In May of 2023, Katherine was inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who in America Biographical Registry. In August 2023, she was also inducted into the globally renowned International Association of Top Professionals, earning the title of "Top" Enneagram Coach of the Year for 2023. In October of 2023, she was named Menlo Park's Best Consultant of the Year for 2023.

Throughout her career, whether teaching Enneagram knowledge to Team 5 in the boardroom at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, engaging with 14-year-old students in a private high school classroom, guiding attorneys during voir dire in a courtroom, or working with incarcerated individuals in local county jails, one profound truth consistently resonated: that was our shared humanity. We all possess the gifts and talents of our Enneagram Types, Tritypes®, Instinctual Types, and Subtypes, and we all grapple with the struggles and strategies of our Types.

These types are universal; an Enneagram type 4 is a type 4 everywhere in the world. The question that has persistently guided Katherine is how we can transcend the boundaries of race, creed, color, nationality, status, gender, age, and circumstances to expand our understanding of others. The answer she has arrived at is rooted in recognizing the significance of "Personality Diversity" - the concept that elucidates why people perceive and defend their sense of reality in very distinct ways.

This understanding explains why individuals take certain actions and perceive events from their unique perspectives, often without realizing that others also have their own views of reality that may be very different from our own. Armed with this knowledge, we can all become more aware of these inherent perspectives, bridge the gap between our differing viewpoints, and foster more open communication. This, in turn, holds the promise of enhancing “Emotional Intelligence,” expanding our sense of compassion and creating a profound sense of “Empathetic Resonance” with all personality styles.

Katherine Fauvre: Honored as Top Enneagram Coach of the Year by IAOTP

Katherine’s Coaching Approach

Katherine is a master profiler. Her vast knowledge of many systems and personality typologies enables her to effortlessly track your words, expressions, phrases, tone, and body language in a way that will help you identify and work with your Enneagram Type, Tritype®, and Instinctual Stacking, which will help you confirm your Truetype™.

Her In-depth Inquiry Process helps you discover new ways of working with old problems. She works to quickly and radically deepen your understanding of yourself and others, empowering you to develop the critical self-awareness needed to live a more fulfilling life. Learn more about Katherine's approach to coaching.

Katherine has diverse areas of expertise, including but not limited to Enneagram, Tritype®, Instinctual Subtypes, Micro Expressions, NLP, Core Energetics, Dream Analysis, Body Language, Lexicon Use, Speech Patterns, Talk Style, Pacing, Reasoning Styles, MBTI, Empathy Styles, Childhood Development, ADHD, Age Appropriateness, Learning Styles, Trauma, Conflict Management, Career Guidance, Executive Coaching, Team Building, and more.

Tritype® Transformation through Insight™

Identifying and confirming your dominant Enneagram Type, your Enneagram Instinctual Subtype, and your Enneagram Tritype® is an essential part of the transformation process. Do not be discouraged if it takes time, as each step in the process itself will give you many valuable insights.

"Katherine has the ability to synthesize material from a variety of sources and to organize it in a way that offers cohesion and insights.... she has made a point to study with everyone who has taught this topic and made powerful contributions with her own research on the inner world of the Types and Subtypes...." 
-Enneagram Monthly

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Katherine would love to support you on your journey of discovery.

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Please Note: The 1-hour Tritype® Session is a typing session only, not an In-depth Inquiry Coaching Session. In-depth Inquiry coaching sessions need to be for 2 or more hours.

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If you are an existing client, you can pay for your sessions below. Be sure to select the “Existing Client” section. Click on the purple “add to cart button” below to select the number of Enneagram Tritype® Coaching Session hours you would like to purchase. You can read more about Katherine’s Tritype® coaching click here

Making an Appointment 

Katherine schedules appointments Monday- Friday from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm California Time.

(All bullets below need to be included in the email to set up your session)
To book time, please include all of the following in an email to Katherine. 
Send your email to: info@katherinefauvre.com
Once Katherine has this information in a single email thread, she will email you the time that works for both of you.

• The receipt for your PayPal payment, indicating which session you have purchased.
• Please take the test at  https://enneagramtritypetest.com  
• Forward your live test results or your test link to info@katherinefauvre.com 
• Subject should be “Test Results (your name).”
• Please indicate how much time you would like to book and your time zone.
• Send your exact availability (according to California time, using the 12-hour clock).
• Katherine will get you in as soon as possible, but a lot depends on availability.
• Send her your availability for the next 3-4 weeks
• Please be aware of whether Daylight Savings Time is in effect in California.

What is Your Truetype™?

Truetype™ is a term coined by Katherine Chernick Fauvre in 1995 to identify the accurate types that emerge as a result of the convergence of your “True” Enneagram Type, Tritypes®, and Instinctual Stacking.

Once you have accurately determined your Truetype™, you can combine them with other personality Typologies, including your MBTI, Visual Archetype, Body Type, Lexicon use, Micro Expressions, Energetic Structures, and more.

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Katherine's Blog Posts

Looking for a blog on a certain type or topic? Search below for any topic that interests you. Chances are that Katherine has written a blog about it. Simply write the keywords in the search box below. Read articles about the Enneagram Types, Tritypes®, Instinctual Types, and Subtypes. Use the search block below to find it!

For example, If you want to find a blog post about Claudio Naranjo, you can just search for Naranjo and see all related articles. If you want to find a post on Type Four, type in “4” or “Four” to find those articles as well.

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Claudio Naranjo’s

Transmission of the Enneagram… Subtypes

Claudio Naranjo was the individual who gathered his cohorts and organized the 10-month intensive with Oscar Ichazo that commenced on July 1, 1970, in Arica, Chile. He completed six months of the 10-month training program, in which the Enneagram played a minor role. Afterward, he returned to Berkeley, California, where he recruited fellow seekers to join his spiritual study group, "Seekers After Truth" (SAT).

He was the first to teach Ichazo's Protoanalysis concepts, although he wished to respect Ichazo's copyright and used terms in the public domain. Thus, Ichazo’s Instinctual Triads: Conservation, Relation, and Adaption became the Centers of Intelligence: Head, Heart, and Gut, and Protoanalysis became the Enneagram.

In September 1971, Naranjo initiated his own spiritual study group, Seekers After Truth (SAT), which lasted for 18 months. He required participants to sign confidentiality agreements, similar to Ichazo's request for the Arica, Chile group. However, two individuals, Kathleen Speeth of Berkeley, California (his girlfriend during the SAT groups) and a Jesuit, Fr. Robert Ochs, who taught the Enneagram at Loyola University, Chicago, broke their confidentiality agreements.

It was around this time, in 1972, that Naranjo ceased teaching the Enneagram in Berkeley, California, and the United States, citing multiple reasons. He disapproved of others taking credit for Ichazo's work and using his work without proper attribution.

In the 1980s, Oscar Ichazo sued Robert Ochs from Loyola, Kathy Speeth, and authors Maria Beesing, Robert Nogosek, Patrick O'Leary, and Helen Palmer for copyright infringement. Since he was unaware of 3Types (Tritype®) or Ichazo’s Trifix, these aspects were not part of his Enneagram dissemination. Nevertheless, he did introduce the Subtypes.

I presented my Instinctual Subtype research and book to Naranjo on the first day of the intensive. The following morning, he mentioned that he had read my book the previous evening and was pleased to have his Subtypes theory validated through qualitative research.

He noted that my findings provided valuable insights into the 27 Subtypes, which he referred to as "archetypes." He also appreciated that my research confirmed his pivotal role as the Subtypes' primary teacher. This was significant to him because Kathy Speeth had erroneously attributed his work to Oscar Ichazo, and Helen Palmer had not acknowledged his contribution.

Furthermore, Naranjo expressed his interest in my findings and decided to incorporate the 27 Subtypes into the intensive, combining my research with his observations. He mentioned that it would be the first time he would teach all 27 Subtypes.

Upon learning this news, participants expressed a desire for copies of my Instinctual Subtype book. Subsequently, a group of us visited Kinko’s to have them reproduced.

Side Note:
In 1994, when I began my research studies, I conducted an extensive search for all available information on subtypes. I compiled sentences, quotes, and phrases for each subtype on two 8.5x11 pages from various sources teaching about subtypes. By the time of Naranjo’s intensive in 1996, I had added three more 8.5x11 pages of new material on each subtype that had emerged during my research interviews.

To validate these statements, I distributed all six pages related to their primary Enneagram type, including all three instinctual types: self-preserving, social, and sexual. I also provided pages for their three instincts concerning their wing types.

Participants were instructed to:
Read the statements for each instinctual subtype for their type and wing types.
Place a checkmark in front of the statements that are accurate.
Strike a single line through words and/or sentences that are inaccurate.
Modify statements to make them accurate, if possible.
Add important statements that are missing.
Include any comments or explanations they deemed necessary.

The initial group of 600 research participants included:
250 who were aware of the subtypes.
250 who were unaware of the subtypes.
100 who were unfamiliar with both the Enneagram types and subtypes.

These participants had diverse demographics:
They learned the Enneagram from different teachers or teachings.
They hailed from different cultures and regions worldwide.
They represented various ages, genders, MBTI Types, and races.

The commonalities among the participants were as follows:
They made similar checkmarks for what was correct.
They employed the same or similar strikethroughs for what was not true.
They implemented similar modifications in the same or similar manner.
They added the same or similar statements or comments when necessary.

Additionally, I solicited words, pictures, and phrases that epitomized their type and instinct from them.

And they supplied the same or very similar images.

I then meticulously edited out any errors and incorporated the unexpected and compelling findings that aligned with my research.

Point of Interest:
In 1994, only individuals connected to Claudio Naranjo, Berkeley, Kathy Speeth, Helen Palmer, and Tom Condon, or those who studied with them or were associated with these figures, were privy to the subtype archetypes.

At that time, people were taught that they possessed one instinct and that they could leverage this instinct's energy to transform their Enneagram type's passion.

However, research unveiled that instinct was more potent than type because it represented a more primal manifestation of the personality type.

By 1996, I had accumulated three additional 8.5x11 pages of new material through my research on the instinctual types and 27 subtypes.

When Naranjo was asked whether he planned to publish a book on the Subtypes in the near future, he explained that he required more time to confirm his theories about the 27 Subtypes. Nonetheless, he requested that I include his observations of the subtypes in my book so that he could be represented. I readily agreed.

Subsequently, we all took notes during the intensive. At the end of the program, attendees provided me with copies of their notes to incorporate into my book. This collaborative effort proved to be an enriching experience.

Throughout the intensive, we extensively discussed the Subtypes, lexicon, and image findings from my other book, "Enneastyle," which explored the "internal experiences" of the type studies. We dedicated a significant amount of time to discussing my research findings during the intensive. Naranjo was pleasantly surprised by my discoveries, especially the confirmation that he was the originator of the Subtypes, not Ichazo, Speeth, Palmer, or others.

During this intensive, Naranjo validated my research findings on the Subtypes. I had the opportunity to pose numerous questions to him. It is worth noting that he was remarkably open and available, willingly addressing all of my inquiries, an aspect I greatly appreciated.

His extensive knowledge of systems, personality, and the Enneagram was extraordinary. Our discussions on systems were particularly enjoyable, as his answers bridged gaps I had found before and during my research.

Most of Naranjo's information on the Subtypes remained largely unknown in 1996. Because attribution for the Subtypes had erroneously been attributed to Ichazo rather than Naranjo, no one seemed to know that it originated with Naranjo until my research.

This misunderstanding persisted because Naranjo had refrained from teaching the Enneagram in the US from 1972 to 1996. Therefore, his first intensive in 1996 marked a return after nearly 24 years of absence.

During this intensive, Naranjo asserted that he had conceived the concept of the Subtypes but had not yet fully defined all 27 archetypes.

Given his approval of my research findings, he asked me to draft a paragraph encapsulating his perspective on each of the 27 Subtypes and include them in my book, "Enneagram Instinctual Subtypes," to ensure his contributions were properly acknowledged.

Prior to publishing this information, I shared the paragraphs I had written with Naranjo for his endorsement. Once he approved them, I began teaching the Subtypes as the work of Naranjo. Additionally, I penned an article detailing my experience with Naranjo, which not only enriched my understanding of the Enneagram but also shed light on aspects he had not previously taught. Click here - Naranjo Article: Reflections on Type.

Errors in the Dissemination of the Enneagram

What are the errors in the Dissemination of the Lines of Connection…Why is it important?

Common Mistypings

As a scholar, I have learned that most Enneagram teachers and enthusiasts would want to know that Claudio Naranjo repeatedly stated that he was misquoted in 1971 regarding the concept of integration-disintegration and stress-security. He said that the types always move to "both" wing types and “both” lines of connection during integration-disintegration and stress-security.

The types, wings, and lines of connection are neutral until the personality acts in a manner that is positive or negative.  So if the personality is positive and healthy, the types, wings, and lines are healthy, but if the personality drops down the levels and is negative, they are all considered negative. It is a system that represents the intersections of the law of 3 (369) and the law of 7 (142857) with the law of one (the circle). Research suggests that this  9-pointed Enneagram is thought to represent movement in the universe uniting Divinity with Creation.  

In addition to stating this fact in his Seekers After Truth (SAT) groups, he also documented this fact in his book Enneatypes in Psychotherapy, published in 1994, in his 10-day intensive in Boulder, Colorado in 1996 (which I attended), and in his SAT Intensive in Germany in 2010 which is on video and can be purchased. 

Naranjo did say that he considered this one evening in his SAT group in 1971 but immediately dismissed the notion because Oscar Ichazo's Enneagram of Personality was based on "Trialectics" rather than dialectics. 

He also stated that this misunderstanding was an unfortunate error in the dissemination of the Enneagram that went around the world and caused many people to mistype themselves and that many books continued with this misunderstanding of Oscar Ichazo's “Trialectic” system of the Enneagram of Personality. 

In 1996, when I attended Naranjo’s 10-day intensive in Boulder, I taught the Enneagram for 9 years, had three certifications and 3 research studies, and had written 2 books and did not know this important error. I did, however, notice the error when I conducted my first two qualitative research studies prior to attending Naranjo's Intensive. One study was Enneastyle: 9 Languages of the Enneagram Types, which was on the internal experience of the 9 Enneagram Types.  The other was A Study of the Enneagram Instinctual Subtypes. 

I asked Naranjo about his view of integration-disintegration and stress-security in his 1996 Intensive. I asked because over 1000 study participants identified with both the positive and negative aspects of their lines of connection. 

In addition, Oscar Ichazo never taught integration-disintegration or stress-security in this manner. 

So you need only add that when integrating, you rapidly and continuously move to the high of your type, both wings, and both lines of connection, and when disintegrating, you also rapidly and continuously move to the low side of your type, both wings, and both lines of connection. Think of it as a piston that is always in motion.

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