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The Core Development Areas for Coaching Clients
of Each Enneagram Style

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Please click a number to see the information for the corresponding style.

Enneagram Style One Development Areas

Becoming accepting, calm, and serene rather than trying so hard to make everything perfect – themselves, others, and the environment

Letting go of being so intensely attentive to details and needing to have everything under constant control

Becoming more flexible and relaxed rather than judging everything and being highly reactive mentally, emotionally, and behaviorally

Enneagram Style Two Development Areas

Acknowledging that they have needs and desires, and knowing the importance of taking care of themselves rather than always catering to the needs of others

Finding an internal basis for their self-esteem rather than making their self-worth dependent on the reactions of others

Integrating their need to depend on others and also be autonomous in both personal and professional relationships, rather than being overly independent and/or overly dependent in their relationships

Enneagram Style Three Development Areas

Deeply exploring their inner thoughts, feelings, and experiences in order to be more truthful with themselves and more forthcoming with others

Going more with the flow of events and experiences rather than feeling so driven to make things happen

Learning the difference between doing and being, and appreciating themselves for who they are rather than for what they do

Enneagram Style Four Development Areas

Integrating objectivity with emotionality to find an equilibrium of the heart and mind, rather than believing that truth lies only in the realm of feelings

Feeling a deep and true sense of self-worth rather than absorbing negative data wholeheartedly, rejecting positive information without discernment, and continuously comparing themselves to others so that they feel either deficient or superior in some way

Being able to focus simultaneously and equally on themselves and other people rather than focusing primarily on themselves and on their own feelings and inner experience

Enneagram Style Five Development Areas

Learning to engage emotionally in real time rather than automatically disengaging from their emotional responses

Being willing to share more of themselves – including their thoughts, feelings, and personal experiences – with others

Becoming a central part of events, interpersonal interactions, and organizations rather than staying on the periphery

Enneagram Style Six Development Areas

Learning to differentiate between an insight (something that is accurate and based on clear-sighted intuition) and a projection (something based solely on imagination) rather than assuming that all their thoughts are true

Trusting their own inner authority rather than looking to someone or something outside themselves for meaning and certainty

Having faith in themselves and others to be able to handle whatever occurs rather than going into doubt or engaging in high-risk behavior to prove they are not afraid

Enneagram Style Seven Development Areas

Being able to focus mentally, emotionally, and physically at will rather than being unfocused as a way to avoid pain, discomfort, and feeling restricted

Accepting and integrating the reality of pain and discomfort along with pleasure rather than seeking only positive, pleasurable, and highly stimulating experiences

Feeling genuine and consistent empathy for others rather than speculating about the emotions of others as a result of their own limited emotional repertoire

Enneagram Style Eight Development Areas

Being forthcoming about their own deeper vulnerabilities and need for support rather than acting tough and strong, as if they are invulnerable and don't need others

Allowing others to exercise autonomy and control rather than constantly taking charge and making others dependent on their leadership and strength

Being receptive and responsive to input from others rather than believing they understand the truth and moving to immediate, unilateral action

Enneagram Style Nine Development Areas

Expressing their real thoughts, needs, opinions, and preferences in a clear and direct way on a regular basis, especially when these oppose the wishes of others

Being active, assertive, and taking clear action rather than being deenergized, passive, or acquiescent

Learning to embrace conflict when they are directly involved in it, rather than avoiding it out of fear that harmony and connectivity will be severed, and learning to deal with conflict constructively