THE ENNEAGRAM During 2018, students across campus became intrigued with the Enneagram of Personality Types and the implications and transformations the results brought to relationship dynamics. REFORMER?% ACHIEVER 11 % INVESTIGATOR 6% HELPER26% INDIVIDUALIST 9% How has knowing your Enneagram number impacted your personal awareness of your relationships with people around you, especially other people on campus? "Knowing my Enneagram number has definitely made me more aware of myself and allowed me to grow as an individual. It allows us, as a diverse community, to discuss our strengths and weakness which each type has. Being aware of these strengths and weaknesses can be helpful in building lasting relationships and understanding people better, which every university needs." -Hannah Jones, senior "I don't typically buy into personality tests because I feel like they change all too often and don't describe me. As I first started to read through the Enneagram this past summer, I had a completely different outlook as I read the description of a 2. It described perfectly how I'm motivated, what I seek in life and how I view success in life; it described me. In life, we watch people from our own viewpoints and measure them by our standards, because we believe they think like us --- because it's all we know. But Enneagrams helped show me the different strengths and views of everyone around me." -Grant Dowdry, junior "Three's have a tendency to be "Through this tool, I have discovered impulsive and just do things to parts of myself that are unique to get stuff done when stressed, and me and also useful for community. will avoid conflict and get really Most importantly, the Enneagram confused about who they are and has stressed the intricate and if they matter. ... Knowing my complex beauty with which God has Enneagram helps me interacting created us.... My default mode with people on campus because I of introspection is useful in helping know that I will forget sometimes friends think through their emotional to be intentional with my time issues, but becomes a hindrance and forget to seek out the people when I am asked to silence my I care about." emotional narrative and serve -Sydney Sanford, . senior someone else's needs." -Lindsey Froneberger, senior "Knowing what type I am has helped me understand how I approach relationships and how others approach them I'm definitely much more aware of my friends' values and the things that they struggle with." -Madeline Elliot, freshman
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