The Enneagram - Type 2 (The Giver)
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Second of a 9 part series highlighting the Enneagram. Others in the series are:
The Enneagram - Type 9 (The Mediator) (GC2E134)
The Enneagram - Type 8 (The Boss) (GC2DBY6)
The Enneagram - Type 7 (The Enthusiast) (GC2DBXC)
The Enneagram - Type 6 (The Loyalist) (GC2DB71)
The Enneagram - Type 5 (The Observer) (GC2DA49)
The Enneagram - Type 4 (The Tragic Romantic) (GC2DA10)
The Enneagram - Type 3 (The Performer) (GC2D9N3)
The Enneagram - Type 1 (The Perfectionist) (GC2CZKJ)
The Enneagram ("ennea" means "nine") has roots going back to ancient Sufi mysticism, and describes 9 different personality types and their interrelationships. It helps us understand our own type and how to cope with our issues; understand our work associates, family and friends; and to appreciate the predisposition that each type has for higher human capacities such as empathy, omniscience and love.
The Enneagram was popularized by the Jesuit order in the 20th century. It is a personality typing system (similar to, but quite different from, the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicators). Each person is one of nine different and distinctive types, though all of us have characteristics found in each of the types. I am a 9, for example. Discovering this, and working with it, has been very informative and helpful to me.
While it's uncertain whether one's type is genetically determined, many believe it is already in place at birth. Enneagram authors have attached their own individual names to these numbers. Helen Palmer for example names them: 1. The Perfectionist; 2. The Giver; 3. The Performer; 4. The Tragic Romantic; 5. The Observer; 6. The Devil's Advocate; 7. The Epicure; 8. The Boss; 9. The Mediator. People of a particular type have numerous characteristics in common, but they can be quite different. It depends, among other things, on each person's level of mental and emotional health. Unhealthy (neurotic) people from a particular type can appear to be quite different from healthy ones of the same type.
For more in-depth information go to my now archived cache "The Enneagram (overview) GC8A196
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Type 2 - THE GIVER
The Caring, Interpersonal Type: Generous, Demonstrative, People-Pleasing, and Possessive Type Two in Brief Twos are empathetic, sincere, and warm-hearted. They are friendly, generous, and self-sacrificing, but can also be sentimental, flattering, and people-pleasing. They are well-meaning and driven to be close to others, but can slip into doing things for others in order to be needed. They typically have problems with possessiveness and with acknowledging their own needs. At their best they are unselfish and altruistic, with unconditional love for others.
Basic Fear: Of being unwanted, unworthy of being loved Key Motivations: Want to be loved, to express their feelings for others, to be needed and appreciated, to get others to respond to them, to vindicate their claims about themselves.
Examples: Mother Teresa, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Barry Manilow, Luciano Pavarotti, Lillian Carter, Sammy Davis, Jr., Martin Sheen, Robert Fulghum, Alan Alda, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Ann Landers and "Dr. McCoy" (Star Trek).
Type Two Overview
People of this type are either genuinely helpful to other people or, if they are less healthy they are highly invested in seeing themselves as helpful. Being generous and going out of their way for others makes Twos feel that theirs is the richest, most meaningful way to live. The love and concern they feel — and the genuine good they do—warms their hearts and makes them feel worthwhile.
>Twos are most interested in what they feel to be the “really, really good” things in life—love, closeness, sharing, family, and friendship. When Twos are healthy & in balance, they are loving, helpful, generous & considerate. People are drawn to them like bees to honey. Healthy Twos warm others in the glow of their hearts. They enliven others with their appreciation and attention, helping people to see positive qualities in themselves that they had not previously recognized. In short, healthy Twos are the embodiment of “the good parent” that everyone wishes they had: someone who sees them as they are, understands them with immense compassion, helps and encourages with infinite patience, and is always willing to lend a hand—while knowing precisely how and when to let go.
Healthy Twos open our hearts because theirs are already so open and they show us the way to be more deeply and richly human. However, Twos’ inner development may be limited by their “shadow side”—pride, self-deception, the tendency to become over-involved in the lives of others, and a tendency to manipulate others to get their own emotional needs met. Beneath the surface, they fear that they are without value in themselves, so they must be or do something extraordinary in order to win love & acceptance from others. Twos can present a false image of being completely generous and unselfish, and of not wanting any kind of pay-off for themselves, when in fact, they can have enormous expectations & unacknowledged emotional needs. A problem for Two's is that “putting others first” may make them secretly angry & resentful, feelings they work hard to repress or deny.
(from The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Riso and Hudson, p. 127-128)
To take a short test to discern your Enneagram type click here: http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/dis_sample_36.asp
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