The Enneagram is a map of how each individual's core motivations are unconsciously formulated into a recurring psychological fixation.

It traces the architecture of the split — those essential formative events that set the narrative for the creation of one's identity. 

At its core, this system reveals the story you framed your life around to re-establish a sense of wholeness — and how that reaction shaped the way you relate, protect, desire, and disconnect. 

With proper analysis, your enneagram type can be a guide to understanding your deeper motivations and utilized to refine one’s relationship with it. 

To re-establish that feeling of wholeness, we need to learn to break existing thought patterns and reimagine ourselves.

Human awareness organizes itself around three primary areas of awareness known as the Centers of Energy: The Gut, the Heart, and the Head.

These centers are the foundational systems through which the identity processes reality in an attempt to restore inner stability after the original wound. As a result, each individual has one of these centers working overtime. Each core Enneagram type emerges from a unique sensitivity — a predisposition that comes into the world with a particular motivational imprint. When that core motivation is disrupted or amplified through an event, the child experiences it as a threat to their essential orientation.

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Core Fixation

Once the Center has been over-activated in response to the wound, it begins to form a looped response pattern — a psychological structure that attempts to resolve the loss of stability using the same tools that were shaped by the injury itself. This is where the Core Fixation emerges.

There are three core enneagram types in each center of energy. Each Enneagram type follows a distinct internal sequence — a three-part script made up of the Object Relation, the Hornevian Group, and the Harmonic Triad. This defines the exact relationship that the individual forms with their center of energy.