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Type Six: The Defender
Personality Identification
What do I want most?
- I want to belong, to be safe in my own kind of friendly group.
What is most important to me?
- It is important to me that people be straight and fair with me.
What is the worst thing that could happen to me?
- The worst thing that could happen to me is that someone I trust betrays
me.
How do I see myself (on a good day)?
- I am strong-minded, friendly, and cautious.
Path of Peace: Six (Defender) looks to Nine (Peacemaker)
When a Six makes the leap to trust in a Higher Power, it becomes peaceful
like a healthy Nine, discovers its commonsense wisdom like a heatlhy Five,
becomes expressive like a healthy Three, and is a self-starter like a healthy
Seven.
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I am peaceful.
[9. Peacemaker] |
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I am resourceful.
[7. Materialist] |
I am loyal.
[6. Defender] |
I am decisive.
[5. Watcher] |
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I am honest.
[3. Performer] |
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Path of Storms: Six (Defender) looks to Three (Performer)
When a Six gives in to its anxieties it disconnects from loyalty to
others and becomes heartless like an unhealthy Three, confused and indecisive
like an unhealthy Five, self-defeating like an unhealthy Nine, and dependent
like an unhealthy Seven.
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I am self-defeating.
[9. Peacemaker] |
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I am dependent.
[7. Materialist] |
I am rebellious.
[6. Defender] |
I am indecisive.
[5. Watcher] |
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I am cruel.
[3. Performer] |
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A Counseling Approach
- Yes, it is important that you consider the consequences of an action
before you act and to take both the credit and the blame for what you do.
It is the adult way.
- Yes, your wisdom makes itself known when you think about important
things in a practical and responsible way.
- Yes, when you are truthful with yourself and others life is much less
complicated and confusing.
- Yes, make your future happen by doing now what you need to do.
Rev. William J. Callahan, S.J.
The Enneagram for Youth
Counselor's Manual
Loyola University Press, 1992, 156 pages
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