Revisiting the Relationship Between the MBTI and the Enneagram

Revisiting the Relationship Between the MBTI and the Enneagram

In this series we hope to show why we believe that the Enneagram was originally conceived as a tool for affecting personal transformation of the most profound kind, a transformation of the type that is usually characterized as ’spiritual’. If it can be said, as it often has been, that ‘Ego’ and ‘Ego-development’ are the province of the MBTI, then it could also be maintained that it is the ‘Self’ that the Enneagram can rightfully claim as its proper sphere of interest, along with the issues and obstacles that arise in individuals who are on those spiritual paths that would affect a shift of the center of personality from Ego to Self.