Question: What are Some of the Common Mistakes Made When Determining Your Tritype®?

Katherine: A common mistake when typing is to determine your Type or Tritype® based on the types you identify with. Enneagram Type and Tritype® are based on the idealized image, core fears, and defense strategies. So, you need to actually use the defense strategy of all three types in your Tritype®. This may take time to see.

So, it is important to note that just combining the three preferred types, one from each of the three centers, is not enough to explain the attentional patterns of each of the 27 Tritype® Archetypes or to confirm which Tritype® is dominant. We can theorize about which type we identify with most in each triad, but the focus of attention of the Tritype® emerges as a result of what happens when these three types merge and, in effect, become one type, which is the Tritype®.

It is critical to determine your correct Tritype®. This is because the characteristics of all three types influence one another. As a result, some characteristics are amplified, while other characteristics are minimized by the characteristics of the two other types within the Tritype®. These distinct differences explain why each Tritype® is unique.

For example, the 478 Tritype® has the three “creative" Enneagram Types, one from each triad (4,7,8), which include the two types that prefer what is unusual (4,7), the two types that share the line of intensity (4-8), and the two assertive types (7,8) thus creating a type that is innovative, creative, outspoken, intense, assertive, and deep with an original sense of style. The defense strategies of the types within the Tritype® combine, creating a unique focus of attention with a shared worldview.

Research also suggests that the common theme found among the three types within an individual’s Tritype® identifies that individual’s archetypal life purpose and a critical blind spot to self-awareness. In addition, the shared view by the types in an individual’s Tritype® gives important clues as to what is needed to live a more conscious and meaningful life.

More on Tritype® here:
Katherine created a test that has been programmed to pick up particular patterns that the types use.
Take the Test here: https://enneagramtritypetest.com
General Information: www.katherinefauvre.com/tritype
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