Katherine Fauvre: Does Tritype® go Against the Fundamental Tenet of the Enneagram Theory?

December 6, 2023 Guest User

Question: Does Tritype go Against the Fundamental Tenet of the Enneagram Theory?

Katherine: The good news is that Tritype® complements the Enneagram Types, similar to how the Instinctual Subtypes enhance the Enneagram. Both systems represent advanced applications of the Enneagram, offering three variations of the 9 types and revealing essential nuances. Tritypes® provides your three ego types in a hierarchical stacking order, while Subtypes reveal the stacking order of your instincts.

In 1994, I initiated my qualitative research on the 'internal experiences" of types and subtypes. During this research, I discovered Tritype®. In addition, I found the 3 types of stackings, which apply to both types (Tritype®) and instincts (Subtypes).

Two years later, in 1997, Oscar Ichazo, the founder of the Enneagram of Personality, introduced a one-day training on Trifix to his Spiritual School, Arica Institute. This advanced exploration involved the use of all three fixations (mental aspect only) of the three head types that comprise the Trifix.

The distinctions lie in the names themselves:

Tritype® is founded on the utilization of Enneagram types, encompassing passions, fixations, and convictions of the full types. It involves having a dominant type from each center: head (567), heart (234), and gut (891). These types are then ranked in order of dominance.

Trifix is specifically concerned with the use of the three fixations of the three head types in the Trifix. His “fix" is short for the mental fixations, so he excludes the use of a heart-type and gut type.

Tritype® Overview:
Tritype® is a 27-point personality system rooted in the theory that individuals employ three Enneagram Types, not just one. These three types correspond to each of the three centers of intelligence: head (5,6,7), heart (2,3,4), and gut (8,9,1). They are utilized in a preferred, continuously oscillating, descending stacking order, resulting in a unique "new" type with a distinct worldview, coping mechanisms, and defense strategies. The Enneagram Type at the top of your Tritype® Stacking serves as your dominant or "core" Enneagram Type.

Extensive research involving tens of thousands of international participants has confirmed that each Tritype® Archetype embodies the character traits of the three types within the Tritype®. These traits combine within the Tritype® to create 27 unique Tritypes®, each characterized by its own core values, needs, fears, and concerns, including a specific focus of attention, idealized image, core triggers, core fears, desires, blind spots, a sense of purpose, and growth areas. This enhances the precision, accuracy, and scope of the Enneagram process.

Research also suggests that the shared theme among the three types within an individual's Tritype® identifies their archetypal life purpose and a significant blind spot in self-awareness. Furthermore, the shared perspective among the types in an individual's Tritype® offers valuable insights into leading a more conscious and meaningful life.

Among the three types in an individual's Tritype®, one serves as the "core" or dominant type, representing the ego's preferred defense strategy and overseeing the Tritype®, 3Type defense system. The ego consistently deploys the strategies of all three types in unison in a rapid, repeating, hierarchical stacking order throughout each day. The dominant type continually engages the other two types in the Tritype® to make decisions and solve problems.

It's essential to note that merely combining the three preferred types, one from each of the three centers, is insufficient to explain the attentional patterns of each of the 27 Tritype® Archetypes or to confirm the dominant Tritype®. Identification requires understanding the idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies of the three types in the Tritype®. The focus of attention within the Tritype® emerges from the interactions when these three types merge and effectively become one type - the Tritype®.

This occurs because the characteristics of all three types influence one another, with some traits being amplified while others are minimized by the characteristics of the two other types within the Tritype®. These unique differences elucidate the distinctiveness of each type.

For instance, the 478 Tritype® comprises the three "creative" Enneagram Types, one from each triad (4,7,8). This includes two types that favor what is unusual (4,7), two types that share the line of intensity (4-8) and the two assertive types (7,8), thereby shaping a personality characterized as innovative, creative, outspoken, intense, assertive, deep, sensitive, unconventional, and equipped with an original approach to various aspects of 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
YouTube: Katherine Fauvre | Creator of Tritype®