Original Enneagrammer Terms and Concepts

If you are new to Enneagrammer, you’re probably discovering some new terms and concepts that you didn’t find in other enneagram circles. Here is a list of some of the original terms and concepts created by Enneagrammer:

Areas

Two adjacent types as an “area,” for example the “2-3 area” describes what 2w3 and 3w2 would have in common

Stems

Two fixes as an individual unit within a trifix, for example the 369 trifix has 3-6, 6-9, and 3-9 as stems which each have individual characteristics. It’s like viewing the trifix as a Venn diagram

Layers

Each level of complexity within a complete typing (ex. a layer with trifix, a layer with trifix wings, etc.)

Overlay

The wings of your fixes as a separate unit combined into an overlay on your trifix

Adjacents

Taking the wing of your core and the other two fixes to describe a similar trifix energy, for example 3w2 369 is 269-adjacent

Flows

Synflow and Contraflow, the two directions instincts can be ordered in a stacking

Bermuda

We have many names for all the trifixes, but Bermuda describes not only a trifix but the non-hexad types. The metaphor is apt as it describes not only the triangle shape, but the “lost” quality of attachment types

Instinct Collage

A collage of images designed to determine an instinct stacking

Anti-Attachment Attachment

The conscious counteracting of unconscious attachment.

Joseph Simone