Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1023 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
The Enneagram Type Combinations - 2&8; 2&9; 3&3 - Ask Gramps


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1023 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

Understanding ourselves better, and how others may interpret life through their paradigm, will allow us to interact with each other with more love and compassion.   This can be achieved by utilizing a profound tool call ‘The Enneagram.’  The tool that we refer to as the Enneagram (Any-a-Gram) is a circle with nine interconnected points (Ennea refers to 9 and Gram referring to a drawing).  Check out today's or prior week’s Wisdom Journal for a representation of it.  I have also included in today’s Wisdom Journal a copy of ‘The Enneagram At-A-Glance’ which was compiled by Suzanne H Eller.  If you would like a PDF copy, click on the link in today’s Wisdom Journal located on our website Wisdom-Trek.com.

For additional insight, I recommend the book ‘The Road Back to You’ written by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile.  It is an excellent book about an enneagram journey to self-discovery from a Christian perspective.

We have concluded our deep dive into the nine personality types which are ‘The Reformer,’ ‘The Helper,’ ‘The Achiever,’ ‘The Individualist,’  “The Investigator,” “The Loyalist,”  “The Enthusiast,”  “The Challenger,” and “The Peacemaker.”   Five weeks ago, we began a series of episodes on Type Combinations. What are the potential relationship benefits and issues with each combination?  Covering all of the 45 different potential type combinations will take several weeks, but will be valuable in understanding each other, regardless of what type you are, and what type those whom you interact with each day.

Since we are exploring the Enneagram in detail, and I would also recommend reading the Wisdom Journal for each Friday to see the diagrams presented each week.  As helpful as the Enneagram is, keep in mind though, it is still only a tool, and cannot replace or usurp the precepts that are found in God’s Word.   All decisions and actions that we make in life must be in harmony with God’s precepts.

So the questions for the next several weeks will be:

“Hey, Gramps, why do people act and react to situations and circumstances in life so differently?  How can I gain wisdom to better understand myself and others so that I can love, serve, and minister to them on a deeper level?”
The Enneagram Type Combinations

The Enneagram Type Combinations
Enneagram Type Two (the Helper)
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Enneagram Type Eight (the Challenger)
What Each Type Brings to the Relationship

These two types are more alike than they might appear to be at first. Both are action-oriented and want to have a personal impact on their environment.