Compatibility of the Personality Types
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Understanding is the key to having compatible, fulfilling relationships—this includes both understanding others and yourself.
The Enneagram personality typing system can provide you with profound insights and practical tools that will improve your relationships with everyone in your life. This applies to marriage, friendships, and professional relationships—to everywhere people interact.
Each personality type thinks differently, has different values and approaches, and wants different things in a relationship. Some types have more elements in common with each other (for example, two Positive Outlook types or two Withdrawn types); however, with the lens of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram, the strengths and trouble spots can be specified for each combination of the nine personality types.
What are your relationship
- Values?
- Expectations?
- Decision and Thinking Patterns?
- Argument Styles?
- Ways of Resolving Conflicts?
- Fears and Cover-ups?
- Communication Styles?
- Defenses?
- Coping Mechanisms?
There are concrete answers to these compatibility questions. However, you need to know your own type (as well as the other person's) accurately before you can fully benefit from this incredibly valuable resource.
To get the most accurate determination of your Enneagram type, we recommend the world's best-selling Enneagram personality test, the scientifically validated RHETI (Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator, Version 2.5) to discover your type or that of someone else. (To find out someone else's type, answer the questions as if you were them.) Or, have the person you are in a relationship with take the RHETI questionnaire, too. For example, two people could take the test as a pre-marriage compatibility test so they could learn about each other and themselves in detail.
Alternatively, you can begin your process of self-discovery by taking the Free RHETI Sampler quiz. The RHETI Sampler is a short quiz that will give you a taste of the full test and give you an approximation of your personality type.
Once you have discovered your types, you should read the complete type descriptions, then review the compatibility test results for the 45 possible type compatibility pairs. An extensive description of the relationship's assets, problem areas, and other compatibility issues is provided for each combination of types.
In addition to assessing personality compatibility, the Enneagram provides insights into addiction and personality, and tools for personal growth. You can also consider participating in our very active online discussion board where people from all over the world discuss personal and relationship problems and share advice with each other.
Insight like this usually takes years of therapy and self-analysis. But pioneering Enneagram authors and teachers Don Riso and Russ Hudson are making it available here for free. Their five books (The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types, Understanding the Enneagram, Discovering Your Personality Type, and Enneagram Transformations) are the world's best-selling Enneagram books and have been translated into over 10 languages.
Because of the Enneagram's power to help people learn to get along better with others, companies are using the Enneagram (and the RHETI) in their Human Resource Departments. Among them are Adobe, AT&T, Boeing Corporation, The DuPont Company, e-Bay, General Mills, General Motors, KLM Airlines, Kodak, Hewlett Packard, Procter & Gamble, Reebok Health Clubs, Motorola, Prudential Insurance, and Sony.
This information will change your life! It will change how you see yourself and everyone else who is important to you—improving your marriage, family, professional, and personal relationships. Give yourself a chance to find what you have been looking for—who you really are and what you can bring to others.
Take the free RHETI Sampler.
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