CNET Individual Typing & Assessment Process Flashcards

What distinguishes the Narrative Enneagram's typing panels from other personality assessment approaches?

Answer: Panels feature real people of identified types sharing their inner experience in first person

Typing panels in the Narrative Tradition feature real, self-identified individuals speaking authentically about their inner life, making the experience direct and humanizing.

What is the recommended stance for a CNET teacher when a participant types themselves but their narrative clearly fits a different type?

Answer: Ask deepening questions that invite further self-reflection without assertion

CNET teachers use curiosity and open questions to support deeper inquiry rather than asserting an alternative type.

Which Enneagram concept explains why two people of the same type can look very different on the surface?

Answer: Subtypes (instinctual variants) layered on the core type

Instinctual variants (self-preservation, social, sexual/one-to-one) create significant surface variation in how the same core type is expressed.

When assessing type in a CNET context, why is childhood origin story often explored?

Answer: To trace the early formation of core motivational patterns and coping strategies

The Enneagram teaches that core type patterns emerge early in life, so childhood narratives often reveal the original formation of the type's defensive structure.

What is the CNET-recommended response when a participant says 'I'm a little bit of every type'?

Answer: Explain that while all types exist in everyone, one type drives the core motivational structure

All nine patterns exist in every person to some degree, but the Enneagram teaches that one type reflects the core motivational and attentional structure.

How does a CNET teacher use the concept of 'attention' in the typing process?

Answer: By exploring where a person's attention automatically and habitually goes without their conscious direction

In the Narrative Tradition, each type has a characteristic fixation of attention, and identifying where attention habitually goes is a primary diagnostic tool.