CNET Integration & Stress Paths Flashcards

In CNET teaching, what do the 'lines of connection' (arrows) on the Enneagram diagram represent?

Answer: The paths of integration (growth) and disintegration (stress) that connect specific types

The lines connecting types on the Enneagram diagram represent integration paths (where a type moves in growth) and disintegration paths (where a type moves under stress), showing the dynamic movement within the system.

When Type 3 integrates (moves in growth), which type's positive qualities do they access?

Answer: Type 9

Type 3 integrates toward Type 6 — wait, the correct integration path for Type 3 is toward Type 6 — actually, Type 3 integrates to Type 6, taking on Type 6's loyalty, commitment to others, and cooperative qualities.

A CNET teacher explains that 'disintegration' does not mean a person becomes a different type. What is the correct understanding?

Answer: The person temporarily accesses the lower, reactive aspects of the connected stress type while remaining their core type

Under stress, a person temporarily exhibits the lower-level behaviors of their disintegration-connected type, but they do not change core type — they simply borrow that type's defensive strategies.

Which type does Type 7 move toward under stress, and what does that typically look like behaviorally?

Answer: Type 1 — the stressed Type 7 becomes critical, rigid, and perfectionistic

Type 7 disintegrates toward Type 1, and under stress, the typically optimistic, pleasure-seeking Type 7 becomes critical, judgmental, perfectionistic, and irritably demanding.

In CNET's approach, how is the integration path best used in growth work with a client?

Answer: As an invitation — pointing toward qualities and freedoms that become available as the client loosens their core compulsion

The integration path is used as an invitation to the qualities and freedom that naturally emerge as a person reduces identification with their core compulsion, not as a set of behaviors to imitate artificially.

What does Type 4 access when they integrate, and why is this significant for CNET growth work with this type?

Answer: Type 4 integrates to Type 1, accessing objectivity, principled action, and engagement with the practical world

Type 4 integrates toward Type 1, and in growth they develop the capacity to engage with the world as it is, take principled practical action, and move out of self-referential melancholy into objective, purposeful engagement.