CNET CNET Enneagram Centers & Instinctual Subtypes 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What are the three Centers of Intelligence in the Enneagram as taught in CNET programs?
- Mind, Body, Spirit
- Heart (Feeling), Head (Thinking), Body (Instinct) (Correct answer)
- Conscious, Unconscious, Superconscious
- Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioral
Correct answer: Heart (Feeling), Head (Thinking), Body (Instinct)
The three Centers — Heart, Head, and Body — each contain three Enneagram types and represent distinct ways of processing experience and organizing motivation.
Question 2: In CNET teaching, what is the core issue shared by all three Heart Center types (2, 3, 4)?
- Fear of scarcity and resource loss
- Identity, image, and the question of authentic worth and love (Correct answer)
- Anxiety about safety and accurate perception
- Anger at boundaries being violated
Correct answer: Identity, image, and the question of authentic worth and love
Heart Center types organize around questions of identity and worth, often driven by a deep concern about how they are perceived and whether they are genuinely lovable.
Question 3: Which emotion is said to be the dominant underlying issue for Body Center types (8, 9, 1) in the CNET framework?
- Shame
- Anxiety
- Anger (Correct answer)
- Grief
Correct answer: Anger
Body Center types organize their experience around anger — expressed directly (Type 8), denied or forgotten (Type 9), or controlled and converted (Type 1).
Question 4: What are the three instinctual subtypes recognized in CNET Enneagram teaching?
- Intellectual, Emotional, Physical
- Self-Preservation, Social, Sexual (One-to-One) (Correct answer)
- Introverted, Extroverted, Ambiverted
- Active, Passive, Neutral
Correct answer: Self-Preservation, Social, Sexual (One-to-One)
The three instinctual subtypes — Self-Preservation, Social, and Sexual (One-to-One) — reflect the three biological drives that layer over and modify the expression of core type.
Question 5: In CNET teaching, what is the 'counter-type' and why is it pedagogically important?
- A type that scores opposite on the Enneagram symbol
- The subtype of each type that looks least like the typical description, often causing mistyping (Correct answer)
- The type a person moves toward in integration
- The type that is the shadow opposite of one's own
Correct answer: The subtype of each type that looks least like the typical description, often causing mistyping
The counter-type is the instinctual subtype variant that expresses the core type's energy in a way that appears contrary to expectations, making accurate typing more challenging.
Question 6: How does the concept of 'dominant instinct' relate to Enneagram teaching in the CNET framework?
- It determines which Enneagram school a teacher follows
- The dominant instinct creates the subtype, shaping how the core type's passion is expressed (Correct answer)
- It overrides core type, making subtype more important than type
- It is used only in advanced corporate coaching contexts
Correct answer: The dominant instinct creates the subtype, shaping how the core type's passion is expressed
The dominant instinct combines with the core type to produce the subtype, creating 27 distinct character structures from the nine basic types.
CNET CNET Enneagram Centers & Instinctual Subtypes 1
What are the three Centers of Intelligence in the Enneagram as taught in CNET programs?