Enneagram Test Enneagram Levels of Development 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Who developed the concept of Levels of Development within the Enneagram system?
- Oscar Ichazo
- Claudio Naranjo
- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson (Correct answer)
- George Gurdjieff
Correct answer: Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson developed the Levels of Development framework, which divides each Enneagram type into nine levels ranging from very healthy to very unhealthy.
Question 2: How many Levels of Development are there for each Enneagram type?
- 3
- 5
- 7
- 9 (Correct answer)
Correct answer: 9
There are nine Levels of Development for each Enneagram type, organized into three broad bands: healthy (levels 1–3), average (levels 4–6), and unhealthy (levels 7–9).
Question 3: What are the three main bands that the nine Levels of Development are grouped into?
- High, Medium, Low
- Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious
- Healthy, Average, Unhealthy (Correct answer)
- Integrated, Stable, Disintegrated
Correct answer: Healthy, Average, Unhealthy
The nine levels are grouped into Healthy (1–3), Average (4–6), and Unhealthy (7–9), reflecting the degree to which the core passion and fixation control a person's behavior.
Question 4: At Level 1 (the healthiest level) across all types, what key quality is present?
- Maximum control over others
- Liberation from the core fixation and expression of the type's highest gift (Correct answer)
- Extreme rigidity of personality structure
- Avoidance of all stress responses
Correct answer: Liberation from the core fixation and expression of the type's highest gift
Level 1 represents the liberation point where a person transcends their type's core fixation and expresses the highest virtue or gift of that type.
Question 5: At the unhealthy levels (7–9) of development, what typically increases for all types?
- Self-awareness and openness
- Creativity and flexibility
- Defensiveness, rigidity, and destructive behaviors driven by the core passion (Correct answer)
- Integration toward the growth point
Correct answer: Defensiveness, rigidity, and destructive behaviors driven by the core passion
At unhealthy levels, the core passion of each type intensifies, leading to increasingly defensive, rigid, and potentially destructive behaviors as the ego's defenses break down.
Question 6: What triggers movement down the Levels of Development (toward less healthy functioning)?
- Gaining more self-knowledge
- Increased stress, fear, or perceived threat that activates the core passion and fixation (Correct answer)
- Developing the secondary wing
- Integration toward the growth arrow
Correct answer: Increased stress, fear, or perceived threat that activates the core passion and fixation
Movement to less healthy levels is typically triggered by stress or perceived threat, which activates the type's core passion more intensely, leading to more defensive and reactive behavior.
Enneagram Test Enneagram Levels of Development 1
Who developed the concept of Levels of Development within the Enneagram system?