Enneagram Centers of Intelligence Flashcards

What are the three Centers of Intelligence in the Enneagram?

Answer: Head, Heart, Body (Gut)

The Enneagram divides the nine types into three Centers: the Head Center (types 5, 6, 7), the Heart Center (types 2, 3, 4), and the Body/Gut Center (types 8, 9, 1).

Which Enneagram types belong to the Head Center?

Answer: 5, 6, 7

Types 5, 6, and 7 form the Head Center, with their core emotional issue being anxiety and their primary mode of processing through thinking and mental activity.

What is the dominant emotional issue for the Heart Center types (2, 3, 4)?

Answer: Shame

The Heart Center types share shame as their core emotional issue, driving them to seek identity, value, and recognition through their emotional connections and self-image.

The Body/Gut Center (types 8, 9, 1) is primarily associated with which dominant emotion?

Answer: Anger

Body Center types share anger as their dominant emotional theme, though each type relates to it differently: Eights express it outwardly, Nines suppress it, and Ones redirect it into perfectionism.

In which center does Type 3 belong?

Answer: Heart Center

Type 3 belongs to the Heart Center along with Types 2 and 4, though Threes often disconnect from their feelings to focus on achievement and image.

What is the term for the type in each center that most 'over-expresses' the center's dominant emotion?

Answer: The dominant type of the center

In Enneagram theory, each center has a type that expresses, suppresses, or is disconnected from the center's dominant emotion, with one type being most identified with it.