Breckenridge Enneagram™
Assessment Tools for Type Professionals

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Overview

When we are finally old enough to realize that we have a personality it’s too late to have a hand in fashioning it. The formation of personality is both: a) an inside-out process where innate, inborn tendencies predispose us to actions and interactions with others, and b) an outside-in process where people, social structures, and our culture teach us how to see ourselves, others, and the world. The Breckenridge Enneagram™ is a model that can help us see aspects of our personality that other models miss. It can help us truly understand some of our innate tendencies and our adaptive responses.

History of the Enneagram

The Enneagram is a model of nine personality types that has evolved significantly since the late 1960s. Pronounced “any-a-gram,” the word refers to a nine-pointed diagram enclosed within a circle (“ennea” is Greek for “nine;” “gram” means “drawing”). Enneagram theory started to take shape in the early 1970s due to the influence and scholarship of Claudio Naranjo, a psychiatrist who began attributing psychological principles to the model. Most people writing about or teaching the Enneagram today trace their roots either directly or indirectly to the work of Naranjo. A number of popular authors, such as Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, Helen Palmer and David Daniels and others have contributed to the evolution of Enneagram theory, but much of this work has been based on a theoretical foundation of spiritual and metaphysical principles. The Breckenridge Enneagram™ is based on the clinical-empirical work of Claudio Naranjo, plus Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, the powerful See-Do-Get Process®, and rigorous psychometric analysis and empirical research. It is set apart from other approaches to the Enneagram by a focus on a naturalistic, scientific view of personality and psychological processes that are linked to modern advances in the neurosciences.

The Breckenridge Institute® has developed two new assessment tools for type professional based on the Breckenridge Enneagram™ that are the most reliable and valid on-line Enneagram assessment tools available anywhere. These are the Breckenridge Type Indicator™ (BTI™), and the Breckenridge Relationship Indicator™ (BRI™). Click the links below to find out more about these exciting new assessment tools.

Breckenridge Type Indicator™ (BTI™)

Breckenridge Relationship Indicator™ (BRI™)

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Personality in Context^®