Enneagram Type 2: The Helper

The Way of Thinking and Acting

Enneagram type 2 people are very focussed on how they can help the people close to them. They give from a generous heart, but they are often poor at receiving themselves and at expressing their own needs in general. This may give cause to conflict in a relationship where helpers often feel constrained because they have to give all the time. Helpers are often extrovert people, with a talent for caring for others and to establish contact with other people. In return, they appreciate to be recognized for their good deeds.

Contributions:

Enneagram type 2 are good at establishing relations to other people. They are likeable and sympathetic towards others, and they are often the ones to ensure a pleasant atmosphere by being attentive to other peoples' needs.

Preferences:

Enneagram type 2 prefer to work with people and people's development. They often choose professions within the service field, where communication with others is of great importance, and where they can make use of their abilities to recognise other people's potential.

Resources:

• Establish relations
• Positive people
• Recognise potential in others
• Charming

Enneagram type 2 change in state of stress:

When you are stressed and become insecure, you gain access to the behavioural patterns of type 8, and become angry more easily. You are suddenly no longer in doubt of what you want and what needs to be done, and you readily take control in a way that often surprises your surroundings. You have a strong sense of justice and may feel that you are not respected.

Enneagram type 2 Change when resourceful

When you are confident and feel resourceful and secure, you gain access to the be-havioural patterns of type 4. You become more creative and it is easier for you to feel what is important to you. Intensity and togetherness is important to you. You like to leave your personal mark on things and make them special.

You may be a Type Two if the following sounds familiar to you:

• You have a unique abilty for being empathic.
• You have excellent skills for seeing other people's abilities and resources.
• You take pleasure in finding exactly the things that others need in order to move on in their lives.
• You feel proud of being needed, and of being a central person in other people's lives and proud that you are indispensable.
• It is difficult for you to ask for help and to express your own needs.
• You often accommodate yourself in order to please others and for this reason you may feel that you have many different roles.
• You feel a peculiar emptiness inside when there is too much focus on your person.
• You ask yourself from time to time: - "Who am I"?
• You may feel restricted by your giving to others all the time and feel a great desire for freedom.

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