The Enneagram Way

The Enneagram Way

The centre shuffle

Intelligence, scrambled into an ego prop

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Cicci Lyckow Bäckman
Dec 19, 2025
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Last week’s article explored what the centre triad of our Enneagram type does — and does not — say about our actual capacities, and about our access to all three centres of intelligence. In its wake, a recurring question surfaced, both publicly and privately: what do teachers really mean when they say that each type ‘leads’ with a particular centre — in…

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