ENEAGRAMA CREATIVO:

UNLOCKING CREATIVITY
WITH THE ENNEAGRAM

ALE FURVIS, CREATIVE ESSENTIAL COACH

JORGE MENDOZA, ENNEAGRAM CONSULTANT AND TRAINER
 WELCOME.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH.
CAN YOU FULLY BREATH IN?
ARE YOU FEELING TENSE OR
RELAXED?

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Accredited ICF Coach 2015-2021, Affiliate Member of the IEA
International Enneagram Association since 2020.

Degree in Industrial Design from the Polytechnic of Turin (IT) and the
Polytechnic University of Valencia (ES). Degree in Psycho-Evolutive
Astrology. Painter and visual artist.
10+ years of experience in interior design, transportation and
creative companies. 7+ years of work in training and coaching in
companies and creative teams. 1500+ hours of courses in Italian,
Spanish, English and Catalan.

Student of Cris Bolívar, Isabel Salama, Abdul Karim Baudino (Sufi

Enneagram), Claudio Naranjo, Russ Hudson, Rafael Ruiz.

Creator of the method “Eneagrama Creativo”, which offers

coaching, mentoring and training based on Enneagram and a visual,
playful, integrative perspective, adapted to adult learning, with the
focus on creative unlocking and development.
DR. JORGE MENDOZA

Humanist and researcher of the Enneagram of Personality for

more than 20 years.

Since 2000 has been studying Enneagram in Mexico, Spain and

Colombia with professors such as Gabriel Castro, Fernando
Uribe, Rafael Ruiz, Isabel Salama, Russ Hudson, Mario Sikora,
Tom Condon and Roberto Perez.

Conducting workshops, training and consulting work on personal

development, effective communication and leadership in
Mexico, Colombia and Spain using mainly the tools of the
Enneagram, Coaching and NLP. For 15 years.

Editor of www.personarte.com, a dissemination portal

featuring its own enneagram test, that has been validated by
psychometric specialists and is visited annually by more than
60,000 people from around the world.
 PRESENTATION GOALS

• REFLECTING ON THE POTENTIAL OF THE ENNEAGRAM TO HELP US FIND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

TO TODAY’S BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES.
• UNDERSTANDING THE OBSTACLES TO CREATIVITY FOR EACH OF THE NINE POINTS, AND
HOW TO OVERCOME THEM.
• DISCOVERING A PRACTICAL, HANDS-ON APPROACH TO THE USE OF ENNEAGRAM FOR THE
CREATIVE SKILL IMPROVEMENT FOR LEADERS, TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
• EXAMPLES OF USING THE ENNEAGRAM WISDOM TO IMPROVE CREATIVITY IN
PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
HOW MANY CREATIVES ARE THERE IN THE ROOM?

• HANSD UP IF YOU THINK

YOU’RE CREATIVE
WAIT, WHAT IS
CREATIVITY?
 CREATIVITY IS NOT JUST…

• SOME BIZARRE WAY TO SOLVE A WICKED PROBLEM

• PAINTING MANDALAS TO OVERCOME STRESS
• A TEMPORARY WAY TO ESCAPE “REAL LIFE” PROBLEMS
• DOING THINGS DIFFERENT JUST FOR FUN (OR TO GET APPLAUSE)
• ANOTHER SURPRISING AND CATCHY MARKETING PAYOFF
• SOME MYSTERIOUS AND SECONDARY FUNCTION OF THE RIGHT BRAIN
 THE FOCUS ON CREATIVITY: WHO IS THIS FOR?
• ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS OF EVERY
DISCIPLINE
• ADVERTISING PROFESSIONALS
• WRITERS AND COPYWRITERS
• SINGERS/SONGWRITERS
• ARTISTS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS,
SCREENWRIGHTS
• FINE ART PROFESSIONALS
• ENTREPRENEURS
• TEACHERS AND TRAINERS,
• COACHES, COUNSELORS, THERAPISTS
AND ESPECIALLY:
• “NO, I’M NOT CREATIVE” PEOPLE
“I’M NOT VERY CREATIVE” DOESN’T WORK.
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS CREATIVE PEOPLE AND NON-
CREATIVE PEOPLE. THERE ARE ONLY PEOPLE WHO USE THEIR
CREATIVITY AND PEOPLE WHO DON’T.
UNUSED CREATIVITY DOESN’T JUST DISAPPEAR. IT LIVES WITHIN
US UNTIL IT’S EXPRESSED, NEGLECTED TO DEATH, OR
SUFFOCATED BY RESENTMENT AND FEAR.

BRENÉ BROWN
 WHY IS CREATIVITY
IMPORTANT?
• MANY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE CREATIVE
SOLUTIONS THE WORLD NEEDS TO GLOBAL
PROBLEMS, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW
HOW TO UNLOCK CREATIVITY IN THEIR REAL LIFE?
• TODAY’S STRESSFUL WORKING ENVIRONMENTS
OFTEN MAKE SURE TRUE CREATIVITY STAYS
HIDDEN BEHIND PERSONALITY LIMITATIONS,
EXTERNAL RESTRICTIONS, LEFT-BRAIN
PREDOMINANCE, EMOTIONAL DEMANDS AND
AUTO-PILOT REACTIONS.
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 ¿HOW IS CREATIVITY ACTIVATED IN THE BRAIN?

(thinking)

(feelings)

(survival)

Creative FLOW is activated when:

• Pre-frontal Neocórtex: ON
• Lymbic System: ON
• Reptilian System Alerts: STANDBY/OFF
 INTUITIVE AND RATIONAL MIND

• THE INTUITIVE MIND IS A SACRED GIFT

AND THE RATIONAL MIND IS A FAITHFUL
SERVANT. WE HAVE BUILT A SOCIETY THAT
HONOURS THE SERVANT AND HAS
FORGOTTEN THE GIFT.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

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 RIGHT AND LEFT “BRAIN”
Overall shape Small Details
Curiosity to the new The known
Integration Division
Wholeness Partiality
Context Abstraction
Reason Rationality
Empathy Detachment
Non-verbal Verbal
Metaphorical Literal
Awe Utilitarian
Complexity Certainty
“Getting it right” “Being right”
Living things Objects
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• OUR SENSE OF JUSTICE IS UNDERWRITTEN BY THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE (…) WITH
INACTIVATION OF THIS AREA, WE ACT MORE SELFISHLY.
• THE LEFT HEMISPHERE’S TENDENCY TO RECUR TO WHAT IT IS FAMILIAR WITH, TENDS TO
REINFORCE WHATEVER IT IS ALREADY DOING. (…) THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE BY CONTRAST,
SEEING MORE OF THE PICTURE, AND TAKING A BROADER PERSPECTIVE THAT INCLUDES BOTH
ITS OWN AND THE LEFT HEMISPHERE’S IS MORE LIKELY TO ESPOUSE ANOTHER POINT OF
VIEW.

IAIN MCGILCHRIST,

THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
 WHY EGO IS THE “ENEMY” OF TRUE CREATIVITY?
CREATIVITY RESIDES IN AREAS OF THE BRAIN THAT ARE
ACTIVATED WHEN OTHER MORE ”AUTOMATED" AREAS
(REPTILE BRAIN, LEFT NEOCORTEX) ARE NOT PREDOMINANT.
THE EDUCATION WE RECEIVE AND THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN,
ARE CONSTANTLY FUELLING THE FUNCTIONING OF THE
AUTOMATED EGO RESPONSES (ARMOUR):
• COMPETITION / COMPETITIVENESS / SELF VS OTHERS
• CONSTANT RUSH, FEELING OF SCARCITY OR LACK OF
RESOURCES
• WORRIES AND FEARS (PANDEMICS, CATASTROPHES,
CLIMATE CHANGE, CRIMES ...)
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• INEQUALITIES, INJUSTICES, EMOTIONAL ILLITERACY ...
Ego
“The known”
Outdated labels
Perfeccionism
Overcriticism
Family roles
Cultural beliefs
Fear-based armour
Unconscious archetypes
Social stereotypes
“Dark side”
Wounded Inner child
CREATIVE BLOCKS
…
CREATIVITY
Essential function of the Human Being
that materializes the imagined
giving a new order to reality
in connection with the source of the Flow
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 “EGO CREATIVITY” IS NEITHER
SUSTAINABLE, NOR RENEWABLE

• WHEN YOU DEMAND YOUR BRAIN TO “BE CREATIVE”

IN ORDER TO ESCAPE FROM OR SOLVE PROBLEMS IN
A CONSTANT HURRY, OVERUSING THE “ALERT
SYSTEM”, YOU CAN BURN OUT AND LOSE TOUCH
FROM TRUE CREATIVITY.
• TRUE CREATIVITY IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN EGO’S
BASIC FEARS ARE ON.

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 WHAT IS “TRUE” CREATIVITY?

"IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN MEANS THAT WE HAVE AS HUMAN BEINGS, TO SET US FREE FROM THE
SHACKLES, NOT ONLY FROM OUR CONDITIONED RESPONSES, BUT ALSO FROM OUR USUAL
DECISIONS.”
SILVANO ARIETI, 1976

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“BEING CONSCIOUS OF THE WAY WE ARE STUCK
IS WHAT ALLOWS US TO BE FREE”
FRITZ PERLS
 CREATIVE BLOCKS FROM THE SOMATIC CENTRE

• TYPE 1: PERFECTIONISM AND SELF-CRITICISM

When the need of perfection overcomes
authenticity, creativity gets stuck into self-
demanding sabotage.

Type 8: NEED TO CONTROL, COMPETITIVENESS

Type 9: CONFORMISM, “YES TO ALL”, UNCLEAR
BOUNDARIES
 SOME CREATIVE BLOCKS FROM
THE HEART CENTRE

• TYPE 2: UTILITARIANISM AND NEED OF

PRAISE
Creativity doesn't show up when the worries
about "what people will say" join the need to
please or to be useful to others.

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 SOME CREATIVE BLOCKS
FROM THE HEART CENTRE

• TYPE 3: MERCANTILISM AND RESULT

OBSESSION
Type 3's constant effort is oriented to
successful results, losing touch with their
authenticity and the enjoyment of the creative
process.

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 SOME CREATIVE BLOCKS FROM
THE HEART CENTRE

• TYPE 4: ORIGINALISM AND COMPARISON

The belief that "being creative" equals "being
original" most of the times forces creative flow
into a dead-end street.
Uniqueness has no comparison whatsoever.

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 SOME CREATIVE BLOCKS FROM THE MIND CENTRE

• TYPE 5: SELF DOUBT AND

OVERTHINKING
Feeling unprepared, unskilled, or
not expert enough for a project is
one of the most common places
where creative ideas get stuck.
“The imposter syndrome”

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 SOME CREATIVE BLOCKS FROM
THE MIND CENTRE
• TYPE 6: EXCESSIVE WORRIES AND BURNOUT
Working with constant pressure and hurry doesn't
leave space to recharge creative energy and gets you
stuck into toxic, catastrophic thoughts.
• TYPE 7: PROCRASTINATION AND DISTRACTION
Starting many projects before finishing any of them is
a very common way to get stuck into postponing and
discharging creative energy.

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“YOUR TASK IS NOT TO SEEK FOR LOVE, BUT MERELY TO SEEK AND FIND
ALL THE BARRIERS WITHIN YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE BUILT AGAINST IT.” -
RUMI

WHAT IS THE BARRIER TO YOUR CREATIVITY

RIGHT NOW?

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 HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE YOUR CREATIVITY
USING THE ENNEAGRAM WISDOM?

THE “ENEAGRAMA CREATIVO” MENTORING METHOD

CONSISTS OF THREE STEPS:
1. TAILOR-MADE ENNEAGRAM TEST REPORT
2. ENNEAGRAM-BASED MENTORING SESSION
3. CUSTOMIZED ACTION PLAN WITH SPECIFIC EXERCISES
AND INPUTS
Step 1:
TAILOR-MADE ENNEAGRAM TEST REPORT

THE TEST WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED IN

SPANISH LANGUAGE.

ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO GIVE A HYPOTHESIS OF

THE CONSULTANT'S ENNEATYPE IN THE FIRST
3 SCORES.

IT CAN BE USED BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE

ENNEAGRAM MODEL AS WELL AS THOSE
WHO DO NOT.
A WELL-CONSTRUCTED ENNEAGRAM TEST HAS THESE
CHARACTERISTICS:

• THE NUMBER OF REAGENTS IS EQUAL TO OR GREATER

THAN 100.

• THE QUALITY OF THE ITEMS (BEHAVIOR, PERSONAL

ATTITUDES, FEELINGS AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
DIFFER AND COORDINATE WITH EACH OTHER)

• WE CONSIDER THAT SHORTER TESTS TEND TO BE A

WASTE OF TIME AND MORE CONFUSING THAN USEFUL.

• THE TYPE-9 TEST IS BUILT WITH 135 REAGENTS

• THE TEST GENERATES A REPORT DIVIDED INTO 3 PHASES

 1
Equalizer
1st. Phase

2
2nd. Phase Bloqueos
Lock Out of the
bottle

* *
* *
3
Escape
3rd. Phase route
 1
Equalizer
1st. Phase
The enneatypes are ordered in the graph, Those that appear below the average have
according to the score you obtained when constructive characteristics that, if you
answering TYPE-9. The colors represent integrate them, can make your usual
the main Triads or Centers of Attention. strategies more flexible and bring you
better results.
All enneatypes have constructive and
limiting qualities. The types that are
above average are the most active and
most available for you to use.

The graph shows the Enneatypes, ACTIVE

ordered according to the score

obtained when answering the TYPE-9 MEDIA

test.
TO
The colors represent the main Triads DEVELOP

or Centers of Attention.
Any change that is made to
reduce or integrate aspects or
qualities associated with an
enneatype has a general impact
on the configuration or global
map, creating movement.
 STRATEGY A
FROM E5 TO E8

2
2nd. Phase Lock

The second part of the report

Isolation, intellectual superiority, over

indicates the integration arrows and analyzing. Imposter syndrome (sense of

helplessness or inadequacy)

their creative unlocking possibilities. Focus and concreteness. Choose an

option and put it into practice. Focus on

Each proposal is worked on in detail execution.

in the Mentoring session.

 EMERGING TO THE SURFACE
The third part of the report collects,
in the form of questions, the What new aspects would you like
potentialities related to the make it emerge in your life?

enneatypes that in the test resulted in

deficit. Each proposal is specified What if you give yourself the opportunity
to listen carefully and openly to others
and evaluated in detail in the without preparing a response in your
mind?

Mentoring session.

What if you slow down a bit and slow

down the throttle?

3 Could today be a good day to achieve a

Escape personal goal or something that you

3rd. Phase
have pending for your WELL-BEING?
route
 STEP 2: ACTIVE LISTENING
AND COACHING
CONVERSATION

• The test report is a starting point for a

conversation that goes to the depth of the
creative block
• Tailor-made questions and exercises in
order to facilitate and allow the raising of
true creativity
• Enneagram is the map guide to discover
vulnerability, basic fear, ego fixation and
unlocking paths

Photo by Marta Pelegrín

 STEP 3: ACTION PLAN

• The mentoring session ends with an immediately applicable action plan, based on the conclusions
of the conversation and the client’s commitments.
• Start/stop/continue format
• Enriched by suggestions for reading, listening, watching, and visual exercises.
• It can be followed by a full coaching process to integrate all 9 creative enneagram energies.

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 EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE UNLOCK

WITH THE “ENEAGRAMA CREATIVO” METHODOLOGY

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 CREATIVE BLOCK:
LACK OF FOCUS
• CONSTANT STARTING AND
ABANDONING NEW PROJECTS
• VULNERABILITY: FEAR OF BEING
WRONG AND LETTING DOWN
SOMEONE SIGNIFICANT.
• START: SOMATIC CENTRE
CONNECTION, EMBODIMENT
WORK.
• STOP: STARTING NEW PROJECTS,
EXCESSIVE EXPECTATIONS
• CONTINUE: MEDITATION
PRACTICE FOCUSED ON THE
HEART CENTRE
 CREATIVE BLOCK:
BURNOUT
• HYPERACTIVITY, EXCESS OF OPEN
PROJECTS, DIFFICULTY TO
DELEGATE AND/OR CLOSING
THEM
• VULNERABILITY: FEAR OF NOT
BEING CREATIVE ENOUGH, OF
BEING INSIGNIFICANT
• START: ROUTINE OF BODY
EXERCISE + RELAX (9)
• STOP: DEMANDING OTHERS TO
KEEP UP WITH MY IDEA FLOW
• CONTINUE: JOURNALING ABOUT
HEART CENTRE AND EMOTIONAL
NEEDS
 CREATIVE BLOCK:
POSTPONING SELF
• THE CLIENT FEELS INCAPABLE OF GOING
ON WITH THEIR OWN PROJECTS,
FEELING STUCK WITH OTHER PPL’S
DEMANDS.
• VULNERABILITY: BELIEF OF NOT BEING
ENOUGH IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE.
FEAR OF EXTERNAL JUDGEMENT.
• START: CULTIVATING SELF-ESTEEM, A
POSITIVE INNER DIALOGUE
• STOP: FILLING UP AGENDA WITH OTHER
PPL’S PROJECTS
• CONTINUE: CREATIVE ESSENTIAL
COACHING PROCESS. FOCUS ON
PERSONAL PROJECT AND ASSERTIVENESS
CREATIVE BLOCK:
OVER-ANALYZING
• STRONG INNER PERFECTIONIST
• VULNERABILITY: COMPARISON
WITH OTHERS, FEAR OF LETTING
DOWN FAMILY EXPECTATIONS,
FEAR OF BEING “UNINTELLIGENT”
• START: CONNECTION WITH THE
BODY, QUESTIONING DEMANDS,
HEALING SELF-ESTEEM
• STOP: STUDYING AS AN ESCAPE
ROUTE FROM EMBODIMENT
• CONTINUE: CREATING
ARTWORKS FROM INNER CHILD
 WAS IT EASIER TO CREATE WHEN
YOU WERE A CHILD?
CHILDREN ARE KNOWN TO BE THE MOST CREATIVE HUMANS.

THE EGO GREW UP TO PROTECT YOU WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG,

VULNERABLE AND HELPLESS.

YOUR INNER CHILD ONCE SUFFERED AND BUILT AN ARMOUR TO

PROTECT VULNERABILITY:

• REJECTION/ABANDONMENT WOUND (SELF-PROTECTION TYPE 2,

3 AND 4)

• SELF-AFFIRMATION WOUND (SELF-PROTECTION TYPE 1, 8 AND 9)

• SELF-CONFIDENCE WOUND (SELF-PROTECTION TYPE 5, 6 AND 7)

(ADAPT. FROM CRIS BOLÍVAR, ESSENTIAL COACHING WITH ENNEAGRAM)

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HEALING AND RECONNECTING WITH YOUR INNER
CHILD WILL UNLOCK YOUR AUTHENTIC CREATIVITY.
 AFTER WE DIS-EMPOWER THE EGO…
Active Creativity
Innocent Creativity Serene Creativity

Sober Creativity Humble Creativity

Daring Creativity Authentic Creativity

Unattached Creativity Equable Creativity

(Adapt. From A.H.Almaas, Facets of Unity)
VULNERABILITY IS THE ABSOLUTE HEARTBEAT
OF INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY.
THERE CAN BE ZERO INNOVATION
WITHOUT VULNERABILITY.
- BRENÉ BROWN

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Cris Bolívar,
Iain Mcgilchrist
Linkedin: @Alefurvis
Russ Hudson,
Abdul Karim Baudino,
C.Naranjo, Facebook Group: bit.ly/EneaCrea
A.H.Almaas, Telegram Channel: Desbloqueo Creativo
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