COMMUNICATION AND ENNEAGRAM

WAY OF TALKING:
IRA
-  Use words as a duty, BODY LANGUAGE  :
have to, you have to,
excellent. -Erect posture, stare,
tense muscles.
- Quickly react to
ideas. -Body language can
reveal a negative
-Precise, detailed reaction.
direct
-Clothes well
- He is on the combined and ironed.
defensive if he is
criticized

BLIND SPOTS:
DISTORTION
- Seems critical, FILTERS:
impatient or angry.
- They feel criticized
- Sign in your
PERFECTIONIST opinions.
when they talk to them
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PRIDE WAY OF TALKING:
- Ask questions.
- pay compliments. BODY LANGUAGE:
- Smiling and nice.
- Focuses on the satisfaction
of the other person. -Relaxed facial expressions.
- Open and elegant body
- He makes few references movements.
to himself. - When he shakes, he
- Soft voice tone. frowns and tightens his
- Get angry or complain face.
when you don't like what
others say.

BLIND SPOTS:
- You can hide a second DISTORTION FILTERS:
intention behind your - He feels that the other
ALTRUISTIC generosity, dedication and
kindness.
person plans to hurt him.

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VANITY
WAY OF TALKING:
- Clear, efficient, logical
and well formulated.
- Avoid matters about which
you have little information.
-Avoid topics that make you
look bad.
- Use concrete examples
- impatient with long
conversations.
BLIND SPOTS:
- He gets impatient when he
perceives others as
incapable.
- Seems to rush or sideline
others.
WINNER - it may seem abrupt or
false.
BODY LANGUAGE:
- Firm appearance.
- It is safe and inflates the
chest area when breathing.
- Keeps your back straight.
- Your acts may seem
rehearsed
- Look around regularly to
check the reactions it
causes in others.
DISTORTION FILTERS:
- If the information you
receive interferes with the
achievement of your
objectives.
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ENVY

WAY OF TALKING:
BODY LANGUAGE:
- Frequently use words
- Intense. Pressing, he
like ME, MY and MINE.
seems focused on
- Talk about yourself,
himself, as if analyzing
about your feelings,
the words he says.
share personal and / or
- Hints that you need
painful stories.
excessive attention.
- Ask personal questions. - Your eyes may appear
- Choose the words moist or sad.
carefully.

BLIND SPOTS:
- Diverts the
conversation towards
DISTORTION
himself through self-
FILTERS:
referential behaviors.
Feel rejected
- You need to exhaust
You feel undervalued or
the conversation even
ROMANTIC when the other person
underrated.
They feel
does not want to talk misunderstood.
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- It may seem too
dramatic or artificial.
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AVARICE
WAY OF TALKING:
- Speak sparingly or at
BODY LANGUAGE:
length.
- Expresses thoughts with
- Very careful in the choice
little emotional content.
of words.
- It seems controlled and
- Share very limited contained, with a little
information about yourself. expressive body language.
- Communicate ideas rather
than feelings.

BLIND SPOTS:
- Does not show warmth.
- It may seem detached or
DISTORTION FILTERS:
distant.
- fear of feeling inadequate.
- You may speak so much
- distrust that others want to
that you lose your
OBSERVER interlocutors.
intrude on your privacy.
- fear of physical proximity
- can be so sparing in words that feels invasive.
that it is difficult to
understand. 5
- may seem elitist.
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FEAR

WAY OF TALKING: BODY LANGUAGE:

- Start conversations with
analytical feedback
- Alternate a short and indecisive
way of speaking with an energetic
and confident speech.
- Raises concerns, concerns and
“YES” issues
- Committed and understanding.
- Alternate a look to one side and
another to make sure there is no
danger.
- His face denotes concern
- Reacts quickly non-verbally
when it perceives a threat.

BLIND SPOTS:
- Does not show warmth.
- It may seem detached or distant.
- You may speak so much that you
lose your interlocutors. DISTORTION FILTERS:
LOYAL SKEPTICAL - can be so sparing in words that it - Lack of trust towards the other
person.
is difficult to understand.
- Others interpret their habit of
looking for the worst scenarios as
negativism, pessimism or as "I AM
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GLUTTONY
WAY OF TALKING:
- Quick and spontaneous, his
words flow rapidly.
- Lively and charming.
- Avoid negative opinions of
yourself
- Reframe negative information.
BLIND SPOTS:
- You may not assimilate all the
information and knowledge you
think you master
ENTHUSIASTIC - They do not realize that their
behaviors make others not take
them seriously
- His constant change of ideas and
his active body language are
distracting.
BODY LANGUAGE:
- Smiling and radiant
- High-pitched voice tone when
angry.
- Highly animated face and
performs numerous gestures with
arms and / or hands.
- You can walk from side to side
while talking.
- Easily distracted.
DISTORTION FILTERS:
- Feeling that your competence is
believed in doubt - believing that
you know what the other person is
going to say and stop listening to
them - the possibility of limits -
being forced to make a long-term
commitment that you do not want
to assume.
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LUST

WAY OF TALKING:
BODY LANGUAGE:
- Energetic and authoritarian.
- He has an impressive physical
- Global and strategic point of view.
presence even when he is silent.
- She is impatient with the details.
- Modulates the tone of your voice
- Raises the intensity of your language until
to impact to the maximum.
you get a response from the other person. - Manages intense non-verbal
- Express your anger openly. language.
- Blame others if you feel guilty.

BLIND SPOTS:
- Many people, not only the
withdrawn ones feel intimidated.
LEADER - They have a much stronger
energy than they suppose to have
DISTORTION FILTERS:
- Fear of feeling guilty
even when controlled.
- Not everyone can capture the
global picture so quickly.
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SLUTH

WAY OF TALKING:
BODY LANGUAGE:
- Offers highly detailed
- Comfortable and relaxed.
information in a sequential style.
- Manifests few strong emotions
- Strive to be fair and consider all
particularly associated with
options.
negative feelings.
- You can say yes when you want
- His countenance is more lively
to say no, nod with words like YES
than his body.
and YES.

BLIND SPOTS:
- Offers extensive and detailed
explanations, which cause the loss
PACIFIER of interest of your interlocutor.
DISTORTION FILTERS:
- That they demand that you
- Presents various points of view change or do something - be
that negatively affect its degree of criticized, ignored or demeaned.
influence and its credibility.
  - They have a hard time
expressing what they want.
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