Enneagram Resources for University Students

Enneagram Resources for College Students Based on Studies Grounded in Science

In today’s Enneagram world, it’s challenging to discern what's the originally sourced Enneagram of Personality from what is Enneagram-informed, Enneagram-inspired, or Enneagram-distorted.

While the Enneagram has been adopted by people of all ages, we've noticed recently that the far majority of visitors to Dr. David Daniels’s new website are college-aged. We encourage college and university students to learn from the wisdom and expertise of David Daniels when studying the Enneagram..

David Daniels, M.D. is one of the founding fathers of the modern Enneagram and his work continues to teach the Enneagram to enthusiasts, students, and scholars all over the world. We encourage you to study this incisive system and look further into the research, science, and spirituality of the Enneagram system and its invaluable applications.

In addition to Dr. Daniels’ Enneagram books, this website also offers FREE RESOURCES for college students and young adults.

 If you don’t know or are uncertain about your Enneagram type, start by taking the scientifically validated test.

The Essential Enneagram Test and Self-Discovery Guide

Everything about the Enneagram will make sense once you figure out your type (and hopefully that of important others, like your parents and your partner). We need an active inner "witness" learned through mindfulness to accurately type ourselves.
 
To buy the book:

The Essential Enneagram and Self-Discovery Guide includes the first scientifically validated Enneagram test based on a sample of 976 study participants at Stanford University.

Key themes include:
 
  • What the child lost sight of across development, also called "The Basic Proposition" of the core belief system
  • Core strategy based on what attention gets focused onRoot causes of distress, anger, fear, and defensiveness
  • Insights to regain your higher emotional and mental capacities
Section 1 – How to Discover Your Enneagram Type
 
Section 2 – What to Do When You Have Discovered Your Enneagram Type
 
Section 3 – Research Methods to Discern Enneagram Type

Learn how Dr. Daniels uses the Enneagram with interpersonal neurobiology to understand, heal, and develop relationships.

The Enneagram Relationships and Intimacy book cover

The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy

Relationships get a lot easier with the Enneagram. Get answers to why you and your partner do what you do. Relationships develop much better when both individuals learn how to accept one another and develop themselves.

 

To buy the book:

The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy brings the Enneagram together with affective neuroscience in a practical, insightful way that you can immediately apply to your relationships.

Key themes include:

  • Understand your relationship before it starts
  • Make Sense of the Habits of Yourself and Your Partner
  • Soften judgments of each other while building "Receptive Love"
  • Learn 9 ways to give and receive love

 

Part 1 – The Enneagram and Interpersonal Neurobiology

Part 2 – The Enneagram and Relationships

Part 3 – The Enneagram and Intimacy

Study and Research The Enneagram: Apply Formal and Empirical Science

David N. Daniels, M.D. devoted much of his life to applying the Enneagram to loving and living more fully and to understanding relationships. Dr. Daniels, was an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Stanford University Medical School and worked tirelessly to bring the Enneagram to the world and form bridges between the Enneagram and science. 
 
Dr. Daniels applied both ancient wisdom (based on formal science) throughout his career with modern interpersonal neurobiology (based on empirical science).
 
Learn More About...
    • David N. Daniels, M.D. Bio
    • David’s work with Daniel Siegel, M.D. and Affective Neuroscience
Take Courses from...
    • The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), co-founded by Dr. Daniels
      • Certification: Certified Narrative Enneagram Practitioner Program
      • Certification: Professional Certification Program
      • The Narrative Enneagram Europe
      • Podcast and Courses
    • Chestnut Paes Academy (CPA),  whose founders were students of Dr. Daniels
Explore Scientific Study from...
  • Dr. Daniels was interested in bridging the Enneagram's contemplative wisdom with contemporary science. With a very ancient history in both science and the nature of human consciousness, Dr. Daniels never lost sight of the fact that whether you study the Enneagram from a scientific or esoteric perspective, doing the work of relaxing your personality's defenses and emotional reactivity/anxiety, and taking the time to understand others, was what was most important to our own well-being to the sustainability of our relationships, and to the quality of our lives.

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    Free Enneagram Resources for College Students

    Enneagram Articles by Dr. Daniels

    Free eBook: The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy by Dr. Daniels and Suzanne Dion

    "Enneagram Types Relationship Matrix" by Dr. Daniels