• Remembering
    David Daniels

    • David Daniels Personal Bio
    • David Daniels Formal Bio and Enneagram Contributions
    • How David Daniels Discovered the Enneagram
    • David Daniels and the Enneagram in the Press
    • David’s Recommended Resources
    • Quotes from David Daniels, MD
    • “Ask David” Archive
    • David’s Blog Archive
    • “David’s Weekly Thoughts” Archive
  • The Enneagram &
    Getting Started

    • What is the Enneagram?
    • Getting Started with the Enneagram
    • The Enneagram’s Basic Propositions
    • Descriptions of the 9 Enneagram Types

      • Enneagram Type 1
      • Enneagram Type 2
      • Enneagram Type 3
      • Enneagram Type 4
      • Enneagram Type 5
      • Enneagram Type 6
      • Enneagram Type 7
      • Enneagram Type 8
      • Enneagram Type 9
    • History of the Enneagram as We Know It Today
    • Quick Tips for Each Enneagram Type
  • Enneagram
    Articles

    • VIEW ALL ARTICLES
    • The Enneagram, Transformation
      & Growth

      • Why the Enneagram for Development?
      • The Enneagram Triads
      • The 5 As of Transformation
      • What is Integration? Insights from the Enneagram
      • The Enneagram and How We Actually Change
      • The Pause and Miracle of Receptivity
      • The Pause in a Fast-Paced Day
      • Using the Enneagram to Understand and Manage Anger
      • The Enneagram, Loss, and Grief
      • Inspirational Enneagram Stories
    • The Enneagram
      & Neurobiology

      • Our Neurobiology and the Enneagram
      • Nature AND Nurture: Acquiring an Enneagram Type
      • Temperament and the Enneagram
      • Scientific Study of the Enneagram
    • The Enneagram &
      Spirituality

      • Enneagram’s Holy Ideas: Essential Spiritual Qualities
      • For What Are We Remembered?
      • Integrating Our Enneagram Essence in Our Lives
    • The Enneagram for
      a Better World

      • Why the Enneagram and What Really Matters
      • Greed to Generosity and Enneagram Types
      • Enneagram and Saving Our Lives and the Planet
      • A New Paradigm: The Enneagram Prison Project
      • Enneagram Prison Project and Teaching in Prison
      • Forgiveness: How It’s Truly a Path to Freedom
      • The Roots of Violent Behavior
      • Who Exactly Are the “Good Guys” with Guns?
      • Losing Robin Williams: 7 4 1 Triad
    • The Enneagram &
      Important Topics

      • Enneagram’s Narrative Tradition
      • Enneagram Typing and Children
      • First Enneagram Global Summit
      • Russ Hudson and David Teaching the Enneagram
  • Growth &
    Wholeness

    • The Universal Growth Process
    • Universal Growth Process by Enneagram Type
    • Fundamental Breath Practice by Dr. David Daniels
    • Growth Practices

      • Growth Practice for Everyone – All 9 Enneagram Types
      • Enneagram Type 1 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 2 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 3 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 4 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 5 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 6 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 7 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 8 Growth
      • Enneagram Type 9 Growth
    • “Personality and Wholeness in Therapy” by Dan Siegel, MD

      • An Overview of the PDP Model and the Enneagram
      • Enneagram Type 1 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 2 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 3 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 4 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 5 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 6 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 7 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 8 Wholeness
      • Enneagram Type 9 Wholeness
    • Weekly Reflections for Each Enneagram Type
  • The Enneagam
    & Relationships

    • The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy
    • BOOK RESOURCES: The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy
    • The Enneagram, Love, and Relationships
    • Enneagram Types in Relationship and 45 Combinations
    • Why Do We Love?
    • Touch, Love, and Enneagram Types
    • A Separate Self and Love
    • Dao and Enneagram Practices for Relationships
  • Enneagram Test
    & Resources

    • Take the Essential Enneagram Test: Discover Your Type
    • Enneagram Resources for University Students
    • Stanford Enneagram Test & Guide
    • Essential Enneagram Books
    • Enneagram Audio & Podcasts
    • Enneagram Videos & DVD
    • The Narrative Enneagram (TNE) Training
    • International Enneagram Association (IEA)

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 paperback:       Or buy the audiobook
    • Barnes & Noble
    • Amazon
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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" or 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:
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Amazon
  • Bookshop.org

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


Download the COMPANION WORKBOOK PDF >>


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. on 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
Explore Scientific Study from...
    • An Empirical Perspective:
      • A search for “Enneagram” on Google Scholar reveals over 9,000 results
      • There is a worldwide effort to study the Enneagram of Personality and its benefits in helping and healing self and all types of relationships.
    • A Formal Mathematical and Gurdjieffian Perspective:
      • The Enneagram of G.I. Gurdjieff by Christian Wertenbaker
      • Views From the Real World by George I. Gurdjieff
      • In Search of Being by George I. Gurdjieff
      • In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky
  • 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


The Essential Enneagram 25th Anniversary
AUDIO BOOK
Available on AUDIBLE.


The Essential Enneagram 25th Anniversary PAPERBACK and KINDLE
Available at BARNES AND NOBLE, BOOKSHOP.ORG, or on AMAZON


The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy PAPERBACK and KINDLE
Available at BARNES AND NOBLE, BOOKSHOP.ORG, or on AMAZON

The Enneagram Relationships and Intimacy book cover

Enneagram Types Relationship Matrix, $15

Enneagram Types Relationship Matrix book cover

Learn more about using the Enneagram and the PDP Model together.

Personality and Wholeness in Therapy

The Essential Enneagram Online Test, $10

The Narrative Enneagram Essential Test
The Legacy of David Daniels, M.D.

Feel free to get in touch! We welcome your ideas and inputs about how to further share the Enneagram, including getting started, accurate typing, and the Enneagram for bettering relationships—all of which David cared so much about.


If you would like to hold a workshop, training, or a book club series with Suzanne Dion, David’s co-author of The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy please reach out.

Learn and Grow with the Enneagram
  • Remembering David
  • David’s Enneagram Books
  • The Essential Enneagram Test
  • Quotes from David Daniels, MD
  • The Enneagram, Love, and Relationships
  • The Universal Growth Process
  • Our Neurobiology and the Enneagram
  • The Enneagram Triads
    • Personality and Wholeness in Therapy by Dan Siegel and the PDP Group
Connect

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