Assertive, Withdrawn or Dutiful?

The Enneagram talks about the three centres of intelligence in every person - the Body, Heart or Mind - but that we all have one centre that is dominant - hence the groupings of the Types into Instinctive (Body), Feeling (Heart) or Thinking (Mind).

However we can look at the Types differently. Many people talk about whether people are introvert or extrovert but the Enneagram describes the Types slightly differently, as being either Assertive, Withdrawn or Dutiful with three Types falling into each but not in the same groupings as the Instinctive, Feeling or Thinking triads. For example the Eight, Nine and One are all in the Instinctive Triad but one of them is described as 'assertive', one is described as 'withdrawn' and one is described as 'dutiful'.

The Assertive Types are sometimes referred to as those who move against others. The Dutiful Types as those who move towards others and the Withdrawn Types as those who move away from others.

I will go into a bit more detail in the coming posts but can you guess which Types fall into which group?