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Type Two: The Giver

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Note: The following text is being used with permission from the Enneagram Professional Training Program of Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.

The Giver believes you must give fully to others to be loved. Consequently, Givers are caring, helpful, supportive, and relationship-oriented, but also can be prideful, overly intrusive, and demanding.

Abbreviated Version of the Basic Proposition:

The original state of freedom [the Holy Idea] wherein needs are met according to a universal will [flow of energy] goes into the background in a world that you perceive is based on to get you must give. Consequently, you come to believe that you can gain love and have personal needs fulfilled through your own giving to others what they want/need and hoping these others give back. Concurrently, you develop the prideful energy [the Passion] of knowing best what others need [the Fixation of Flattery]. Attention naturally goes to others’ needs and desires.

Description of the Key Characteristics:

World is based on to get you must give.

Essence qualities of humility and freedom go into background.

Assures love and approval by becoming indispensable.

Develops pride in giving/helping and in altering for others’ needs.

Attention goes to needs/wants of others, especially significant others.

Avoids rejection and loss by becoming indispensable.

Sensitive to emotions, and emotionally sensitive.

Represses own needs, leading to emotional manipulation.

Has hidden dependency (dependent on others being dependent).

Values giving, emotional connection, active energy.

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