Latest / Echoes & Edges / Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Heart Center (Types 2,3,4) with Ro Elliott
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- 1:16Speaker 1: See you there, so Roe. What makes the heart center
- 1:29Speaker 1: distinct from the gut or head centers? You might have
- 1:33Speaker 1: a long answer for this, maybe you just bullet point it.
- 1:36Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts about that.
- 1:37Speaker 2: They experience the world through their emotions and relationships. They
- 1:43Speaker 2: are shaped by mirror, mirroring. They are always reading the room,
- 1:50Speaker 2: they are looking how others are responding to them, and
- 1:55Speaker 2: it is a coping mechanism where they will shift their tone,
- 2:00Speaker 2: their behavior, their presentation. If it's an oh man, it's
- 2:07Speaker 2: a blessing a curse because you can read a person
- 2:10Speaker 2: really quick, and each of A two, three, and four
- 2:16Speaker 2: know how to change. Image is really what they're curating
- 2:22Speaker 2: their life around is an image? And do I matter?
- 2:27Speaker 2: Am I loved? Am I seen? So that's how they
- 2:34Speaker 2: move through the world.
- 2:43Speaker 1: The word image always makes some people squirm in their seats,
- 2:48Speaker 1: So as a type two, talk to us about what
- 2:52Speaker 1: that means like because it's not good or bad. It's
- 2:56Speaker 1: a thing. And you mentioned mirroring, shaped by mirror, So
- 3:00Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about what image means to the
- 3:03Speaker 1: heart center.
- 3:05Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest as a two, when people
- 3:08Speaker 2: talked about THO like, that's not true, I do not.
- 3:14Speaker 2: And it was easy for me to see A three
- 3:17Speaker 2: because they do shape shift. That made sense to me,
- 3:21Speaker 2: the four wants to be unique, to be seen as different.
- 3:27Speaker 2: And I couldn't.
- 3:28Speaker 3: See like I don't have an image, but yes I do,
- 3:34Speaker 3: because the image is how are people perceiving me?
- 3:38Speaker 2: And I know everybody kind of cares a little bit
- 3:42Speaker 2: about that, but not like those of us in this
- 3:46Speaker 2: heart center And am I being? Am I being accepted?
- 3:52Speaker 2: Am I being? Do I need to change something? So
- 3:56Speaker 2: I feel wanted in this screup? And we're eating the
- 4:00Speaker 2: room all the time, and that is curating an acceptable
- 4:07Speaker 2: image to be welcomed into a room. We are not
- 4:15Speaker 2: consciously thinking about it until the enneagram or good some
- 4:19Speaker 2: hard work that that is actually going on all the time.
- 4:25Speaker 2: So I was very uncomfortable with the word image conscious
- 4:30Speaker 2: because to me it was like, well I don't I
- 4:34Speaker 2: don't get guessed up. I don't really care about what
- 4:37Speaker 2: I have on. I mean that to me was an image,
- 4:40Speaker 2: but it's so much more internal. Yeah, it's an internal
- 4:46Speaker 2: It's about the heart. It is am I wanted? And
- 4:51Speaker 2: what has to and what do I have to do
- 4:54Speaker 2: to be loved or wanted in this room? And I
- 4:57Speaker 2: will become that?
- 4:59Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, So that is such a great segue to
- 5:05Speaker 1: this idea of how shame and it depends on the theory.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Some people talk about sadness being the primary emotional driver
- 5:13Speaker 1: of the heart types. But we're going to talk about shame.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Not that everybody doesn't experience shame, but because we're talking
- 5:21Speaker 1: about belonging and the way that you just so honestly
- 5:26Speaker 1: and candidly discussed the need for acceptance, you know, you
- 5:31Speaker 1: can see how shame plays a central part for heart types.
- 5:35Speaker 1: When we think about that, so shame is often described,
- 5:39Speaker 1: is that core emotional energy of the heart center? And
- 5:43Speaker 1: how do you understand that? Like in terms of the shame,
- 5:48Speaker 1: are there other ways to think about it and or
- 5:53Speaker 1: what are the hidden narratives that it's driving.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Underneath everything that we're doing. It is a deep longing
- 6:01Speaker 2: for love, worthiness, visibility. I don't think again I didn't
- 6:11Speaker 2: like shame. What is what is that? But I think
- 6:16Speaker 2: because this triad moves in a lot of comparison, image management,
- 6:23Speaker 2: overwareness of approval of people. And when we're reading that,
- 6:29Speaker 2: we're not getting that. It's telling us you're not lovable,
- 6:36Speaker 2: you're not worthy, and you can't be loved for who
- 6:41Speaker 2: you are. And that's what shame does. It tells the
- 6:45Speaker 2: try to tell us who we are in a very
- 6:50Speaker 2: with a negative. So I think as we're doing this,
- 6:55Speaker 2: shame is naming us names. It too is unlovable. You know,
- 6:59Speaker 2: can a three as unworthy and a four as too
- 7:06Speaker 2: much unworthy of love? If people really knew who you,
- 7:10Speaker 2: you know, you allowed them to see who you were.
- 7:13Speaker 1: It's so painful. Yes, am I hearing that right? I mean,
- 7:19Speaker 1: it just feels so.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Painful because it's identity. I mean, that's it's the core.
- 7:27Speaker 2: And I think when our identity is misshaped by shame,
- 7:34Speaker 2: it does cause a lot of pain and heart and
- 7:37Speaker 2: a lot of working, earning, striving to try to work
- 7:45Speaker 2: our way out of that instead of learning to have
- 7:49Speaker 2: a better story and a better narrative.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Well, and so how does it like talk about again,
- 7:57Speaker 1: because you are a type two, you're in this triad,
- 8:01Speaker 1: talk to us about how these strategies become ways of
- 8:04Speaker 1: securing love and belonging. Because that's what the shame is
- 8:10Speaker 1: telling us is you're not is telling the heart types
- 8:13Speaker 1: in some version, you're not worthy, you're not good enough,
- 8:16Speaker 1: you're too much. So how do these strategies of the
- 8:19Speaker 1: types become And maybe we talk a little bit more
- 8:23Speaker 1: about what the strategy of each type is and then
- 8:27Speaker 1: how they become ways of securing love and belonging.
- 8:33Speaker 2: So for a type two, I am going to move fast.
- 8:40Speaker 2: I'm going to see need, I'm going to take care
- 8:43Speaker 2: of it. I'm going to hear something, and I'm going
- 8:47Speaker 2: to try to fix. I'm going towards how I kind
- 8:50Speaker 2: of try to move away from the shame is I
- 8:52Speaker 2: go really fast toward people, and at times before I
- 8:57Speaker 2: did work, I went too fast for people because I'm
- 9:00Speaker 2: trying to get connection. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to say
- 9:05Speaker 2: do you want me? Do you love me? And so
- 9:09Speaker 2: if I go first, so to speak, then that doesn't
- 9:14Speaker 2: leave any room for the rejection. So I'm going to
- 9:17Speaker 2: make sure that doesn't happen.
- 9:20Speaker 1: So candid, thank you.
- 9:24Speaker 2: So A three they don't know who they are outside achievement.
- 9:32Speaker 2: So as a child, obviously something told then you will
- 9:37Speaker 2: be loved and accepted as long as you are achieving
- 9:40Speaker 2: and as long as you successful. So they lose themselves
- 9:45Speaker 2: of who they are apart from accomplishments. They are their
- 9:50Speaker 2: accomplishments instead of this is who I am and these
- 9:55Speaker 2: are some things that I did it's all blended together.
- 10:00Speaker 2: For them, it's one thing, it's one identity. It's their identity.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Their accomplishments, success is their identity, and fours they kind
- 10:13Speaker 2: of they are the deepest feeling people of all the enneagram,
- 10:17Speaker 2: and so they can get lost in the narrative I
- 10:19Speaker 2: am my feelings, so wherever they're sitting in their feelings,
- 10:25Speaker 2: so it's almost like that's who I am. And they
- 10:28Speaker 2: have this push pull. They want so badly to be seen,
- 10:35Speaker 2: to be for who they are, the uniqueness. But then
- 10:39Speaker 2: they can kind of withdraw because if somebody really does
- 10:43Speaker 2: see me, will they really love me?
- 10:46Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 10:47Speaker 2: Yeah. The crazy thing or the paradox of these coping
- 10:54Speaker 2: strategies I think for all all triads is we are
- 11:01Speaker 2: working this trend's working hard to build love and security
- 11:06Speaker 2: and accepted, but actually we are working against ourselves. It
- 11:12Speaker 2: is actually doing the exact opposite. It's not giving us
- 11:20Speaker 2: the deepest desire is for that connection to be known,
- 11:23Speaker 2: seen and loved. We're actually building walls to keep people
- 11:30Speaker 2: from actually coming in and seeing us for who we are.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Yeah, because shame says it's messaging, And again, I just
- 11:44Speaker 1: I think it can't be overstated the pain of the
- 11:48Speaker 1: heart types in the all of the all of the
- 11:53Speaker 1: centers have their own type of pain, but this identity
- 11:57Speaker 1: focused pain is poignant. I can feel it as you're
- 12:01Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, and it's and it's just
- 12:05Speaker 1: something that I think is worthy of noting about the
- 12:10Speaker 1: heart center because I think, again, thinking about bad raps,
- 12:14Speaker 1: there can be a misunderstanding of emotions and of this
- 12:19Speaker 1: need where identity is truly being attacked all the time
- 12:23Speaker 1: by shame, and so that working against yourselves feels very
- 12:29Speaker 1: similar to how ones have and all the all the
- 12:32Speaker 1: types we've just talked about have to sort of contract,
- 12:35Speaker 1: relax the contraction in some way. And for you, as
- 12:39Speaker 1: heart types, it feels like relaxing the contraction about getting
- 12:42Speaker 1: love and letting love come to you because you're worthy.
- 12:52Speaker 1: What changes, then, when heart centered leaders move from image
- 12:58Speaker 1: management to genuine connection? What changes? If anything?
- 13:05Speaker 2: I think the shift has to happen from how am
- 13:09Speaker 2: I being perceived, because then we're not going to be
- 13:13Speaker 2: genuine how am I being perceived? To how am I
- 13:16Speaker 2: truly connecting? Because it's actually what we want is connection.
- 13:21Speaker 2: But if we don't let go of how I'm being perceived,
- 13:23Speaker 2: we're never going to have that true connection. So A
- 13:28Speaker 2: two needs to give, but we also need to receive.
- 13:34Speaker 2: We need to ask for help. I heard a phenomenal
- 13:38Speaker 2: teaching on Guessemite yesterday at her church. I'm one of
- 13:42Speaker 2: my favorite teachers. Look her up, Christy mcke Christy McClellan.
- 13:46Speaker 2: But she talked about being a Gisemite, and Jesus came
- 13:51Speaker 2: out to the disciples and he clearly stated how he
- 13:57Speaker 2: was feeling. I feel like I could die. I'm close
- 14:02Speaker 2: to death. The anguish. He shared his anguish, he was anguishing,
- 14:08Speaker 2: and he let the disciples know he was anguishing. Second,
- 14:12Speaker 2: he said, and I need you. Can you stay with me?
- 14:17Speaker 2: Can you be with me? Is that? And I heard that?
- 14:23Speaker 2: And I can't help but hear everything this movie. I thought,
- 14:28Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, tues need to hear that. Yeah, because
- 14:32Speaker 2: we don't know what we feel and we don't know
- 14:34Speaker 2: what we need, and we're afraid to say either one
- 14:36Speaker 2: of them. I mean, I think everybody needs that. But
- 14:39Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, Jesus in his most vulnerable time, was
- 14:45Speaker 2: honest about how he felt and what he needed. Yeah,
- 14:50Speaker 2: And I think that's like a banner message for any
- 14:54Speaker 2: gram twos M.
- 14:56Speaker 1: And I can I could applied that pretty quickly to
- 14:59Speaker 1: all of the heart types. Yes, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah,
- 15:03Speaker 1: the with the with like the with invites your being
- 15:09Speaker 1: just be just be here with me. I hear such invitation.
- 15:14Speaker 2: From her, Yes, And I have to allow if I'm
- 15:18Speaker 2: always giving, giving, giving, giving, it's one sided. That's not
- 15:24Speaker 2: a relationship. Yeah, and I think so. In leadership on
- 15:28Speaker 2: a team, you can't always be the one doing and
- 15:32Speaker 2: doing and doing. You need to ask for help. It's
- 15:36Speaker 2: a give and take, and that's the best kind of
- 15:39Speaker 2: leadership is when you're giving and receiving and it's not
- 15:46Speaker 2: at a kilter.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hear you saying. And as the type two,
- 15:52Speaker 1: type twos often make incredible leaders and you're not gonna
- 15:57Speaker 1: you're not going to say that about type twos, likely
- 15:59Speaker 1: be as you are and probably don't see yourself that way.
- 16:03Speaker 1: But we know and I know that type twos make
- 16:08Speaker 1: incredible leaders actually because of this emotional awareness, because of
- 16:13Speaker 1: the help the helper strengths, and so what I hear
- 16:18Speaker 1: you saying. And again we could apply this for type
- 16:21Speaker 1: threes in fource, but we're talking centers. And because you're
- 16:24Speaker 1: a two we're going to focus on the two in
- 16:26Speaker 1: this particular segment. But I hear you saying that when
- 16:30Speaker 1: a leader too goes from image management to like what
- 16:35Speaker 1: Jesus said, I need you to be with me, that's
- 16:39Speaker 1: the shift. That's what I hear you saying, is that's
- 16:43Speaker 1: the shift.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Meditation. Yes, and people are having a relationship with an image,
- 16:51Speaker 2: whether you're two or three or four, Yep, they can't
- 16:54Speaker 2: have your relationship with the image. They have to have
- 16:57Speaker 2: a relationship with who we really are. And I think
- 17:01Speaker 2: about threes if they can get comfortable with their humanity,
- 17:08Speaker 2: with their flaws, with making a mistake, just that kind
- 17:15Speaker 2: of realness. I've been in a room with a healthy
- 17:20Speaker 2: three female and she was like my biggest cheerleader. She's
- 17:29Speaker 2: the one that really got me out in front of
- 17:31Speaker 2: people talk about the enneagram and it was her thing.
- 17:37Speaker 2: But a healthy three is so good at like not
- 17:41Speaker 2: just seeing who they are, but really calling out the
- 17:44Speaker 2: best in other people. And they can really create an
- 17:48Speaker 2: environment to elevate everybody. And I think when they are vulnerable,
- 17:54Speaker 2: it does help other people on a team to be
- 17:58Speaker 2: able to say, oh, don't have to be perfect. It's
- 18:03Speaker 2: not perfect, Like a one, three, but perfect. I can't
- 18:07Speaker 2: let I can't let any weakness. Yeah, I can't let
- 18:11Speaker 2: any weakness be seen. And so I think when a
- 18:15Speaker 2: three can let down that mask and let people see
- 18:19Speaker 2: who they really are, then I think that builds trust
- 18:24Speaker 2: and helps the team grow together. It's again, we can't
- 18:30Speaker 2: have relationship with the image. I think if that's one
- 18:33Speaker 2: thing for us, heart triads need to know. People can't
- 18:36Speaker 2: have relationship with an image, They have to have it
- 18:40Speaker 2: with a person.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Yeah. So good leaders are themselves, is what I hear
- 18:46Speaker 1: you saying. They're like they show up like the real you. Yes,
- 18:51Speaker 1: well like, well, the real you stand up, the real
- 18:54Speaker 1: you stands up.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Yes. I think when fourst can stand up and be
- 19:00Speaker 2: comfortable in who they are and not try to image
- 19:05Speaker 2: manage and am I too much? Am I? Not too much? Now?
- 19:09Speaker 2: I think they need to be able to share and
- 19:11Speaker 2: not traumatize things. I think that sort of four has
- 19:15Speaker 2: to learn how to share vulnerably within boundaries. But when
- 19:24Speaker 2: they do that invites other people into that same space.
- 19:30Speaker 2: But fours have to be first of all, become comfortable
- 19:35Speaker 2: in who they are and not what is wrong that
- 19:41Speaker 2: nagging question in a four? What am I missing what
- 19:46Speaker 2: is wrong with me? Their comparison isn't their envy isn't like,
- 19:51Speaker 2: oh I wish I had their house and I wish
- 19:53Speaker 2: I had the car. They have something I don't have.
- 19:57Speaker 2: And if you're in a group on a team, if
- 19:59Speaker 2: you can flip that little mirror that story, they have
- 20:04Speaker 2: something I don't have, and that's good because they're going
- 20:08Speaker 2: to bring that and I'm going to bring this. Just
- 20:13Speaker 2: flip the narrative of what a foretells themselves instead that's negative,
- 20:19Speaker 2: it's positive. You know.
- 20:21Speaker 1: It's almost like for Force, they just just elongate the sentence.
- 20:26Speaker 1: And I love what you just said there that that
- 20:29Speaker 1: feels deeply authentic to fors and just to say on
- 20:34Speaker 1: forest behalf. Just like with twos and threes, they can
- 20:38Speaker 1: fall into sharing, sometimes over sharing their pain as an
- 20:46Speaker 1: effort in an effort to connect. That's what they're trying
- 20:50Speaker 1: to do. They're trying to be seen and then can
- 20:54Speaker 1: have that hard withdraw when they are seen because they
- 20:58Speaker 1: believe they're deficient. So that is kind of the trap
- 21:01Speaker 1: of the force. I love what you just said there.
- 21:04Speaker 1: They have something you don't have, and it's good. It's
- 21:08Speaker 1: just elongating the space it feels similar to eights there
- 21:12Speaker 1: a little bit. Not that fors and eighths are the
- 21:16Speaker 1: same by any means, but the pause feels similar in
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- 23:32Speaker 1: else you would add about the heart center before we
- 23:35Speaker 1: move forward from the space to the head center.
- 23:40Speaker 2: I think I keep saying this, but I think if
- 23:44Speaker 2: the heart center, if we can be comfortable of understanding
- 23:48Speaker 2: a curated image will keep people away. And if we
- 23:55Speaker 2: will learn what our true identity is, who we really are,
- 24:01Speaker 2: then that invites people in. And that's the journey for
- 24:05Speaker 2: the heart center.
- 24:07Speaker 1: That's beautiful. It's striking how often the hearts strategies are
- 24:14Speaker 1: really bids for love. They're really that bid for connection,
- 24:21Speaker 1: for belonging, and they are ways of trying to stay
- 24:26Speaker 1: connected without disappearing entirely. And so if the Heart center
- 24:33Speaker 1: wrestles most deeply with shame and worth. The Head Center
- 24:38Speaker 1: wrestles with something else entirely. It's uncertainty. How do I
- 24:43Speaker 1: stay safe? How do I prepare? How do I make
- 24:47Speaker 1: sense of a world that can feel unpredictable? And that's
- 24:51Speaker 1: where we're headed next as we turn toward the Head Center.
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