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WE CONTINUE TO DISCOVER INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES THROUGH THE ENNEAGRAM OF PERSONALITY MODEL

Encouraging research and aiming to ensure intellectual and physical development in the education process, Bilfen Schools continue to discover their students’individual differences by means of the “Enneagram of Personality Model” which has been integrated into Bilfen’s education system since 2016 as the key to understanding differences.

Why adopt an enneagram-based educational approach?

The modern understanding of education dwells on the importance of educational practices that determine students’ individual differences and bring out their potentials in order to develop students as happy, healthy, productive, well-adapted, and socially responsible individuals. The Personality Type-based Educational Approach enables us to determine our students’ individual differences – and accordingly develop appropriate educational and pastoral approaches - based on the concept that personality characteristics are innate and do not change throughout one’s life, determining an individual’s perception, motivation and perspective.

The educational approach based on the Enneagram of Personality argues that the key parameter that determines individual differences is “an individual’s personality type which defines the main underlying reason for an individual’s main motivations and behaviors in life; organizes the whole operational, emotional, and intellectual structure; and forms the touchstone of an individual’s personality”. With personality types at its center, this approach enables us to determine each student’s “perceived priorities, psychological needs, motivations, talents, interests, and tendencies as well as his/her potentially risky characteristics”.