Claudio Garibaldi - The Psychology of the Enneagram Applied to Graphology - A Collection of Articles - English version

Title | The Psychology of the Enneagram Applied to Graphology - A Collection of Articles

Author | Claudio Garibaldi

ISBN | 9788827820728

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Foreword

The Enneagram is a dynamic personality system that allows for a deep understanding of ones passions, emotions and behavior. Knowledge of the Enneagram has enabled me, as a handwriting analyst, to have a fuller awareness of the dimensions of writers personality, allowing a better focus on core motivations that drive behavior.

In this compendium of articles published in Enneagram Monthly , Claudio Garibaldis expertise guides us to discovering personality through the Enneagram coupled with handwritten expression. Throughout his long career, Claudio has researched how the Enneagram is reflected in handwriting and how it can be applied. His descriptions of the ways in which the graphologist can identify Enneagram types from handwriting are clear and nuanced, enabling the analyst to grasp the essence of the writer without losing sight of his or her individuality.

Claudio has given presentations about how the Enneagram can be integrated with graphology at conferences of The American Society of Professional Graphologists in New York twelve years ago and again recently in an online program. For many who attended these presentations, this was their first introduction to the Enneagram and represented a new way to explore graphology. Each time I hear Claudio speak or read his materials reveals another level of complexity for my personal understanding of what handwriting can reveal.

Claudio approaches handwriting analysis through the Italian Moretti system of graphology. This system is a new way to analyze handwriting for most Europeans and Americans. However, you do not have to know the Moretti graphology system to apply what Claudio teaches us about combining the Enneagram with handwriting analysis. His writings give important insights to all serious graphologists as well as those who are new to handwriting analysis.

I am pleased to recommend this compendium, not only to graphologists, but to anyone who is interested in understanding the underlying motivations in personality. Claudio Garibaldis work broadens our perspective on how individuals think, feel and approach their world, and how it is expressed in the way we write.

Patricia Siegel

President, The American Society of Professional Graphologists

Graphology offers a picture of who we are to anyone capable of interpreting personality traits revealed by the involuntary chain reactions of impulses between brain and paper. Impulses that are generated by our nervous and muscular responses become a snapshot of our constitution, mental, emotional and physical state we are in at the moment of writing. I cant think of a more accurate, and spontaneous way of expressing the sum total of all levels of our being. Accurate interpretation of course is another matter that is half science and half art. Claudio Garibaldi demonstrated with mastery how personality assessment systems like the Enneagram can benefit from verification by using graphology. After all, psychological nudity is much more likely to be displayed innocently while writing than in a setting of being tested or by self-assessment.

Jack Labanauskas

Enneagram Monthly Publisher and Editor,

http://www.enneagram-monthly.com

Acknowledgements

I wish to express my special thanks to Patricia Siegel President of The American Association of Professional Graphologists , who hosted one of my workshopsin New York and always showed a deep interest for the Enneagram, and to Heidi H. Harralson past President of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation who invited me to give some workshops in Arizona and in San Jos. I want to thank Jack Labanauskas publisher and editor of Enneagram Monthly who always demonstrated a real interest for graphology and a trust in my work. Lastly, a thought goes to Barbara Garro, Painter & Writer, and to Katherine Chernick Fauvre, an Enneagram author, who were the first persons welcoming my study when I decided to spend one year in the United States.

Introduction

This publication consists of a collection of articles published in Enneagram Monthlyfrom 2005 to 2007. At that time, the study of the connection betweenthe Enneagram and Graphology was a novelty, while today, perhaps thanks to these articles, it has become much more widespread.

Enneagram Monthlyis an extensive journal dedicated to intelligent discourseabout the enneagram, its current applications, and future potential. Since 1995, the Enneagram Monthly is the most internationally respected and referenced focal point of enneagram development.

The graphic expression of every human being is intimately connected to his neurophysiological structure, experience and history. The enneagram is benefiting from an international and transcultural dissemination because it describes human nature in a way that everyone can recognize him or herself, beyond belonging to a specific nationality. If it is agreed that the enneatype permeates the existential manifestations of each of us, we can say that it will have an influence on each individual movement of spontaneous handwriting. This is the empirical basis of the connection between graphic gesture and enneatype.

My goal for the last twenty-two years was to demonstrate this hypothesis is true. I have studied and researched about a thousand samples of handwritings belonging to subjects of different nationalities.

In addition to the theoretical elaboration, it was also necessary to verify directly the validity of what was formulated. This was done by organizing multiple workshops that I offered in several countries, such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Hungary, Belgium and of course in Italy. It allowed me to experience the vast potential of the joint application of Enneagram and Graphology, a potential that unfolds in different sectors and in different ways. It is not just about theory. It is about self-knowledge and requires an individuals commitment to study and to work on themselves. Above all, in order to advise or teach the subject in a careful and effective way, one needs to know about him or herself.

At the beginning of my work I was mainly interested in transmitting knowledge to graphologists because, while they are very good at identifying individual traits by looking at handwriting samples, the science of graphology does not really teach us how to see the larger patterns formed by a cluster of traits. But its really only when we can see this kind of larger pattern that it is