ENNEAGRAM LINEAGE
The Enneagram is a 9-point symbol and personality system that includes three centers of intelligence: Head (5, 6, 7), Heart (2, 3, 4), and Gut (8, 9, 1). The Integration is deeply informed by the Enneagram: including Core Type, Subtypes, Tritypes®, Instinctual Patterns, and the movement toward wholeness. Matt encountered Tritype® and Katherine Chernick Fauvre’s work in 2024 and quickly felt drawn by the depth and breadth of her years of research and knowledge. At the time Matt had already learned about MBTI and done some research on other personality typology; but the Enneagram and Katherine’s Tritype® offered something much deeper than surface level explanation of a person’s behavior; it went straight to the motivations of why we do what we do. Matt began meeting with Katherine as a guide and mentor for deeper work in 2024 and started the certification process with her in 2025 and is expected to be certified by the end of 2026.
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Katherine Fauvre — Founder of Tritype®
Katherine Chernick Fauvre is my primary Enneagram teacher and the person who showed me what becomes possible when depth psychology is brought into real people’s lives. She has devoted decades to studying and mapping the Enneagram far beyond simple “type descriptions,” and is the creator of Tritype® and the Instinctual Stacking Patterns that inform much of the psychological work we do at The Integration.
Katherine has sat with thousands of students and clients, listening for the precise patterns underneath their stories. She has a rare ability to see people clearly without shaming them, and to name subtle dynamics in a way that makes growth feel both exact and deeply compassionate.
The practice you experience in this dojo stands on her shoulders. The way we work with Centers of Intelligence, Tritype® patterns, Instinctual Dynamics, and the nervous system is directly influenced by her lifetime of research, teaching, and one‑on‑one work. This part of the school is my way of honoring the lineage I come from and helping her contribution live in the bodies and hearts of real students, not only in books or recordings.
To explore Katherine’s work directly, visit her website: katherinefauvre.com.
Katherine Chernick Fauvre - Founder of Tritype® Matthew’s Enneagram Mentor
Tritype® Facts
Tritype®, a 27-point personality system coined and created by Katherine Chernick Fauvre, emerged during her 1994 qualitative research on the "internal experiences" of the types. Her ongoing research suggests that individuals use three Enneagram Types, not just one. These three types occur as the dominant type in each of the three centers of intelligence: Head (5, 6, 7), Heart (2, 3, 4), and Gut (8, 9, 1), combining the idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies of all three types, creating a “new" type unto itself with a more specific focus and worldview. All three types are used in unison, in a rapidly repeating, hierarchical stacking order. The type at the top of your Tritype® Stacking is your "core" type.
Extensive research with tens of thousands of international participants has confirmed that each Tritype® Archetype comprises the character traits of the three types within the Tritype®. These traits within the Tritype® combine to create the 27 unique Tritypes®, each with its own set of core values, needs, fears, and concerns that include: a specific focus of attention, idealized image, core triggers, core fears, desires, blindspots, a sense of purpose, and growing edge, adding significant precision, accuracy, and scope to the Enneagram Typing process.
Research also suggests that the common theme found among the three types within an individual’s Tritype® identifies that individual’s archetypal life purpose and a critical blind spot to self-awareness. In addition, the shared view by the types in an individual’s Tritype® gives important clues as to what is needed to live a more conscious and meaningful life.
Example of Tritype®: 8 (Gut), 7 (Head), 3 (Heart)