About this episode

This episode explores the Compliant Grouping of the Hornevian Triads and how Enneagram Types 1, 2, and 6 seek connection and belonging.

What if your first move — when life gets hard, uncertain, or morally murky — is to look for what's right ? For Enneagram Types 1, 2, and 6, that's not rigidity. That's how they're wired to love. This episode explores the Compliant Grouping of the Hornevian Triads — one of three movement patterns that shape how we seek what we most deeply need. While some types turn inward and some move against, the Compliant types characteristically move toward — toward a standard, toward another person's need, toward the safety of a trusted person or community. This isn't weakness. It's a particular way of reaching for connection, meaning, and belonging. This panel features Ryan Vaughn (Type 1), Chris Bay (Type 2), and Craig Hinca (Type 6). Together they explore what this outward orientation actually feels like from the inside — and why it's so often misread by the world (and sometimes by themselves) as people-pleasing, rule-following, or anxious dependency. What others may experience as compliance is often something far more searching: a longing to be good, to be needed, and to belong somewhere safe enough to trust. Learn more about Ryan's work at…

People in this episode

Host: Jeff King

Guests: Ryan Vaughn, Chris Bay, Craig Hinca

Topics covered

• Enneagram
• Compliant Grouping
• Hornevian Triads
• connection
• belonging
• self-improvement

Keywords

• Enneagram Types
• Compliant Grouping
• Hornevian Triads
• connection
• belonging
• self-improvement
• morality
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Greenbush, Life Success Legacy, Churchwell

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