Core Need/Motivation
To be comfortable, harmonious, and connected.

Characteristics
Type 9s are agreeable, accepting, trusting, and self-forgetting.

Description
This type tends to avoid anything that could create disruption in their environment. They will likely not share their thoughts, desires, or feelings if they believe it could cause a break in the connection they enjoy with others.

Since they are so in tune with harmony, balance, and peace, they tend to create that in their surroundings. Their attention to mutual regard means they respect others' thoughts and want others to respect them as well.

It isn’t important to them that everyone shares the same interests, thoughts, feelings, or beliefs. They don’t seek agreement but rather mutual understanding, respect, and alignment around action.

Because they are accepting, others feel comfortable opening up to them. Type 9s often forget their own agenda, tuning into the agendas of others and going along to get along. It is just as easy for them to forget their own needs and desires.

The Gifts of the Type

They are easy to work with. They genuinely have few needs and often seem glad to do whatever is required. They create comfortable and stable environments. They can cultivate peace in what seems like unresolvable conflict. They are good at making space for others. Because they have very little agenda, people tend to trust them.

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