Welcome to The Wild Types

Nine ways we get lost. Nine ways we come alive. Exploring the Enneagram as a path beyond personality.

Subscribe to The Wild Types whether you know a little or a lot about the Enneagram. Here you’ll find reflections and articles that introduce key ideas like the nine types, instincts, and patterns of growth while also moving beyond labels into deeper questions of identity, freedom, and transformation.

This is a space for curiosity, honesty, and becoming. It’s not about fixing yourself, but finding yourself.

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Who’s Behind This?

Michael Vollbrecht is an ordained minister, spiritual director, coach, and public speaker exploring the Enneagram as a path beyond personality into a way of life that is both human and whole. Through The Wild Types, he writes about the patterns that shape us and the deeper work of loosening them with honesty, compassion, and curiosity.

In his private practice, he works one-on-one with individuals seeking to make meaning of their lives, one conversation at a time.