hero's/ heroines journey a story of personal development
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HERO’S/ HEROINES JOURNEYa Story of Personal Development
Melita Reiner, M.Sc., Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist,Croatian-Austrian Training Center fo NLPt, Zagreb, Croatia
The Power of Narratives
Presuppositions
Joseph Campbell (March 26th 1904 – October 30th 1987), American mythologist, writer and lecturer
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time
FOLLOW YOUR BLISS!(Going where your Body and Soul want to go…
Influences
HERO’S JOURNEYCALL TO ADVENTURE
Ordinary World
Call to Adventure
Refusal of the Call
Meeting with the Mentor
Crossing the First Threshold
Belly of the Whale
INITIATION
The Road of Trials
Meeting with the Godess
Apotheosis and the Ultimate Boon
Reward: After surviving death, the hero earns his reward or accomplishes his goal.
RETURN
Refusal of the Return
Passing the Return Threshold
Return with Elixir & Master of Two Worlds
SEPARATION Ordinary World
SEPARATION Call to Adventure
Refusing the Call
The hero is faced with the unknown. By contrast, home represents safety and security, a place the child is loathe to leave.
SEPARATION Refusal of the Call
SEPARATION Meeting with the Mentor
Conscious or unconscious Committment to Quest;
Benign, Positive Powers of Guidance
SEPARATION Crossing the First Threshold
SEPARATION „Belly of the Whale”
Annihilation of Old Self; Re-Birth; Metamorphosis; Womb of the World
INITIATION The Road of Trials
Tests Ordeals Tasks
Archetypal Energies - Examples
INITIATION Meeting with the GoddessMystical Marriage of the Triumphant Hero Soul with the Queen Goddess of the Earth
INITIATION Apotheosis and the Ultimate Boon
RETURN
Refusal of Return
The Crossing of the Return Threshold
RETURN with Elixir –Master of Two Worlds
Similar concepts
Fairytales, Stories, Legends, Myths
Dark Night of the Soul, St John of the Cross
Eric Berne (Transactional Analysis) – Scripts
Carl G. Jung – Individuation and Shadow Integration
Abraham Maslow – Self-Actualization
Post-traumatic Growth – PTSG
Hero’s Journey in NLP: Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan
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Robert Dilts & Stephen Gilligan
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HERO’S JOURNEY – AN EXAMPLE IN NLP CONTEXT
An invisible presence.....
There is an inner self that is trying to become conscious.
There is another intelligence that lives within you (the unconscious, the spirit, inner being...)
This inner being is very intelligent.
It is not „part of“ or the property of your conscious self, it is autonomous and has its own consciousness
.....is trying to wake up...
- Each stage of awakening is initiated through „out of control“disturbances, such as symptoms,crises, altered states, major life changes, etc.
- The problem is the solution/the attempted solution is the problem
- When your „other than conscious“ self predominates,listen!
.... from dreamtime....
Two types of dreamtime: the „field of infitite possibilities“ (the creative void, the collective unconscious, the spirit world) and „neurosis“ (half-baked experience, neglected selves, received by somatic self/rejected by cognitive self...)
....into human consciousness.
-Human consciousness is the „second coming“, the double-birthed relational self that practices self-awareness, self acceptance, sponsorship of life...
For a problem to become a solution, proper conditions must be present.
The principle of utilization/cooperation /sponsorship is a cornerstone
A ritual space must be present (safety, experiental forma, blessings and guidance, death and rebirth)
Self-Relations
Gilligan defines 'symptoms' as an awakening of the soul
the purpose of a symptom, such as depression, or panic, might be to call a person to seriously reexamine their life, to begin a process of reanimating their life with new found purpose and intensity.
. The therapist's job is to be there as "sponsor," to touch with love whatever a person brings.