When talking to phycologists mainly in Australia, they like talking about the Big 5 personality test. where as at work we use the DOPE personality test to teach clients about how to communicate with others. Personally I like viewing personality as dynamic and we flow in and out of Archetype. However, I think that we…
Category: Hero’s Journey
Hero’s Journey – Step 6 – The Road of Trials
Trials and temptation are always around in life. While the hero is within the magical place, learning lessons for life, these are hampered by old ways of thinking and the temptations that were an every day thing will become one’s down fall. I could end the post here, because this is the take home message…
Hero’s Journey – Step 5 – Into the Belly of the Beast
In to the place where change and magic happens. Here we travel in to a place where find our self in “No-Man’s Land”. We are entering a place where we do not know the rules and we do not know the people. We cross the threshold with all our preconceptions, biases and Goals. We think…
Hero’s Journey – Step 4 – Crossing the First Threshold.
Crossing the Threshold gives the image of a point of no return, or entering into no man’s land. This is not so, it is going into a situation that you have not been before. This is akin to stepping out of your comfort zone. In some cases, if you are forced legally into a new…
Hero’s Journey – Step 3 – Refusing the Journey
Joseph Campbell calls this a the Refusal because that is the Hero’s first response. In the journey it is Yours and Mine as well, our first response to any type of change is not with open arm. Unless that the change is self-insinuated, such as Marriage, Going into a de facto relationship, entering further education…
Hero’s Journey – Step 2 – Meeting the Mentor
When we are being forced to change or even when change is self-initiated we need a mentor. We are surrounded by mentors all the time, it is just we do not need a mentor so we are not looking out for a mentor. Then a mentor will make themselves known to you. This is a…
Hero’s Journey – Step 1 – The Normal World
In the ordinary world, we go along our life in the routine that we always follow. We get up, get the kids off to school, go to work, come home, do a bit of shopping on the way, have dinner, have a shower and then off to bed. the last day was no different than…