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

Bлагодаря! Kiitos! Danke!

Multsumesc

Hvala!

Thank you! Merci!

Tack! Gracias!

Спасибі! Grazie!

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Additional

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.