The Hero’s Journey
Course Overview
At this workshop you will experience your personal mythological adventure to transform your life on all the planes you are working and playing. The seminar is formed on Stephen Gilligan’s unique take on the mythologist Joseph Campbell’s work. In this course you will experience your own ‘Hero’s Journey’ that includes entrance to profoundly altered states through metaphor and Ericksonian Hypnosis
Your Unconscious is beckoning, are you listening?
Have you ever felt the inner call to go on a personal journey of change and transformation where you can live a life in keeping with your innermost conscious and unconscious dreams? Sometimes you inch forward, other times you refuse to accept the call of the journey and sometimes through circumstance, you are launched head on into the adventure. Now it is time to listen to your inner voice and take the journey through choice.
Becoming your own Hero on a Journey of Life
The call to experience the mythological journey comes from within and is often based on a feeling something is missing, been taken, or restricted by cultural expectations. This seminar is your personal invitation from Stephen to explore your own ‘Hero’s Journey,’ explore yourself at the deepest of levels and return to your community with new experiences and gifts to offer. Your ‘mythological’ journey includes several stages -
- Innocence of the Garden
- Exile and trials of the desert
- Return to the community with new self
The Journey is your metaphor for working at deep levels of consciousness as a model for developing a Generative Self, enjoying inner happiness and significant external accomplishments.
Dr Erickson’s influence
In the tradition of Milton Erickson, you will explore your life experiences in a different light. As you step into the Journey, the threshold of old problems and symptoms can be recognised as doorways for new identities. These states are thresholds which produce resources for your ongoing journey.
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself"
-- Joseph Campbell
You will learn how to utilise altered states of consciousness that have many applications including transforming identity; envisioning and realizing future states; changing negative beliefs and habits; healing emotional wounds and physical symptoms; deepening success in intimacy; and improving self-image and self-love.
Topics will include
- The steps of the Hero’s Journey
- The four goals of the Generative Self
- The ground for Generative Self: dissolving fixed identity, experiencing deep trance, and generative hypnosis
- The ability to sponsor your own journey, and how to act as sponsor for other people going on their journey
- How to re-organize a life path within the hero’s journey
- Aikido and other generative strategies for effectively transforming attacks, negative energy, and traumatic invasions
At this course, you can expect both to go through many experiential shifts, and to acquire models of how such transformational change can be developed in other areas. Come prepared to enter a training community that is both safe and passionate. The training includes experiential demonstrations, training exercises, intense personal work, group trance work, and lecture/discussion. The interplay of cognitive and experiential learning is emphasized throughout.
“An awesome 11 days. The most profound change I have ever experienced in such a short space of time. A fantastic experience.”
Mike Jackson
Stephen Gilligan
