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Hero's Journey Map
Hero's Journey Map
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- Robust & flexible fabric map with minimal packing size and brilliant colors made from recycled PET (washable and ironable)
- 100 x 100 cm in size and hemmed all around
- Also suitable for outdoor use
- For individual coaching and groups
- Use: Development, challenges, crisis, grief, change
- Includes flyer with a brief introduction (german)
The map is also available as an online map.
The term “hero's journey” is based on J. Campbell's comparative study of myths, fairy tales, and stories entitled “The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” This has given rise to therapeutic and counseling concepts that have taken up the concept of the hero's journey and put it into practice. The film industry, authors, and marketing also make use of this coherent and meaningful narrative structure.
The map for the systemic hero's journey aims to provide a visual landscape for narrating and viewing personal or corporate histories. It is a journey across several countries, along interesting places and encounters with different people (or personality traits).
Campbell divided the hero's journey into 17 phases. Others who have taken up the concept also divide this journey into 6, 8, 10, or 12 stages—some of which have different names, of course.
The map does not aim to create a new consulting concept for the hero's journey. Rather, my intention is to offer a map that should be suitable for most concepts by combining several passages on one island. This is because all approaches share the same basic sequence – with different emphases and differentiations.
The hero's journey in a nutshell:
Most start in their familiar world, their “home,” and begin their journey clockwise. The four small green islands in the top center symbolize four aspects of paradisiacal longing and wholeness (I am still very unsure about this—Hamann names four partly similar “functions,” Lindemann five personality parts). For me, these are memories that are decisive for leaving the familiar world and may still be dormant.
Finally, there is a “call” (to adventure): this can be a call, but also an event or an uncomfortable constellation that ‘forces’ a person to set out – unless (as is almost always the case at first) there is a “refusal” with well-functioning excuses.
With the decision to finally set out, a threshold is crossed, leaving the old behind. However, the subsequent “search” and “discovery” show that this is not as quick and easy as expected. They represent phases of experimentation and the gathering of new experiences and undiscovered resources. What and who supports me? Ultimately, however, the really big and decisive test remains to be seen in order to recognize what sustains me. Can I manage to give up my illusions completely? Can I break away from old patterns? Where do I see my actual task?
The transformation will leave scars and empty spaces, but it will also bring forth something completely new: a treasure or a reward that I take with me and perhaps even carry to others. In order for the new possibilities to become reality, the adventure leads back home. I am changed, and with this change, not only do I have to learn to live anew, but so do others...
Information about material and origin:
The wooden blocks are manufactured in a Franconian carpentry workshop.
The bag is not only packaging, but above all a very practical storage bag: it is made in Germany, is resealable and, thanks to the mono-plastic, recyclable (interzero ‘Made for recycling’ seal).
The fabric card is also made in Germany and consists of recycled PET.
