The Hero's Journey

In this extraordinary workshop presented here for the first time in print, Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts truly take you on a voyage of self-discovery. The Hero's Journey examines the questions: How can you live a meaningful life? What is the deepest life you are called to, and how can you respond to that call? This book is about how to discover your calling and how to embark on the path of learning and transformation that will reconnect you with your spirit, change negative beliefs and habits, heal emotional wounds and physical symptoms, deepen intimacy, and improve self-image and self-love. Along this path we inevitably meet challenges and confronting these challenges forces us to develop and think in new ways and push us outside our comfort zone. The book takes the form of a transcript of a four day workshop conducted by Stephen and Robert. It is a powerful way of learning as you are so absorbed by the experiences of the participants that you feel you are actually there.

	p. 1
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
The Beginning of the Journey	p. 3
First Premise: Spirit is Waking Up	p. 6
Second Premise: Spirit is Awakening through a Human Nervous System	p. 7
Third Premise: Each Life is a Hero's Journey	p. 8
The Hero's Journey Framework	p. 11
Steps in the Hero's Journey	p. 12
The Calling	p. 12
The Refusal of the Call	p. 14
Crossing the Threshold	p. 16
Finding Guardians	p. 17
Facing Your Demons and Shadows	p. 18
Developing an Inner Self	p. 19
The Transformation	p. 20
The Return Home	p. 20
The Generative Self	p. 24
The Three Minds: Somatic, Cognitive, and Field	p. 26
Three Levels of Consciousness: Primitive, Ego, and Generative	p. 29
The Principles for Creating a Generative Self	p. 31
Developing a Generative Somatic Consciousness	p. 35
Exercise: Connecting with Your Center	p. 35
Exercise: Speaking and Listening from Your Center	p. 43
Bringing the Three Minds Together in Support of the Calling	p. 48
Exercise: Aligning the Three Minds to Realize Your Calling	p. 49
Demonstration with Marcos	p. 50
The Challenge of Sustaining Your Connection to Your Center	p. 58
Exercise: Active Centering	p. 60
Demonstration with Carmen	p. 63
The Generative Somatic State	p. 73
Learning to Be with What is Moving through You	p. 79
Conclusion: Keeping Your Channel Open	p. 83
	p. 87
Generative Cognitive Consciousness	p. 87
Sponsorship	p. 91
Practicing Sponsorship	p. 100
Exercise: Questions for Your Hero's Journey	p. 100
Demonstration with Stephen	p. 101
Skills of Sponsorship	p. 107
Dealing with Resistance and Refusal	p. 109
Exercise: Beginning the Hero's Journey	p. 110
Demonstration with Vincent	p. 113
Summary: Transforming Inner Resistance through Self-Sponsorship	p. 124
Integrating the "Shadow"	p. 127
Transforming "Good Self" and "Bad Self" into Positive Complementarities	p. 130
Exercise: "Good Self/Bad Self" Identity	p. 131
Demonstration with Stephen and Robert	p. 132
Sponsoring Archetypal Patterns of Transformation	p. 135
Exercise: Moving through Archetypes of Transition	p. 137
Closing: Sweet Darkness	p. 150
	p. 153
The Generative Field	p. 153
Practices for Connecting to the Field	p. 160
Creating an Energy Ball	p. 163
Accessing the Field Mind through Presence	p. 167
Your "Second Skin"	p. 169
Exercise: Developing a "Second Skin"	p. 170
Demonstration with Eva	p. 172
Archetypal Energies: Tenderness, Fierceness, and Playfulness	p. 185
Exercise: Energy Spheres and Archetypal Energies - Creating Transformational Futures	p. 186
Demonstration with Rosa	p. 191
Mindfulness and "Opening Beyond"	p. 198
Exercise: Seeing the Field	p. 201
Demonstration with Eric	p. 204
Skills for Opening to the Field	p. 215
Closing: The Pattern that Connects	p. 217
	p. 221
Navigating the Journey	p. 221
The Importance of Practice	p. 224
Self-Sponsorship through Expanding Awareness	p. 227
Exercise: Self-Sponsorship for Health and Healing - Utilizing Ongoing Awareness	p. 229
The 5Rhythms“ of the Journey: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness	p. 236
Exercise: Exploring the 5Rhythms“	p. 243
Finding Guardians	p. 247
Exercise: Gathering Your Guardians	p. 250
Demonstration with Alice	p. 254
Conclusion: The Return	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 271
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