Meet The Hero You Are Waiting For–Within Yourself

There are challenges on your way.

Who is going to deal with them?

Meet the hero you are waiting for––within yourself.

You can discover your sources skillfully and playfully, opening up for your potential and the ability to unfold it.

The Calling

The workshop is based on the deep insights of Joseph Campbell. The American mythologist found out that there are stories that are universal and eternal. May it be on the Amazon or at the shores of the Nile in Egypt: wherever people are sitting around a campfire and tell a myth, there is a similar structure underlying all of them.

It is a story of a hero, male or female, who receives a higher call. Most of the time the hero rejects it at first. But then he starts the journey that becomes an adventure. He is confronted with obstacles. After many tests, he attains the treasure he received the calling for, returns back to his community, and uses his newfound power for the benefit of all.

This is the matrix of the myth. It is told not just because it is compelling and thrilling. It emerged all over the world because it mirrors the journey of the soul.

And the challenges of this journey unfold in business and society too.

Going on the journey

As if this wasn't amazing enough, Gestalt Therapist Paul Rebillot created an outstanding tool out of it. He took this eternal wisdom and created a journey out of it, on which all of us can go – in a safe place at a workshop with a lot of support from fellow travelers.

Through inner journeys and playful exercises, you go on a path through the landscape that mirrors the path through the jungle of business, politics, and personal relationships.

Claim your Aim

You start the journey by taking a look at the four corners of your life, such as Self and Home. Then you get a feeling of what the goal is you want to achieve now. You claim your aim. While you discover yourself in an intuitive way, you explore your inner wisdom and ability to unfold it. On your path you encounter the energies you can draw on and witness how beautifully they support you. By exploring them in inner journeys and expressing them playfully in exercises you also encounter the demon – the power within you, that seems to block the way. What does the demon say about you? We created the demon to protect us. The demon always wants to serve us but regularly does it in an insufficient and painful way. What does the demon actually want? The hero has to find out.

This is the core of the journey – the encounter of hero and demon, coming in contact with both sides, letting them merge and transform. It is all about joining the forces to reach the goal.

Connecting to pure energy

On the journey, we can rely on each other to get support. And we use the power of Archetypes. The Greek word archetype comes from "Arche"–origin–and "Typus"–matrix. So an archetype like a hero or a magician is a master pattern that connects us with the core essence of energies in the universe. We access them and express them in writing, acting, and painting.

While doing so we have the chance for a new experience. A challenge is not in the way, it is the way. In Greek myths, there are a lot of heroes like Achilles, Jason, and Odysseus who all were injured on their journey. They had a teacher, a centaur – half man, half horse –, called Chiron, who taught them how to deal with this. He knew what he was teaching about. Chiron was wounded in a fight and therefore had to learn all the secrets of herbs in order to pass on the gift of healing.

At work or at home, we can be wounded, and this makes us, even more, a Hero on the way to healing and transforming conflicts, when we use the tools the universe offers.