https://medium.com/@flowlab1/the-heros-journey-a-narrative-model-for-the-treatment-of-ptsd-f3d4de994257
"The Hero’s Journey: A Narrative Model For the Treatment of PTSD"
by Jamaal Fort, specialist in PTSD, Human Performance, Smoke Ending, etc.

"In my own work in human performance, I have been developing a program that helps veterans get the training they need to become adjunct counselors, therapists, and trainers to the many mental health professionals currently working with veterans. The program satisfies their desire to be of service to their fellow veterans while allowing them to heal throughout the process. Completing the cycle means turning warriors into healers. Armed now with a new identity, these brave men and women can play an active role in their healing."

Click here to access the full article.

Mike Pegg, the "Positive Encourager," incorporates the Hero's Journey in his approach to Positive Psychology and Positive Philosophies. His website "looks at how we can help people to build on their strengths and achieve their picture of success" and "explores how we can encourage both present and future generations. It provides practical tools that people, teams and organisations can use to continue: To be positive...To do positive work...To help to build a positive planet."  He has developed a "Strengths Approach," which he offers on his website and in his mentorship and coaching.  Click here to see The Positive Encourager website.

In his blog post at http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2010/03/bob-marley-and-heros-journey.html, Geoffrey Philp shows how aspects of Bob Marley's life are illustrative of the Hero's Journey pattern.

Click here to access the full blog post at geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com.

To access actual biographies of heroes, see the Your Heroes section of TheHeroPlace.

From: https://vault.mcad.edu/islandora/object/MASD%3A34/datastream/OBJ/view

"The Hero’s Journey to the Circular Economy: Exploring the Role of Storytelling in the Transition from a Linear Economy to a Circular Economy"
by Shari Welsh, MA in Sustainable Design, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Thesis, April 11, 2014

... Society’s predominant economic model is built around a linear, “take, make, waste” approach to development. It designs for short--‐term obsolescence that comes at great social, economic and environmental costs. A variety of sustainability solutions have been developed to respond to the wide array of problems that exist with the linear economy model. However, many of these solutions do not deal with the underlying systemic problems of the linear model and are often simply add--‐ons to our current linear system.
 
The circular economy is a different type of model that has been developed to address the problems presented by the linear economy. The circular economy is regenerative by design and is based upon several key principles: design out waste, build resilience through diversity, shift to renewable energy sources, think in systems and think in cascades. The circular economy model allows us to reconsider our relationship to products by exploring two key areas: product redesign and system redesign, both of which provide the opportunity for value--‐creation on many levels.
 
Storytelling, and specifically Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, is a powerful tool for encouraging social change and transformation. The Hero’s Journey is a story pattern that crosses religions, generations and cultures. It describes an ordinary person who ventures through multiple steps of a journey on a quest for achieving a greater good for the rest of society. The Hero’s Journey offers a unique perspective that can be used to guide businesses in the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. The obstacles and opportunities one encounters during the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey can be mapped to the parallel obstacles and opportunities one encounters when exploring the transformations required to move from a linear to a circular economy....

Here she discusses Parallels Between the Circular Economy and the Hero's Journey:

... The Hero’s Journey offers a unique perspective that can be used to guide businesses in the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. The Hero’s Journey has parallel struggles, obstacles and victories to those one would experience in taking the journey toward a circular economy. A direct parallel can be drawn to the three primary stages described above. In the separation stage, an individual—perhaps a business owner or an employee—decides to pursue the higher calling of looking for opportunities to move the business’ model away from the destructive linear economy model to one that does not destroy as it creates. During the initiation phase when one crosses the threshold into the special world—in this case into the circular economy and the opportunities that exist there—the business owner, the company, the products, and the stakeholders will all encounter a series of tests. And, during the return stage, the business owner—and at this stage the company—will be able to bring the knowledge, rewards and inspiration of the circular economy back to the “ordinary world.”....

From: https://myhero.com/hosted/pdf/HeroFestGuide_Web.pdf

My Hero offers their Hero Fest Guide, which explains how to hold a Hero Fest hero festival.

Click here to access the Hero Fest Guide.

For schedules and information about upcoming hero events held by hero-related organizations and professionals, including hero festivals, conferences, etc., see Events category in our Hero Tools section.

Dave Gray of GameStorming presents a game for planning meeting agendas by incorporating principles of the Hero's Journey. (The image (above) is a circular image from the website depicting the hero's journey applied to meeting planning.)

From: https://gamestorming.com/heros-journey-agenda/
"The Hero’s Journey Agenda is a unique and different way to lay out the agenda for a meeting or workshop that creates a sense of adventure and builds anticipation for the meeting.... The hero’s journey basically has two big components to it. There is the known world, which are the things that we kind of already know, the regular work and so forth. There’s the unknown, which are the things that we hope we will discover and explore during the course of this meeting."

Click here to access the full article at the gamestorming.com website.

From Wiley Online Library
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2164-490X.2005.tb00026.x

"The Hero's Journey as a Developmental Metaphor in Counseling"
by GERARD LAWSON

"It has been argued that the goal of counseling is development. Through the use of J. Campbell's (1949) treatment of the hero's journey as a conceptual metaphor, this article describes development as a journey and illustrates how the counselor's understanding of the journey can assist the client's development."

(This article may be purchased at the Wiley Online Library site or accessed through interlibrary loan.)

Joseph Campbell may be said to have "discovered" the hero's journey within the myths of all cultures. He described its 12 stages as what he called the Monomyth in his classic work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. The hero's journey was later adapted for modern-day screenwriters by Chris Vogler (see Hero Wisdom > Chris Vogler) and in story-writing software (see Hero Tools > StoryCraft Hero-Story Writing Software). See also Vogler's description of Campbell's work on the hero's journey at Hero Wisdom > Chris Vogler.

"Joseph Campbell, born on March 26, 1904, in New York City, studied Native American folklore as a child and went on to become a Sarah Lawrence professor. He was a renowned presenter of unifying concepts in comparative mythology with books like The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth and The Masks of God. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 30, 1987, with a PBS interview series released in 1988." (From https://www.biography.com/people/joseph-campbell-9236309)

Though many videos have been recorded of Campbell, the most famous are from the series of Bill Moyers's PBS interviews broadcast in 1988.

Bill Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell begin their groundbreaking and timeless conversation with an exploration of the classic hero cycle, including consistent and enduring hero patterns in literature, real life and even the Star Wars films. Campbell also encourages the audience to view parts of their own lives as heroic journeys. In a clip from the first episode, Campbell encourages the audience to discover what excites them, and make that the basis for their personal journeys.

See clip from Episode One here (from Bill Moyers' website)

Russell Hirsch discusses the relationship of sports to the hero's journey in his website, StoryThreads.

From https://russellfhirsch.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/sports-stories-spirituality-a-trinity/

"Sports, Stories & Spirituality: A Trinity" (originally posted Feb.5, 2017)

... But there is a subtler, deeper level than that: In this blog, I usually talk about story structure and the resonant, even mystical underlying foundations from which stories draw their power. I believe the rules of many sports are likewise symbolic of the same ancient wisdom as stories.
        In my posts on the Hero’s Journey, I reference Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, and others who envision stories as having a cyclical shape. A character is thrust into a new situation and has to deal with it. Often they literally have to venture out, earn something of value, and return home. In his book, The Writer’s Journey, Vogler notes how similar this is to a baseball diamond. A player circles the bases and returns home with something of value—literally—a point for their team.

Click here to access the full article at Russell Hirsch's website.

From https://www.edutopia.org/blog/heros-journey-21st-century-betty-ray

In "A Hero's Journey for the 21st Century," Betty Ray discusses adapting the teaching of Hero's Journey for the 21st century classroom.

Click here to access the full article by Betty Jo at EduTopia.

(For specific curricula, see Teaching Tools in the Hero Tools section.)