Bob Marley’s Life and Work Illustrate Stages of the Hero’s Journey

In his blog post at http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2011/02/bob-marley-national-hero.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.

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Parenting As A Hero’s Journey Involves Raising Children With A New Story to Save the World

Parenting As A Hero’s Journey offers Hero’s Journey Virtual Retreats and publications at their website.

(Note: Their website appears not to have been updated since about 2015.)

From http://parentingasaherosjourney.com/the-story-behind-the-story/

“Where are we to turn for insight into our traditional, historical and even evolutionary need for stories to guide our reality? The Parenting As A Hero’s Journey Virtual Retreats and forthcoming publications utilize the iconic Hero’s Journey monomyth, discovered by scholar Joseph Campbell, to explore and elevate our capacity for becoming the author/authority of our own stories. While the Hero’s Journey reflects millennia of ancient wisdom teachings, as Cultural Creatives in the 21st century, we are the New Story. As parents who wish to pioneer a New Story for our children, we are the heroes following a Call to Adventure, setting out on a quest, transforming our consciousness, discovering the elixir of wisdom, and in the end, returning to our ordinary world with our treasures – real treasures, not the hollowed out images in sleek marketing campaigns. The treasures we carry home from our hero’s journey sustains our souls for our lifetimes, and models for our children the amazing reality of a whole human being.”

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

The image on their site illustrates their interpretation of parenting as a hero’s journey (click to enlarge):

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Training Employees with the Hero’s Journey

Shane Lueck of Dashe-Thompson shows how the Hero’s Journey can be adapted to the training of employees for business success in sales. Click here to access the full article at dashe.com.

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The Hero’s Journey Pattern/Trope in Television Stories

TVtropes.org is a website that contains 100s of tropes found in TV and literature, including the Hero’s Journey trope.

From https://tvtropes.org:

“A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which a story is told by anyone who has a story to tell. We collect them, for the fun involved.

Tropes are not the same thing as cliches. They may be brand new but seem trite and hackneyed; they may be thousands of years old but seem fresh and new. They are not bad, they are not good; tropes are tools that the creator of a work of art uses to express their ideas to the audience. It’s pretty much impossible to create a story without tropes.”

Click here to access the description of the Hero’s Journey trope at TVtropes.org.

Indexes of all their tropes are here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes

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