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2018 - The Year of Story Telling : The Heroes Journey

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Along with a few others, during November  I was on a video conference call enjoying month 3 of Metanoia; a personal development programme written and delivered by good friend Viktoria Duda . During this session we looked at the Hero's Journey [diagram to the left / above]. This model was hammered out by Jospeh Cambell who observed that throughout history stories repeatedly consisted of similar components (acts) and archetypes (actors or players). These two elements combining within this flexible model to provide an almost limitless variety of adaptations for the storyteller that serve to amplify the transitional journey of the Hero; the central character. What has drawn me too this "Hero's Journey" is not only my own love for recounting stories that resonate with others, but that we all love a good story. It is built into the human psyche. Humans have been recording their stories with wall carvings, paintings, objects, tapestries, words, books and movies for