I’m at the Sacred Contracts workshop in Chicago (taught by the awesome Carolyn Myss). Tomorrow is Day #3 when we will pick our eight archetypes that form our basic wheel (together with the core four: victim, child, prostitute and saboteur).
This has been a really good class. We’ve been reviewing the structure for the archetypes that form each person’s contract about what they are up to in this world. I hope to finish the next two classes (May and September) and go on to become certified to use the archetypes with coaching clients.
So, for now, we are learning about our own wheels in the real-time. The twelve archetypes form this basic wheel of advisors who interact to form the sacred contract. I know, sounds all very woo-woo, but it’s amazingly not. We’ve watched the Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life, with commentary by one of the workshop teachers to help us see the symbology and archetypes in Dorothy and George as they make their Hero’s Journeys. These observations are so rich and helping me to see life on a higer level, as well as how I interact in the world.
These eight are the ones I came up with out of the 70 or so in the deck. If you know me, would you agree?
I love to find processes and solutions (engineer) and cannot survive even a day without creating art (artist). I am nurturing to my children and in general in the world (mother) and always striving to see the long view (visionary). I always want to know how things work and what the underlying story is (detective) and find myself always relating my experience of life thorugh stories (storyteller). I find my way through risky situations – like my whole life! – through intuition (gambler) and I work to make things succeed financially (midas).
I’ll let you know how I did after we go through this more formally tomorrow.