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Using Archetypes to Expand the Concept of “Self”
Title
Presenter
Name
(Country)
Marcia
Reynolds,
PsyD,
MCC (USA)
Pad (UK)
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Your Catalysts
Marcia Reynolds, MCC
Pad
• Based in London
• Former President of ICF
Global
• Author of ‘Team Me’
• Author of Outsmart Your Brain • Executive Coach
and Wander Woman
• Focussed on Performance
• Executive Coach
Improvement
• Expertise on the Brain
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Intention and Objectives
• Provide you with an experiential understanding
of archetypes.
• Provide you with different models to help you
and your clients access the potential these
archetypes make available.
• Demonstrate coaching techniques and exercises
associated with archetypes that will help clients
create new awareness to expand their selfconcept and behaviors.
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What are Archetypes?
Characters
Classic
concepts
Psychological
structures
Roles
Mental models
Energies
SYMBOLS
Spiritual
Principles
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Personalities
What are Archetypes?
THEY’RE DEEP
• Unconscious – accessed through
metaphors, myths, and association
THEY’RE EVERYWHERE
• Universal – recognised in every race,
culture, creed, language and geographical
location… throughout history.
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LOGICAL LEVELS
Where do Archetypes Operate?
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Spirituality
Identity
Beliefs
Capabilities
Behaviours
Environment
Archetypes through Time
...and how many archetypes are there anyway?
Jung &
Freud
4+
Philo
of Alexandria
Plato’s ‘ideas’
9
12
4
x2
Susan Rhodes
Robert Moore +
Douglas Gillette
Carol S. Pearson
49
125
Caroline Myss
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The Hero's
Journey
Joseph Campbell
The Six ‘Team Me’ Archetypes
Sage
Sovereign
Warrior
Lover
Mystic
Jester
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Your Personal Archetype Profile
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Are you
adept at adaptation
?
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Finding a new approach
• The key is having FLEXIBILITY
– The player with the greatest flexibility controls
the system (tennis, chess… children!)
• Knowing HOW to be flexible…
– Being practiced and ‘adept at adaptation’
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Shadow
Archetypal ‘Shadows’
Often occurs when
personal needs are
not being met.
Overheated
Balanced
Frozen
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Archetype
Often occurs after a
significant failure having given it their
best shot and still
failing.
Warrior
Overheated
(Savage)
Balanced
Frozen
(Victim)
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Hostile, compulsive, volatile, impatient,
abusive, defiant, inflexible, can’t stand losing.
Hates to see weakness in others, creates
strife, loves to fight and cause pain. Makes
mountains from mole-hills. Obsessive doer.
Courageous, action-orientated,
confident, competitive, enforces
boundaries, finishes the job, direct,
determined, disciplined, loyal,
dependable. Faces and pushes through
pain.
Gives way under pressure, avoids pain and
conflict, sloppy, can’t say ‘no’, can’t finish
tasks. Ineffective. Inactive.
Burning Questions
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My Archetype Journey
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When We Ask “Who Am I?”
• Can I be accepted as I
am?
• Do I have what it takes
to be a leader?
• What is power and how
can I use it?
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When We Ask “Who Am I?”
How will I know what I am
meant to do as my
purpose on this planet?
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Many of the answers are in the journey…
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How I Act Reflects Who I Think I Am
If Who I Think I Am Changes,
So Will My Behavior
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Free Your Self
Cultivating Your Selves Concept
You can choose your
patterns of behavior
instead of acting by habit,
and still be authentically
you.
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Exercise: Who are you?
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Choose 3 - 5 of
your current
patterns.
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What Is Suppressed and
Longs to Be Free?
Add 1 -2 more
archetypes that want
to be heard.
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Choose Your Board of Directors
Purpose
or
Scenario
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Choose Your Board of Directors
Work in pairs to explore
a current scenario
where you might try out
a new archetype to help
resolve the situation.
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Define Your Sense of Purpose
Looking at your
archetypes, what do
they tell you about your
sense of purpose or
calling?
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Purpose
Four Types of Purpose Statements
1. Focused on creating or making something
happen for the greater good.
2. Focused on creating or making something
happen for self-expression or self-discovery.
3. Focused on assisting others to realize
potential or make a difference.
4. Focused on changing what is not working
now.
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Four Types of Purpose Statements
1. Focused on creating or making something
happen for the greater good.
Pioneer
Queen/King
Revolutionary
Visionary
Magician
Collaborator
Lover
Idealist
Jester
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Four Types of Purpose Statements
2. Focused on creating or making something
happen for self-expression or self-discovery.
Wanderer
Hero/Heroine
Adventurer
Seeker
Superstar
Ruler
Detective
Artist
Gambler
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Four Types of Purpose Statements
3. Focused on assisting others to realize
potential or make a difference.
Storyteller
Caregiver
Inspirer
Healer
Mentor
Connector
Companion
Nurturer
Mother/Father
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Four Types of Purpose Statements
4. Focused on changing what is not working
now.
Warrior
Rebel
Advocate
Fixer
Entertainer
Thinker
Martyr
Teacher
Scholar
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Define Your Sense of Purpose
1. Which archetypes have
inspired your actions at the
most significant moments
of your life? Which
archetype wants to be
heard the most right now?
2. Place this archetype in the
center position for now.
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Purpose
Pad
DEMONSTRATION
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Sovereign
Sage
Commanding
Responsible
Just & fair
Establishes
boundaries
Loves order,
peace,
prosperity
Wise,
learned,
discerning
perceptive
Rational,
logical and
reasonable
Warrior
Mission
focused
Enforces
boundaries,
finishes the
job.
Direct,
determined &
disciplined.
Loyal &
dependable.
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Lover
Values
people &
relationships.
Empathetic.
Seeks
Transforms
harmony.
things. Has
Playful,
faith: brings
hope. Creative Spontaneous
& charismatic. Expressive.
Delights in
mystery
Intuitive and
prescience.
Mystic
Jester
Entertains
Brings
humour,
laughter, joy
& colour
Makes light
of things finds the
funny side.
Become Something More
1. 5-minute vision
Who What How
2. Choose your
keyword
3. Celebrate your
successes
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Feelings
Burning Questions
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Further Resources
Marcia Reynolds
Pad
• www.OutsmartYourBrain.com • www.team-me.biz
Paperback
CD
& MP3
• Blogger for Psychology Today
• Blogger for Huffington Post
• www.WanderWomanBook.com
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