The Hero's Journey: Your Life, Your Business, and Your Story

I was first introduced to Joseph Campbell's research called "The Hero's Journey" through a CD-series by Chris Vogler -- "Using Myth to Power Your Story (3 CDs)." It's an excellent cd set I highly recommend for anyone who plans to write novels or screenplays, create video games, or tell any kind of story. You won't look at novels or movies the same way again, and you'll learn the key elements of every good story and how to integrate them into your own.

Recently, I met another story-telling expert who uses "The Hero's Journey" to help you understand your own life and to achieve greater business success by knowing how to tell your story in a way that attracts people to you. Ronda Del Boccio is "The Story Lady" and I highly recommend you hop over to her site www.Storyation.com and get your copy of her free Storyation Journal and listen to her Storyation Seminar. It won't cost you anything, and you'll think she's psychic when she tells you about your life based on "The Hero's Journey" model... that is assuming you're one of those people who is passionate about something and has a desire to share it with the world (aka a Hero)!

After you've listened to Ronda's telecall, please come back here and let me know what you think... particularly, I'd love to hear if she summarized the story of your life as well as she did mine!:)

Comments

[The Story Lady]

Joseph Campbell never knew how much he influenced the way I think. I first "met him" through a series on public television that ran over 20 years ago called The Power Of Myth, which now thanks to technology I own on DVD. I was a teenager when this series ran and I always felt that humans are more alike than we are different.

Campbell's decades of studying all the great spiritual and mythic traditions of the world showed him there is one story common to all cultures. He calls it the monomyth or the Hero's Journey. It is common in every single culture worldwide, even those with no contact with what we would call civilization.

This Vogler CD series you mention sounds wonderful. I have his book.

I'm excited to find read the replies to your question.

Warmly,
The Story Lady of Storyation.com

[Marnie Pehrson Kuhns]

Hi Ronda! Thanks for taking the time to post. :) I have the Power of Myth interviews with Joseph Campbell on VHS and watched them recently. While I don't agree with his conclusions about the nature of God/man, I found the fact that the same stories (i.e. a Savior/resurrection motif) re-occurs throughout all civilizations very fascinating. His hero's journey (as explained in Chris Vogler's cd's) has really helped me in writing fiction. I would have liked to have seen more of that in the video series. Take care & keep up the great work! I look forward to learning more from you.

[kike]

Short animated movie about the "Hero´s Journey":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2zUyaWcNI