What is the Hero’s Journey?
It’s a classic tale
with three acts:
A call to adventure, and a crossing into an unknown place
A phase of learning, growth, making allies, and overcoming challenges
A return to the world with new gifts to share
Cerridwen draws on a variety of conceptions of the journey of transformation. Here, everyone, regardless of gender identity, race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, or sexual preference is the hero of their own story.
The hero’s adventure was identified by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Campbell documented this narrative arc as present in countless stories and myths told, written, and acted-out by people across many cultures, and over thousands of years.
He called the Hero’s Journey the “monomyth” and included in it concepts such as archetypes, unconscious processes, and rites of passage.
The elements of the Journey can be found in modern stories across genres and media, including books, movies, plays, and television shows.
But The Journey isn’t found only in books and movies.
It’s present in your life, too.
You’re on a journey all the time, and especially during times of transition, confusion, and challenge
Understand your Journey.
Articulating your own Journey can help you see how your life fits into the big picture—how your experiences are at once universal and uniqe.
Cerridwen can help.
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
―Joseph Campbell