The Hero's Journey

An intensive ritual transformation process

Abstract

The Hero’s Journey is a multi-day, intensive process of personal growth developed by American Gestalt therapist Paul Rebillot, which shows amazing results. Based on the monomyth of the “Hero’s Journey” inspired by Joseph Campbell, it combines a wide variety of methods from humanistic therapy and creative techniques. The central theme is the conflict between the part of us that longs, desires change, wants to be more alive, the “hero” or “heroine”, and the part of us that represents caution, fears and restraint, the so-called “demon”. Participants can enact their personal Hero’s Journey through guided imagination, role-playing, dance and movement, Gestalt therapy techniques, rituals, painting, and more to resolve this conflict. In this way, the previously blocked energy can be released and often transformed.