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Product reviews for The Hero's Journey (Paperback edition)
John Perry, MA, MA, MSc, Principal Teaching Fellow in Healthcare Communication, School of Medicine, University of Southampton
-˜The Hero's Journey' is a transcript of a seminar on this topic which the authors facilitated in Barcelona. Essentially, -˜The Hero's Journey' is a metaphor for leading a meaningful life, and the authors invite their readers (as they invited their seminar participants) to identify and respond to “the deepest life you are called to.” They acknowledge that this isn't necessarily an easy or comfortable process (hence their use of the word -˜hero') and present the process as a challenge, which offers the potential for both great benefits and great costs. For this, they are to be applauded, as the recognition that quests for personal enlightenment/self awareness involve risks as well as prizes is conspicuously absent from many similar personal development books.
The format of the book is clear and easy to follow, and presented in such a way that at times, the reader feels as though they are actually participants in the seminar themselves. Exercises are clearly explained and moments of humour and drama are skillfully captured in the narrative. My sense is that the book will probably be most valued by readers who already have a basic knowledge of NLP -” or at least an openness to NLP's presupposition re. the value of working with people's subjective realities and sensory experiences. This is not a book to be passively read. It's a book to be worked through with a notepad and pen, so that you can record your learning as you go, and keep a note of your responses to the exercises and demonstrations that are both the book's strength and its uniqueness.'
The format of the book is clear and easy to follow, and presented in such a way that at times, the reader feels as though they are actually participants in the seminar themselves. Exercises are clearly explained and moments of humour and drama are skillfully captured in the narrative. My sense is that the book will probably be most valued by readers who already have a basic knowledge of NLP -” or at least an openness to NLP's presupposition re. the value of working with people's subjective realities and sensory experiences. This is not a book to be passively read. It's a book to be worked through with a notepad and pen, so that you can record your learning as you go, and keep a note of your responses to the exercises and demonstrations that are both the book's strength and its uniqueness.'
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03/10/2016 01:00
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