Watch and reflect on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byli-Y8KonY
Joseph Campbell focused on the hero’s journey, its very consistent of this process in encountering some kind of challenge with the help of other people and as a result the hero is later transformed because of his journey. The hero does this big thing, an epic, physical journey and the transformation happens after this gigantic struggle. Campbell has influenced star wars, the matrix and the lion king ! How exciting!
“The hero’s journey” was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential books of all time. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces was published in 1949 — a book that is simultaneously timeless, and very much of its time.
Campbell however is a male writer and portrays things from a male perspective.
In class today we looked at Friday Kahlo, Shonda, “Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, known in Chinese as Guanyin” and Rosie the Riveter, to see how women tell their stories through historical events.
W5 – Why? Who? When? What? Where? So what? so why? so how? When we follow stories we want to follow the journalists that they have this essential information. If we think of a hero’s journey, what is the why of the hero’s journey. The transformation, the performance of self, habituating the self is essential. Is there a moment of transformation that we want to focus on in our own lives. Slowing down to reflect our own transformation because we are our own heroes in the story of our lives. to some extend we are the center of our universe.
It’s important we document and hone our skills via blogging and we need to focus on the 5 Ws and see how we can be able to tell our stories. Sometimes when we do something we have to make space for uncertainty.
How can you make story telling very powerful? Google: Stories appeal to our senses and our emotions, not only drawing our attention more easily, but also leaving an impact on us as audiences. This makes storytelling powerful in delivering any message. If you deliver a story right, as evidenced throughout history, it might last a lifetime.
Learning to tell our stories and listening to other people’s stories is understanding more about myself and others. Emotions are extremely important when we want to capture someone’s story, we relate in such a way that is a universal experience. We take something abstract and general in a story and can make it extremely personal.
Mathew Dick’s YouTube video was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7p329Z8MD0 – very interesting how he has created a method for making memories and keeping them
Intercultural practices – this romance that its about travel – you have to leave your immediate culture for adventure, but is that true ? Why can’t we have an experience here in our own culture.
How have stories featured in my life? How might I mobilise them differently?
How have stories been featured in my life? I guess stories have always really been deeply embedded in our culture, in such a way where our characters are formed from these stories. Stories of our past, stories of our ancestors, who we are, who we were, stories that shaped our society starting from our great grandparents. I remember my grandmother telling us stories of her childhood and how her mother was and how her family lived in a simpler time, stories of her life that had strong moral value and shaped the woman I am today.
We are all surrounded and made up of stories, these stories determine how we live our lives and gives us a path of how to move forward and how not to move forward.