Welcome to Hero’s Journey
We are always on a journey. Sometimes it is a short journey. Like the short journey we need to take this year to earn all our CPD points. Sometimes it is a journey to build our toolbox to serve our clients better. Professionals are all gatherers of tools and techniques because the client dilemmas we are dealing with are getting complex.
When working with my clients, I often find I am busy with goal setting and the next moment, a limiting belief pops up. Then, I have to take a detour in my clients’ journey because the limiting belief will always keep them stuck.
I also noticed that we might be busy resolving why they hate to go to work every morning. Then, the next moment I realise they are not unhappy because of their initial complaint. They are unhappy because they do not have the slightest idea why they are at work in the first place or what unique offering they bring to the situation. Being a psychologist, for over twenty-seven years, I have noticed certain patterns. My personal journey with clients and, of course, myself brought me to the realization that the onion theory is as real as often mentioned in literature.
But do all psychologists start at the same centre to peel the layers of the onion? Or are we just randomly uncovering the limiting beliefs? Is there a core? What is this core? How do we peel the onion from the core? These were the questions that haunted me over the two- almost three-decades of working with clients.
Often my clients included leaders from large corporate entities or CEOs of small businesses. I mentored various consultants and aspirational psychologists and even they struggle with the same existential questions. Questions me and my colleague, who is the co-creator of this journey, started researching, categorizing and applying with our clients. The results were phenomenal. “You saved my life.” “You saved my marriage.” To be totally honest with you, I think we saved their “souls”!
The Hero’s Journey is an inside-out growth model. It starts with what we believe is the core of our existence, our purpose. We compare this purpose with a diamond. It then guides us to reflect on our talents, gifts and competencies to live this purpose or shine our diamond. However, for most of us or our clients, the diamond is not shining as bright as it could. We do not always see the achievements or the performance we expected. This is due to how our brains protect us by forming beliefs. But these beliefs are limiting, not liberating. Our beliefs form from early in our lives and we sometimes do not even know it exists. The most challenging process is to identify these limiting beliefs. Peeling this layer in the onion model deals with an easy approach to identify the limiting beliefs or filters in ourselves and our clients. Once we understand our filters and attitudes, it is time to make decisions and execute our commitments. This is important to close the loop from purpose to destiny to leaving a legacy.
Journey with us through three online modules, consisting of six chapters and loaded with informative videos, reflective manuals and insightful exercises. I have travelled this journey many times and every time, I learn something new myself!
The detail of our offering
MODULE 1
PURPOSE AND DESIGN
CPD: 6 points – receive certificate directly after successful completion of questionnaire for Module 1
Learning outcomes per chapter:
CHAPTER 1: PURPOSE
- Purpose explains your reason for being or existing
- Purpose stems from a need in the system
- In light of the need in the system, something is designed for a specific purpose.
- Purpose and design are interwoven
- You and I form part of a network of purpose
- Purpose cannot be fulfilled in isolation
- When you live your purpose, you enable others to live their purpose and vice versa. To ensure a healthy and vibrant system, the world needs every person to live the purpose for which he or she was created
CHAPTER 2: DESIGN
- Every person has a unique design
- Gifts and competencies flow naturally into and from purpose
- Design and purpose can never be separated
- How important an understanding and appreciation of your design is
- How different platforms can be used to live your purpose
- The role of training and development in shining your “diamond”
- Why your purpose and design are a gift to the world

MODULE 2
FILTERS AND FEELINGS
CPD: 8 points – receive certificate directly after successful completion of questionnaire for Module 2
CHAPTER 3: FILTERS
- How the Journey through life enables the writing of a life story
- How the programming process of the brain impacts your life story
- Why the map is not the territory
- The impact of different filters on behaviour
- The power of beliefs and belief systems
- What “stuckness” is and how to overcome it
- The role of different brain and mind functions
CHAPTER 4: THINKING AND FEELING
- The importance of the conscious awareness of limiting beliefs or vows
- Possible limiting beliefs or vows that might have formed subconsciously
- The impact of limiting beliefs or vows on the display of emotional intelligence
- Different elements that constitute the energetic self
- How the embedded self, acts to ensure survival
- How the deserving self contains all our feelings, emotions and sense of self-awareness
- The role of the unique self in differentiating and making decisions
- How the relational self helps to create awareness of others and a feeling of connection with them
- The role of the creating self in communicating my talents and creativity to others
- How the perceiving self provides perspective of the self in the bigger picture as well as the ability to set a vision and goals
- The role of the conscious, connected self in enabling a sense of making a difference and leaving a legacy in the world through selflessly serving through my purpose

MODULE 3:
DECISIONS AND DESTINY
CPD: 6 points – receive certificate directly after successful completion of questionnaire for Module 2
CHAPTER 5: DECISIONS
- It is possible to move past limiting beliefs and decide to be your authentic self
- The ability and responsibility of making decisions
- The power and impact of making decisions
- Different decision-making styles used
- How to develop a decision-making process
- How to formulate powerful goals
- Decide how you would like to live your purpose
CHAPTER 6: DESTINY
- What a calling is
- Success is personal
- Whether there is a difference between success and significance
- Success without significance is hollow
- Purpose and destiny are intertwined
- Fulfilling your destiny does not happen by chance
- Fulfilling your destiny is about being, knowing and doing
- Fulfilling your destiny is about pursuing your own unique journey
- Every life matters from a destiny perspective
- The importance of legacy
- The three basic stages of the Hero’s Journey as identified by Campbell
- How to identify the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey
