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What’s your (stress) archetype?
Dear Creatrix,
How did you enjoy familiarizing yourself with the Occupational Archetypes in the last lesson?
What did you learn about yourself and others?
And what did you learn about how to build strong and powerful communities?
I’ve played many of these roles or embodied different archetypes of the ones we looked at, in my past. How about you?
I’ve been the visionary and CEO and creative director and communicator and designer for the Transnational Queer Underground, a queer cultural organization, for many years, for example.
But I’ve also been an artist or a server or a musician (DJ) and a teacher in other organizations and communities.
Knowing the roles you like to be in, helps to find your place confidently in any community, to know what you’re good at, and to tell other people, or even better, show them so that they can count on you and you on them.
Today, we are going to look at the more temporary archetypes, the ones we can fall into when we’re stressed or overwhelmed or in a situation where more of us is needed than we could give over a longer period of time.
Some are more empowering than others, but all are necessary at times.
While some of these, like the tyrant, thief or saboteur are often seen as negative (even though they can also serve a necessary function, that will lead to the best outcome) others, like the hero_ine, martyr or guide are often idolized, even though they might also have a shadow aspect and need to be balanced.
And because of that, I’d also like to ask you to practice looking at these archetypes as they are, without judgement, so that when you encounter them in your life, in yourself or others, you can also just notice and not judge them – and then figure out what function they might serve in a particular moment.
Or judge them in the way we learned in this chapter, to decide what you want or don’t want, but not to condemn other people.
We’ll go through the 39 Occasional Archetypes now, one by one, but you can also see all 110 archetypes here, if you like.
In this lesson, I’ll give you a short description of each of the archetypes, that is relevant to our topic – working in and building strong communities.
Communities are made up of people and people are growing, changing, learning and rising to the occasions – and sometimes we, or other people, need support to get back on track.
In the process of finding our position and helping solve a problem, we often take on these archetypes.
Knowing this, and bringing that to our awareness, can help us to embody them wisely and to come back into balance when we need to or feel ready to – and to help others do the same.
Occasional Archetypes
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