As she says, you can do as much as you need to and you can dip into the book as feels right for you or, you can begin at the beginning and spend 6 months or more making the journey. She also offers a range of exercises, some requiring journaling and others involving singing, drumming, movement, visualisation, artwork, and meditation. Carol provides the mythical structure and archetypal references such as the anchor, the sea, the ship, the map, and others. Each section encourages you to reflect on your stories and experiences in a metaphorical and archetypal context. This aptly named book is your 'story compass' that will guide you on your own personal “vision quest” through the four cardinal directions: North (Author), East (Lifeline), South (Ancestors), and West (Myth). Carol inspires you to use your creativity to find your way using art, visualisation, music, movement, and story to guide you. The book is more a navigator's chart of old where not everywhere is clearly marked. You are embarking on a an interactive journey into your Imagination. No need to fear for this is a metaphorical journey that, like poetry, calls for the suspension of disbelief. Of course, you are the captain after all, this is your story.Ĭarol invites you to set sail on a 'mythological sea' (your life) on a voyage that “leads us through the veils and beyond the edges of death” (p. This is not an academic text-book but an exciting invitation to take a journey aboard the “Good Ship Story” with Carol and a host of archetypal entities as your companions. Jung to narrative therapy pioneered by Michael White and David Epston, and to Ken Land's Storytelling TherapyTM.Ĭarol Day's Story Compass takes this therapeutic work out of the closed therapist's office and into the hands of the reader. Of course, today, one can find many examples of the use of storytelling in psychotherapy-from the archetypal psychology of C.G. Twenty-five years ago, when I was working as a teacher with, among other things, duties as a pastoral counsellor, I combined my love of literature with my skills as a counsellor and turned my sessions into opportunities whereby my clients could take a healing journey into the realm of the imagination, memory, and story.
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