This year for the final post every month let’s focus on INTEGRATING the Archetype of the month within your Ensemble Cast of Archetype Allies. Your archetypal persona parts of Self function best in dynamic interaction with one another within what I like to call your Total Self System. This harmonizes their various energies to bring a greater balance to your perspective and more depth to your thoughts and creative expression.
Consider your Elder Leader mode with respect to your overall presentation of Self. Acting alone, this archetypal role persona can be overbearing or rigid. Yet tempering this focus by integrating it with other archetypal energies such as the Nurturer, the Healer, the Lover or the Artist can bring a much more dynamic and brilliant approach, a multidimensional depth to your leadership style.
To help you integrate your Elder Leader, think about a leadership role that you occupy either as a parent or at your work or in your social or spiritual group. Is there a plan of action you are intending to implement from your leadership stance? How might your plan of action or a leadership decision you may face benefit from taking multiple internal (and external) archetypal perspectives “to Heart”?
The list below represents The Twelve primary persona Archetype modes that are universal to human consciousness. For each of these, I invite you to contemplate and write down how each might contribute to your plan of action, then write out a unified account of how you might utilize these various perspectives in implementing your leadership strategy for the situation you are facing. In italics just as exemplar statements I’ll model the practice but I encourage you to try this one yourself!
The Situation requiring a plan of action: Acquiring some needed resources for my department.
Contributing archetypal input (abbreviated):
ELDER LEADER: Draft a formal request specifying needs and itemizing costs.
NOURISHER: Discuss needs with department faculty and staff, collecting their input.
WARRIOR: Identify benefits for the group and establish a strategic, logical argument explicating needs.
LOVER: Compromise where possible to temper your request in relation to the needs and feelings of people in other departments.
IDEALIST: Reach for the highest! Don’t settle for less than what is truly needed for all concerned.
ARTIST: Design your presentation to be well organized and clear, to shine.
GOLDEN CHILD: Be assertive in order to be generous, taking everyone you represent into full consideration. Envision abundance and deliver that.
DESCENDER: Consider deeply what the true needs are versus frills, and prioritize. Consider carefully before proceeding.
TEACHER: Demonstrate the key elements of your needs assessment clearly.
COMMUNICATOR: Write carefully to frame the request effectively.
HEALER: Aim to present how the needed elements can improve/ repair the capacity of the department to better fulfill its role for students and will benefit the whole system.
MYSTIC: Use wisdom, not just knowledge; approach this process wholly.
Dynamic Plan of Action: Gather input from faculty members and develop a well considered list of needs. Frame the request carefully and deliver it effectively and with wisdom.
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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN! Try this for yourself!
I welcome your comments and stories.
Better Endings 