The Making of Everyday Heroes: Women's Experiences With Transformation and Integration. (July 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Making of Everyday Heroes: Women's Experiences With Transformation and Integration. (July 2019)
- Main Title:
- The Making of Everyday Heroes: Women's Experiences With Transformation and Integration
- Authors:
- Ross, Susan L.
- Other Names:
- Franco Zeno E. guest-editor.
Efthimiou Olivia guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Heroes are not born heroic. They achieve prominence because they dare to enter into a voyage to become an entirely different human being: to transform. What happens to the hero on return? This is a qualitative investigation into the experience of integrating a transformative journey in the lives of seven women, 1 to 3 years after life-changing travel. The method used was cooperative inquiry, a heuristic approach involving cycles of action and reflection to construct knowledge based on shared lived experiences and group analysis. Coresearchers convened over a period of 13 months to examine the question, "What is our experience of integrating transformation?" Findings yielded an underlying pattern comprising nine phases: (1) displacement, (2) grief and denial, (3) disorientation, (4) dismemberment, (5) surrender and healing, (6) birth, (7) abundance and creativity, (8) power, and (9) integration. A major outcome identifies the integration of transformation as a feminine descent into one's underworld, delineating a feminine complement to the already well-documented hero's journey. One unexpected result shows that in combination, the journey's ascent (transformative peak experiences) cultivates one's masculine; the descent (integrative deep experiences) develops one's feminine. Together, these rounds form an upright figure eight, a wholly realized transformation.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of humanistic psychology. Volume 59:Number 4(2019)
- Journal:
- Journal of humanistic psychology
- Issue:
- Volume 59:Number 4(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 59, Issue 4 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 59
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0059-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 499
- Page End:
- 521
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07
- Subjects:
- transformation -- integration -- Jung -- wholeness -- transformational travel -- transpersonal psychology -- hero's journey -- goddess -- rites of passage -- peak experience -- and initiation
Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals
150.192 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.umi.com/proquest ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0022167817705773 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0022-1678
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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