Homework Following Week 5:

1. Great Truths & Strategies:

• This is about coming to terms with the magical thinking, strategies and great truths that have been hidden and allow our villains to continue.

• Definitions:

  • Magical thinking: the great fallacy about the world and how it works that created your villains

  • Villains strategy: your villains unique strategy for dealing with the world.

  • The great truth: a statement like “I am worthy even when I do nothing”

  • Inversion: how your hero and villain express their great truth! Whether it is a soup box in time square for the nothings or asserting that you don’t care about appearances or can radically trust yourself in conflict.

    • Journal Prompt: Explore your Great Truth: Do you believe the great truth?

    • Journal Prompt: Can you see the villain’s strategy in your life?

  2. Inversions

• We are going on a journey with our Heroes to redeem our Villain. We are armed with the understanding that our heroes and villains are seeking redemption for our villains. Inversions are like exposure therapy. They ask us to live by the Great Truth instead of by the Villain’s strategy. What were to happen if suddenly the Ratched didn’t have a set of rules? Or inverted the set of rules (e.g must go out of the house dirty)?

• The Great Sacrifice of traditional villains in fiction is in itself an inversion because it says that their strategy suddenly becomes less important than the health and wellbeing of others. That is why it is an inversion. It goes by the fundamental Great Truth that no one is allowed to take away another’s sovereignty for their own purposes. We are avoiding that Great sacrfice because our villains are not global they are localized to our inner space.

• What inversions are not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJ9_B9pUkU

• Action: Practice your Chosen Inversion!

3. Print this out for next week: Here