Logan River Academy offers the opportunity to both
students and their families to begin the hero’s journey. This
journey will be challenging, sometimes overwhelming, rewarding, as well as
worth it if it is able to be completed. Many young people begin or start a
variety of activities, clubs, and programs, but very few have acquired the skill
set, fortitude, and motivation to finish what they started. In order to better
prepare for a stronger commitment to finishing what has been started within Logan River Academy, let’s review the phases of the
hero’s journey.
The initial steps are listed below.
Separation:
The Call to Adventure
The hero begins in a mundane situation
of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to
head off into the unknown. This is any example of when behaviors escalate to
the point where the seeking out of a higher level of care is presented.
Refusal of the Call
Often when the call is given, the
future hero first refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or
obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of
reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances. This
includes many empty promises and commitments that this time things were really
change, however this has been found to be very unaffected as this would
discontinue a continuation of the same actions, attitudes, and beliefs.
Supernatural Aid
Once the hero has committed to the
quest, consciously or unconsciously, his guide and magical helper appear or
become known. More often than not, this supernatural mentor will present the
hero with one or more talismans or artifacts that will aid him later in his
quest. This is the initial stages of the therapeutic relationship
established during weekly individual, family, and group therapeutic sessions.
Crossing the Threshold
This is the point where the person
actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his
or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules
and limits are not known. This phase is very critical and the need for clear
cut rules, limits and boundaries within the family dynamic, as well as within Logan River Academy are essential as
consistency now becomes the norm.
