Managing your Winnie the Pooh
Facing a difficult situation.. what would I do if I had a superpower, my own inner hero with never-ending energy and enthusiasm, positivity and joyfulness, but also a critical thinker.. It can probably just make the difference.
Archetypes
For Christopher Robin, the sources of inspiration, energy, and action are there in the archetypal characters of the story. All are available on demand in his imagination. As well as vulnerable sides of himself, he can have a conversation with, and maybe just find a solution.
Pooh is a loveable and innocent buffoon mixed with a bit of the unlikely not quite hero. Piglet is a great innocent also and a sidekick. Tigger is a jester and enthusiastic-to-extreme child, Owl is wise, questionably, and Eeyore is the nay-saying simpleton.
Positive and negative motivation
Fear is a great motivator.. managing it requires facing difficulty and overcoming the unbearable .. parts of ourselves we hide, repress, and deny. Growing through moving towards what we are afraid of and overcoming it.
But there is another perspective as valid as the first. Moving towards what we really love, really want, really interested in.. curiosity that takes us places we haven’t imagined, the life force that drives the best in us.. is as powerful as motivation driven by fear.
What do you really love? Interested? Want?
What are you afraid of, hiding and repressing?
Systemic understanding
Understanding social situations not only through the impact they have on you but on others and how our personal journeys led to feelings and behavior that we observe in ourselves and others.
Power over, positive and negative projections.. roles and positions we are put or put ourselves in that trigger certain behavior and how we can readjust our perspectives and well as systemic structures.
Learning how to invoke the archetypes — managing the shadow ones and getting inspired by the goodness, learning new things, and going out into the world with a hat on that suits the situation.
