How archetypal awareness can empower me to facilitate change, personally and collectively.

Archetypes are the macrocosm mirrored in the microcosm of the human psyche. Its multidimensional and polyvalent qualities underscore its inherent indeterminism. Thus, the vision, the mind that we bring into our engagement with the world, is in a constant recursive interplay with the world. It is all one and we are effecting it as it is affecting us.

This co-creative, participatory role of the psyche in shaping formative experiences highlights the self’s responsibility for its evolving fate. Developmental literature has shown that 98% of our behaviour is unconscious. We remain unaware of our real motivations — what drives our actions, emotions, behaviour, and decisions. That is when these archetypes act on autopilot.
Being attuned to and channeling your archetypal powers more constructively is a form of subtle activism as a shape-shifting change agent in the world.

For example, how does the warrior archetype asserts itself through me? Through intimidation, dominating and causing conflict or through leadership, being courageous, protective and goal oriented.
This alchemical path is one of personal response(ability) and real inner connection. The more you unburden your parts and sense of separateness, the more you begin to embody a sense of wholeness and connectedness.

The centrality of the Self and its archetypal parts -
We live in a time and era where passage through troubled waters requires the psychological arsenal to equip ourselves with a greater capacity to live with uncertainty and change. A deep trust in one's own capabilities that comes from developing psychological stamina. Each archetypal part offers a multivalent set of skills and qualities that we can tap into, and develop as we evolve. Thus, we become more aware or mindful of how we engage in our daily experiences and encounters and how we embody our inner powers. What do I bring to the table so to speak.
To ask oneself, is my personal expression of this archetype still relevant and serving my life's purpose or do I act in default mode, fuelling old habitual patterns, and I need to adjust and up-skill to what stands true for me now?
And how much more easily this Self-awareness dialogued with the many different parts within, some of whom have been yearning for attention for a long time. To monitor our internal ecology in order to regulate and maintain inner equilibrium.

Fine tuning one's inner workings has the tremendous benefit of becoming more critical in our choices and actions and how it impacts the vitality of our own psychology and of those around us. Each one of us contributes to the epigenetic profile of the collective and self-responsibility is pivotal to this process.

We all strive to live our best selves. Archetypal integrity prompts us to make that a priority, to grow and unfold into the next version or vision of ourselves. To come out of crisis mode, to take consciously charge of our evolvement.

Cultivating Self-leadership — Thus, archetypal awareness is a tool to further one's psychological growth by developing the full repertoire of our inner parts to their most life-enhancing potential and expression. It's an intentional process and ongoing commitment whereby we experientially engage with it in a whole-person integral practice. To bring out the unrealised, un-utilised potentia in yourself waiting for your recognition and cultivation. When you understand your Self better, your life will become better.

An archetypal approach fosters Self-awareness that enables compassion and grounding oneself to work with more integrity and reflexivity. Individuation in what C.G. Jung called the 'creative spirit' means knowing yourself, becoming more integrated, more enriched, more permeable to others. Attending to the multidimensionality of our Self. It's a shift in mindset where the separate self or limited ego-identity softens, a letting go of your personal attachments, expectations and control, and opens up to our higher Self; our full archetypal capacity of becoming. It is the most empowering choice you can make.

Spirituality of Self-leadership – As humans we are in need of an unveiling process to remember who we are at the root, re-evaluating our place in the world. It's an emancipatory process whereby the old restricting identity patterns of our internal theatre are transmuted into higher states of themselves. It is both intimate and impersonal. In this way, individuality and universal consciousness merge in the same person.

Hence, authentic Self-empowerment which morph into the collective and brings about a shift in systemic thinking. “Once a certain threshold of integrity and viability is reached, the work may begin to ripple out in ever larger circles of reach through global information distribution and thought leadership, as well as morphic field effects and non-local entanglement. How to engage with the complex issues of our time through processes of holistic change facilitators, engaging the whole person and engaging the whole system”.

Archetypes are the common denominator that we all share. It is not in the business of exclusion. It is cross cultural and ubiquitous in nature.

Explicating the archetypal eye provides a rich map of reference to draw from that is pragmatic in approach and outcome. Social change involves engaging these archetypal dimensions of our being more skilfully and strategically. Being highly attuned to your personal archetypal signature or psychological profile and its cycles of maturation provides insight to your own inner dialogue, and receptivity for the 'other' and their unique contribution.

It illuminates what needs to come into balance in order to move forward in reciprocity. When we identify these archetypal patterns of behaviour within any given situation whether as a leader or within a group, we can understand its underlying motives and work with it in a tangible constructive manner. It's a valuable tool to manage and steer change facilitation whether on the world arena, in corporate brand building, in the board room or 1-1 situations.