by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 18, 2017 | Counterintuitive Guide to Life, Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
Nearly every blockbuster movie of the past 40 years (and possibly before that) has been deliberately structured around something called the “monomyth,” also known as the Hero’s Journey. Star Wars. The Matrix. The Lion King. So were Dan Millman’s book The Way of the...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 4, 2016 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Spirituality
The other day, I saw the above photo in my Facebook feed (photo © Kerry Dixon). “Transformation” is a nebulous word, kind of like “sustainability” was a decade ago. Few people identify their primary field as “transformation.” Rather, it crosses multiple sectors, from...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 3, 2016 | Resonant Storytelling, Spirituality, Writing
Transformation isn’t about words. Most of us who work in transformation research, write about or teach concepts that can only be fully understood as a direct experience. It’s about an experience that words can only point to. Yet words are what we have. For most of us,...
