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Dear {$Username} It is a pleasure to send to you a message that Joseph Riggio wrote to the Mythoself™ e-groups forum that is such a relevant message to the growth of teens and young adults in today’s world …… Hey folks,

 The HeroPath for Teens workshop that Jeff is presenting is the outgrowth
of a program he and I put together years ago that began as MythoSelf for
Teens.

 I was always excited about the work Jeff was doing with teens and young
adults and it just made so much sense to me to find a way to marry the
MythoSelf Process model with Jeff's experience and skills. Since then he
and Des Barry, along with some other skilled MythoSelf Facilitators and
Trainers, have been developing this work even further.

 Today what the program does for teens and young adults is truly
remarkable ... literally life changing!

Here's the thing ...

 We keep talking about how the story is the source. Specifically, how the
story you are living from informs everything you do, and most
significantly who you think you are and what you think of and about
yourself. This is not just "your story" like a disembodied tale told
about you ... YOUR STORY is the living, organic experience you have that
shows up in everything you say and do. YOUR STORY is the direct,
one-to-one manifestation of your being.

 However, most folks never ever consider this source, let alone go near
to where it is, until they are well into their middle age. By this time
they've made the critical decisions about what they'll do with their
life, who they'll live their life with ... and all the other decisions
that accompany the critical decisions required of each of us as we're
growing up.

 What's really interesting to me about all this is that most of us were
forced to do this before we really knew what the heck was being asked of
us. And, our society no longer has the structures in place to offer us
the sound guidance we need to substitute for our own personal lack of
experience. How many people on this list do you think have gone through
a significant initiation, or apprenticed with a master for many years
learning the skills and attitude it takes to become a master themselves,
or have an "elder" mentor they can and do turn to who provides them with
the wisdom they now lack by virtue of the lack of years under their
belt??? Not many I bet!!!

 Yet most of us turn to our sons and daughters and ask them to go out
unto the world and be merry ... which of course means "be successful -
do well in school, get a good job, find a mate, settle down, have some
babies ... yada, yada, yada." We love them, we truly do want the best
for them ... and because of the structure of the society and system we
have organized around us we turn them over to others for the majority of
their upbringing. The school system, the television, and now the
internet ... provide more real input to our children than most parents
do these days.

 When I first thought about a MythoSelf Process based program for teens
it was about creating another pull in their lives. Instead of the pull
from without, a pull from within. Rather than the markers being "out
there" resetting the markers on the "inside" and teaching the kids we
were going to be working with how to trust themselves.

 There's an old story about Milton Erickson that I heard in my early NLP
days. The story about Milton was that when he was asked how he did the
amazing things he was doing professionally he supposedly often made the
recommendation, "trust your gut." John Grinder, who was one of the
co-developers of NLP along with Richard Bandler, said, "That great
advice when you have Milton's gut."

 That's the whole enchilada right there ... "...great advice when you
have Milton's gut."

 Until you have that experience, those thousands of hours and years of
time invested to build that kind of internal resource, you need
something else that you can count on ... the something that guys (and
gals) like Milton have to let them know even when they don't know that
they're on the right track ... their own.

 Just thinking about it and thought I'd drop my two cents in ...

 Best,

Joseph Riggio
 Architect and Designer of the MythoSelf Process
 PS - It'd be good to hear from some of the folks who are going to be at
or send someone along to the Hero Path program what your thoughts are … If you do not want to receive further messages from Heropath you are welcome to Unsubscribe by going to {$unsubscribe}