Protagonism
It’s not a word.
It’s a way of living.
This 5-session online workshop teaches you how to transform your life by uncovering and sharing your experiences. Whether you’re working on a memoir, sorting through events in your life that still haunt you, or if you just want to improve yourself, this workshop is for you.
Learn how to leverage story as the human operating system that integrates your body, heart, and mind—and then opens your soul.
Protagonism is how you identify your narrative plot lines.
Session 1: What happened?
Topics covered:
The human problem: our lives have a story gap
The brain-gut axis and our four levels of intelligence
The rings of growth in story
Developing a narrative out of raw experiences
The micro/macro of memories
Then engage your antagonists—both internal and external.
Session 2: How did I make it happen?
Topics covered:
Narrative isn’t story
Story is a transformative experience
The causality of choices
Bending your plot line with choices of action
What motivates our actions?
To reveal your multi-dimensional values.
Session 3: Why did I make it happen?
Topics covered:
The Shadow Self
Conscious vs. unconscious behaviors
The Character Map of Traits and Values
Understanding your character shifts through contradictions
Turning your wounds into gifts with story
And the truths that emerge from them.
Session 4: What truths emerged?
Topics covered:
Stories as fractals
The five points that bend your curve
The chiasmatic mid-point truth
Understanding Peripeteia and Anagnorisis through character contradictions
The Empathy CurveTM
So you can follow your through-line.
Session 5: How was I transformed?
Topics covered:
Story as a truth-teller
Progression from truth to truth
Reflection perspectives
Through-line as your path forward
Narrator: the voice of wisdom
PROTAGONISM
It’s not a word.
It’s a way of living.