Creative Pathways Course

Creative pathways

to healing and Meaning

Addiction recovery through the Archetypes

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The Four Archetypes Guide

Which Archetype would you like to explore?

The Lover Creator

What's in a Picture

The Lover Overview

The Lover Film

Key Words

The Lover Poem

Poem Introduction

Personal Stories

Homeplay Practice

Overview of the Lover Creator

Purpose: Connection through feeling. Connects with oneness, being. Looks ‘up’ to Spirit and ‘down’ into Soul. Sensitive to the needs of others. Nurtures self & others. Breaks through into deep emotions. Welcomes sexuality & sensuality. Playful & spontaneous. Believes in the power of loving. Trusts in closeness & touch. Creative force – creative connection Accessed through sadness and grief Shaming message / wound: I don’t love right. Deflated: Stoical, difficult to feel or be open. Inflated: Overflowing with emotion. Associated instinct: the bonding instinct Element of water

Sadness

Opens into Grief

Connection to Feeling

Nurturing

New Beginnings

Spontaneous

Sexuality

Up to Spirit

Creative Expression

Sensuality

Playful

Down to Soul

Introduction to the Lover Creator Poems

The Lover Creator at its heart is about connection, creativity, imagination, play and new beginnings. The following poems have been written with Lover Creator themes at their heart. Read the poems twice in each sitting or watch the film poem version or both, whatever works. See Rite to Freedom YouTube Channel: Creative Pathways: Lover Archetype. In the first reading, seek the poem out; what it means to you, what you understand it to be. In the second, allow the poem to find you. Let it seek you out and find the place in you that connects to feeling and imagination. What images arise. Journal or draw your discoveries. Return to the poems regularly through your Lover Creator Homeplay. See what changes for you in each reading; what stays the same; what thoughts and feelings arise.

Lover Creator Homeplay Practice

The following 'home play' exercises offer you three weeks of home based practice. We encourage you to bring a retreat style approach to your daily home play practice. Creating and making time for yourself to step out of the ordinary, everyday into a sacred, reflective and quiet place for you. Phone off. Create time and space to explore your archetypes healing journey deeper. Connect regularly with your existing practice and support network. We encourage you to make, create or buy something beautiful for journalling and curating your Lover Creator explorations. "For the love of you, for the love of us"

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

Week 2

Week 1

Week 3

What’s in a picture?

The following artwork has been created collaboratively between artist Philip Harris and R2F artistic director Caspar Walsh for this guide. The image is a unique and personal take on the meaning and symbolism of the Lover Creator. It includes key themes associated with the archetype. The image is designed to elicit a starting point of inspiration; to reveal further layers of understanding and connection with each viewing. You’re encouraged to return to this image regularly as part of your Lover Creator journey. As you move deeper into your Lover Creator discovery and healing process, your understanding and feelings around your own Lover Creator will deepen. The image is intended to inspire and to be used as an aide memoir – a tool to help you connect back and deepen into your journey with the Lover Creator - both consciously and unconsciously. Let the layers of image and meaning unfold in their own good time. Find a place where you can see and connect to the Lover Creator image regularly throughout your journey.

You waited for the longest time didn’t you as you were broken apart, piece by piece way before you’d even got a foothold before you even knew what it meant to have a choice so you headed up into the hills - alone no map through bramble thorns and thick black earth death and winter everywhere you looked. Through the seasons with a cautious, unfolding love you weaved a new world for yourself and the decades and days slowly lifted into life. Finally you made it back to th firesid hands raised to the heat and you grieved for what was lost what you never received loving at last, what is in front of you now - a new family deeper roots. You did this this difficult, beautiful thing for the love of you for the love of us yes you did this…

You Waited

Personal Stories

Noel Gilmore

Caspar Walsh

Ali Chapman