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Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes For Empowerment, Growth, And Balance

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For those who did not study psychology and are not counselors, this book is a great and easy to understand guide in the concepts of archetypes. I found it clearly written, with useful exercises and explanations. A useful tool for life coaches working with clients or for individuals who want to undertake a journey of self-discovery.

The concept of archetypes has gained in popularity in the last few years with the publication of tests to analyze which ones have influence on you and where you are in your personal mythic journey. Whether they are innate or culturally influenced, the concept is intriguing, and this workbook does a good job in defining them and exploring them using an active model that can be replicated for others to use with clients. Understanding the concepts and having a language to explain the terminology gives voice to ideas that can be used to metaphorically teach clients in a coaching session. This workbook provides a nice balance of theory and practicality.

This book is a very simplistic look at both archetypes and coaching. for people who find Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a thousand faces" a bit complex and academic this is a lovely introduction. It does not have the richness of Campbell's work though. from a coaching perspective the same can be said. Not all coaching clients can be that easily put through a journey and archetype recipe and not all of them would be enamored with this process. It is useful for some but coaching, especially in a business context is a lot more context that it gets credit for in this book.