The Hero and Heroine's Journey With Kirsten Oates and Patrick Boland

Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr Forward

Center for Action and Contemplation

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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What if loss invited us on a voyage? In this episode, we're joined by Kirsten Oates and Patrick Boland as we continue our chapter-by-chapter exploration with Chapter 2: "The Hero and Heroine's Journey." Patrick Boland and Kirsten Oates, cohost of our sister podcast, Turning to the Mystics, join CAC staff, for a heartfelt conversation. Together, they explore the transformative power of the hero's journey. They talk about the role it plays in our personal growth, emphasizing how embracing challenges and loss can be doorways to our truest selves. Before we dive in to the interview, we catch up with Richard at his hermitage to hear his reflections on the second chapter a decade after he originally wrote it. Patrick Boland is an Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant and Psychotherapist. He is the author of The Contemplative Leader and the co-author of Every Thing is Sacred with Richard Rohr. He lives with his family near Dublin, Ireland. Kirsten Oates is the cohost of our sister podcast Turning to the Mystics with James Finley. She's a Spiritual Director and an Executive Coach who brings wisdom and insight into the intersection of spirituality and leadership. Together with Richard, Kirsten and Patrick are the architects of our newest online course, Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey. You can learn more about that at our website. Resources: A PDF of the transcript for this episode is available here. Grab a copy of the newly revised version of Falling Upward, with a new foreword by Brené Brown here. To learn more about Patrick's work, visit his website here. Access a free chapter from Patrick's book, The Contemplative Leader, on the hero's journey here. To connect with Kirsten, visit her here, and check out her CAC podcast, Turning to the Mystics here. Connect with us: Have a question or thought about this season that you'd like to share with us? Email us: podcasts@cac.org Send us a voicemail here: http://www.cac.org/voicemail

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more, visit
0:05.5	cac.org. In 1989, the power of myth aired on PBS, quickly becoming the most popular
0:13.7	program in its broadcast history. In this series, Joseph Campbell, who died shortly after filming,
0:23.1	described his theory of the hero's journey.
0:28.7	Originally outlined in his landmark book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces,
0:36.1	Campbell suggests that a single narrative might lie beneath many stories across cultures, lands, and centuries.
0:40.8	By studying the world's great myths, epics, and tales,
0:42.8	we can piece together a rough roadmap,
0:46.5	guiding us towards the meaning behind a fully lived life.
0:50.1	This special and the theory of the hero's journey deeply influenced Richard,
0:52.7	so much so that he titled his book's second chapter, The Hero and Heroine's Journey.
0:58.5	In this episode, we discussed the hero's journey and its insights into the journey of falling upward.
1:09.8	From the Center for Action and Contemplation, I'm Mike Petro.
1:13.6	I'm Paul Swanson.
1:14.6	And this is Everything Belongs.
1:18.6	Richard, it's so great to keep talking with you about falling upward.
1:26.6	It's been amazing to revisit my
1:29.3	original copy and see all the notes and highlights and questions that I wrote in the
1:34.6	margin to converse with you about and now that we actually get to do this it's
1:37.7	extraordinary. And so I love that we get to start out today by talking about
1:42.7	chapter two, which is the hero and the heroine's journey.
1:47.0	Okay.
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