ArchePaths
Warrior, Clergy, Scientist, Magician, Lover
What Path are you on now?
Which Paths have you already accomplished?
What’s next for you?
Regardless of your archetype we all approach our lives, relationships, professions, and creativity with distinctive styles. These approaches or ArchePaths have been used for thousands of years to help individuals gain self-knowledge, become more authentic, and be more effective.
Determine your ArchePaths and enhance all aspects of your life, the characters you create for your stories, and how you build your teams.
The Warrior Path is about challenge, exploration, bravery, leadership, right use of Power, personal sacrifice for the greater good, protecting the weak and the innocent, standing up for the Good, the True, the Beautiful.
The Clergy Path is about devotion, Purity, renunciation, service to others, withdrawal from the material world, the use of ritual to connect with higher energies, direct access to the creative/spiritual realm.
The Scientist Path is about rationality, logic, Process, the determined search for provable truth, understanding of the deepest causes, and how to apply the scientific process to your own creative projects.
The Magician Path is about appearance, Performance, engaging the audience, being something of a trickster, the glamour of illusion, the power of story-telling, understanding and using patterns to further creativity.
The Lover Path is about Passion, adoration, connection, perfect union with a beloved, a cause, an ideal. Feelings rule, and sensuality is a means for transformation as well as a style of creativity.
An ArchePath Profile includes that Path’s Mission, it’s Key Word, Hopes, Fears, Strengths, Weaknesses, Styles of Speech and Action, and examples from myth, legend, history, and current times.
Each ArchePath has three levels and three styles of approach, so there is plenty of individuality and room for growth and exploration within this ancient system of character analysis and development, whether for fictional characters, yourself, and/or your team.
How can this help you personally?
I’ve worked with actors, medical and legal professionals, writers, STEM professionals, military personnel, and even a travel agent to help them realize and better express their current ArchePath.
Knowing the Paths you have already mastered can help you draw on the wisdom and experience you already have accomplished.
Sensing what is coming up next for you can help you focus more clearly and quickly on your next step in personal and professional growth.
Rather than letting others define you by demographics, buying habits, perceived characteristics and algorithms, you can consciously discover, craft, and project who you really are.
“Thank you!!!! They loved you, you should have heard how they talked about you and the classes.”
Petra Gallasch – Film Actors Training
How can you use the ArchePaths in your creative projects?
It’s a great tool set for crafting characters for your stories. MYTHWORKS Story Consultations offer Character Profiles using the ArchePaths. I’ve been teaching the ArchePaths to writers, directors and actors for many years, including at Disney Animation, the National Film Institute of Denmark, the Great American PitchFest, and the Rocaberti Writers Retreat, among others.
Can ArchePaths work in team-building?
Absolutely. I have also presented these principles to the U.S. Military, to members of a Boeing Workforce Development Think Tank, a medical technology start-up company, and other organizations.
My article “The First Gods of Mars” presents the ArchePaths as a paradigm for selecting the first astronauts to go to Mars. It was selected to be included in The Mars Society Official Library.
In 2019 I gave a presentation at the Mars Society Annual Convention in Los Angeles on “Applied Mythology for Space Exploration”.
“The tremendous intellectual ability that Pamela displays complements her remarkable talent for problem-solving. She sees “out of the box” solutions and asymmetric approaches to the complex challenges of the new, globalized world. Ms. Smith has a remarkable ability to bring people from very different backgrounds together, forging them into a cohesive team that fully develops the potential contributions of each member.”
Thomas A. Dempsey, Colonel, Infantry U.S. Army [Ret.] / Director, Regional and African Studies – U.S. Army War College
How does it work?
For you individually — 1) You fill out our extensive questionnaire. 2) We have an hour long conversation [via Zoom] where we talk about the questionnaire, your background, and visions for your future in greater detail. You also show me some of your favourite items, artworks, and outfits. 3) I work up an ArchePath Profile for you that includes a Mythic Archetype, suggestions for Image presentation [wardrobe, settings, etc.], and specific styles of speaking and acting to better express your main ArchePath. It’s great for meetings, interviews, and presentations. 4) We then have a two hour long conversation to discuss the ArchePath Profile and answer your questions. 5) Also available: ‘Shop in your Closet’ Image Consultation [via Zoom]. Specific selections for Wardrobe: colours, styles, etc.
“I think of you often when I’m putting my outfits together, and remember the wonderful time I had with you helping me ‘shop in my own closet’. You had such marvelous creativity! I will always remember that!”
Debra A. Hill – M.D., Producer/Filmmaker
For organizations — 1) You fill out a questionnaire about your company’s vision, mission, goals, and values. Your featured colleagues each fill out the extensive individual questionnaire. 2) We have an hour long conversation and if appropriate a video tour of your facilities. 3) I work up the ArchePath Profiles for your team, with suggestions on group dynamics and styles of communication. 4) We have a group conversation [via Zoom] to suggest effective ways for your distinctly individual team members to better work together, valuing their own and each others’ ArchePaths.
What are the Costs?
INDIVIDUAL Consultations begin at two thousand dollars [$2,000].
ORGANIZATION Consultations vary according to the extent of the service you would like and the number of people in your group.
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For more details or questions on this service email pamelajayesmith@gmail.com
For more information about how aligning with the ArchePaths can improve your life, your creative projects, and your business — email pamelajayesmith(at)gmail.com to set up a FREE 20 minute consultation.