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    Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey
    Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey
    Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey
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    Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey

    By Dorothy Cleveland & Barbara Schutzgruber

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    "All too often both traditional storytellers and the media regard the Hero's Journey as the "one true recipe for a good story." In this well-researched and clearly written book, Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber prove that there are other kinds of stories that are just as essential to the human experience: tales of survival and transformation that we may encounter at any point in our lives. With deep knowledge and personal honesty, these two incredible women bring us the Heroine's Journey, tracing its origins and possibilities from the oldest folktales to life in the 21st century. This book is a much-needed addition to any storyteller's resource library."
     
    ---Csenge Virág Zalka, storyteller, author of Tales of Superhuman Powers and Dancing on Blades 
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781624911095
    Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey

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      Beyond the Sword Maiden - Dorothy Cleveland & Barbara Schutzgruber

      Beyond the Sword Maiden

      "An instructive, fascinating account of the heroine in folk tradition. Beyond the Sword Maiden is a valuable resource of exempla for writers, tale tellers and counselors. The relationship of heroism to events in the modern world is particularly meaningful."

      —Gilbert Cross, co-author of World Folktales

      "All too often both traditional storytellers and the media regard the Hero’s Journey as the one true recipe for a good story. In this well-researched and clearly written book, Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber prove that there are other kinds of stories that are just as essential to the human experience: tales of survival and transformation that we may encounter at any point in our lives. With deep knowledge and personal honesty, these two incredible women bring us the Heroine’s Journey, tracing its origins and possibilities from the oldest folktales to life in the 21st century. This book is a much-needed addition to any storyteller’s resource library."

      —Csenge Virág Zalka, storyteller, author of Tales of Superhuman Powers and Dancing on Blades

      Beyond the Sword Maiden

      A Storyteller’s Introduction to the Heroine’s Journey

      Dorothy Cleveland & Barbara Schutzgruber

      Illustrated by Andrea Gruber

      Parkhurst Brothers Publishers

      MARION, MICHIGAN

      © Principal text copyright 2018 by Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber.

      © Illustrations and cover art copyright 2018 Andrea L. Gruber

      All rights reserved under the laws and treaties of the United States of America and all international copyright conventions and treaties. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, except for brief passages quoted within news or blog features about the book, reviews, etc., without the express prior written consent of Permissions Director, Parkhurst Brothers Publishers.

      www.parkhurstbrothers.com

      Parkhurst Brothers books are distributed to the trade through the Chicago Distribution Center, and may be ordered through Ingram Book Company, Baker & Taylor, Follett Library Resources and other book industry wholesalers. To order from Chicago Distribution Center, phone 1-800-621-2736 or fax to 800-621-8476. Copies of this and other Parkhurst Brothers Publishers titles are available to organizations and corporations for purchase in quantity by contacting Special Sales Department at our home office location, listed on our website. Manuscript submission guidelines are available at our website.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Edition, 2018

      2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 . . . 6 . . . 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: [Pending]

      ISBN Hardback 978-1-62491-107-1

      ISBN: Trade Paperback 978-1-62491-108-8

      ISBN: e-book 978-1-62491-109-5

      Parkhurst Brothers Publishers believes that the free and open exchange of ideas is essential for the maintenance of our freedoms. We support the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and encourage all citizens to study all sides of public policy questions, making up their own minds. Closed minds cost a society dearly.

      Cover and interior design by Linda D. Parkhurst, Ph.D.

      Proofread by Bill and Barbara Paddack

      Acquired for Parkhurst Brothers Inc., Publishers by Ted Parkhurst

      012018

      Dedicated to

      Heroines

      past, present, and future

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      The authors gratefully acknowledge Barbara Frates Buckley, Kathleen Sullivan and Megan Wells for their editing.

      Mary Ellen Schutz of Gentle Editing®, LLC for her guidance and expertise.

      Csenge Virág Zalka for her translations.

      Andrea Gruber for her illustrations.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Glossary of Terms

      CHAPTER 1

      The Importance of Story

      CHAPTER 2

      Exploring the Sword Maiden’s Journey

      Boots and the Troll

      Mol and the Giant

      CHAPTER 3

      Exploring the Heroine’s Journey

      All Was the Way It Should Be"

      Penta the Handless

      CHAPTER 4

      The Importance of the Heroine’s Journey

      CHAPTER 5

      Applications for the Heroine’s Journey

      Story Development

      Psychological Therapy

      Circle of Tears

      Business

      Moving On

      CHAPTER 6

      The Hybrid Models

      Call To Arms

      Handless Maiden

      Acme Tattoo Parlor

      Across the Tracks

      CHAPTER 7

      Celebration and Sending Forth

      Bibliography and Reading List

      Reader Extras

      Questions and Answers with Authors

      Biographies of Authors

      Synopsis

      INTRODUCTION

      AS LONG-TIME FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, we came to writing this book from a common love of story. As storytellers, we mine the nuances of traditional folktales and witness the evolution of personal tales with joy, laughter, and even a few tears. Here are our individual stories, perspectives, and goals for the book.

      DOROTHY’S PERSPECTIVE

      I led a dual life: my professional career in managing a law firm, and my personal life as wife and mother. At age 48, I wanted a healthier balance between these two paths and yet, I was unsure of how to achieve it or even how to imagine what it might look like. I entered a master’s program about women in leadership at the University of Minnesota. As part of a paper for a class, I asked colleagues to name their favorite leaders. Not one of them named a woman and, upon further examination, each found it difficult to name any women leaders. Recognizing that my own business background included mainly male mentors and male-oriented achievements (acquisitions, goals, success based on income, winning instead of compromise), I began exploring leadership qualities from a woman’s perspective and creating stories about adventurous women.

      I was drawn to author, Maureen Murdock, whose book, The Heroine’s Journey, was a significant resource of how a woman successfully travels the circle of life. Two things happened: 1) I came to see leadership as both an internal and external process, i.e. the Hero’s Journey and the Heroine’s Journey; and 2) I found I needed to make an internal transformation before tackling the external journey of leading others. Thus, the continued research of the Heroine’s Journey.

      Stories came to me like a private viewing of a new movie including a big screen with a thunderous sound system. Inundated with sensory data, I needed a structure to frame these stories. The Hero’s and Heroine’s Journeys work well for me to keep the storyline on its through path to make sense of the story.

      BARBARA’S PERSPECTIVE

      As a child, I was never very good at discerning social subtleties and nuances, but I grew up hearing and reading folktales. I loved those stories. The old folktales of adventure and the least-likely-character-to-succeed winning the day resonated with me. Here I found examples of how characters interacted in a wide range of situations. It was through these stories that I learned how to make sense of the people and the social dynamics around me. In college, I studied comparative folklore as part of both my undergraduate and graduate work. Finding variants of the same storyline across cultural and geographic boundaries reinforced my belief that regardless of external differences, people were not so different deep down.

      In 1987, I began working as a freelance performer using traditional material. I found that these stories provided a structure that could be used in creating and telling original stories. The hero adventures were typical fare with most focusing on acquisition and conquest. This structure did not reflect the lives of many of the people around me. Where were the stories of resilience, adaptation, and spontaneity—the stories where plans must change in midstream whenever life presents obstacles? I knew the framework of the Hero’s Journey was only the tip of the iceberg in people’s real life stories. The stories of survival and emotional triumph did not fit easily into the structure of the hero’s tale.

      In an airplane, high above the Atlantic, I finally had the chance to read Dorothy’s newly completed thesis, Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Woman’s Journey to Leadership through Story. Here was the format I had been looking for—a framework for a personal story that was not the hero’s tale. The concept of the Heroine’s Journey not only gave a name to the process, it provided a structure that I could use to create original stories for performance.

      HOW WE GOT HERE

      We began our journey writing this book by generating ideas for a workshop describing the Heroine’s Journey. We read, researched and picked each other’s brain as to how this journey unfolds in traditional stories. Once we had loosely developed steps for the Heroine’s Journey, we travelled across the country presenting and revising the workshop. We acknowledge appreciation to the workshop participants as we learned as much from them as we offered.

      This book is a culmination of experience, research, trial, and error. It is a book focused on both the Hero’s and Heroine’s Journeys to assist writers, storytellers, therapists and counselors

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