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William M Heywood PhD

The Adult Journey

Mindfulness Meditation

May I be filled with loving kindness May I be well

May I be Peaceful and at ease May I be happy

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Hero�s Journey

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are-if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

Joseph Campbell

Adult Development Stages

CG Jung�s

Daniel Levinson

Integral Theory

Life Line

Jung�s Archetypes

The Athlete

The Warrior

The Stateswomen

The Sage

Jung�s Four Stages

Childhood: The structuring Phase

Adolescence/Early Adulthood

Adulthood/Midlife

Maturity/Wisdom

Adult Development Stages

Novice Phase Novice phase of early adulthood lasts about 15 years (Age:17 to 33) Early Adult Transition, Entering the adult world, and the Age Thirty Transition.

Four major tasks of this phase 1) Forming a dream and giving it a place in the life structure. 2) Forming a Mentor relationship 3) Forming an occupation 4) Forming love relationships, marriage/family.

Adult Development Stages Novice Phase Forming a Dream - vague sense of self in adult world - quality of vision, an imagined possibilities that generates

excitement and vitality. - at start it is poorly articulated and only tenuously

connected to reality. - developmental task is giving it greater definition and

finding ways to live it out. - Dream of adult life arises as a transitional phenomenon

in early adult transition, entering the adult world "I AM"

Adult Development Stages

Novice Phase Age : 17-22 The Early Adult Transition: Moving from Pre to Early Adulthood.

Task 1: To start moving out of the pre-adult world, to question the nature of that world and one's place in it, to modify or terminate existing relationships with important persons, groups and institutions; various kinds of separations, endings and transformations must be made as one completes an entire season.

Task 2: Make preliminary step into the adult world, explore possibilities, consolidate an initial adult identity, test choices for adult living, transition ends when she gets beyond the boundary and begins to create a life in the adult world.

Adult Development Stages

Novice Phase

Age 22-28 The First Adult Life Structure: Entering the Adult World

Task 1: To explore the possibilities for adult living, to keep the

options open, avoid strong commitments and maximize the

alternatives.

Task 2: Create a stable life structure: become more responsible

"Make something out of my life.�

Note: Mentor relationship is one of the most complex and developmentally

important relationships in a young person�s life. The crucial function is to support and facilitate the realization of the dream, believing in him/her, sharing the

youthful dream and giving it blessing, helping to define the newly emerging self in

its newly discovered world.

Adult Development Stages Novice Phase

Finding a Mentor A true mentor/protégé relationship only happens one or two times in an individual�s life. The relationship has an exclusive quality and usually last for a number of years. The mentor is usually older than the protégé, Levinson states roughly 8-15 yrs.

Four Phases of Mentoring Relationship 1 Initiation/mutual admiration, 2 Cultivation/developmental phase 3 Disillusionment/ separation phase, and 4 Transformation/redefinition phase.

Adult Development Stages Novice Phase

Age: 28-33 The age Thirty Transition: Changing the first Life Structure If I am to change my life, if there are things in it I want to modify or exclude or things missing, start for it soon or it will be to late.

Adult Development Stages

Age: 33-40 The Second Adult Life Structure: Settling Down

Task 1: Tries to establish a niche in society, anchor his/her life more firmly, develops competence in chosen craft.

Task 2: S/he works at making it, affirmation by the tribe.

Adult Development Stages

Age: 40-45 (50) The Mid-Life Transition

Moving from early adulthood to middle adulthood. What have I done with my life? What am I getting out of it? What do I want? Usually a period of great struggle and possible change. Must make choices and set priorities, every choice I make involves the rejection of many other possibilities. Period of reappraising, exploring, testing choices and creating the basis for a new life.

Adult Development Stages

Age: 40-45 (50) The Mid-Life Transition

Task 1

a) to question the life structure again; " What have I done

with my life? What do I really get from and give to my wife,

children,, friends, work, community, and self? What is it that

I want for myself and others?

b) To desire a life in which her/his actual desires, values,

talents and aspirations can be expressed.

c) To feel the stirrings of powerful forces within her/himself

and perhaps modify or drastically change the structure.

Adult Development Stages Age: 40-45 (50) The Mid-Life Transition

Task 2 Experiencing a disparity between what s/he has gained in an inner sense from living within a particular structure and what s/he wants for himself.

Task 3 Having a sense of bodily decline. Task 4 Having a more vivid recognition of one's mortality. Task 5 Experiencing the sense of aging. Task 6 Emergence and integration of the more feminine aspects

of the self.

Adult Development Stages

Age: 40-45 (50) The Mid-Life Transition

Task 7 Exploring the Shadow

Task 8 Learning to love formerly devalued aspects of self.

Task 9 Beginning to realize that the summer of life is ending

and autumn is fast approaching.

Task 10 Noticing a slight drop in maximal level of

body functioning.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be.

Being alive is the meaning.

Calling Genius

Purpose

Strength

Enjoyment

Meaning

Process of thought

CONSCIOUS

SUBCONSCIOUS CREATIVE

SUBCONSCIOUS

perceives

associates

evaluates

decides

creates drive & energy, maintains sanity, resolves conflicts

Stores truth, habits, attitudes

Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

Capacites involved

Understanding order and meaning of words

Convincing someone of a course of action Humor

Memory and recall

Graphic 12a: Multiple Intelligences: Verbal/Linguistic Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

�Meta- linguistic� analysis

Explaining, teaching and learning

Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

Capacities involved

Abstract pattern recognition

Inductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning

Performing complex calculations

Scientific reasoning

Discerning relationships and connections

Graphic 12b: Multiple Intelligences: Logical Mathematical Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Capacities involved

Active imagination

Forming mental images

Finding your way in space Graphic

representationImagine manipulations

Graphic 12c : Multiple Intelligences: Visual Spatial Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Accurat e percepti on from different anglesRecognizing

relationships of objects in space

Body/Kinesthetic Intelligence

Capacities involved

Control of preprogrammed

movements Expanding awareness through the

body

Mimetic abilities

Improved body

functioning

The mind and body

connection

Control voluntary

movements

Graphic 12d: Multiple Intelligences: Body/ Kinesthetic Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Musical/Rhytmist Intelligence

Capacities involved

�Schemas� or �frames� in the mind for hearing

music Sensitivity to sounds

Sensing characteristic qualities of a

tone

Recognition, creation, and

reproduction of melody/rhythm

Appreciation for the

structure of music

Graphic 12e : Multiple Intelligences: Musical/Rhytmist Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Sensitivity to other�s moods, temperaments, motivations and feelings

Interpersonal Intelligence

Capacities involved

Working cooperatively in a group

�Passing over� into the perspective of another

Creating and maintaining synergy

Effective verbal/non-verbal communication

Graphic 12f: Multiple Intelligences: Interpersonal Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Ability to discern other�s underlying intentions and behavior

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Capacities involved

Metacognition Awareness

and expression of different

feelings

Higher-order thinking and reasoning

Mindfulness

Graphic 12g: Multiple Intelligences Intrapersonal Design: Bertha Lucía Fries

Concentration of the mind

Transpersonal sense of the

self

Happiness Strenghts /Talents Pleasure / Joy Meaning

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree.

The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess.

We are not going to change it.

Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: �As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm JUMP It is not as far as you think.�

6 phases of consciousness

the journey from Victimhood to True Empowerment