The Hero’s Journey with Horses in 11 Steps
What is a Hero's Journey?
The Hero’s Journey, based on the insights of Joseph Campbell, describes the universal path of inner and outer transformation. It is the structure behind the greatest myths, stories, and your own life.
Campbell recognized that every hero’s journey follows a pattern: a call to change, challenges, crises, and finally the return with new wisdom.
This journey is not just for heroes in movies – it is a mirror for our growth process. A famous example is Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Initially, he hesitates to accept the call to adventure, but through his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, he crosses the threshold into a new world. On his path, he encounters trials, allies, and enemies until he faces his deepest fear – the confrontation with Darth Vader. Through this journey, he grows beyond himself and returns with new insight.
Like Luke Skywalker, we also experience moments of uncertainty, resistance, and transformation. The Hero’s Journey shows us:
“Each of us can grow beyond ourselves and realise our full potential.”
Every great story begins with a first step – your decision.
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilienc.
Are you ready to embark on your own Hero’s Journey?
Recognize the patterns of your life, face your fears, and find your true strength.
The Hero's Journey with Horses in 11 Steps
The 11-step Hero’s Journey with Horses includes these key stages:
- Who am I?
- The Call
- The Blockage (My beliefs – what unconsciously holds me back, the inner critic)
- The Goal – Feeling the goal energy
- The Connection
- The Heart of the Creature – What truly touches and desires your heart
- The Ordeal – Decision between the old and the new
- The Failure
- The Transformation
- The Treasure – What have I achieved
- The Wide View – Looking back – the greater meaning, what is your next decisive step?
What distinguishes the classic Hero’s Journey from a Hero’s Journey with Horses?
What distinguishes the classic Hero’s Journey from a Hero’s Journey with Horses?
The classic Hero’s Journey is a powerful model for personal development. However, with horses by your side, it becomes something truly special: a living, embodied process that takes you out of your head and directly into feeling. Horses meet you honestly, clearly, and without judgment.
Horses meet you with honesty, clarity, and without judgment.
They do not respond to what you say, but to who you truly are. Your aura, your inner state, your presence.
This makes unconscious patterns visible and shows you where you have not fully arrived within yourself. No more storytelling – horses are relentless here.
Our ego is a master at inventing stories to avoid change. It explains, justifies, and sugarcoats. But horses are not fooled by this.
They read you beyond your words. They unmistakably show you where you are not authentic.
No concept, no role, no facade holds up. Only who you genuinely are matters.
And therein lies the extraordinary power of horses: They bring you back to your true presence.
You will learn what it means to lead authentically – with trust, clarity, and intuition. You will find your own path.
This journey not only changes how you are with horses – it changes how you meet yourself.