Live Your Myth!
In every culture there is the story of the hero/ine. The hero/ine's journey is an outward adventure that is symbolic of the inward quest we all must take in a lifetime. Just as the Hawaiian hero Maui had to, we all must learn to see our lives as a story with different plots, characters, settings and themes. In the end, we transform ourselves in order to transform our world. We learn to re-write the endings to our own life stories.
Through various physical and mental rites of passage programs, the Maui Hero Project offers new community ceremonies that will bring all cultures and people together in a spirit of love, harmony and stewardship of the planet. Our programs tie the past with the present through the use of hands on games, activities, storytelling, traditional cultural experiences and narrative therapeutic techniques.
The epic legends of Maui still have many great teaching to share with us if we only take the time to look. Maui was an orphan, a trixter, a fisherman, a son and an adventurer. He fished up the islands and harnessed the sun in the stories of old. The Maui Hero Project re-creates these epic adventures so that we may place our feet in these archetypical footsteps. By doing so we may come to realize our hero/ines within, our passions and the rapture of being alive!
So what do the stories of Maui have to share with us today?
- They are tales of coming of age and of discovering our true passion
- They help us to understand core patterns or issues in human behavior such as abandonment, sorrow, grief, anxiety, depression, loneliness and the need for unity and acceptance.
- They offer indigenous wisdom passed down through the ages
- They point us in the direction for the future, such as Maui harnessing the sun or the wind as metaphors for the use of solar and wind power