THEATRICAL ARCHETYPES
ToS Archetypes are the invisibles powers at work in the universe. And these powers can help you to achieve greatness. You can access your own greatness and achieve the life you want by using their traits. The Theatrical Archetypes are just a few of the Invisible Powers that are available to you
As it is, these invisible powers or superior energy forces, are at work in your life. They challenge, hold back, and empower who you are, who you want to be and who you become. As well as having influence on how your life turns out daily and in the long-run. They are reflected through everyday people and family as well as extraordinary people.
They can be identified easily through the characters of our favorite TV shows, movies, theatrical plays, books, and stories we’ve heard through the ages. They are Archetypes. Archetypes reflect greatness, mystery, adventure, confidence, and magic; to name a few among all the traits we could possibly possess from humility to tyranny. Archetypes are the invisible powers that can reflect your greatest weakness, uncover hidden strengths and empower you to greatness.
The term Archetype comes from ancient Greek. The root word archein meaning “original or old”. And typos which means “pattern, model or type”. Together it means “original pattern” from which all other similar persons, objects or concepts are derived, copied, modeled, or emulated.
What are Archetypes?
Archetypes can be seen as Original Standards. And these base forms have superior energy forces that insist on a particular way of being and thinking. And when you tap into their trait energy force you can harness any one or many of their abilities.
Through the ToS Archetypes you can identify energy forces and traits within yourself that might be dormant or untapped. Or show you qualities that get in your way of being able to succeed at the steps needed to achieve certain goals or change your way of being.
The Theatrics of Success Archetypes consist of the Archetypes of the Theater, the Theatrical Archetypes, as the cornerstones to structure the Actors Journey and Actor Within Methodology. Later in The Actor we introduce other archetypes and the many ways any of them can be used. The archetypes are an essential part in developing the life you desire and deserve, as well as unleashing your Hero’s potential to support that life.
WRITER
The Writer Architype is the discoverer, creator, and evaluator. And is the first of the ToS Archetypes. The writer of the scripts or story that has been, is and will become your life. There are three basic scripts that tell the story of your life from start to finish. Your First Script or Back Story, your Second Script, and Third Life Script.
Change your story, change your life?
If you don’t change your script, you don’t give yourself, your Hero, new direction. The script is the first line of defense against the old way of life. Your script dictates where, why and how your Hero needs to think and act. Your inner creator needs to script your new path.
There is a well-known quote by Einstein, ‘The definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.’ The only way to end up someplace different is to re-write where you are heading.
An arrow only lands where it’s been pointed to. If you want to land someplace different from where you are heading or are, you need to point in a new direction.
You can’t change your story without changing you, the main character. By your thoughts and actions, you write the unwritten story. You can of course re-write your story, but it won’t change unless you change the main character’s attitude, mindset, and way of behaving. The very things that keep the story unfolding and moving in any direction.
Right now you are only supporting the old script via the old ways. So, you must change the narrative first and give your hero, main character, a new direction and how they may need to be better or different so to be able to get to the new destination. This principle also applies if you aren’t stuck in life but want to prevent getting stuck or end up someplace specific.
Using the ToS Archetypes you can change and develop your story and main character and have it look a certain way. The Archetypes help you to evaluate your Main Character, First Script, Second Script and current script to see where it’s pointing. Depending on what script you are stationed in your life. And then determine what actions need to happen to get your life and hero where you want your Life Script to point.
DIRECTOR
The Director Archetype is your guide. Your Personal Inner Life Coach. Directing the how and not so much the where. The ToS Archetypes help you use the Director to guide you in taking back control of the direction of your life through specific methods.
Instead of being directed by previously written script influences, you will now direct the course of your life on your terms. Let’s face it, not all methods work for everyone. The problem is that you need specific means to attain the life you want. People aren’t generic. Why should the methods that make us our best selves and give us the life we want be.
The ToS Archetype the Director helps to Reverse the Curse of yesterday’s Condition of Life affects. Re-direct your course through self-chosen value driven practices that support success habits for your actor to perform toward a new scripted life.
The ToS Director Archetype helps develop a Success Mindset (Growth Mindset) and establish Personal Core Value driven practices. And habits that lead to being Successful at Achieving the life you want. The Director helps in two paths. On one hand helping to direct you to building your hero’s muscles and on the other, helping direct the course of your new life.
The strength of the Director Archetype is in his ability to find methods that will influence desired outcomes without getting caught up in emotional or mental distractions. He finds out what works best for you and knows what doesn’t. His/her weakness is questioning too much his methods. His traits include intuition, organization, and planning.
The Director’s job is to help create the methods of action to achieve. He helps the actor to feel safe and find ways of pulling the best of himself out. As a result, he can better influence situations and people to support him/her. In addition, helping the actor strengthen abilities and potential while stretching and growing to the person he/she needs to be.
ACTOR
The Actor Archetype is the face of your life production. It’s the part of you that reflects how you show up or not in your life. There are two aspects to consider; the first represents the taking or not taking of action, more specifically the how and why you Be or Not Be. ‘To Be or Not to Be’. Or in other words, ‘To Act or Not to Act’. The idea which relates to the value of your actions and their worth toward achieving certain desired results.
The appreciation of action can also be viewed through the idea of the Actor in a means of false representation. Whether you are or are not acting falsely in your life. How do you represent yourself? Are you being true to yourself or saving face, trying to be someone you are not or acting out based on non-self-chosen influences from various Conditions of Life?
There have been, there are, and there will be times in life when you re-act. And don’t act out with awareness. The idea is to minimize the auto re-activeness. Be more aware of your situation and the circumstance in order to act out with intention to ultimately match more of your true sense of self. No matter if that result is peace of mind, joy, financial success, a new career, or building a relationship or simply having a good day.
Think of your Hero as your true sense of self. The being of who you truly are. And your actor as the part that acts out to the world in your Hero’s favor. Just as a theatrical actor acts out to the world with truth responses in their characters favor.
Think of the masquerade as those moments that you felt, sensed, or were moved to act in a certain way that might have been for your benefit, but didn’t. Maybe out of fear, uncertainty, shame, embarrassment, lack of self-confidence. This is a time when you might have acted either physically or mentally out of habits based on your character developed from old conditions of life influences. And quite possibly not your true sense of self. This is your false actor that you need to put into question. What beliefs and mindset are your actor acting out from?
The actor is a place of action. Executing the best ways to act out that drive our hero closer to winning at your goals, dreams, and ambitions. The ToS Archtype the Actor engages methods that help build the muscles of the traits that help you, your hero, succeed and achieve to live authentically reaching abundance.
PRODUCER
The Archetype of the Producer represents leadership. Excelling in both self-leadership as well as leading others. The producer knows how to employ and build success supporting teams. And has excellent communication skills that influences development. The Producer is the Torchbearer, leading the way and holding the vision, Purpose and Why alive. Here you look at letting non-supportive influences go and acquiring teams, co-stars/actors that only support your growth and ambitions. The producer humbly accepts the fact that he can’t do it alone and seeks precise assistance.
The Producer Archetype recognizes his weaknesses and strengths. He surrounds himself with others that bring out his best as well as challenge him to grow. Though, he/she can only do this by being Grateful for those who have gotten him to where he is currently, for better or worse. As well as being grateful for being able to find and build with those who will now help get him to where he wants to go.
Communication is the producer’s principal skill. Knowing that the manner he/she communicates through thoughts, words, and emotions hold the power to influence in a positive or negative way. The producer is goal oriented, keeping thoughts, words, and actions in integrity on goals of personal development, self-truth and ambitions.
The ToS Archtype the Producer understands that communication with themself, in his/her own mind, is as important if not more so, as communication with others. The producer’s strength is in seeing the puzzle pieces laid out but envisioning it already together. His weakness is in false leadership and expecting other to do what he is unwilling. The producer leads him/herself confidently and humbly to create the Performance of his/her lifetime.
Personality Archetypes
There are 12 basic Personality Arechtypes that reflect our behaviours. Those archetypes are inherant in each and every one of us. We tap into and express ourselves through all of them at some point in some way in our lifetime. These Personality Arechypes are a powerful tool to helping you see strenghts and weaknesses, tap into unused ones that are available to us, and learn which ones get in our way to becoming our best and most powerful selves.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. One of Carl Jung’s theories is the collective unconscious. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences. We use this collective consciousness to give meaning to the world. In addition, the information within the collected unconscious is accessable to everyone. As we are all a part of it.
Carl Jung identified four main archetypes—the persona, the shadow, the anima or animus and the self. These are a result of collective, shared ancestral memories that may persist in art, literature and religion but aren’t obvious to the eye. As a result, these recurring themes help us understand the Jungian archetypes.
In conclusion, Jung identifed 12 basic Personality Archetypes. The Innocent, Everyman, Hero, Outlaw, Explorer, Creator, Ruler, Magician, Lover, Caregiver, Jester, and Sage. Through The Theatrics Of Success we can use these archetypes to ientify personality traits we have that might get in our way of achieving the life we desire. Also, by being a part of the collective unconscious they are avaiable to eveyone and therefore have be tapped into to build traits we more want to have.
See how they are used in the Theatrics of Success and the Actors Journey.