A new book by Oliver Mann
You don't need to learn more about who you are.It's time to start accepting all of you, and transform your relationship with yourself.Everything else follows.
Written by Oliver Mann, based on 30 years of journaling. Cofounder of the Barcelona Journaling Festival, council member of the International Association for Journal Writing.
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01
Really look.
To reveal what's in the Shadow, we need to be willing to look. Really look. It means having curiosity, honesty and kindness in a process where you accept that not everything you believed about yourself is true, or even helpful.
02
This is here.
We take what is there and we acknowledge it, see it, accept it. We do not have to embrace it or love it. But we do have to say, this is here.
03
A more helpful path.
This is where we release the energy lost to repression, to hiding ourselves, and we can see a better path forward. The internal resistance is reduced, and we can start to create our new reality. Not once, not perfectly. Again and again, as we grow.
Part I
What the Shadow is, how it forms, why the parts of you that you've been taught to hide hold the very energy you've been missing. The lineage from Jung through the writers and teachers who took the work further.
Part II
The three-phase method at the heart of the book. Reveal, Reclaim, Rewrite. How each phase actually feels on the page, what to expect, and what to do when it gets uncomfortable.
Part III
A working set of prompts, sentence stems, and structures you can return to for the rest of your life. Not a program to finish. A practice to keep.
"Working one-on-one with Oliver was truly transformative. The insights I gained continue to resonate with me and have brought about profound changes in my life. When I started the process, I felt completely stuck and had no idea where or how to find a way forwa..."
"I realized I had been preventing myself from failing by not starting at all, or by starting unimportant stuff just to keep myself busy."
"It's remarkable how, when structured the "right" way, a sentence stem can guide us to the right place, push us to confront what we didn't even know needed to be confronted."
Three ways to keep the practice going once the book is done. A live six-week group, one-to-one sessions with Oliver, or bringing Shadow Journaling to your team.
