Hero Trainingj

The Heroes That You Know: What They Did And Why It Mattered

This Training Is Brought To You By

Shawn Fureys’

Hero Training SchoolAn Education In Situation Optimization

“Transforming Ordinary Mortals Into Guardians Of The Good Life”

www.theherotrainingschool.com

What is it that I’m going to be doing once I complete this training?

You will be intervening to improve situations

What is the value of being able to do that?

What’s in it for me?

A sustainable ‘good life’ experience

A life in which you get your basic human mental health needs metand advance progress toward personal goals

Don’t I have that already?

No, You don’t. At least, most people don’t.

Sadly, what most people have is a ‘not-so-good’ life experience.

Oppression and Repression of Self-Actualization(Holding Self and Others Down In Order To Avoid Healthy Competition of Ideas and Ways of Doing Things)

Fear-Based Thinking and ActionShame, Self-Doubt, and Self-Loathing

Bullying and Domestic ViolenceDrug and Alcohol Abuse

Loneliness, Despair, and Mental IllnessChild Abuse, Abandonment, and Neglect

Homelessness and PovertyObesity and Disease

Criminality and IncarcerationSuicide and Homicide

Racism, Mysogeny, Homophobia, and Xenophobia(And Many More Forms Of The Not-So-Good Life)

But there’s good news!

It doesn’t have to be this way

You CAN create a better world – a better life,for yourself and others,

because…

You were born to be a hero!

You were born to be a Guardian of The Good Life!

You were born to optimize situations for Life Success!

How do you know that?

Because experiences don’t just happen – they’re constructed

If you are feeling / noticing that life sucks(at home, at work, at school, at church)

Then, intervene to improve the situation in those places!

How do I do that?

I’m going to teach you how to do it in this hero training

Sound good? Yes? Then, let’s begin…

To start,let’s take a look at the heroes who’ve gone before usand see if we can notice a pattern in what they did…

The Heroes You KnowWhat They Did and Why It Mattered To Other People

Martin Luther King, Jr

In the 1960’s African-Americans marched peacefully in the streets protesting the fact that they were not allowed equal access to the same schools, restaurants, or even water fountains as people with ‘white’ skin. Martin Luther King Jr took the lead in transforming the political and social landscape of the United States during the Civil Rights Movement.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid Martin Luther King Jr help African American people to satisfy?

Equality of Value

SupermanA helicopter crashes as it is attempting to take off from the top of a skyscraper. Seconds later a woman falls out of the helicopter and is hanging onto the edge of the building. She falls. Far below her a crowd of people has gathered and are looking up, waiting for the inevitable – when suddenly, a man is spotted flying toward her through the air – he catches her and carries her to safety.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid Superman help Lois Lane and the people in the street to satisfy?

Safety

Luke SkyWalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, awaythese three individuals fought an evil Emperor and his powerful minion Darth Vader. At one point, The Emperor even tries to tempt Luke SkyWalker into giving up his free will

in trade for a chance to take his fathers spot as the number one minion.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdoes Luke satisfy by refusing to submit to The Emperor?

Autonomy

Colonel Munro and General Le MarquisIn the movie Last of the Mohicans the British are outnumbered and outgunned at Fort William Henry, during the French and Indian War (1757), and rather than annihilate them all the French General Le Marquis offers them the opportunity to surrender and receive safe passage back to their homes if they promise never to fight in North America again. British Colonel Munro asks if his troops can carry their weapons with them on the way home.The French general agrees.

What basic [universal] humanmental health need are both men satisfying for themselvesand their troops.

Vulnerability In Social Relating

Harry Potter and Hermione Grainger

Every year Harry Potter and Hermoine Grainger know two things for sure; first, that Voldemort will be busy trying to de-stabilize Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and second, that they’ll be spending all their time minimizing the destructive impact of Voldemorts’ attacks so that Hogwarts doesn’t have to shut down.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdo Harry and Hermoine help the students at Hogwarts satisfy?

Stability

Jackie Robinson“I’m not concerned with you liking or disliking me

– all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becamethe first African-American baseballplayer to play in the Major Leagueand as such he endured the hatredof thousands of racist Baseball fans.Mr. Robinsons’ choice to treat otherswith respect even though they hadn’tgiven it to him helped him pave the wayfor thousands of non-white Baseballplayers and changed American sports culture.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid Jackie Robinson help satisfy for future non-white baseball players?

Respect

Robin Hood

Robin Hood stole money from the richand gave it to the poor.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid Robin Hood help the poor people of Sherwood Forest to satisfy?

Sufficiency

William WallaceWhen English King Edward I startedattacking Scottish towns and wreaking Havoc on the Scottish people, in aneffort to dominate them, WilliamWallace stepped up and defendedthe Scottish Turf. In the movieBraveheart, Wallace says…

“They may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom”

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid William Wallace help the Scottish people to satisfy?

Freedom

Edward SnowdenIn June 2013 Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency had been conducting global surveillance programs in which the cell phone and e-mail data of American Citizens had been taken with the help of cell phone and e-mail companies without the publics’ knowledge or consent.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid Edward Snowden help the global community to satisfy?

Transparency

Captain Planet

In the TV Cartoon Captain Planet and The Planeteers, Captain Planet helps to restore balance to the earths’ environment by protecting it from the people and events who would pollute and destroy it. Captain Planet defends the earth from greedy and apathetic people who attempt to exploit the earths’ abundant resources without regard for the impact their overconsumption has on the environment.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdoes Captain Planet help people and places satisfy?

Balance

Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen volunteers to participate in the ‘Hunger Games’ as tribute from District 13 but ends up becoming a catalyst for social and political change when she awakens something within the hearts and minds of the people who watch her fight to overcome adversity.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdoes Katniss Everdeen help satisfy for the people of District 13?

Hope

John Lennon

“Give Peace a Chance”

Famous musician and social activist John Lennon worked tirelessly to promote the idea that peace was the solution and that war was the problem.

What basic [universal] human mental health needdid John Lennon help people to satisfy through his music and advocacy?

Peace

12 Aspects of ‘The Good Life’ Experience12 Basic Human Mental Health Needs

Equality of ValueSafety

AutonomyVulnerability in Social Relating

RespectStability

SufficiencyFreedom

TransparencyBalance

HopePeace

What Do All These Heroes Have in Common?

They’ve all intervened to improve situationsFor themselves and others

Each of these peoplecreated a situation or protected a situation

in which they and / or others could continue to experienceone aspect of ‘the good life’

They’re all Guardians of The Good Life

What is a Guardian of The Good Life?

Someone who habitually actsin a way that creates and / or sustains

a ‘good’ life situation for self and others.

Is everyone already a Guardian of The Good Life?

No. Even though everyone was born to be a Guardian of The Good Life

most people have been conditioned to fear their true power

to fear healthy competition of ideas and ways of doing things

to fear healthy [non-violent] conflict

and to fear the one thing that makes them different from other life forms

the power to influence situations

And so, they need to rediscover their true self.

So, let’s make sure you didn’t miss anything there…

I just gave you 12 examples of people who’ve already done what you’ll be doing, and

I just gave you 12 reasons to do it

Did you noticethat ‘good life’ referred to that which is good for you- as a human being?

That’s how heroes know when and why to help others.

They help others because they know that others have the same basic human mental health needs as they do.

So, it’s our humanity [or our human being-ness] that is the anchorfor our heroic interventions.

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Thank-you!

Have a great day and a great life!

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