Metaphors Of Movement
Level II

In Metaphors of Movement Level 2, we decode more and more layers of metaphorical meaning and insight. Level 2 is focused particularly on relationships, emotional health, and the stages of life, as well as business and money metaphors, and how to change them if they aren't working for you.

In Level 2 you’ll learn the remaining metaphorical categories (taxonomies) and what to do (and not do) with each of them. This will give you the ability to work with any metaphor you encounter:

• Attachments: We all have things we’re attached to. Truly letting go of attachments is a key to reducing suffering, but it’s not as easy as just letting go or cutting ties.
 

• Support: It’s present (or absent) in every metaphor, and often the very support that’s intended to help us succeed, keeps us from making progress or standing on our own two feet.
 

• Emotional injury: How we get "hurt" is often a recurring pattern. How can we learn from this without blaming the victim?
 

• Darkness: When and why we "shut down" and become "dim," and how to "lighten up."
 

• Stages and performances: Is it all just an act? What happens if we drop the act, and is that realistic?
 

• Immersions: When we can’t keep up the act.
 

• Anthropomorphizations: Some problems have a life of their own.

You’ll also learn:

• The seven relational positions inherent in every metaphor, and what this tells us about relational dynamics, the implications of how we "position ourselves," and when and how to "take a stand." 

•How to elicit your metaphor for your business/career, and learn how to change it if it isn't working for you

•How to use time-tested businesses as metaphors for your own career success, and guides to what you need to go and learn.

• The difference between embodied metaphor (autogenic metaphor) and conceptual metaphor.
 

• And more!

Now that you know and have practiced the structure of the Metaphors of Movement process, and learned the most basic metaphor categories, you’ll learn about relational positioning within metaphor, where and how to "take a stand," and additional key metaphorical categories (taxonomies) and how to work with them. The overall theme of level II is that of relationships and emotional health.

Webinars 1 & 2

• Learn about the seven Relational Positions in metaphor: where we stand in relation to something or someone.
• Practice and explore the idioms of Relational Positions.
• Explore why we stand and what we stand for.
• Learn new metaphorical taxonomies:
  • Physical injury: how we get hurt
  • Living Death: Not having a life
  • Darkness: being dim and in the dark
  • Support: both our understanding, and how we support ourselves and others
  • Attachments: strong bonds and impossible binds
  • Partial Containers: constraints that leave us vulnerable
• Further explore the metaphorical taxonomies learned thus far (including level 1 taxonomies)

Webinars 3 & 4

• Introduction to Business and Money Metaphors
• Conceptual Metaphor vs Embodied Metaphor
• Using time-tested models as metaphors for business success.
• Anthropomorphizations: what lives with us
• The Immersions: being in over our heads.
• Stage, acting and performance metaphor: the roles we play
• Multiple identities, religion, and God.

The format of this class will be fun and experiential. Your trainer Mark Andreas will introduce each topic, share some examples, and demonstrate with volunteers in front of the group or with group guided exercises. Then you’ll have a chance to explore and practice each element in smaller groups, followed by group discussion and Q & A.

Training Dates & Times: February 22-23 & March 1-2, 2025 (Saturdays & Sundays)
Each webinar will be 10:00am – 1:30pm, Denver Colorado time

Location: Online using Zoom

4 Bonus Group Practice Sessions: these sessions will be from 10:00am to 12:00noon Denver CO time on these Thursdays: Feb 27, and March 6, 13 & 20.

Bonus MoM Session Offer: If you like, you can get a 90-min. Metaphors of Movement session with Mark Andreas for the reduced price of $200, after you sign up for this training. These sessions will take place over Zoom either before or after the training. Contact Mark here to arrange your session.