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Hillman and Olivier’s ten

Laurence Hillman and Richard Olivier, Archetypes at Work: Evolving Your Story, One Character at a Time (2019)

A leadership-development framework from Olivier Mythodrama (formed 1997), drawing on Jungian archetypes, Shakespeare-based training and Hillman’s planetary astrology.

In the void, Jung’s archetypes are galaxies. This is a planet: one author’s list, with a name and a date. Its 10 moons are the names on it.

Its moons

The moons, in the author’s order

10 names, 2019

  1. Sovereign named only
  2. Strategist named only
  3. Nurturer named only
  4. Lover named only
  5. Dreamer named only
  6. Storyteller named only
  7. Renegade named only
  8. Transformer named only
  9. Warrior named only
  10. Explorer named only

See it in the void →

Who wrote it, and when

Hillman and Olivier’s ten: the record

The ten are a leadership-development framework from a London consultancy, and the row is here because the framework is sold to organisations as a Jungian tool. The company presents the ten in five pairs, which it calls realms: Sovereign and Strategist for order, how a person organises; Nurturer and Lover for relationship, how they engage others; Dreamer and Storyteller for creativity, how they begin the new; Renegade and Transformer for change, how they handle transition; and Warrior and Explorer for action, how they get things done. Each archetype is said to carry gifts and shadows, and people are assessed on the pattern they show against the pattern their situation needs. The earliest dated public statement of the framework this site can source is the authors’ book of November 2019; Richard Olivier formed Mythodrama in 1997 and its training has long used Shakespeare’s plays, and Laurence Hillman’s own work maps ten archetypes onto the planets. No independent study of the framework or of its assessment has been located. The product’s text and reports are licensed material and are not reproduced here; this description is written from the company’s public pages and the publisher’s listing.

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What this site may say about it: Outside the CC BY grant entirely: no report text, archetype descriptions, scoring or graphics from the product may appear here, because the permission this site’s publisher holds for a sibling app cannot be sublicensed. The ten-archetype framework may be described in the site’s own words with attribution and the names listed; “Archetypes at Work” and “Mythodrama” are used only to refer to the company’s product.