The Hero's Journey Blog
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Team Building Special Ops
Superhero Adventures defy description and change with every group and circumstance. But perhaps this video (a bit over a minute long) can help give you a glimpse of what's to come. Experience team building that truly builds teams. And help support our work with...
Creative Genius of Superheroes at Christ the King
Detroit, MI - Christ the King Elementary School In the everyday ordinary of the school day, Terrence finishes his math quiz and then heads to the gym locker room, where he transforms from his joyful learning self into... Tiger Shark Encourages others to believe in...
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STA is able to provide 30 classes of creative arts education to Christ the King Elementary school in Detroit, MI. With funding made possible by http://www.michiganbusiness.org/community/council-arts-cultural-affairs/#MCACA www.arts.gov www.miartshare.com
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Superhero Training Academy is exploding like never before. This summer, STA launches 3 Quests, 3 Superhero Camps, 4 Force Camps, and the second annual Superhero Olympics. Interested in the incredible? Join us for adventure, creativity, and character building. And, of course, force fields, freeze rays, and a few supervillains.
Heroic Heart Stolen!
After the heroes shared their shadows, they reached a new level of superness. Their learning deepened, their capes flapped, and the Heroic Heart for which they had been questing for the past four months materialized in the classroom. Wild celebration ensued. ...
Shadows at Deerfield
On April 17th, the 5th grade superheroes at Deerfield took a new step into their development. They faced the greatest challenge of a superhero: championing the shadows within. After hearing some examples and reflecting on themselves, they faced the things that are...
American House Elderly Home with Deerfield
Superheroes from Merry Mary's fifth grade classroom at Deerfield Elementary ventured into the unknown and entered another school district, completing their secret missions, sharing their unique superpowers in front of complete strangers in 4 fifth grade classrooms at...
Secret Missions at Deerfield
For Secret Missions, heroes traditionally explode into unsuspecting classrooms, offices, and lounges to actively share their superpowers with younger or older students, classmates, teachers, and staff in their own school. For the first time ever in the history of...
Quest at Mount Calvary: Character Kaleidoscope
After a couple years of camps, festivals, Brave Believers, and fitting into the cracks, STA runs the first quest at Mount Calvary from 10:30 to 12:30 on Sundays during church. About 15 students have been going through the Spectrum of Perspective, learning about the 4...
Hazel Park High School Camp
Storming Sunflower and Laughing Moon spent a week in the leadership classroom of Welcoming Wave, resulting in 9 new superheroes at Hazel Park High School. They explored the Spectrum of Perspective, categorized characters and historical figures from the Superhero...
Adventures at Mount Calvary STA Camp
14 new superheroes were born at Mount Calvary this week. Identities were created, capes were adjusted, just in time for the arrival of a horde of supervillians to sweep in and cause havoc. Here they come! Shock! Panic! Terrifying, gruesome, and smelly, the villians...
STA at Red Cloud: 2010-2011- Anything is Possible.
Superhero Training began with the oogle, the Go Get ‘Em, and of course, breaking through the impossible!
The 3rd graders at Red Cloud Indian School were intrigued. Could they really become superheroes? What is the Superhero Spirit? And why can’t Laughing Moon learn to match his socks?
Epic Adventure Course
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD Spring 2010: An epic adventure through the Grasslands of Gumption Over the Pine Ridge prairie in South Dakota, the sun rose with astonished eyes, surprised to find a horde of supervillains creeping through the dancing grasses....
STA 2010: Superheroes in the Grasslands of Gumption
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD, Spring 2010 As the light of morning slipped across the South Dakota prairie and a horde of Supervillains invaded Red Cloud Indian School, the Superheroes sprang into action! With a fervor of fortitude and a razzle dazzle of...
Superhero Licenses: the Creation of a Convergent Comic
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD, Spring 2010 The superhero license is the four fold story of the superhero told through the archetypes, which each embody one of the Four Core Forces (for Red Cloud, we used the Lakota values of wisdom, compassion, fortitude,...
The Animal Inside
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD Spring 2010 Students' animal projects connect to their superhero identities.
Peace Between Species
Andersonville Elementary, Davisburg, Michigan, 2008 Two hundred million years ago, all the land of the Earth was united in one supercontinent known as Pangaea. This was a time when the sea turtle swam the seas in peace, the elephant roamed the savannah with no fear of...
Graduation Ceremony
Andersonville Elementary, Davisburg, Michigan, 2008 Parents, pen pals, friends and family members came after the play to honor the newly christened Superheroes. Each Superhero earned his or her STA cape and diploma, solidifying them in Superhero history and...