The Witness
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
The Witness is not another archetype. It is the capacity to notice thoughts, feelings, sensations, impulses and habits, and to stay present while they move. Presence with perspective.
Being a pattern, and noticing one.
The energy does not have to fade for the relationship with it to change. Open a gap in the sentence and see what stays.
The wheel that answers.
Rest on a colour. The light goes out to meet it, and the Witness names what it notices. The centre steps you back.
Choose a colour.
Rest on an archetype. Light from the centre meets it, and the Witness says what it notices. The centre steps you back.
- Discernment without judgement.
- Choice without compulsion.
- Presence without performance.
The archetypes are a language for patterns. The Witness is the freedom in how we meet them. That freedom sits at the centre of archetypal coaching.
Meet the rest of the cast.
Each archetype has a profile of its own. Or map which of them are leading in your life just now.