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Gretel’s Story: Finding the Way Home
by Jean Reynolds, Ph.D.
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The story of Hansel and Gretel is very old.
It was probably around for hundreds of years before the Grimm Brothers wrote it down.
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Some parts of the story may have originated in the Great Famine (1315 – 1321).
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Historians say that desperate parents abandoned their children in order to save themselves.
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The story has lived on and taken many forms.
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It remains popular with children…
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…and with adults.
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Folklorists have been intrigued by Hansel and Gretel…
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…and so have psychologists.
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The story is rich
in themes.
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Hansel and Gretel struggle with…
good vs. evil
a dysfunctional family
abandonment
betrayal
emptiness
hunger
fear
loyalty
courage
carbohydrates
strength vs. weakness
power
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“Hansel and Gretel” is the only fairy tale whose central character isn’t royal or endowed with magical powers…or male.
The heroine is a young girl.
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Many elements in the story seem to foreshadow modern life.
Poor Hansel, locked in a cage to get fat while Gretel waits on him, is an early version of a couch potato.
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Today we’re going to talk some important ideas embedded in the story of Hansel and Gretel.
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First let’s think about what an “idea” is.
An “idea” is a tool.Some ideas are useful.Some aren’t.
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An idea that works in one situation might not be helpful in another.
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1. Psychologists have two ways of defining what the human organism is all about.
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One group of psychologists takes a common-sense view. Human beings are simple organisms: What you see is what you get.
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Other psychologists believe that we humans are complex and mysterious.
Often we don’t know who we are and what we want.
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Where would you be on this line?
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2. Most people have three approaches to solving difficult problems.
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Sometimes we go to a doctor for a diagnosis and a remedy.
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…or a teacher to learn skills and problem-solving strategies…
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…or a spiritual guide or guru to lift us out of the dark places within us.
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3. We often overlook a fourth resource: The mysteries hidden within ourselves.
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Look What They Done to My Song
Look what they done to my song, ma!
Look what they done to my song, ma.
It was the only thing that I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong, ma.
Look what they done to my song!
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Let’s meet the witch and do something unusual with her: We’re going to look for her resources.
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She’s surrounded by delicious food.
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She has immense wealth inside her cottage.
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She has a relationship with a male who is caring, industrious, and smart.
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She has a human heart that she can turn on when she wants to.
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Now let’s meet Hansel and Gretel’s stepmother and see what her resources are.
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She has a hard-working husband with a loving heart.
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She has two healthy, smart, and loving children.
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She has a home in a beautiful forest.
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But both the witch and the stepmother are lacking three vital qualities:
•The courage to change
•The ability to muster their resources
•The ability to love
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At the end of the story, both women are dead.
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But Hansel and Gretel return home to begin a new and better life.
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They have the three vital qualities needed to survive and thrive:
•The courage to change
•The ability to muster their resources
•The ability to love
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Imagination is an important resource that many of us overlook. Let’s apply it to three common problems:
•anger
•depression
•impossible love
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Anger
Whose voice are you hearing? What is it saying?
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Depression: Are you wet with tears and drowning…
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Or dry and stony?
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Impossible love:
Who is the mystery lover inside you, and what is that person longing for?
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What secrets and mysteries are hidden
inside you today—right now?
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Gretel’s Story: Finding the Way Home
by Jean Reynolds, Ph.D.