We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jonathan Dassonville . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jonathan below.

Alright, Jonathan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

Born and raised in the North of France in Lille, I have traveled the world for almost 15 years, looking for meanings, purposes, and life experience. I studied different fields such as French law, I am also an engineer in IT, a photographer/Filmmaker recently graduated from UCLA and a Coach. You may have noticed it already, I have a thirst to learn and explore new things.

I discovered along my journey that I had artistic abilities, intuition, and a profound will to create. I believe that I am a late bloomer. It always took me longer to learn, probably because I am a dreamer, kinda stuck in another realm, observing and contemplating life in search of a vision. Being able to create contents and understanding Human, became for me an outline to follow.

So, I created images/films and a various type of contents to help people grow and become a better version of themselves, magnifying and revealing what is already inside. My credo is about the hero’s journey, inspired by Joseph Campbell, and how to make a change in your life, transform and emerge.

I have several hats, such as content creator and coach because I believe it is all connected to achieve what I feel is right and aligned with my mission.

Jonathan , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Like I said, I have been through various field such as filmmaker and coach which I believed are the bridge to achieve my vision. I create contents through different media and coach people through the concept of The Hero’s journey.

My credo is to use the metaphor of the Hero, approached by Joseph Campbell, as a guideline to change and achieve new goals, no matter how hard the obstacle along your journey are.

The Hero’s Journey unfolds in several steps, like a marker for change in a story. The Journey, that we are the hero.

Christopher Vogler who synthesized the concept of the hero’s journey for Hollywood screenwriters, states that you need to find a mentor, an Obi-Wan Kenobilike or a Gandalflike, to grow and keep on your journey through the unknown realm. Hence, the Hero finds a deep meaning of who he is, aligned with intimate values. Basically, my aspiration is to mentor people stuck along their journey.

Guide them through a new expanded consciousness in order to compose their own reality, is what I do.

Any change in life is a loss of marks, the passage from the known to the unknown, from an inner journey to an outer journey, just like the heroes of Hollywood movies.

It is here necessary to deconstruct your belief, readjust a vision that is physically registered in our body. Create something new that we can’t control because we don’t know what will happen. For instance, I quote Joseph Campbell: The very cave that you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

I believe that is the path to“live our dreams”. Curious expression, isn’t it?

Before you get there, you have to learn to navigate in high waters. At birth, we did not receive directions, beneficial and benevolent principles of life. You have to find the compass of your intuition, which leads you to compose your reality despite a given scenario.

The dark moments quickly turn to enlightenment if you do the right thing. In each story, the hero meets a mentor who accompanies him through his journey to find clarity, which will save him a lot of time and boost his confidence.

I am blessed to coach along my journey, brave and resilient warriors of light, but all in all what I am proud of is the coaching with elderly people who try transit to a new world getting rid of old Believes and heal old wounds, is inspired by mum that I coached and made a program of personal development smooth and efficient in order to thrive in this complex world.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

I will recommend to have to that unique book, The hero with a 1000 faces by Joseph Campbell. The Hero with a 1000 Faces is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths.
It made me reflect on my own journey, made me understand why characters from past happen lived this way,
If you are into story telling, this is. Book that will level up your game, and broaden your vision.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I would say none. The learning process is complex, Not utilizing it made me think different, in order to get closer from my goals and objectives anyway and I found a path where at some points I reach to those ressources out. The way the story unfollowed it self was actually in my opinion, just on time.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.Jonathandassonville.com
• Instagram: Johndassonville
• Facebook: Jonathanedassonville
• Linkedin: Jonathan.dassonville

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