What this bundle is

This Ulysses bundle brings together five companion PDF workbooks that follow the journey of Ulysses from four angles: narrative, clinical, art-therapy and self-reflection.

You can use each book on its own, or let them work together as a complete process for readers, self-explorers and therapists. All files are digital PDFs, ready for screen reading or printing.

Who this is for

– Advanced self-explorers who have already done some inner work (therapy, journaling, retreats) and recognise themselves in patterns of leaving, exile and difficult returns.

– Clinicians (therapists, counsellors, art therapists, coaches) who work with “wanderer” clients – people who never feel truly at home in any job, city or relationship – and who like to use stories, metaphors and images in their practice.

This is not a generic self-help journal. It is a depth-oriented toolkit with clear structure and a clinical awareness of risk and intensity.

How you can use it

– On your own: choose one life script, one letter and (when you feel ready) one image-based exercise that speak to you now, and stay with them for several days or weeks. You will find safety notes and gentle pacing suggestions throughout the texts, so that you can move at a speed that matches your current resources.

– In therapy: use the Ulysses myth as a shared symbolic frame, combine a life script, a letter and an art-therapy prompt in session, and let the clinical guide help you plan the work, session by session, rather than interpret aggressively. There is enough material here to sustain at least 8–10 individual or joint sessions with “wanderer” themes, depending on how slowly you and your client want to move.

You do not have to use everything at once. The bundle is a toolbox, not a rigid protocol.

Inside the bundle

Ulysses in Therapy – A Narrative and Clinical Guide for Wanderers

A narrative-psychodynamic guide that reads Ulysses as a “wanderer” archetype. It offers: an overview of the Ulysses narrative archetype within Metaforia, landmarks for clinical work (exile, return, guilt, loyalty, temptation, inner Law), a composite clinical vignette, and a bibliography in APA 7 style. Written for therapists and advanced self-explorers who want a myth-based but clinically grounded frame.

Ulysses – Art-Therapy Exercises (Clinical and Self-Exploration Toolkit)

Eight structured art-therapy exercises (drawing, watercolour, collage) built around key images from the myth: sea and storms, islands and harbours, sirens/addictions, healing figures, inner crew.

Each exercise comes with:

– materials and clear step-by-step instructions,

– observation points (what to look for in the image and in the process),

– and a safety frame with indications, possible reactivations (for example around divorce, migration or loss) and suggestions for containment, both for individual work and for use in therapy.

Ulysses – Writing Journal for Self-Explorers and Therapists

A guided writing journal that moves through a series of letters connected to the Ulysses story – with figures such as Circe, Calypso, the mother, the one who waits for you, the child, and Athena.

The journal is built as a small inner theatre: you are invited to let these figures speak on the page, to answer them, and to notice how they move inside you over time. The structure draws on letter-writing in therapy and on C. G. Jung’s notion of active imagination – a conscious dialogue with inner images and figures.

It helps you:

– translate the myth into your own scenes and relationships,

– observe how the wanderer archetype lives in your life,

– and, if you are a therapist, offer clients a contained way to put transferential dynamics “on paper” before they flood the room.

Ulysses – A Map of Life Scripts

A booklet with six archetypal life scripts inspired by the journey of Ulysses:

– the wanderer who never quite arrives home,

– the subtle negotiator of the Law,

– the mind that tries to control everything,

– the lover who leaves just when things become real,

– the eternal rival who lives in comparison,

– and the life organised around a central wound.

For each script you get:

– a short bridge between myth and everyday life,

– a section “If you are working on your own”, with simple questions, journal lines and small imaginative exercises,

– and a section “If you are a therapist”, with suggestions for how the script may appear in the consulting room, including transferential and counter-transferential notes, plus a final chapter on how to continue the work and turn this map into more detailed self-exploration sheets, art-therapy exercises and clinical guides.

Ulysses – The Story of Return (Metaforia Studio Edition)

A first-person retelling of the myth, written in an intimate, evening-story tone. Ulysses speaks in the first person, in the present tense.

A way of giving inner experiences a narrative body and of letting the story meet you before any theory. You can read it quietly for yourself, or offer it to clients as narrative material for reflection and discussion, or as a companion text to the exercises, scripts and letters.

Format & pricing

– Language: English

– Format: PDFs (printable or usable on tablet)

Bought separately, these workbooks would cost €55.

The bundle price is €39 – you save €16 (about 30%).

Until Christmas you can also use the launch code METAFORIA for an extra 20% off, as an early supporter of the Ulysses archetype series.