Culture
How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.
Good Will Hunting
A genius learning to open to growth through therapy and love. The moment someone finally gives themselves permission to stop defending their wounds.
Billy Elliot
A boy growing into himself against every cultural and family obstacle. Growth as the insistence on becoming who you actually are.
Wild
Cheryl Strayed healing through the Pacific Crest Trail. Growth through physical challenge and the willingness to be broken open.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Adolescent emergence - finding yourself through the people who see you before you can see yourself.
Boyhood
Twelve years of growth filmed in real time. The accumulation of small moments that make a person.
The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy travels a fantastical world looking for what she had the whole time. Growth as the discovery that becoming yourself was available without the journey - but you had to take the journey to know it.
Captain Fantastic
A family living off the grid who must re-enter the world they rejected. Growth in two directions at once - toward self-sufficiency and toward the complexity they have been hiding from.