The Five ArchetypesThe Five ArchetypesThe Five Archetypes is a practical system, rooted in the Five Elements of Chinese medicine, for catching the pattern that pulls you out of integrity under pressure, and returning to a clear, connected choice in the moment. Proven across 200,000+ people.
The Five Archetypes is a behavior change model that shows individuals, couples and teams how to thrive in chaos. Rooted in the five elements of Chinese medicine and integral consciousness theory, it predicts where you’re at risk of sacrificing integrity for comfort and gives you a proactive plan to prevent it.
Start with the questionnaire. It shows you your pattern in 10 minutes. Take the questionnaire.
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I’m Carey Davidson, author of The Five Archetypes (Simon & Schuster) and creator of the Five Archetypes System, taught to teams at Microsoft, Starbucks, and Tony Robbins’ community, and featured by NBC, Forbes, PBS, Goop, and The Telepathy Tapes.
For years I collected wisdom that inspired me… but changed nothing. The retreats, the healers, the modalities, each left me lighter until the tough stuff of my life swooped back in to ruffle my chill. Then I found the five elements, ancient technology for how to transform consciousness. I use it to build relationships and business outcomes on a foundation of true integrity.
I’ve since taught it to thousands around the globe, and I love that I get to teach it to you.
The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships by Carey Davidson (Simon & Schuster), a practical guide to the Five Elements method, with a self-assessment to find your primary, secondary, and lowest types.
The Five Archetypes system is rooted in Five Elements theory. The same forces that turn winter into spring and a seed into a plant with absolute perfection also show you how a thought pulls you out of integrity, and ripples into your words, choices and businesses. And it shows you what to do instead. I call it “mental acupuncture.” It’s your treatment plan for elevating the consciousness of anything you create.
And it scales. Read one person’s constitution and you know what they need to thrive. Read two thousand and you can predict how they’ll interact, how to build a team, an onboarding, or a rollout so it has what it needs to thrive, before anyone has even met.
You carry all five elements. One is the perspective that shrinks first under pressure. The Five Archetypes questionnaire shows you which one that is so you can stop guessing and worrying about what might fail, and start creating instead.
The Blame Loop is the predictable behavior chain the Five Archetypes maps: fear → a choice that lacks integrity → people retreat or react → the outcome you feared. Name your constitution and you can interrupt the loop before it starts.
Your thoughts, words, and choices are creating the conditions around you. Including the outcomes you fear the most. When we’re afraid of being criticized, misunderstood, or left out, we act in ways that are misaligned with our truth, then resent it later on. As a result of our actions lacking integrity, people pull away, and business initiatives fail.
It’s a loop. A predictable, preventable one.
When you know your constitution, you can predict and prevent unhealthy, misaligned reactions. You can make effective choices from the get go, setting the conditions for success before anything has a chance to break down.
Across 200,000+ questionnaires, 98,000 of them cleaned and analyzed, one pattern keeps surfacing: Water, the capacity to pause before reacting, is most people’s weakest element. That’s the muscle integrity depends on, and we haven’t been trained to use it.
Look for what the other person should change when stressed
Miss the first signs that their perspective is narrowing
Score Water (the ability to pause) as their lowest element
“Carey is improving lives immediately and dramatically through her explanation of the five archetypes and the way that she helps people understand them.”
“The Five Archetypes book was a hugely valuable insight for our MBA Social Impact Fellows. [It] helped these young professionals thrive in a extremely difficult context.”
The 20th century philosopher, Jean Gebser, mapped how human consciousness evolves. He said the next leap, integral consciousness, is overdue. And that it irrupts, all at once, in a single ordinary moment.
Those moments are small. You’ll find them in the half-second you stay still instead of snapping at someone, in the times you say no and stick to it, or the beat when when you choose not to gossip. These doorways to integral conscious states open for you all day long. They don’t live on the meditation cushion or in the silent retreat. They live in the thoughts, words and actions we choose under pressure.
We’re the generation that will bridge humanity from the deficient Mental Conscious state into Integral. The Five Archetypes system is how we cross that bridge.
Carey’s Community is a warm, interactive space Carey created for people ready to practice it together.
The Five Archetypes is a system for transforming consciousness that has been in place helping people thrive in the face of challenge for millennia. Carey takes ancient behavior change technology and applies it to modern day challenges in personal, relational and organizational health.
The Five Archetypes System is currently used across several industries and scenarios including: helping teachers create calm, compassionate classrooms, helping leaders nourish their people for outstanding outcomes, helping people in new relationships prevent predictable problems, helping struggling marriages transform, helping co-founders thrive in chaotic environments, running multi-day custom workshops for off-sites, running several month enlightenment mentorships for individuals looking to elevate consciousness.
Start by taking the free questionnaire. You’ll get some deeply insightful information along with your results. The main next step is a 90-minute Relationship Report session with Carey for $550.
This is a change model that helps you grow stronger and better by observing the limited way you relate to your thoughts and feelings under stress. The way you relate to thoughts and sensations when feeling insecure shows us how you get stuck and what you need to do to grow. On the other hand, a personality system takes your thoughts and feelings as ways to label who you are, using it to keep you inert, as if it was your identity.
The Relationship Report, private mentoring, team consulting, and certification.
Yes. We have a free community to start, and the paid Quest for Consciousness for live weekly practice to develop higher consciousness skills and abilities.
Simon & Schuster; Microsoft, Starbucks, Tony Robbins’ community.
Carey is available for keynote speaking, corporate consulting and private mentorships.
