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#144 Embodied Mythology Series 13: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul tells the essential parts of the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Holy Grail – Parsival and his Mother
- King Arthur
- The Grail Castle
- The Great Knight
- Healing of the Wound
- The Sacred Feminine
#143 Embodied Mythology Series 12: Rituals of Transformation with Paul Rebillot, part 2
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul explains the structure and design of Rites of Passage, or the Rituals of Transformation.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- How do you know it’s time for the rite of passage
- Putting "blood" (life) back into the ritual
- Lack of rituals in the modern society
- There are no rituals for crossing age thresholds – people want to stay young and don’t appreciate their own age
- Making rites of passages in everyday life
#142 Embodied Mythology Series 11: Rituals of Transformation with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul explains the structure and design of Rites of Passage, or the Rituals of Transformation.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Rites of Passage – Example
- Ways of leaving the "nest"
- Suffering is being stuck at a passage
- Structure for creating rites of passages
- Ritual is dying to the old and being born into the new
- Boy becoming a man – one of the aboriginal rituals
- How did you find out that there is no Santa Clause?
- Various rites of passages
- How do we construct these rituals?
- Saying good-bye to the past
- Symbolic act of ending the past
- Going into the no-man’s-land
- Crossing into the other side, being who they are. Trying something new behavior in the new place.
- Group gesture to complete the ritual
#141 Embodied Mythology Series 10: Personal Myths with Paul Rebillot, part 2
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing his approach to designing new structures from Personal Myths.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Identifying with every character in your myth
- Variety of Shadows
- Moving between roles
- A story from Hero’s Journey workshop
- Example – Baba Yaga story
- Feedback about the structure
- Common patterns in the structures
#140 Embodied Mythology Series 09: Personal Myths with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing his approach to designing new structures from Personal Myths.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Personal Myths
- How to create your own structure
- Trip to Epidavros (Greece)
- The sacred path of healing
- Illness means being out of harmony
- Healing process:
- Going to the temple, dream, meet the priest, get diagnosed
- Take care of the body
- Go to theatre – to experience catharsis, take care of the soul
- Go to a temple and re-integrate the God inside themselves
- The workshop structure
- The body is the temple of the soul. Fool’s dance – meditation on the myth in the body.
- Dramatizing the myth – playing the roles, with interaction
- An initiation
- The Minotaur story
- An initiation
- Brings it to here and now.
- Create your own structure
#139 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection with Paul Rebillot, part 2
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Awakening
- Bathing with perfumed water, to awaken the senses
- Sensorium – different kinds of smells, senses, getting loose
- What actually dies is a role
- "Growth stops when we avoid pain" (Fritz Perls)
- Create your ideal parent to heal the part of you that was retarded (not developed)
- Reparenting process
- Story about a school teacher of problem kids
- Reincarnation Game
- What happens to people after the workshop
- A Sci-Fi Story
#138 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What does Death & Resurrection mean?
- A catapillar turns into a butterfly
- Christ
- Feeling of body falling apart to come back together again (martial arts)
- Total loss of control. When you confront death, there is nothing you can do except experience it
- Why would you want to experience Death & Resurrection?
- First, the willingness to give everything up
- Idea of Phoenix – letting go of everything
- Confront your death, and resurrection will take care of itself
- Stanislavsky approach
- Best actors put themselves into what they are doing
- "As if true" technique
- As if in four days I’m going to die
- What do you need to do to go into the death as an accomplishment
- The three centers – body
- Body – connecting to the physical world
- Meditation in nature – "Death is certain. It comes without warning. This body will be a corpse."
- "The Body Mass" – in the evening, touch every part of your body and say good buy to all the parts.
- Next morning, make up wills and give out their posessions.
- Relationships – saying good-bye to everyone
- Last day of life
- Give a gift to yourself
- Write your own funeral
- The 7 most important things in their life to say good-bye to, and 3 things they are glad to get rid of. Bring 10 symbols for those.
- Burning everything and watching the smoke rise to the next life
- Every day people have to be more and more silent – essential silence, only say what’s needed
- The last supper – lifting the silence
- The Last Breath process, the moment of Death. Taking turns.
Holiday Announcement
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This is a holiday announcement – it is the week of the 4th of July – the Independence Day in the United States, and we are skipping an episode this week. We will resume our weekly podcasts again next week.
#137 Buckminster Fuller – Conversations with David Neenan, part 2
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We are continuing our conversation with David Neenan about Buckminster Fuller.
David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative "people" approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as "Evergreen" and "No Excuses: be the hero of your own life". He has produced his "Business & You" and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.
#136 Buckminster Fuller – Conversations with David Neenan, part 1
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We are happy to have David Neenan again in our studio, this time talking about Buckminster Fuller – a truly renaissance man of the 20th century.
David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative "people" approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as "Evergreen" and "No Excuses: be the hero of your own life". He has produced his "Business & You" and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.