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#146 Embodied Mythology Series 15: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot, part 3
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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 continues the discussion about the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Levels of Spiritual Quest
- Which myth is right for me?
- What is a myth?
- Multiple cultures
- The American myths
#145 Embodied Mythology Series 14: The Holy Grail 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 describes the structure based on the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Structure
- "What’s troubling you, my uncle?"
- Instead of giving an answer, ask a question
- Instead of solving each other’s problems, listen and make it possible for them to solve it
- Giving power to the person, rather than power over them
- Staying present
- Accepting the Symbolic
#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.
#73 Embodied Mythology Series 07: Owning the Shadow with Paul Rebillot
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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 Owning the Shadow.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What is the shadow?
- If there is no light, there is no shadow
- "We have met the enemy, and he is us"
- The shadow is "forbidden"
- Illuminating the Shadow
- My way of dealing with shadow is to illuminate
- Shadow is a tricky character – he escapes, moves back and forth
- Once you begin to recognize your shadow, it loses power
- Change the duel to the death (with the shadow) into a lover’s quarrel
- Looking at the Shadow
- Looking at the Shadow has to be approach step-by-step
- Shadow frequently appears in dreams
- People that keep appearing in your life whom you cannot stand
- Jokes – what we laugh at
- Revealing Shadow through Humor
- And things we cannot laugh at and take too seriously
- Anti-defamation (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)
- Distilling the qualities of shadow
- List 25 people that disturb us most in our lives
- Distilling 5 common qualities, drawing them and putting in the bag
- We are dragging the bag of parts of us that we were told is bad
- The Golden Shadow
- Acting out the characters
- Integrating the Shadow
- Creating a mask
- First of your face
- Then add bumps and colors
- Then have a costume party to enact the shadow completely, all out
- Gestalt work to integrate the shadow – dressing a partner into your shadow costume and see your own shadow
- By the end, love begings to happen for the shadow, which is really the answer
- Finally, a medicine wheel, to take the shadow with you on a spiritual level
- Creating a mask
- Examples of shadow integration
- A man recognizing his homosexual shadow
- Turing stories you tell about people to yourself into creative works
- Dealing with political shadow
- Take some action
- Look at the person you dispice and see where you are doing the same thing
- Talk about it to people
- Justice and Vengeance
- If become what you kill
- Parallels in the books and movies
- Harry Potter (book)
- The Matrix (movie)
- V for Vendetta (movie)
- "The Terrorist" (movie)
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