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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#64) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Graves model
• The basic value systems
1. Autistic (right now)
2. Tribal (family, clan, blood relationship)
3. The loner (motocycle biker, leave me alone)
4. The loyalist
5. The achiever
6. Egalitarian
7. Dedication to what works. Negative side: arrogance.
8. Global
• Movement from one system to the other
  • It’s a Hero’s Journey
• The rule of fours
  • Freedom and Structure
  • Task and Relationship
• Importance of all systems

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
• 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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