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 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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Happy New Year 2009 to all of you!

As the founders of RCG, we have gone a long way, and sometimes,
looking back, it is hard to recognize the people we were just over two
years ago. And yet, as we look forward, we see that the journey has
but just begun.

In the coming year, we have a whole bunch of podcasts already lined up
for you as gifts from the Radical Change Group, and from the people
and practitioners who are working with us, and through us, in bringing
this to you.

The coming year will see some exciting topics that the three of us
cover – the original trio of the three friends.

In addition, we’ll be introducing some new conversations. Some
highlights of the topics include:

• The talks on Shamanism with Ismana
• On 5Rhythms dancing with the originator of the 5Rhythms Gabrielle Roth
• Continuing our conversations on the strategy of the dolphin with Paul
  Kordis
• Speaking about a form of theatre known as ParaTheatre with Antero Alli
• Mythology with Paul Rebillot

And we’re going to have a new focus on a few other areas, such as the works of Buckminster Fuller that impacted us deeply, and the work of Joseph Campbell and Richard Roberts.

We are also going to have more regular blog posts on our webpage – please visit us, read it, and if you like it – share it with your friends, and help us spread the word.

Why are we doing it?

In the spirit of Positive Deviance, because some things need to be done – to cause both societal and personal change. The key questions that we ask are:

• What if… Transformational teachings were given as gifts, rather than traded for money?
• What if… You had access to iconoclasts and change makers on-demand, rather than at their limited availability?
• What if… The conversations were spontaneous, open, and emergent, rather than scripted, dogmatic, and dry?
• What if… Change was approached holistically, through the synthesis of many streams of thought?
• What if… The project was based on a sense of contribution to a vibrant community of like minded individuals?

The Gift Economy

This is a whole notion that we have started with the RCG. We want to get involved – help us shape what is becoming a shared gift, a shared reality, and also for you to take charge and shape it in your own ways.

Currently, we have two more projects going:

• Restoring some old tapes by Joseph Campbell and Richard Roberts, and
• The Buckminster Fuller project

For both of them, our goal is to restore these tapes and videos, digitize them for the modern media, and distribute it across the World for free. We need your help here, we need you get involved, in any way possible.

We also have a Listener’s Survey – please take a minute to fill it out, so we know what resonates with you and what doesn’t, and how we can improve this.

Technocrati Tags: Radical Change Group, Transformation, Gift Economy, New Year, Shamanism, Ismana, 5Rhythms, Gabrielle Roth, Mythology, Paul Rebillot, Joseph Campbell, Strategy of the Dolphin, Paul Kordis, ParaTheatre, Antero Alli, Positive Deviance, Buckminster Fuller

These two videos are by far the coolest and easiest introduction to the legend of th grail. Watch them, perhaps a few things will become even more clear and inspire you to explore mythology and the “path to personal transformation” even more closely.

Should you enjoy these videos, click on the link below for audio recordings of Joseph Campbell discussing the grail legends and links to our various podcasts on the mythology with paul rebillot

TALKS BY JOSEPH CAMPBELL ON THE GRAIL LEGEND

Joseph Campbell http://www.futurehi.net/media.html

* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 1A.mp3 (17.9mb)
* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 1B.mp3 (17.7mb)
* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 2A.mp3 (17.7mb)
* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 2B.mp3 (17.3mb)
* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 3A.mp3 (18.2mb)
* Joseph Campbell – The Grail Legends (4/82) – 3B.mp3 (18.2mb)

TO LISTEN TO OUR PODCASTS ON MYTHOLOGY WITH PAUL REBILLOT VISIT
http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/categories/mythos/

08/3/08 #45 Embodied Mythology Series 06: The Lover’s Journey with Paul Re… by RCG
07/27/08 #44 Embodied Mythology Series 05: The Lover’s Journey with Paul Re… by RCG
06/22/08 #40 Embodied Mythology Series 04: The Hero’s Journey with Paul Reb… by RCG
05/11/08 #34 Embodied Mythology Series 03: The Healing Theatre-2 with Paul Rebillot by RCG
05/4/08 #33 Embodied Mythology Series 02 – The Healing Theatre with Paul Rebillot by RCG
11/25/07 #13 Embodied Mythology series 01 – Stories of Our Lives by RCG

UNTIL NEXT TIME, LIVE MYTHICALLY AND FULLY SYMBOLIC LIVES

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