Petro // Posts published by Petro
Creative Play for Growing Parents and kids – Part 1
Three games and three good reasons to play How important is it to play with your kids? What sort of games should you play? How much and when do you play? I presented a 1 hour workshop around these questions in December last year at Uitkyk Wine estate for about 40 parents and kids. For ...
Story Class 1.8 – And they lived happily ever after?
Last night I talked for almost 2 hours on Skype with a Spanish PhD student who interviewed me for her thesis. She asked me how I know that the transformational shifts we noticed are lasting and did not just occur on a superficial cognitive level. How lasting is the happy ever after?
Story Class 1.7 – The gentle breezes of dawn and dusk
The last stage of the journey starts with the hero’s resolve to cross the threshold back to her own world. Often she experiences setbacks on her return which threaten to rekindle the flaw, addiction or desire that she had supposedly overcome in the ordeal.
Personal Success Story Workshop – What’s your definition of success?
When I asked participants in the Personal Success Story workshop to form a continuum showing to what degree they are ready for transformation, most of them indicated that indicates they are sick of being where they are and in dire need of change. Their definition of success is transformation.
Story class 1.6 – Why Acting creates the shift that thinking can’t
There comes a point in everyone’s story, fictional or real, where a shift in perspective is crucial for successful transformation. Yet all the info and talk and thinking in the world do not bring them to the point of making that internal behavioural shift – that moment that causes them never to be the same again.
Story class 1.5 Why we miss you when you are not there
How does a facilitator respond to absenteeism? This question is crucial because life happens and you need to be adaptable. This does not mean there is no cost to all involved. I thought it may be useful for myself as well as for the participants and everyone else in similar circumstances to see why we miss absent people so much
Story Class 1.4 – How does a character prepare for adventure?
There are two kinds of resistance once a character receives a call to adventure. One kind is an internal resistance to accept the challenge that the adventure is offering. The second is resistance to the training and groundwork that may be needed to minimise the risks
Story class 1.3 – Whose story are we working with, mine or the character’s?
Interestingly enough the question only arise when working with adults. Young people do not ask this question. To them as for me, the answer is obvious: there is no difference – that is why story is so powerful for understanding yourself.
Story class 1.2 – The belly of the whale
We worked with the story of Jonah this week at our story class. I like this story for three reasons: 1. The structure of story is very clearly demarcated in this story by location 2. The Twilight Zones of story are wonderfully elaborated upon 3. Jonah is not a typical hero, he is an anti-hero.
Story Class 1.1 – The Big Picture
The first two sessions of our 8 week story class deals with two big pictures: 1. an overview of story structure and the hero's transformation. 2. The pivotal moment where the hero sees the big picture and chooses the greater good - or not. The whole story and all its elements revolves around this climactic moment.
Stay Connected
Keep track of Playing Mantis on all your favorite social networks.
Copyright © 2010 - Present Playing Mantis - All rights reserved. Design by Nudge