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Improvisation class 5 – Stories
By Luci and Burgert The focus of last nights class was story. As the participants trickled in and we moved our chairs into the habitual circle De Wet shed a little natural light on his story by telling us about his drumming days with a band called Jesse Jordan. I googled “Jesse Jordan Band” this ...
Improv Class 5 – Make up your own story
Story was the focus of this week’s class. We started the class with an exercise from Imago Relationship Therapy. In this exercise each participant gets the opportunity to say in a few sentences what they need to say to be fully present. One of the others must then mirror that persons exact words back to ...
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.
Personal Success Story Notes
IT is possible to use story structure as a way to look at your own life and see how it can help you to work with your own personal success. Take a look at the table below as a starting point. Be mindful of the twighlight zones.
Keep Them Safe Stage 3, part 2 –The journey continues
But kids not only had to be convinced to come. They also had to be convinced to stay. And so kids were motivated by a go cart rally, an arts project, a performing arts competition and a sports day.All these were carefully timed and the weekly programme specifically shaped to keep building the dramatic tension that would keep everyone interested until the very end...
Keep Them Safe Stage 2 – Preparing for the Journey
Peter Block author of Community – the Art of Belonging, teaches the importance of allowing people to raise and share their doubts and reservations. Unless room is given for people to identify and share their concerns and fears, they are unable to move beyond getting excited about something and taking action to make that thing happen.
Keep Them Safe Stage 1 – The Call to Adventure
Once upon a time there were leaders who saw young people full of potential all across Stellenbosch. Every day they would do their bit. Yet they felt alone in their struggle against the forces that threaten to steal the future of kids. Then one day...
Keep Them Safe – Introduction
Since September last year (2009) a handful of people including myself, started to dream about a mammoth project that will stretch across the entire Stellenbosch district during the Soccer World Cup. While many saw either dollar signs or red flags, we saw a great opportunity for transforming our communities...
Why bats hang upside down – slides for teachers
How stories ignite values in children What follows is a series of slides I used for a 90 ,minute workshop I presented to grade 1-3 teachers. The workshop was done first on 2 Feb 2010 in Cape Town and repeated on 9 Feb in Johannesburg. I did it in partnership with the Kids Development Academy. ...
Why bats hang upside down – the story
Once upon a time before humans ruled the earth, animals reigned on the ground and in the tree trunks and birds reigned the sky and the tree tops Both animals and birds loved their world and loved who they were.
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