in person
with John Markland
June 2nd - July 21st
This class focuses on how to engage acceptance. How to accept yourself morehonestly and fully. How to accept your circumstance or current position in career,relationship, and artistry. How to accept your emotions and their blocks. Mostfalsely believe acceptance requires effort or force, that it means grinning and bearingit, or giving-up, or denying long enough that you one day will not care. Acceptance is effortless when the motivation is true.
Acceptance is a powerful and beautiful reflection of your values. When words,actions, and or emotions contradict your values a natural resistance occurs. Thismisalignment or conflict then offers us a challenge/test/opportunity to “hold true” toour core beliefs or we can deny, neglect, or break them. Once this happens, we feelanger, loss, shame, resentment and create fractures in our sense of self. This often\creates Acts or Identities that we then play, while inside, we feel inauthentic.
We will address this process backwards and forwards, maybe even sideways, andcreate characters either moving towards or moving away from acceptance. You willsee what a powerful tool this is, both in your life and in your work, for creating rich,deep change. The characters who climb out of the ashes and redeem themselves arethe ones we call heroes. Learn how acceptance can build or destroy your hero.
Seriously, I cannot stress this enough, get ready for things to change.
There is both scene work and personal work so please secure your spot early so you are well prepared with both going into the class.