“Talking about it can only get you so far… this is playing it, living it.”

in person

with John Markland

January 6th - february 24th

We share their DNA. So, in part, we are them. Our most formative years are spent cohabitating with them. We are imprinted upon by what they model to us. Our sense of how to navigate the world is built upon how they did. These are the most complex, challenging, and determining relationships we ever have. And it wasn’t just our parents; it is our siblings and maybe our grandparents.

For some, these relationships formed a granite-like self-esteem with a comfort in risk-taking and seeking out the unknown. For many others, we became insecure, self-doubting, self-judging, with a continual sense of being outside of the circle, but we may have also become brilliant identity artists. Creating layer after layer of social queuing and pleasing and abiding… a harmless creature that is non-confrontational… easy. We may feel one thing inside our heart but express another to be accepted.

This class will give you an opportunity to explore, to put on their shoes, to re-design, and see how it could have been. This class will dive into family dynamics that never truly made sense, excavate these secrets behind what we were told but felt was not true, and we will play with things that felt controlling or inhibiting in order to free ourselves. We will be a gigantic light with which you can direct into all the places you want to see… to understand, once and for all.

There will be role-playing, personalization, mimicking, and improv, journaling, and in-depth introspection directed at creating a WHOLE life – what is hidden is as important as what is expressed.

Register early because there is prep-work and scene work.
Monday Nights at 7 p.m.

AUDITING