There’s a new field emerging: Life Enrichment. It\u2019s for just what it says. It emerges from improvisational theatre and psychodrama, and has roots in the way we played with imagined scenarios as kids—cops and robbers, house, hospital, whatever.<\/p>\n
Our great grandchildren may say about our generation, "Can you believe they were mostly just one person? Nowadays, just about everyone has three or more sub-personalities, but then they actually prided themselves on being just one. Consistency was taken to ridiculous lengths!" <\/p>\n
Hallowe\u2019en is coming! E\u2019en is the way it\u2019s spelled, short for evening, or more technically all hallows eve, a chance to celebrate the realm of those who have passed on. (Just a bit of intellectual fluff for conversational purposes.) If you can get over your fear of the dead it\u2019s rather jolly.<\/p>\n
For Hallowe\u2019en I\u2019ll be up at the California Institute of Integral Studies where they have a Drama Therapy training program, and my wife and I will present a work-shop on integrating what Carl G. Jung (a pioneer in psychology) called \u201cThe Shadow\u201d complex, all those parts of us that we disown. It\u2019s an opportunity to play with re-owning some of those dimensions. <\/p>\n
Face it, you may be a fairly nice person to the world, mostly, but inside you\u2019re a mixture. Gandhi confessed that he had many unworthy desires! He just was able to let go of them. You\u2019re no better. One way to do this is to play with them a bit rather than to try to pretend to others and even to yourself that you don\u2019t have any unworthy parts. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. Perhaps not embracing these parts, but welcoming them into the play-crucible of Hallowe\u2019en.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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