THE ORIGINS WORKSHOPS

Origins Workshop The ORIGINS Process is based on the two fundamental plot forms or archetypal systems of transformation: The Love Story and the Hero’s Journey. Below are described the two Workshops based on these two forms. Each workshop includes portions of CHAOS and DREAM, as described in the ORIGINS Training page, and stands on its own as a form of therapy, individual empowerment and performance training. The preparation for any ORIGINS Production always begins with one of these workshops, whose fundamental plot form becomes the structure upon which the production is created, following the format of MYTH and RITUAL.

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THE INNER LOVE STORY WORKSHOPS

Breaking through self-destructive patterning and empowering
the male and female principles within you.

A unique and deep approach to integration dealing with the man and woman who are lovers within each of us, their relationships, repression, separation and the dynamic process which unites them together. This process approaches this inner union through methods of improvisational theater to express the archetypal sub-personalities that make up our whole being. The Hero, the masculine, active capacity, and the Heroine, the feminine, receptive power, when in balance, are together responsible for your well being and fulfillment. In addition there is also the Inner Saboteur, the Monster, bent upon your undoing and destruction. It thrives on the strength of your lovers, turning their power against you. The harder you struggle against it, the more power it has over you. The only way you can really deal with this Saboteur is to discover within yourself the catalytic power that can neutralize its dark spell. Through this work in archetypal psychodrama, you will learn how to wield the Magic Power so that it can neutralize the Saboteur within, thus transforming its power over you into your own empowerment.

THE HERO’S JOURNEY WORKSHOP

Empowering your heroic self and becoming whole.

This Workshop uses the same methods as the Inner Love Story, but it is based on the monomyth of the Hero’s Journey, as discovered by Joseph Campbell and set forth in his famous book, The Hero with 1000 Faces.

In Part I, you discover one at a time and present to the group three basic archetypal characters who make up your whole life: First, your inner Hero, the protagonist of your life, who is responsible for making all choices. Second, your Magic Helper, the character representing your inner guide and nurturer, who gives you the power of some critical but hidden resource within you. Third, the Monster, your inner stopper who is bent on sabotaging your life. You then create a psychodrama in which you present the story of this Hero leaving Home (your status quo) in response to a Call to Adventure, meeting the Magic Helper who gives him a Magical Power, and proceeding on to confront the Monster who guards the Gate into the Land of Adventure. The Hero has to find a way to overcome the sabotage of the Monster in order to pass through the Gate.

In Part II, you summarize and analyze how this story symbolizes the basic drama of your life, and you continue the Journey into the Land of Inner Adventure. Emboldened by the mastery over the Saboteur, your heroic self continues on into a land full of trials and helpers, proceeding on until the confrontation with your greatest fear. Your Hero must undergo this Supreme Ordeal, which results in an Initiation of central significance in your life. With the boon from this Initiation, your Hero flees the Land of Adventure and returns Home, which he is now empowered to transform.

In this Workshop you are creating and embodying the central process of transformation you are presently undergoing in your life. You are emboldened by your self-presentation, warmed by the fact that everyone is on a similar journey, and given vital new awareness about who you are and where you are going.