Hi all
I am checking in with my blog this morning to let you know about the forthcoming workshops at Jasmine Street to be facilitated by Amari Blaize. Those of you who are regular readers of my blog will be aware of the work I do using archetypes to unlock and locate character in the theatre I make. This very fruitful work enables actors to step out of their own natural archetypal modes of being to explore imaginatively those that might sit centrally within a character they are playing. These archetypes form the building blocks of any good story or drama and reveal a whole set of attitudes and behaviours, many of which will be alien to the actor but enable an authentic access point into character.
Before working on exploring the archetypes of character in a play it is useful for actors to explore and become familiar with their own in order to extend their creative and imaginative resources. This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in finding out more about archetypes and offers an opportunity to explore these.
What is an archetype?
Awareness of archetypes dates back at least to the time of Plato, who called them Forms. Plato believed that these eternal Forms were reflected in material objects. The Form of Beauty, for example, is abstract and applies to all beautiful things; as different as the individual manifestations of Beauty may be--a beautiful person, horse, or flower--the Form itself never changes. The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung developed this idea further. For Jung, archetypes comprised psychological patterns derived from historical roles in life, such as the Mother, Child, Trickster, and Servant, as well as universal events or situations, including Initiation or Death and Rebirth. Along with our individual personal unconscious, which is unique to each of us, Jung asserted, "there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature that is identical in all individuals." This collective unconscious, he believed, was inherited rather than developed, and was composed mainly of archetypes.
Uncovering Your Archetypes
An Introductory Workshop facilitated by Amari Blaize
Objectives:
I am checking in with my blog this morning to let you know about the forthcoming workshops at Jasmine Street to be facilitated by Amari Blaize. Those of you who are regular readers of my blog will be aware of the work I do using archetypes to unlock and locate character in the theatre I make. This very fruitful work enables actors to step out of their own natural archetypal modes of being to explore imaginatively those that might sit centrally within a character they are playing. These archetypes form the building blocks of any good story or drama and reveal a whole set of attitudes and behaviours, many of which will be alien to the actor but enable an authentic access point into character.
Before working on exploring the archetypes of character in a play it is useful for actors to explore and become familiar with their own in order to extend their creative and imaginative resources. This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in finding out more about archetypes and offers an opportunity to explore these.
What is an archetype?
Awareness of archetypes dates back at least to the time of Plato, who called them Forms. Plato believed that these eternal Forms were reflected in material objects. The Form of Beauty, for example, is abstract and applies to all beautiful things; as different as the individual manifestations of Beauty may be--a beautiful person, horse, or flower--the Form itself never changes. The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung developed this idea further. For Jung, archetypes comprised psychological patterns derived from historical roles in life, such as the Mother, Child, Trickster, and Servant, as well as universal events or situations, including Initiation or Death and Rebirth. Along with our individual personal unconscious, which is unique to each of us, Jung asserted, "there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature that is identical in all individuals." This collective unconscious, he believed, was inherited rather than developed, and was composed mainly of archetypes.
Caroline Myss http://www.myss.com/
So if this resonates with you why not come along to an introductory workshop with Amari - here are the details.
Uncovering Your Archetypes
An Introductory Workshop facilitated by Amari Blaize
Objectives:
• To enable you to begin to identify aspects of your personality
hitherto unacknowledged.
• To begin to recognise some of your habitual (archetypical) patterns of
perception, response and behaviour; and how they impact and operate in your
personal and professional life.
Cost: £25 per person maximum group size 8
When:
Wednesday 25th September 5-7pm
Thursday 26th September 5-7pm
Saturday 28thSeptember 3-5 pm
Where:
Jasmine Street Creative Lab, Studio F3,The Granary, 80 Abbey Road,
Barking IG11 7GN
Essential
Requirements:
1) Box of (Caroline Myss) Archetypal Cards; available from any good bookseller or at Amazon.co.uk (we will also have sets of cards available for purchase at the workshop - £11.50)
2) A Gallery of Archetypes - available to download from internet at www.myss.com/library/contracts/three_archs.asp
Facilitator:
1) Box of (Caroline Myss) Archetypal Cards; available from any good bookseller or at Amazon.co.uk (we will also have sets of cards available for purchase at the workshop - £11.50)
2) A Gallery of Archetypes - available to download from internet at www.myss.com/library/contracts/three_archs.asp
Facilitator:
Amari
Blaize has a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and acquired
‘technician’ certification after a 2-year training programme in Chicago with
Caroline Myss renowned for her work in the field of Human Consciousness.
For further information and to register – Contact Carole Pluckrose
For further information and to register – Contact Carole Pluckrose
Jasminestreetlab@gmail.com
0208 123 8560
07412 602141
0208 123 8560
07412 602141
Look forward to seeing you there.
Have a good day
Have a good day
Header photo by Sylwia Wierzbowska
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