KID smART

As usual .. im late. Forgive my seemingly lack of dedication to the cause, but its been a busy weekend. Ok enough with the excuses.

on Thursday we conducted a theatrical exercise that once again got everyone involved. after the group shared stories that they’d selected and read the previous day, and HOW these stories spoke to EACH of us respectively. we transitioned into a portion of the experience when we one by one moved, piece by piece constructed a staging area. each person placed an object, or arranged objects to create a comfortable space in which we could share our stories.

One member of the group stands .. walks into the staging area and bows to the rest of us, asking “would anyone like to share with me, the story of the most beautiful bird they’re ever seen?” a few of us raised our hands and were selected and asked to share our story. After sharing, the leading group member would proceed to act out the story of the bird (without words). The stories being acted out.. made us all laugh and smile. After completing the stories acting we’d move on to another storyteller and another actor. each time bowing to one another signaling that we are wholly listening. this creates a space that is welcoming and the person telling the story is made to feel accepted and heard.

we followed this with a brief discussion and ended the day with a short exercise that could have been extended for hours (in my opinion) . we stood in a circle facing inward and began with “these hands have…” and filled in the blank respectively . after the circle was complete we followed with ” these feet have…” and repeated the process.

i think largely this day of exercises showed me that. ONCE we find this special place of comfort within ourselves, we can naturally create this place out in the world ANYWHERE. When we can do this all of our masks come off and we can BE OURSELVES and be comfortable with that.