Introduction to ORIGINS:
The Nature of Transformation
with William Pennell Rock,
Master of Archetypal Psychodrama

This evening is the second of two different introductions to the ORIGINS series of day-long and weekend workshops being offered in June and July of 2017 and 2018. As a pre-requisite to those workshops, participating in this particular introduction/overview is optional, though highly recommended.

 

Introduction-2 to ORIGINS: The Nature of Transformation

Wherever we may be in our personal development, we are somewhere that all humans have in common. The process of transformation is found in the two fundamental and universal story forms: the Hero’s Journey (the formula of all adventure stories) and the Romance Archetype (the formula of all stories of lovers separated and reunited).

In this introduction we will present the two story forms and discuss the way they display the process of transformation along the path of self-fulfillment.

This second introductory evening is complete in itself and, though not a pre-requisite to the upcoming day-long and three-and-a-half-day workshops, it is highly recommended if you will be participating in those workshops.

 

About ORIGINS: Magic Theater

 “Be the star in your own movie”
 And what is that movie?

For the most part we live in front of a curtain, a shadow-infused masquerade that pervades our existence and makes a strange grappling of our lives and communications. Through a process of Jungian-based archetypal psychodrama, ORIGINS helps you find your own personal myth. This myth takes you behind the curtain to meet and clarify the real forces that shape your life -- the evolutionary and the self-destructive parts of yourself -- and to engage them in a kind of diplomacy by which you can remain on top of your situation and move with confidence through life’s transformations. Understanding yourself and your own journey allows you to make better decisions by being true to yourself and your own needs. This is not A work of existence, but THE work.

The movie, this myth, is the essential adventure of your life.

ORIGINS is a body of work based on a Process of experiential learning developed over many years of research and therapeutic experience in workshops. It is a psychodrama method for generating and working with individual and group mythology to bring about psychological and spiritual well-being.

It is Magic Theater that shows you who you are and clarifies your divine nature.  Within each of us live the archetypes common to all of humanity.  By recognizing, embodying and realizing these archetypes within, we actualize and empower ourselves.

ORIGINS is a whole curriculum, a body of work tied together as a process of clarifying transformation and empowerment.  You benefit most from experiencing all of them, but this is not required.

ORIGINS uses the two universal story forms, the Hero’s Journey and the Romance Archetype, as frameworks to provide two basic Processes for dramatic Self-transforming. Each ORIGINS Workshop is based on one of the two monomyths. The Workshops orchestrate meditation, guided fantasy, expressive movement and psychodrama performance in a ritualized form to generate individual myths of the participants. We use these myths for analysis, self-awareness, and therapeutic development. In subsequent stages of ORIGINS, these myths are transformed into performing art forms. Inspired by ancient ritual, these productions have a healing or sacred function.

Click here to read testimonials from participants around the world.

    

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William Pennell Rock, M.Litt. (Cantab.), PhD, is an internationally known teacher of Transpersonal psychology, psychodrama and performance. He has been trained at Yale, Harvard, King's College, Cambridge in England, the Jung Institute in Zurich, Esalen Institute, Arica Institute, and was a long-time disciple of Osho.

He is director of ORIGINS, producing theater and opera performances throughout the world. and is the author of Performing Inside Out.  In the last years he has been working primarily in Germany and Italy, but he is now introducing his work in Marin, where he resides.

For more information see the ORIGINS website: www.sacredperformance.com.

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A Summary of Upcoming ORIGINS   Classes and Workshops All sessions are stand-alone and complete in themselves and, when taken together, form a progressive series that will offer maximum benefits and growth. ORIGINS Introduction 1: Performing Inside Out Fri., May 12 ~ 7 to 10 pm $20  Register ORIGINS Introduction 2: Nature of Transformation Fri., May 19 ~ 7 to 10 pm $20  Register   Dark and Light: The Drama of Your Life ~ workshop  Fri., June 2 ~ 7 to 10 pm Sat., June 3 ~ 10 am to 6 pm $100  Register   The Inner Romance: Performing Inside Out ~ Intro & first session to full workshop  This session is a required part of the full 3-1/2 day workshop; however, it may be taken as a stand-alone before deciding whether to commit to the full workshop.  Thurs., July 13 ~ 7 to 10 pm $20  Register   The  Inner Romance: Performing Inside Out ~ workshop  Participants must also attend the Intro/first session on Thurs., July 13 — separate registration (see above). Fri., July 14 ~ 10 am to 10 pm Sat., July 15 ~ 10 am to 10 pm Sun., July 16 ~ 10 am to 5 pm $175 adv; $225 door  Register

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