Creative Collaborations

Good collaboration is a real joy, and that’s why i was thrilled to spend time with Nancy Bieber over the past months, building a new website to promote her book on spiritual discernment. Like a story out of The Secret, a book deal just fell in her lap last year. It was a veritable sign from God after she’d just become clear of her desire to write a book for the first time. Such is the ease with which she seems to work – with me too at least. And the website was no different.

Another Playback Theatre workshop is in the bag, and it’s been a thrilling ride. Eight intense hours with six others sharing a myriad of stories. By our conclusion at 5 PM, it was hot, and we were tired. The day had been an intense sequence of stories and playing, and we’d struggled to name the common themes or “red thread” as we in Playback call it. As we began to close, one participant suddenly interrupted, “you know what? I think the ‘red thread’ is about forgiveness.”

This weekend will be another step in my work exploring “archetypes” through Playback Theatre. Held at the Susquehanna Waldorf School in Marietta, PA, we will spend Saturday with the Warrior and the Altruist, two prominent characters that we see and play in our every day lives.