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Art of the Fool Workshops

I attempt to educate through a way of playing that is truly human by offering Art of the Fool workshops. Every workshop is designed as a specific experience for a unique group of individuals (usually no more than 12) whose levels of experience, play, work, and learning vary. Through games, exercises, performances and conversation, we develop the flexibility and elasticity to Play - to have imaginations, receive inspiration and intuitively create - with the content of being human. We learn to attentively balance the form of "the rules", with the potential chaos of freedom, through Play. The activities rule our TO DO list, until we learn to Play with them as spontaneous creative acts.


What we DO:
(A TO DO list for fools)

* See, hear, taste, smell, feel, think and act deeply.
* Take TIME in the moment to experience the world of SPACE through our senses.
* Shake hands, look in to each others eyes, play hide and seek, make faces and remember the wonder of childhood.
* Explore the space, find the possibilities within simple objects and remember that every "thing" is a toy.
* Listen carefully to discover that all the world is speaking to us and that every sound is a possible song.
* Make noise, sing songs, speak nonsense and discover the range and capacities of our voices.
* Find harmony and excitement in our breathing and guide it to become sound.
* Enliven our sound with feeling through the vowels and shape it with consonants. Learn to speak again.
* Simply move until our bodies become conscious expression, communication, dance, mime... Play.
* Discover what exists within the silent and still as well as the loud and in movement.
* Experience how every movement has interest and can be explored or remembered to become an expression that plays with an idea or an emotion.
* Be deeply silly, sad, angry, funny, excited, happy, attempting to experience and know each one without becoming it.
* Share with each other - movements, sounds, dance, song...
* Learn from each other - pay attention, be interested, copy, exaggerate, lead, follow and transform.
* Make the experience of the other uniquely one's own. See the self anew in the reflection.
* Sit together and converse, each listening in to the quiet of our own being. Share our discovery with others.
* Philosophize... Poetize!
* Perform for one another - step in to the costume closet, don the red nose (the smallest mask in the world) and...
* Emerge on to the stage of life.

See workshops for further details.
Read art of the fool for philosophy.