FOOL EXPRESSION
✨ What if your way of being isn’t wrong,
but waiting to be reclaimed?✨
Welcome to Fool Expression
Fool Expression is a practice of embodiement, parts work, voice, emotion, connection and exploration of our psyches. It offers a space where the full range of your experience is welcome.
Fool Expression invites you to explore the different inner voices or parts that shape how you move through life. Some are familiar and easy to express. Others are quieter, hidden, or have not had much space. Through embodied play, witnessing, and shared exploration, Fool Expression supports a deeper sense of clarity, freedoom, alignment, trust and belonging.
The PLAYER’S TRACK is the core journey of Fool Expression. It is designed as a long term path for people who want to deepen embodied expression, inner exploration, and relational presence with their parts and each other over time. The Player Track has two complementary aspects: the Main Path and the Side Path. More info below.
In this practice, the Fool archetype refers to the inner capacity to move between different aspects of yourself. It is not about being funny or foolish, although play and humour can arise. It is about curiosity, openness, and the willingness to explore both known and unknown experiences within.
The Players learn how they can fully embody a part of themselves and then step out of it again. This creates space for other experiences to emerge and be explored, and for a centered in between space of awareness t be created. Over time, this brings more safety, flexibility, and access to the life force that lives within each aspect of us.
Fool Expression also allows different inner voices to interact. Through this interaction, patterns and dynamics become visible, often reflecting what is happening in our lives. As participants, we play not only for our own exploration, but also in service of the group. In the same way, witnessing others offers insight and transformation for ourselves.
This shared exploration builds trust, connection, and a strong sense of belonging. Fool Expression brings conscious gathering and the magic of theatre back into community. It is a place to explore, to feel connected, and to be as you are.
This work comes from the lineage of the Fool’s work of Franki Anderson. It is also based on the Voice Dialogue Model of Consciousness and the Psychology of Selves and is Trauma Informed. It involves aspects of focusing, authentic movement, shadow work, Internal Family System, parts work and theatre.
Note: to preserve the integrity of the group, I reserve the right to continue working with those I feel comfortable with, and capable of holding within the group setting. If you are not able to afford the different prices proposed, do get in touch as there are a few bursaries option available.
THE PLAYER TRACK
The Main Path : Level 1 to Level 5
Level 1. Fool Expression Introduction Weekend
This weekend is the entry point into the Player Track.
In this introduction, participants learn how to establish a safe and regulated connection with themselves. We explore how to access and express different inner voices in an embodied and supportive way, how to feel held by the group and the audience, and how to recognise and work with discomfort as it arises. We also explore how to find more ease and pleasure in exploratory play. This weekend teaches the bascics of the Fool Expression practices and gives you access the the Level 2 Retreat as well as to the Play Weekends and Side Retreats. More info below
This first workshop is for you if:
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You feel a call to express more freely, without overthinking or holding back
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You want to be met in your natural way of moving through the world
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You often feel too much or not enough and want a space where you can simply be
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You sense that parts of you are ready to be seen, even if you do not yet have words for them
Level 2. The Feast of Resource
Five day retreat.
Activating the full range of inner resources and archetypal energies in the Inner Village.
Level 3. Constellating the Inner Village
Five day retreat.
Exploring Inner Village constellations and playing each other’s inner voices.
Level 4. Group Play
Five day retreat.
Exploring what emerges in group dynamics, including freedom, edges, and collective play.
Level 5. Relating Play
Five day retreat
Using relational interaction to expand the Inner Village and work with what arises between people.
The Side Path
The Side Path offers optional shorter weekends and themed retreats for Players who have completed at least Level 1. These experiences deepen specific areas of the work while staying connected to the Main Path.
1/Play Weekends
Shorter retreats from Friday evening to Sunday night, offered two or three times a year.
2/Themed Retreats
To be announced over the coming years:
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Fool Expression and Wild Creatures Play with Rozi Hilton
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Fool Expression and Clowning and Synergetic Playground with Zuma Puma
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Fool Expression and Sexuality
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Fool Expression and Money Play
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Fool’s Elder with Frankie Anderson, exploring the wisdom of the Fool
Purpose of the Side Path:
To offer focused experiences that expand skills, awareness, and expression while supporting the longer Player journey.
Picture : Emily Balivet
“I spent last weekend on my first Fool Expression & I had an absolute ball! Christie holds the space with such calm, grounded & gentle strength. I’m glad I did a whole weekend as it took me till Sunday to really feel the potent potential of this work. As I got more accustomed to the language and began to let it work within me, I began to find a new way of exploring myself in the depths I am used to. What I liked about it, is that it welcomes you wherever you are. I thoroughly recommend working with Christie if you get the opportunity!”
“I just wanted to say thanks again for facilitating this work for us over this last weekend. I did find it challenging, but every time I met with the unknown I was surprised, delighted and had a great sense of relief. For me, the unknown has always been a frightening dark abyss, yet just with this taster intro weekend and stepping into the unknown a few times, my perspective has greatly shifted. It’s still scary yes, but instead of a dark, frightening, all-consuming abyss that must feel horrible and lets just not go there kind of place… I see below me a vast colourful spectrum with so many different shades and hues I can reach, grasp and easily move in to. Going through this process has been like a mirror for my life, and I’ve stopped myself so many times for fear of the unknown. And now is only the beginning, thank you for revealing and sharing this path.”
“The Fool Expression workshop was a chance to listen to parts of me I had buried for a long time and access both difficult and joyous emotions that I had neglected. Christie is a patient and kind facilitator, whose presence soothes the inquietudes of the group from the outset of the retreat. I left the workshop feeling more confident in showing my vulnerable sides and with tools that I could apply to my career, relationships and spirituality. I also recommend Christie’s method of play, for those who may have experimented with meditation and are seeking movement to
“I loved the Fool Expression workshop and Christie’s facilitation – It has definitely made life more fun – I have found more playfulness in everyday situations. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to bring more connection with any parts of their self which might enjoy being gently coaxed out of retirement! I would definitely love to do more.”
Private Workshops
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