— PRACTICALS —

TIMINGS :  Tuesday 17th from 10 am to Sunday 22nd 6pm

DIRECTION: Hittisleigh Mid Devon UK

 PLACES: limited to 12 players

MEALS: Each player will bring the ingredient to cook a meal for around 10 people. Support will be available for this.

ACCOMMODATION : Camping and potentially B&B available locally

PRE REQUISITE: If you are new to Fool Expression or Voice Dialogue you need to book a 1 to 1 Online session with Christie prior the camp to make sure that this way of working/playing is suitable for you. Contact Christie if you have any question.

Tear 3: £400

⭐️ Are you longing for more play in your life ?

⭐️ Learn to play the different aspects in you

⭐️ And boost your life with energy and creativity

Fool Expression is calling us as humans to learn to access all the masks or parts in ourselves. Some known, some not known yet. This way we connect to more aliveness, creativity, inner peace, connection with others and with ourselves

It is a deeply transformative and embodied process allowing us to dive deeper into ourselves through somatic practices and through a safe connection with others. In this benevolent container, our human nature is called to open, express and bring transformation. 

In this practice the Fool archetype is the part in us that can journey from one aspect of ourselves to another, embodying and exploring authentically each of them fully. It is not at all about being funny or foolish, although this could also happen. But it is about being open, curious and willing to explore known and unknown parts of our psyche. It is about receiving the vast amount of life force available in each part in us and it is also about feeling safe and free within

The Fool archetype honours, embodies and expresses authentically the uniqueness of each aspect in us and then effortlessly steps out of them. Thus offering space to whatever else that is ready to be explored and expressed in us. The Fool archetype feels also at home in the ‘empty space’, in the the rich unknown within us. They navigate freely these spaces where anything can effortlessly emerge and then be explored…

This practice excitingly allows also for the different parts of us to interact together and so reveal more of themselves as well as the dynamic between them that are usually a mirror of what is happening is our lives.  As participants we ‘play’ this way to find more about ourselves and we realise soon also that our exploration is serving other participants’s personal journeys in a meaningful way. In a similar way, other participant’s play offers us a huge source of insights and transformation for ourselves.  We realise how the authentic expression of parts and patterns in us forges a deep sense of trust, learning, understanding, connection and belonging in the group.

Fool Expression brings conscious gathering and the magic of theatre back into the centre of the community. A place to explore, feel connected, and most important to just be who we are. It allows us to experience in an embodied way the mystery that links us all together as humans and the potency of transformation we can create together

In this camp, we will teach the participants how to find a safe and regulated connection with themselves, how to access and express the different masks/ personalities in an embodied and enabling way, how to feel comfortable and supported by an audience, how to spot and alchemise any discomforts arising, how to find more ease and pleasure in the explorative play.

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, Body Informed Leadership and theatre.

ABOUT CHRISTIE ANIMAS:

Christie, originally from Belgium is a playful human researcher fascinated by the wealth of experiences in the different parts inside of each one of us that she calls the ‘Inner Villages’. She is a community builder, a musician, a Therapist and Workshop Leader dedicated to the decolonising of our bodies and psyches and to the creation of inclusive and regenerative cultures. She trained as a Voice Dialogue practitioner, in the Fooling practice with Franki Anderson and in Body Informed Leadership UK. She has a degree in Occupational Therapy and a specialization in child psychiatry, Brussels. She is offering her group process called ‘Fool Expression’ in the UK and throughout Europe, which blends aspects of Fooling, Voice Dialogue, Focusing, IFS, Shadow work and Psychodrama. She has created and gathered an expanding, vibrant community of players in the South West of England, and collaborates with the Deep Play Institute, USA. She also works one-to-one using the Voice Dialogue process and performs and improvises her own music using the Fool’s practice. To find out more about her work, Website: www.christieanimas.com

ABOUT BETH FRIEDEBERG:

Beth has worked with groups for over a decade, in contexts ranging from corporate offices to intentional communities to prisons. These days she works with clients 1:1 as a Core Process Psychotherapist, and alongside this offers training and consultation on themes such as the impact of trauma on the nervous system, and how to create healthier cultures in the workplace. In the past few years she has rediscovered the power and joy of play, and is totally fascinated by the interrelationships between healing, spiritual awakening, embodiment, the nervous system, and creative expression and play. She followed and then assisted on a year-long training in Berlin in transformational group work facilitation, which draws on somatic psychotherapy and shamanic wisdom.

* In response to the financial situation that is strongly affecting some of us, the fees of the workshop are now organised between 3 Tiers, depending on your financial situation. This is a system that works towards more equality, mutual trust and abundance. Do read carefully the details of the 3 Tiers at the bottom of the page, and thank you for choosing the Tier that applies to you with integrity.  Don’t hesitate getting in touch with me if you have any questions.

Once you have booked yourself, you will receive a payment confirmation and closer to the event you will receive some more practical information about the camp.

* the remaining of the payment needs to be paid by the 17th of May 25.

Terms & Conditions:  Deposit and full payment are non-refundable.  If you cancel over three weeks before the start of the camp the amount over and above the deposit is transferable to another workshop within the next 5 months.