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  Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 177 | This thread comes from a vivid moment on the workshop course. As an exercise we mimed out our workshops and there was a discernible shift in energy at the moment that the pretend participants left and we mimed the packing. Also, from the the feeling I get after a big workshop of being scooped out from the inside and having to re-discover who I am - of feeling reduced and having to regain a sense of self. I may have driven 25 miles and done a days work but is sometimes feel like I have been to the moon in a moment-propelled participant vehicle. | ||
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 Registered Member #24 Joined: Fri 07 Jan 2005, 11:08AMGeographical location: Exeter Posts: 11 | there are so many aspects to the ritual of ending the day. Many good and many feelings of emptiness and sadness. A positive aspect for me? The drive home. I find that the 'drive' back (assuming there is one) helps me to put closure on the day. It enables me to deconstruct as i make my physical and mental journey home... Its also great to listen to music and have a singalong to re-enforce the buzz and positive feelings from running a workshop session... | ||
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 Registered Member #143 Joined: Fri 09 Jun 2006, 10:54AMPosts: 1 | Firstly, hello! Secondly, absolutely. I run a juggling equipment stall that goes hand in hand with poi spinning workshops for kids (and larger kids as well, of course.) There's a phenomenal amount of planning that goes into it, as I'm sure you'll all know- not just the workshops, although they of course come first, but the stock, the stall, the presentation of it all. After the three days of festival bliss and meeting lovely people is all wrapped up, although there is the sense of a 'job well done,' a feeling of a melancholy critisism begins to rear its head. Although I find it drives me for the next time, to try and improve, there is still that rather empty feeling that can only be filled by drinking my bodyweight in tea. I'm so pleased that the festival season is on us once again. | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 177 | raw emotions, just finished making a puppet nativity with one hundred children over four days. it was effin' amazin'. It is an indcredibly intense bubble of creativity in which all sorts of invisible forces are made manifest - cardboard becomes romans, shy children become actors, songs conjur magic tingles in the air - evryone performs, evryone shines, everyone suceeds and exceeds ...and afterwards ...I am the proverbial deflating balloon - full of bluster and tears ready to gush out at any opportunity. I tend to deal with this by watching DVDs - watched two music ones yesterday - Honeydripper and Swing. Enjoyed them both a lot. | ||
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