The CAST awakens the Social Artist within.
CAST, Our Planets new story
The CAST experience and its exercises.
We have a list of exercises and activities that we have in our CAST grab bag. How we might assemble these exercises and activities is up to our “Fire-keepers”. Fire-keepers are individuals who are selected facilitators that craft CAST workshops. Each time our theme is different, because are groups are different. Our cast sets the stage for powerful exercises to be facilitated in a safe group container. The cast story- board evolves over a weekend period of time and has a focused mindful evolution to it. One of our goals is offer the participant more available insights about what it means to be human, and possibly for them to experience an “A – Ha!” moment, (this is a significant break through moment) It amps up the vibe when there are multiple “A – Ha!” moments within the workshop. In short: (a surprising & fun shift in perspective). These exercises that we’ve assembled are useful tools that help us address unmet needs as a country, state, and human being. Our goal is to offer our group activation / process to the world. Our workshop is simple, fun, and activating. We get to the heart of your story by using a collaboration of exercises that are listed below. We pull down one layer at a time, revealing more potential than ever imagined. Powerful, uninhibited and risk taking. A person in full principle & vulnerability saying “Yes I can”, and even more firmly “no, I don’t have too”. We help create insight around an old story that you might be holding on to. An old story about yourself and the world you lived in at the time. We replace it with a new story, a story that’s more the person that you want to evolve into. You set the stage for the new you and have a whole CAST with you to play a supporting role. How cool is that?
Some philosophies of cast.
- That we are all cast members in this theater of life. “The world is a stage and we are mere players” William shake sphere. We are all responsible for our individual, collective, and societal story that we are co-developing moment to moment. When we take full responsibility for are own life-story something magical happens. We become free. Free, not to play a victim role but free to choice other outcomes. Free to choose organic food for your family, free to take conscious actions, free to really hear other opinions with-in this story book of life. This is the juicy stuff of life, total freedom, feels good. When we start to live in perfect alignment with are own principles and the principles pronounce by our wise mentors, authors and hero’s…we heal more of ourselves………. We become whole.
CAST is and open collaboration / Self organizing Yin model. A stage for people to express their emotions, their fears, doubts, hopes and dreams. A stage for their song, poetry, dance and storytelling. Society needs CAST organization and facilitators all over this country. Holding this nation in full support of an agreed upon way of being with one another and most important, how we want to be with ourselves.
2. Conscious action, as apposed to unconscious action. For example: say your driving while on your cell phone. Most people when they talk visualize while they speak, visualizing what you hear with what you see in your minds eye. The road now has become part of your unconscious, no longer in the drivers seat, if you will. In this story I convey two levels of consciousness. 1. Conscious of the conversation while driving and not driving. 2. Conscious about not driving while talking on the phone because its not the safest thing to do.
We must ask the question to ourselves, how conscious am I being in any situation? Conscious about our food and water, our carbon imprint, our waste? How we raise our children and how we treat ourselves and others. Conscious of the collective truths that are handed down from one culture or generation to another. Are we being conscious with our social healing as well. We can put a man on the moon yet we still have problems in our families? As we move from one moment to the next, our goal is to act consciously while we do it. That is our agreement! This act creates for the individual more depth, more height, more dimension, more perception, more choice, more responsibility then ever thought imagined. Our culture finds complacency in being happy and secure, while leaving out being effective, aware and responsible for our collective story! Responsible…. the ability to respond. If your conscious with your actions and take responsibility in supporting a story of wholeness while maintaining impeccable integrity, well………. Then…. Your apart of a great cast of characters, living a more conscious life. This stage is our friend and analogy, giving us a place to rest assumptions. Act out our magnificence, shed our fear while inviting the audience to join us. A magical place where we give wings to our biggest dreamers and warm sunlight to the artist & healers that needs it most.
Our CAST agreement, is to help you craft a healthy story of your life that your consciously acting out!
Its 100% win win win for earth, family, community and the deepest part of your poetic soul.
You start by learning the alphabet and embracing words and stories at all depths. Next thing you know, your working with some of the greatest minds and hearts to cultivate leaders of a new paradigm. “Great story, I see you and am you!
Our Exercises that we’ve used for CAST events.
- Opening Ceremony: I stand on the shoulders of….the ceremony is not the same each time it varies on what the workshops about.
- Impov Theater: Open things up, loosen up the group, expose them to being vulnerable.
- Group Circles: Groups of 4 to 7 with 9 to 10 people in them. These circles are lead by a facilitator.
- Share Stories: Sharing stories about the topic that we’re into at the time.
- Open Mic: songs, Dance, Poetry reading. Sharing personal artist gifts.
- Short Clips: We show short parts of films, such as, “The Matrix”, “Lord of the Rings”, “The Truman Show”, “Field of Dreams”, “What the Bleep.”and other powerful culture-changing movies. We all reflect back to each other what we liked or didn’t like. How that relates to our lives, our own characters, our reality and maybe our current affairs. It’s a reflection process, this is always a big hit..
- CAST Role play exercises with NVC: One person plays a compassionate role they other plays a role of violent communication. Reflection is the key.
- I Can’t, but I have too. I have too, but I can’t. The Inhibitive & Compulsive negative habit patterns exercise. This exercise breaks down walls..
- Passion walk: Two people walk across the room, one person tells the other what there passionate about as they walk across the room 2min walk. They then switch, and walk back from where they started. This exercise is very high energy, every body loves this one… 60 – 100 would be watching.
- Meditation: A professional guide leads them through a 10 min meditation / visualization.
- Musicians: All through the day the musicians add depth to the unfolding story. By interjecting their music at perfect emotional time throughout the day, adding more depth and artistry to the workshop experience.
- The Blind fold Exercise: Half of the group is blind folded and the other half is not. The half that’s not blindfolded pair up with the one’s that are and they lead them around for about 7 min. then switch. This is a trust exercise.
- Interview: one on one with the camera: Just you and the camera. There are a series of questions that are ask to you and you answer them in front of the camera.
- Who are you?: We partner up, and one ask the other “Who are you?, after the person replies, the listener say’s “Thank you” and asks again “Who are you? And the process repeats itself for about 10 min. then switch.
- P.O.D.S: Proactive Organized Developmental Structures, This exercise is a long term social experiment that allows members in P.O.D.S to feedback to each other over a year period of time. Creating a container of support for unfolding dreams and intentions that we’re set in motion while in the workshop. Usually its 6 to 8 people to a group.
- Somatic Exercise: To get in touch with the body is key. Movement is key.
- Special Guest: Usually a high profile authors, or presenters. Hazel Henderson, James O’Dea, Jean Houston, Jason Mraz.
- Special Guest video telecast: Someone does a live video cast with us. Hazel Henderson did the last one from her home in Florida.
- Experimental Anthropology: Alpha Lo download
- Script your own story: we write it out, we act it out.
- Beauty Engine: Explore your identity. Recognize your power. Circulate your energy. Assemble with community. Activate collective potential. Technology by: BEAUTY ENGINE.ORG
- Accessing the Trust Frequency: Understanding more about our assumptions, attitude, attention and actions. Made possible by understanding The Ten Assumptions for a New Paradigm. THETRUSTFREQUENCY.NET
- Director of Film: Someone who directs the camera men what to do and who to film and from what angle to film it at. All these exercises are filmed.
- Great questions tell great stories: The participants are asked to come up with the 5 most important questions to ask in life. Then the group self organizes into groups based in like-replies. Then as a group they dialog about that subject for about ½ hour. Each group then describes with the other groups in circle about their small group experience and dialog that took place in that circle.