A Magical Experience

I’m still in Adelaide. Yesterday was  a gathering of about 50 or more InterPlayers for our 10 year celebration of Interplay in Australia! Also I graduated in the InterPlay Life Practice Program, which culminated in receiving my certificate and improvising a solo performance in front of all these well seasoned InterPlayers! I presented what is called a ‘big body’ story, where you move and dance and tell a story about your experience of InterPlay. I was so bloody nervous my whole body would not stop shaking, but I did it, and at the end of my performance the audience was encouraged to respond with words. What a breathtaking, overwhelming cacophony of delightful, encouraging, uplifting, surprising, delicious number of words were offered to me and all I could do was just stand there in awe and receive. It was wonderful improvisation and totally unrehearsed and unplanned, Each person present was responding to the moment. A magical experience.

So now that this first half of the program is completed, we move on to the training in leadership and then accreditation!

Before I go, I did say I would mention Eric Maisel's 10 stages of the creative process. Here they are:

1 Wishing
2 Incubation/Contemplation
3 Choosing your next subject
4 Starting Your Work
5 Working
6 Completing
7 Showing
8 Selling
9 New Incubation and New Contemplation
10 Simultaneous and Shifting States and Stages

I'll start with the first one.

1. Wishing

I'm conceptualising 'wishing' as a kind of pre-contemplation stage where you haven't really decided that you mean to create and haven't really bought into the rigors of the creative process and are still wishing that creating could somehow be easier. You dabble at making art, you don't find your efforts very satisfying, and you don't feel that you go deep all that often.