12. 03. 2025 - 16. 03. 2025
Description
Karma Drama: exploring the human spirit incarnating into different epochs and personalities
About the workshop:
Karma Drama uses exercises developed by Rudolf Steiner to look into our karma and past lives using action methods, including ritual and embodiment with masks. Using Rudolf Steiner’s three level karma exercise, destiny learning and biographical karma exercises this workshop helps to identify our double and our angel as carriers of our pre birth intentions. When considering our karmic compensations from the past and the preparation for future life on earth, the question could arise: how can I bring initiatives into the world and take more responsibility for not creating chaos in relationships and the cosmos? We will explore these themes through creativity, encounter and meditation.
About the facilitator:
Mike Chase established The Mask Studio in the mid 90’s and developed masks for training,
education, performance and therapy. He has taught in these fields internationally for 35
years. He was the Artistic Director of The Mask Academy and the Glasshouse Arts Centre,
Stourbridge for 14 years. He has contributed to the Biographical Counselling training over 20
years as an external trainer, and has conducted self-development workshops around the
world over the past 30 years. For 14 years he created the Hero’s Journey programme for
students at the Glasshouse College using masks and psychodrama.
For the last 9 years Mike has been working within a therapeutic community prison HMP Grendon using psychodrama and group psychotherapy. He is currently the clinical lead as therapy manager on a wing with violent men with learning disabilities. His book Mask was published by Hawthorn Press in 2017, and he is in the process of getting his next book Why Did You Kill Me? published. Mike has a diploma in psychodrama, psychotherapy and an M.Ed. in educational research and is a fully insured member of UKCP, undergoes supervision and abides by the UKCP Ethics for Practice. Mike is currently on the faculty of the Mental Health Seminar at Emerson College, looking at mental health in the light of anthroposophy.
About the place:
The workshop will take place in the Open Space, Czech Republic. Open Space is a non-for-profit educational & cultural centre located 15 minutes from Prague airport and 25 min from Prague in the quaint village of Trpoměchy near Slaný. Originally built as a gymnasium in 1920’s by Sokol, a fraternal organisation promoting the old-Greek ideal of a bodily, moral and spiritual whole, the recently reconstructed building offers a large workspace, kitchen, sauna and cozy attic bedrooms.
full board (3 meals a day, snacks, coffee/tea)
dormitory/hostel-style lodging in shared rooms with 2-4 people in one room and shared bathrooms,
The dates:
Wednesday 12th March 2025 from 5pm till Sunday 16th March 2025 2 pm.
Cost:
€ 320 / £ 275
The price includes accommodation & meals.
Information & queries:
Contact the organizer: Pavel Bednar, tel: +420602322947, [email protected]
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Feedback from participants:
Fifty out of ten! Absolutely perfect. Fantastic attitude, understanding, care, kindness and
humour. I felt absolutely safe and able to open up. Mike was always available and sincerely
interested in us. (Prague, planets workshop)
Mike led with such a grace and elegance that sometimes I just stared in amazement. The
human touch and kindness of his approach is admirable. (Prague, planet workshop)
