Psychodrama volunteers can do their Shadow Work

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Eli announced a psychodrama workshop scheduled for the next day at 9:45 AM, emphasizing the importance of volunteers embodying roles they usually avoid, such as a bully or a liar, to perform shadow work. This process, inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of making the unconscious conscious, helps individuals confront and integrate hidden aspects of themselves. Eli shared that volunteers often find it liberating and energizing to own these parts without being controlled by them. He encouraged participation, noting that the subconscious intuitively selects roles for each person. Eli expressed excitement for the workshop and invited interested individuals to contact him or his brother Tim for preparation.

Psychodrama Workshop Introduction and Volunteer Opportunities

• Eli begins by greeting the audience and expressing excitement about the upcoming psychodrama workshop scheduled for the next day at 9:45 AM.
• Eli introduces a new gift for volunteers, emphasizing that while he doesn’t pay volunteers, the experience can be a valuable takeaway.
• He explains that volunteers might be asked to play roles they find uncomfortable, such as a bully, a perpetrator, or a bad dad, and stresses the importance of embodying these roles fully.
• Eli describes the shadow work process, where participants act out roles they don’t want to own, aiming to make the unconscious conscious, following Carl Jung’s principles.

Embodying Shadow Roles for Personal Growth

• Eli elaborates on the concept of shadow work, where participants embody their negative traits to confront and integrate them into their consciousness.
• He shares an example of a liar role, where participants become the biggest liar in the room, emphasizing the importance of physical embodiment for emotional release.
• Eli discusses the benefits of this approach, including increased self-awareness and the ability to own one’s negative traits without being controlled by them.
• He recounts a personal anecdote about a volunteer who enjoyed playing the bully role, highlighting the transformative power of embracing one’s shadow.

The Importance of Owning One’s Shadow

• Eli emphasizes that owning one’s shadow parts, such as a bully or a liar, can lead to a sense of liberation and energy.
• He explains that hiding or disowning these parts requires energy and can lead to unexpected manifestations in the future.
• Eli encourages workshop participants to volunteer for roles, as the subconscious often selects the right person for the role, based on intuition.
• He expresses excitement about the upcoming workshop and invites listeners to join, promising a liberating and energizing experience.

Invitation to Participate in Shadow Work

• Eli invites listeners to contact him or his brother Tim to prepare for shadow work sessions, emphasizing the benefits of facing and integrating one’s shadow.
• He highlights the positive feedback from previous workshop participants, who reported feeling more free, liberated, and energized after completing the shadow work.
• Eli compares hiding one’s shadow to a thief hiding their loot, suggesting that it takes energy to maintain this facade.
• He concludes by wishing everyone a beautiful day and expressing hope to see them at the workshop, encouraging them to “be there or be square.”

Hola Happy Saturday morning. We made it the weekends here. Hopefully guys are off. So I had a amazing epiphany a couple of days ago that I want to share. We’re doing our psychodrama workshop tomorrow at 945 if anybody’s interested in coming to learn about a volunteer and that, but there’s a new gift that our volunteers will be given. I don’t pay the volunteers, unfortunately, but this could be a gift you can take away from it. When they you get picked for roles in a cycle drama. Sometimes you get picked for a yucky role. It could be a bully, a perpetrator, a bad dad, a thief, etc, etc. It can be anything, whatever role the person needs you to play. And you embody that you become that role. Well, in the shadow work we’re doing two tomorrow. The way we do it with psycho drama is the person identifies seven or eight parts of themselves that they don’t want to own or have be seen, and then I create scenes for them, or vignettes where they literally act out that role. Like, for instance, if you got a liar part, when you come into the room, you become the biggest liar in the room, and you don’t hold back, and you enjoy it, but you’re embodying it. Because, to me, for shadow work, you have to be in your body. It’s not just your head. Okay, I got this part in that. Yeah, that’s nice, but that’s left right. When you’re embodying it, you’re more into your feelings also, and you’re becoming it. There’s no hiding it. You got caught, you got seen, you got exposed. And by doing that, it frees them up. Okay? Carl Jung, in psychology, which I is one of my big foundations for work that I do. He Young said, you have to make the unconscious conscious. What better way to do it? By embodying it? Nothing held back. I’m a total idiot today. I show it. So when you guys volunteer, if you do it consciously, let’s say you get picked to play a bully. Now we all everything’s holographic. Here we have a bully inside. We have a saint, we have a idiot, we have a murderer, we have a cannibal. All these parts are inside of us, because that’s the way the universe works, but we disown them, or we deny them. So if you get picked to play the bully, play it to the T, embody it, be it. Get get a Academy Award for showing your bully part. So by doing that, you’re owning it yourself. You may enjoy it even I had a guy once, he got bullied a lot as a kid, and he got picked to play a bully once, at a workshop with he was volunteering, and he said, I hate to admit this, but I kind of enjoyed being the bully because he was on the other side being bullied. Well, that’s what happens when we embrace these parts. That doesn’t mean we use them, we don’t control them, but you own it. You know, if you say Tom, you can be a bully. I don’t react to that. I have been a bully in my life, unfortunately. But, you know, I own that, or somebody that’s a liar, and you get called out, just own it, but see when you disguise it, when you disown it, you bury it. Now, the problem with that is, you think you’re getting rid of it, you know, you’re pushing it down. Takes energy to do that, but eventually, one day, it’s going to sneak out the back door invite you in that you know what. So if you guys come tomorrow or any of the workshops and volunteer, whatever role you get picked, because it’s usually the person doing the work that day, their subconscious is picking the right person to play the roles where they don’t even know. It’s like intuition. You know it without knowing how. So if you get picked to play that nasty role, take it as an opportunity to do some shadow work. Get it. Oh my god, I’m so excited about this. So I don’t know if any of you listening are going to be able to make it tomorrow. We’ve got three people working, three brave souls on the platform, but it’s really something to think about now, if you really want to get brave and do your own shadow work, get a hold of me or my brother Tim, and you guys, can, you know, we’ll prep you, we’ll get it ready, and then we’ll have it going so you can come out. And everybody that’s done the shadow workshops so far, feel more free and liberated, more energized, because you’re not hiding this stuff anymore. You know, people don’t realize when you hide stuff. It takes energy. It’s like a thief. They gotta hide their stuff. So we’re baby thieves, I guess. Alright, enjoy your day. It’s a beautiful, sunny, springy day here. In Northwest Indiana. So I’m digging it already, and hopefully I’ll see some of you tomorrow. 945, Be there or be square. God bless. Love you. Bye.