About this Event
Returning in 2027- Life as Metaphor: The Autodrama LabThis six week interactive creative developmental lab is a sacred journey inviting participants to step into the beauty of their own stories and rediscover the divine spark of creativity within.
At its center is the Autodrama exercise, a practice of creative exploration and performance. Participants will move beyond barriers to creativity, transforming lived experiences into art that carries personal truth.Together we will engage in interactive play, reflective writing, and contemplative exercises that reveal the metaphors life has been whispering all along.
These metaphors—symbols of resilience, renewal, and connection to the sacred—will be given creative expression in a final offering, expressed through whichever medium you choose: music, dance, poetry, drama, photography; wherever inspiration leads.
The Lab rests on the belief that creativity is more than an artistic act, it is a spiritual practice, and that all art is autobiographical.This is a “high-access, intimate developmental lab" and is capped to 12 participants.
• High-Access: This means you aren’t sitting in a massive room listening to a lecture. You will get direct, individual attention, personalized feedback, and meaningful 1-on-1 coaching time during the session.
• Intimate: The class size is strictly capped to 12 participants. For a vulnerable format like autodrama, this creates a psychological safety net for personal narrative/storytelling work within a small group.
• Developmental Lab: This isn’t a passive "lecture" or a strict "acting technique class." The "lab" is a space for exploration and play, experi-mentation, active writing, getting on your feet, and actively building a new piece of work from scratch.
This is an opportunity for actors, and artists of varied disciplines, to work on their art and themselves, learn how trauma intersects and interferes with their creative process, and help you overcome roadblocks to creative expression while creating something meaningful in the process.
Led by spiritual director and theater practitioner Ron McClelland, founder of Arribada Soul Care, with therapist Wendy Osborn, LCMHC, founder of Nurture Counseling, this “high-access, intimate developmental lab", capped to 12 participants, is being offered at a discounted price.
Dates: Thursdays | 6:45-9:15 | January 21-February 25
Location: The Grove Presbyterian Church, 5735 E W.T. Harris Blvd, Charlotte
Cost: $250
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The Grove, 5735 E. W.T. Harris BLVD, Charlotte, United States
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