My name is Claire Schader and I founded Making Moves in 1996 in London offering groups, workshops and individual sessions working through mythology, archetypes, ritual and transformational theatre. My approach is a combination of tools and techniques from drama therapy, theater, personal development and energy work enabling people to set free their creative spirit, express the joy and passion of being alive, and to make radical shifts in their personal and professional lives.
It is the quest for freedom too that is bringing me to the Bay Area, after living in London for nearly thirty years. It is in the Bay Area I experience my own free spirit and where I feel most alive and in touch with my highest potential.
I am currently training practitioners in the UK in my approach and am writing a book Ritual Theatre – the theatre of transformation.
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I feel fortunate that I was able to experience Claire’s work during my stay in the UK in both individual and group venues. For me, I found her work to be deeply transformational and incredibly freeing and healing. In my individual session, I worked with an issue that I had processed many different ways and was still bound by for over two years. With Claire’s facilitation and guidance I was able to explore, identify, own and integrate aspects of this plaguing issue in ways that I could not get to on my own or with any of my other previous guides/healers/modalities. The judgement-free space which Claire held I felt safe and comfortable enough to explore and heal these parts of my psyche. Walking away from the session, I felt empowered and joyous as if I had reclaimed a lost part of myself, and much more in control of my own energy.
G.G. (Video Editor), San Jose |
Events/Sessions in the Bay Area April - July 2008
Open Evening
The Power of Performance
6th May 8.00-10.00pm $35
This is an open, experiential evening both for newcomers and people who have participated in any previous workshops or sessions. It will be an evening of play, laughter and creativity exploring the power of performance and highly recommended for those who are planning to join the Performance, the Pathway to Freedom Program.
Venue: The Center for Healing and Expression
1749 O' Farrell Street,
San Francisco, CA 94115
O'Farrell/Fillmore www.thecenter-sf.org
To book send an email or call 415-508-4053
Thanks so much for your workshop. I really got how much of a performance junky I am.
I also got that when I am in the right company and setting improvisation can become a powerful creative producer for me.
It draws on a deeper intelligence from me and the group I am with. In that room of trust that you so beautifully create, I see possibilities for me to express valuable pieces of myself that are not usually that present. I have been sitting with the notion that I am the seventh string on my instrument, and the real delight of that has real meaning for me, a degree of humility that I am played upon by a higher power just as my guitar is played upon.
B.T. (C.E.O.) Sonoma |
Performance the Pathway to Freedom
starts 13th May 8.00-10pm
This two month program is an opportunity to explore performance in a safe haven, to challenge yourself, make breakthroughs in self expression, charisma and personal power. more info
Venue: The Center for Healing and Expression
1749 O' Farrell Street,
San Francisco, CA 94115
O'Farrell/Fillmore www.thecenter-sf.org
I loved your workshop! I discovered I could express my Ereshkigal (inner bitch) so beautifully! That is a strong part of myself I don't usually get an opportunity to let out of the cellar.
R.H. (Intercultural Minister), Sonoma |
Workshop :
Celebrating your Divine Essence
This workshop will be an opportunity to honour and express the divine though drama and sacred expression. You will be invited to follow the flow of your heart and spirit to truly allow the Living Spirit to express itself through you.
Sant Cruz - details t.b.a.
Individual and Shamanic Sessions
These one to one sessions are a unique way of working with an issue, working through the body, the imagination, and creativity that is fun, potent and incredibly effective more info
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Past Events: October-December 2007
Open Evenings:
Halloween Heaven
Wednesday 31st October 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: Los Altos
Celebrating Venus and Mars
Tuesday 6th November 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: San Jose
more info
Workshop :
Sacred Performance
8th/9th December 10.30am-5.30pm
Venue: Sonoma
more info
Do take a look around this website, for more information about how it works, who can benefit and the myth behind why many of us struggle. Check out too the personal stories of people who have participated, and the published articles about the approach.
Claire Schrader (UK) B.A., M.A., S.R.A.T (Drama)
Founded Making Moves in 1996 in London offering drama therapy for personal and professional development, working through mythology, archetypes, ritual and transformational theatre and is currently training practitioners in the UK in her approach. She holds a distinction from the Institute of Dramatherapy at Roehampton (U.K.), won awards for her first play Corryvreckan, and has published articles in Kindred Spirit, Positive Health, and Counselling News (1997-2006) She has contributed to Emotions: experiences in existential psychotherapy and life by Freddie Strasser (Duckworth) and is currently writing her own book Ritual Theatre – the theatre of transformation. She has pioneered numerous performance projects over the years, including an innovative therapeutic theatre project funded by Arts for Everyone Lottery Scheme working with disadvantaged young people and for six years was Co-ordinator of the performance programme at The Studio Upstairs (London). Her wide ranging career also includes periods working as a business development manager for an American barter company, an international performance artist and a trainer of actors. |
