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Find out how myth-a-drama enabled an actor to uncover and shift the emotional blocks that were keeping his career stuck. Listen to the remarkable turnaround in his career that have come as a result of transforming these emotional factors, and more important, the even deeper shift to his personal happiness. Click the start arrow.
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About the Breakthrough Group
The Breakthrough Group was a remarkable experience. I’ve participated in a lot of different workshops for personal growth but this workshop was unique in its ability to facilitate profound change on a fundamental level. While working with the different archetypes and myths I felt like I was simply engaging in innocent play with the other participants, laughing and having fun, while not realizing that the process was stirring up the patterns in my subconscious that were keeping me stuck and unhappy.
It wasn’t until the end that I suddenly realized a deep change had occurred and experienced feelings of freedom, inner peace, and wholeness that had eluded me for many years.Thank you, Claire, for this unique group. Your skillful guidance, patience, encouragement, and astute observations were instrumental in creating and facilitating this amazing sanctuary for self expression.
Ed C. Accountant, San Rafael, California
Getting a job
I was in the hunt for employment. I was ill at ease and having a lot of anger and frustration, particularly road rage. My button would be pushed just traveling into work and I’d go from peaceful warrior into blood thirsty warrior without really knowing why. The image I had of how it felt, was of black lake and I was swimming in it.
What the Breakthrough Group did was to allow me to stir that lake up, to get to see what’s in the lake, and how those murky waters are being pushed. And then all these monsters started to reveal themselves. There was the road rage monster and the tobacco monster – I couldn’t find a way to let go of my addiction to tobacco. This manifested itself as this huge yellow slug. I was nauseous a lot during the work, it stirred up so much in me. But it enabled me to speak about these things and to express myself. It provided a short cut to the hidden recesses of my unconscious. It stirred them up, brought them to the surface, so that they could be freed.
A few days after the the last session I got a call about a job. In fact they called me! I’ve never had such an effortless flow for such a fantastic job in a very challenging job market. Even the guy who was interviewing me said he’s never seen a process go so quickly from first interview to job offer. And it’s such a great job and I’m working with such great people. It is just want I wanted. It is the 2nd largest salary of my career. It will allow me the opportunity to secure a home-construction loan for my New Mexico ranch in the near future.
What helped me to get this job was stirring up the unconscious pot that can be there a life time and can effect us on such deep levels. I’ve done other kind of work but this had a lightning effect on my psyche and it came across during the interview. Claire is a wonderful mischief-maker and my co-workshoppers were excellent join-iners. No one else if offering anything like this. Trusting the process was key for going deep in this work!
Rob Buchiski, Richmond, California
Claire’s infamous Breakthrough group is an incubator where eagles spread wings and take flight. I love the tenderness and the wildness of the journey.Claire is a master DJ spinning the soul shaking sounds that break the chains around my heart. Then with her subtle and brilliant directions Claire coaxes out of me the dancing star. And suddenly I am not just a business woman or a wife, I am a heroine on an epic journey.
Olga Aura, Pacifica, California http://www.iamfullyalive.com
I had lost touch with my inner self, everything I was doing was based on superficiality and minimum interaction with other people. I wanted to get more in touch with my creativity because I had smothered my creativity – more like strangled it. I was looking around for a way to open out, I needed to feel more engaged and to get out of my comfort zone.
The Breakthrough Group was very powerful for me and very challenging as I am a visual person and tend to work on my own. It has given me a great deal of confidence and allowed me to be truthful to myself, and the confidence to say how I feel – to be truthful and honest and have the courage to express that. What was very powerful was my engagement with my emotions and it was very exciting the level of synchronicity that occurred with my deeper self.. that merged on the mystical if not magical. It was most enjoyable.
I had a certain amount of resistance and there were one or two moments when I didn’t want to come because it was challenging to me in many ways, but that in no way limited the value of it. And a lot of that was the result of other people not being judgmental towards me. I could see my own judgments but I didn’t feel it coming from them.
The level of creativity in the group can be quite enormous, and what can be arrived at with very simple things – a few cloths, hats and props. It could make you laugh, make you smile. I would absolutely recommend it. It’s very healing, a therapy in its own right.
P.R. graphic designer, London
Feeling like a woman – an email after the 3rd or 4th session
I want to thank you for the amazing experience of the breakthrough group last night. As I was driving home, I felt a whole range of different emotions – something was definitely stirred up in me! I am not very good at explaining how I feel but after that group exercise I felt like ;a woman that’s what it was. Somehow in that particular role I managed to reach a part of me that is more emotional/physical rather than my usual mind-based presentations! I felt empowered and really rather good.
After the Breakthrough Process.
I had a real glow about me on the way home! Every member of the group was so kind and supportive, and also so amazingly intuitive. I felt so alive, and safe to be so, and last night, unusually, had a lovely deep sleep.
R.C. Former Barrister, Kent
About other groups
The fun of it!! Working with eternally relevant myths, dressing up, letting go of self-imposed restrictions, rediscovering the exuberance of being a child at play without judgment or restriction. It was all very liberating and funny and poignant. And at times, richly profound and illuminating.
C.V. (Presenter)
When the performance was over I was on a huge high. At last after many years of searching I had played a main part. But for me it was a huge achievement. Medea in particular was an amazing part to play. I felt like a free spirit and in that role I had no doubts, no concerns and found a huge amount of self confidence which pushed me to fly and fly. And for the first time in 29 years I had taken centre stage and knew once more the audience were looking at me. And my dream had at last became my reality!Subsequently since the performance I have found a new inner, self confidence. I now trust my instincts and able to make decisions in all areas of my life that come from a very deep place within. I have at last come into my power and I now feel totally a woman. I know if I put my mind to it I can achieve anything I want to. I highly recommend Claire and the groups she holds.
Lela, Healer, Cornwall
The spirit of this work is the most powerful I have ever come across, because it simply has no limits”
Satya Kaur, Karam Kriya Yoga Teacher
About individual sessions/tele-Sessions
I feel fortunate to be able to experience Claire’s work in both individual and group venues. For me, 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 same and comfortable enough 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.K. Student
I needed a new furnace in my 59-year-old house and was struggling with the cost of the system and the three days of upheaval to install it. I was spinning around in my head thinking about all the things I would rather do with the money, why me?, and so forth. I had a lot of doubt that anything would work because I had convinced myself that there was no way around this struggle. I felt rather trapped in a rigid pattern that I thought only time would lessen.
Claire opened the door to a journey that took me to archetypal help -a marvelous dragon who helped me see that the issue wasn’t the money involved, but my stubbornness around having someone else help me. I liked how Claire was able to take me out of my left-brained cycle of repetitive thinking so I could release the tension around the situation and rejoice in a new sense of safety.
It has been a couple of months since Claire and I worked together when more of the process kept unfolding….more stubbornness to release and I found such clarity for my path. I realized that I needed to make changes in order to honor the dragon (my passion). Thank you again and again, Claire! I would definitely recommend the service again for myself and others.
J.Z. Higher Education Professor, Los Angeles
Claire Schrader’s work genuinely deserves to be called remarkable. Her insights and method of working have moved me into places I couldn’t even see, let alone go to, and left me confident that I can walk into any work situation and know whatever the outcome, it will be the right one for me.
David V. Barrister, London
Letter of High Recommendation
I have had the pleasure to attend both a weekend workshop of Claire’s, as well as a one hour personal session. Both were extremely useful and helpful to me in my personal work. The workshop helped me to expand my consciousness, helped me understand both myself and others better. It helped me become more connected with my heart, and the heart of others. It also was a lot of fun. The personal session, which involved some intense visualization and dramatic acting out. It was very effective in getting me in touch with what was really going on for me at an internal level, and helped me envision other more positive ways to frame my reality. It really helped me feel lighter and less emotionally burdened. It was a great experience.
I highly recommend working with Claire and her approach, quite unlike anything I have experienced before. It was very effective for me.
A.F. Vintner, Sonoma, California
About workshops
I had a very strange two weeks after your workshop… with barely any time to sit down and contemplate anything! Two of my films were nominated for two different awards in the space of a week! One was showing in a festival and was nominated for the best newcomer award there and the other got to the 12 finalists in an online competition of hundreds of entries.
Over that whole month so many amazing things happened around my work that I felt it was the law of attraction working for me! Something which I was never sure I believed in before. Afterwards I was thinking about Icarus and how happy I felt in the workshop, what great fun it was (and also scary) to lead the group in the moment.
Peter Bunzl, film-maker www.peterbunzl.com
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. businessman, Sonoma, California
I was a painfully shy child, had a traumatic childhood and young adulthood, and was not able to be comfortable being seen or heard. Claire’s expertise worked to dissolve a life-long handicap. I had spent over one hundred thousand dollars over twenty years of personal therapy for these trauma issues in my life, and Claire’s workshop was a more dramatic and beneficial change in my psyche than talk therapy had been.
Donna Bach, chiropractic doctor http://www.awakened-mind.com
About longer term groups and workshops
Claire’s workshops were invaluable to me, the work we did helped to unlock parts of me that had been frozen for years. I was able to find expression and move into places that had previously held so much fear for me. My emotions were no longer barred off, they were out for all to see, and they were accepted and encouraged. This helped me to move through and become more aware of a lot of issues and patterns that had been keeping me stuck.
T.L. shamanic practitioner, London
For me this work has taken me far beyond the play and the personality, it has taken me to a place that is even beyond Spirituality – the container within which Spirituality arises like everything else in life. It has taken me to a place of Life, living fully, enjoying life, enjoying being alive, enjoying my physicality, raw power, creativity, flow, being grounded as well as the pleasure of course of playing and having fun … But this is beyond my little story, this is something much, much bigger than me at work, this is LIFE, the Colours of life being lived through this system, body and the name happens to be Babeth but really the name doesn’t matter.
Babeth Payne, Feldenkreis Student, London
I discovered that I’m more creative than I thought I was, and that I can express myself with great clarity and force, skill and beauty. Through doing/taking part in this work, I realised that I can be/become anything I want to be….and follow any strand that feels interesting and has meaning for me.
M.R. (Editor)
When I joined the course I was angry, frustrated and very low in personal confidence, I suppose because I knew I was not getting any recognition of the things I was good at because of the interpersonal relationships that were going on. This had been a pattern for about 10 Years.
I cannot believe how different I feel now, people are warm to me, and I am relating properly well. I may not be perfect, but this is so much better than when I started. I feel like a new me, I look better I can interact better, and I am happier. It was painful and it took courage, but I believe I can go on now and achieve more, and also be happy if I don”t. I am not getting into relationship issues over nothing, and being rude and intolerant and unhelpful. I have tried to change on my own for years.
K.P. Team Co-ordinator, Local Government Services
Thanks for last night. It was fantastic. I really believe you have helped shift something in me through the Finding Your Voice group and the shamanic work. Thank you very much. I am now on a very exciting journey where the lion in me will be roaring away! I feel like I have really freed myself from all the debris and undergrowth I was entangled in (metaphorically speaking).
C.M. Manager, London
It’s been just over a year since I finished the course and so much has happened. My life certainly stirred up when the course finished – I fell out with my best friend, finished the relationship I was in and realised that I was unhappy living in London…so finally decided last Easter to leave London move back home to Cornwall.
As soon as I made that decision everything else has fallen into place. I am moving to the most beautiful village in Cornwall, a place of many happy childhood memories. I have decided to start my own chocolate business. I have my first wedding to do in September and my former employer want to be my first corporate customer for chocolate gifts. And I have met the most wonderful man. He lives in the village, and is the most kind, caring, loving, supportive, creative and exciting person – and perfect for me! We complement each other well and make a great partnership. It is a totally different relationship to those I have had before, and I really believe we will be together for a long time. And I met him when I came home to tell my family about my chocolate idea.
I wanted to tell you because I truly believe that my time with you and the group changed my life in so many ways – I really did get unstuck and have turned my life around. It really does work! A huge thank you for everything Claire, you and the rest of the group helped me get there.
L.J. Entrepreneur, London
I feel I have with me the living experiences of so many of the workshops. I feel I have stored them underground in some deep well within me. I am keenly aware I am now drawing on those wells as and when I need to.
MK Project Manager, London
I feel that I have been made/have become ready to participate in life as a whole. I have gained some heart. I am more confident than I was as I experienced trust and recognition. It has given me so much happiness. I do feel different especially now when it is all over. This surprised me. Perhaps it is the completion of the process. Perhaps it the completion of the process, the sense of wholeness of the experience which is echoed by a new sense of wholeness inside myself.
T.S. Teacher, London
Over the last weekend, I was taken back to the time I went on Inana’s journey with you before. It meant so much to me. It helped me revalue my life. That journey through darkness had both delicacy and deadliness, it touched my heart. There have always been moments springing from the work you do that are beyond anything else, that justify being alive. Over the weekend I recognised that a strong healing force had swept through me. I had been revived again. I cried with relief and sorrow for the dead part of myself.
T.S. Teacher, London
After my family moved from Edinburgh to the country as a child it had become my dream to live and work in London and have a successful career. A dream I had largely fulfilled by the time I first went to a group with Making Moves. I had been working in London in the development industry for over a decade. However, despite this over the years I began to feel empty inside, somehow, somewhere my life missed a quality, a hearty quality. I felt like I’d somehow subconsciously been shaped into a corporate machine and while there were many sweeties in the shop to be had, they were no-longer as appetising or nutritious as they once had been.
There were a number of reasons which first attracted me to Making-Moves, these were; to be more confident at office parties, socials and presentations; to bring some quality and creativity back into my otherwise very work and function orientated life.
Later on Making Moves work also helped to rebuild my confidence when it had been completely floored through illness. When I first attended a group it was just such a relief to do something which didn’t involve either a deadline, someone else’s expectations, or a particular agenda. Soon I found the myths and stories absorbing and amazed at how drama can be created from each and every individual, with very simple props. Each role, game or creative exercise always presented either an unexpected challenge or jewel of realisation about myself, and this was not necessarily just from the roles I was playing but also from the interactions with my fellow participants. Often the information gained would be soft and subtle even difficult to put my finger on but over time it became clear to me why or how I was blocking myself in my own life with my own learnt reactions. This provided me with an insight to then change it, and of course the Groups allowed the perfect chance to practice that change before having to attempt it in real life.
T.A. Town Planner, London
Find out how myth-a-drama enabled actor Brendan Gregory to uncover and shift the emotional blocks that were keeping his career stuck and him trapped in a downward spiral. Coming soon
