Do any of these situations ring a chord for you?
• You feel a deep desire to express your creativity. Perhaps you were creative as a child and then when you got to adolescence, it was if a door got slammed shut. Or do you feel an urge to be creative which has been continually thwarted so when you try to express yourself, you feel blocked and are disappointed with your efforts, so you lose heart. Maybe you read the Artist's Way and got stuck half way through, leaving you feeling even more depressed.
• You have had a hankering to perform but were told or believe that you'd never be good enough, but it still remains a yearning inside you. Every so often you find yourself imagining what your life would have been like if you had only taken the plunge. You may be aware that it's not just about having a career in acting but of finding a creative way of expressing and healing what's inside you.
• You are nervous of public-speaking or speaking in front of groups. You'd rather die than go on stage. You dislike being noticed and of being the centre of attention and may have a fear of being ridiculed. You may be highly competent in others areas of life but this area has seriously hampered you in achieving what you could. Your career has quite gone the way you've wanted to, you don't feel valued by others, you haven't spoken up when you should and you missed out on opportunities because you didn't know how to seize the moment. Sickeningly you may too have watched others steal your thunder, speak what you didn't speak, take risks when you held back - and get rewarded for it.
• You have had a career in performing or a background in drama and if you're honest, it doesn't do it for you any more. You may even feel quite traumatised by some of your experiences. You still love to perform but you are looking for a way of performing in a more meaningful way or perhaps or of finding a new career.
• Drama seems to pursue you everywhere you go. Sometimes you wonder if you're life is a soap opera or a sit com. Great as it to have an eventful life, you sick and tired of living in permanent chaos. The same situations happen over and over 
again no matter how hard you try to avert them. You'd like to have more choice.
• You feel as if you are in a box. You are aware that this is a consequence of restrictions from your childhood and as a result you have a tough inner critic constantly censoring everything you do. Maybe you are in a job that does not allow any outlet for creativity and self expression, leaving you feeling frustrated and deadened. You can never really feel you are being yourself. It's as if you were living a half-life.
• You were shy as a child and as an adult still lack confidence, you are reticent in putting yourself forward, and of letting yourself be seen and your voice heard, as a result you feel undermined by others or feel that they walk all over you.
• You know you have a lot of repressed emotion from the past. Sometimes it has a way of slipping out at inappropriate moments or you find yourself getting more upset than a situation warrants. You may feel depressed a lot which is a direct result of emotions getting trapped in the body.
Making Moves groups, workshops and sessions have helped people in all these areas for over ten years. They are a safe haven for people to experience playtime, find their voice, transform deep trauma and liberate them to new levels of creativity and self expression through potent drama tools and an empathic way of working.
Participants are adults of all different ages and in a wide range of professions i.e. students, teachers, health care workers, people in admin and computing, lawyers, business consultants, therapists and creatives.
They have also included people going through a time of personal crisis or illness. A large number of people have explored or are exploring other kinds of personal development or holistic health workshops and approaches.
Most have no previous experience of drama.
Many of these are wanting a different approach to traditional therapy that where they will not be tied into long contracts, but will give them more freedom. They are looking for something more akin to personal development or healing that will allow them to grow and develop in their own way.
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