Open World is a training system that welcomes people out from behind the automatic armour of survival and into a sentient connection with Life.
This is not ‘theatre’, but the stage as a forum for authentic experience, updating our concept of who we truly are and who we need to be to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving world.
Storywork
The Journey of Lenses is a personal journey, taking the form of coaching, (in person and online).
The player explores ‘Storywork’ to acknowledge and release the subjective narrative they may have become attached to and open into a greater range of beingness.
For more details – see the Orbits page…
Scenework
We move focus on our identity, into the ‘MetaScene’ of transpersonal play through the ‘Human Interaction Labs’.
Here we focus on the innate wisdom in the collective nervous system. With emergent scenes which rise through the ‘Cycle of Aliveness’.
The phases of this cycle are explained below…
Streetwork
We challenge the socially adjusted reality through ‘Public Displays of Humanity’.
Creating interfaces for interaction between strangers, immersive theatre scenes and a gamified approach to life through the ‘Vicarious’ project.
For more details – see the Vicarious page…
The Cycle of Aliveness
The core practice of the ‘Cycle of Aliveness’, focuses on connecting to our innocence and wilderness and expressing authentically.
We cultivate:
- Internal emotional balance
- Creative expression
- Authentic connection
- Attunement to the energy of crowds
- Physical conditioning to meet moments of duress
- Releasing stuck habits and automatic behaviours
- Ability to expand with the wild possibilities of a life well lived!
Our training methods focus on experiential learning, placing ourselves in situations which prepare us for reality. We train hard so that we can live easefully.
The 5 phases of the cycle of aliveness are journeyed through a 3hr process which begins with internal awareness, then connecting to the body to integrate. We then enter the arena together to deconstruct our social habits. From a liberated state we more freely express our artistry and devotion.
Find out more via the workshops page.
Vicarious Studio
We are also extending agency across the digital barrier through an experiment which casts a real life human as a playable avatar, controlled / influenced by an online audience / AI input.
Atlas is currently has an open call for artists who would like to create art marks by exploring human interaction, to be minted as ‘xNFTs’, (Experience NFTs), as momentos from the experiment of what it means to ‘live a life well-lived’.
Expansion in 2025: Flow Studios MELB
Open World Theatre is partnering with Flow Studios to open a new venue in Melbourne.
This will be a community hub and research lab focusing on arts and wellness. We will provide space for innovators to develop and deliver industry defining practices in embodiment and creative technology.
“There’s a world out there.
Robin Williams
Open a window, and it’s there.“
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Testimonials
“What I’m looking for, in whatever I do in life, is to feel like this!”
J.K.
“I felt held, seen, vulnerable, challenged and bid to rise. One foot in the doorway of profundity and one on the lap of the ridiculous, he is a worthy wayfarer who will bring you home.”
M.L.
“The amount of knowledge base that he possesses and embodies in martial arts, theatre, spirituality, and the body makes me feel like I am working with an expert whom I can trust, which is a relief in a day and age where anyone can run a workshop and call themselves experts.”
H.W.
“Through Atlas’ Open World sessions I have experienced moments of true catharsis, moments of ecstatic bliss, moments of relief, moments of true surrender… and had profound realisations about the world and the way I am showing up in it. I genuinely think that this could change the world… and I think it will.”
L.H.