Workshops, intensives and immersions
Open World Theatre is currently on tour and being facilitated by founder Atlas Talisman.
Workshops are an introduction to the Open World method, they guide new players through one ‘Cycle of Aliveness’, (described in detail below).
We learn the ‘language’ of emergent experience through honesty and tracking the aliveness through the personal & collective nervous system.
A Full Day session enables us to go deeper with the work. Expanding on each technique to know each phase more intimately. We then open into chaos clowning.
A 2 Day Intensive is the most complete delivery of the work. We go through the same sequence as a full day session and then expand into the ‘4 Taboos’ of GOD, ART, SEX & MONEY on day two. Through the intensive format the group starts to attune to the collective nervous system and run at a deeper, more wild and divinely guided level of play.
Multi-day Immersions and Retreats can be arranged for those wanting to delve into the lived experience of ‘The Orbits’.
The Cycle of Aliveness
The core Open World practice is a 5 phase process which takes players through a full cycle of aliveness.
Phase 01 & 2 :
Essence & Embodiment
Warm-up
The first hour of the ‘Cycle of Aliveness‘ is a warm-up session to prepare for Scenework.
We first focus on internal awareness through meditation and breathwork.
We then advance to movement and expression.
Activities include:
- Learning to scan our internal ‘energy body’
- Breathwork and stretching
- Soothing nervous system through meditation and soundscapes
- Playfighting
- Massage and Playchi
- Improving relationship with your own body
Phase 03: Social
SCENEWORK (Open): This is the culmination of all Open World skills. We explore the possibilities of humans in space together. The personal, the energetic, the stories, the social patterns and the instincts of interaction.
If you want to truly level up how you engage in ANY social situation – step into the Arena!
Activities include:
- Sensing the unspoken offers in an encounter
- Releasing fake social habits of politeness
- Increasing courage to stay true to yourself
- Identifying the timing and flow of a ‘scene’
Phase 04 & 05: Artistic & Sacred
Why are we removing all the blocks from our ability to express? While there are many therapeutic benefits to Open World, it is not therapy.
We are simply curious to witness human beings in their natural state of play.
Once the inhibitions and social programming soften we find the natural human response is very artistic and sacred.
Activities include:
- Authenticity in performance
- Mythology and poetics of the human experience
- Defining our purpose work
- Destigmatising our relationship with the sacred
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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.