What Puppetry Can Teach Us About Holding Magical Spaces
One of the core foundations of a connected & purposeful community are their "rituals". They create predictability, bonding and reverence to shared values. For our family, one of our most looked forward to ritual is attending the annual Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival ! We have been watching this since the past 11 eleven years (minus Covid years) It is a pure sensory delight and ignites all those latent childhood urges we have been suppressing since we grew up. As I sat watching the show last night managed all by one single person on stage - I could not help but wonder what can puppetry teach us about holding spaces. Of course one can learn so much from the stories (the content) themselves - but we can learn so much more from the process and behaviours of the puppeteers! Orientation helps build ease First Ishara's founder comes on stage and introduces the festival, how it started, a bit about its journey, what their values are in organising these ...