Discovering your own script

Prepared By

Manu Melwin Joy

Research Scholar

School of Management Studies

CUSAT, Kerala, India.

Phone – 9744551114Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Discovering your own script

• Dreams, fantasies, fairy talesand childhood stories can allgive us clues to our script.

• While you do these exercises,let your imagination run fee.

• Don’t bother thinking whatthey are for or what theymean.

• Don’t censor or try to figureour what you are supposedto say.

• Just accept your first imagesand feelings that may comewith them.

Exercise 1

Hero or heroine• Who is your favorite

character?

• It may be someone for achildhood story.

• Perhaps it is a hero orheroine from a play,book or film youremember.

• Maybe it is a realperson.

Exercise 1

Hero or heroine• Choose the first character

you bring to your mind.

• Be come your chosencharacter. Talk aboutyourself as long as youlike. Use the word I…

• Ex :Superman.

• Whoever your chosencharacter is, now goahead, be him or her andtalk about yourself.

Exercise 2

Story or Fable• Choose any story or fable. The

first one you bring to mind isbest. It may be a childhoodfairy tale, a classic myth oranything else you want.

• You might begin : “ Once upona time, there was a beautifulgirl who was sent to sleep forages and ages by her evilstepmother. She lay in a roomdeep inside a castle. Round thecastle was a prickly hedge.Kings and princes cam lookingfor the girl, but none of themwas strong enough to hackthrough the hedge.”

Exercise 2

Story or Fable• To get more from the story, you

can go on and become each oneof the people and things in thestory.

• From the above story, you couldchoose to be the girl, thestepmother, the room, the castle,one of the princes or the hedge.

• As the hedge, you might say : “Iam hedge, I am sturdy, rough andprickly. All my prickles arepointed outwards, so that peoplecan’t hack me around. My job isto protect that young girl who isasleep inside me.”

Exercise 3

Dream• Choose a dream of yours.

You are likely to learn mostfrom a recent dream orone which recurs, but anydream will do.

• Tell the dream. Relate it inthe present tense, not thepast.

• Then, just as you did withyour story, become each ofthe people and things inthe dream and talk aboutyourself.

Exercise 3

Dream• Recall how you felt

immediately after youawoke from the dream.Was it pleasant orunpleasant feeling?

• Did you like how thedream ended? If you didnot, you can continue theexercise by re-writing yourdream ending.

• Tell the rewritten endingjust as you told the dream,using the present tense.

Exercise 4

Object in the room• Look around the room.

Choose any object yousee. The best one is thefirst one you think of.

• Now be the object and talkabout yourself. Forexample : “I am the door. Iam hard, square andwooden. Sometimes I getin people’s way. But when Ido, they just push me toone side…”

Exercise 4

Object in the room• To get even more from

the exercise, ask apartner to conduct aconversation with youas the object you havechosen.

• The partner is not tomake interpretation. Heis just to talk with you asthe door or fireplace orwhatever you havechosen.

Exercise 4

Object in the room• “I am the door. When I

stand in people’s way,they push me aside.”

• “Well, door, how do youfeel when people pushyou aside?”

• “I feel angry. But I am adoor and I cant talk. Ijust let them do it.”

• “Aha. So is thereanything you want tochange door, to feelbetter?”

Exercise 5

See your life as a play• Imagine you are in a

theatre. You are waitingfor a play to start. Thisplay is your very own lifestory.

• What kind of play is thisyou are going to watch?Is it comedy, a tragedy?Is it high drama or akitchen sink opera? Is itinteresting or boring,heroic or matter of fact– or what?

Exercise 5

See your life as a play• Is the theatre full, half

empty or empty? Arethe audience going tobe enthralled orbored? Happy or sad?Are they going toapplaud or walk out –or what?

• What is the title of thisplay of yours- yourvery own life story?

Exercise 5

See your life as a play

• Curtain is opening andthis is the very firstscene of your life.

• You were very young.What do you see aroundyou? Who is there? Doyou see faces and theexpression in faces?

• What do you hear? Beaware of what do youfeel.

Exercise 5

See your life as a play• Scene changes and now

you are a young child ofthree to six years old.

• Where are you? Whatcan you see aroundyou? Are there otherpeople there? Who isthere?

• Are they saying anythingto you? Are you sayinganything to them? Doyou hear any othersounds?

Exercise 5

See your life as a play• Similarly, go through

teenage, adulthood,the present age andten years in the future.

• The last scene of yourplay – your deathscene. How old areyou in this last scene?

• Share your experienceto the group.

Thank

You

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