“The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.”

-Tibetan Saying

Our relationships with our intimate loved ones, as well as our family and friends are under enormous pressure in this day and age.  Our lives tend to be over-scheduled, over-demanded, over-stimulated and over -determined by expectations in the world and from ourselves.  And we tend to cope by resorting to the most familiar patterns of behavior and a narrow range of responses that are not helpful in meeting the demands.

What if we were to be more conscious about designing the relationships we are in, creating a performance that we would love to be a part of, instead of pressured into, or doing by default.  Using the paradigm of theatre and performance, it is possible to learn to be more of a producer, playwright, director and actor in ones relationship so as to create more flexible, creative and developmental performances.  We can rewrite the play if we exercise the capacity we have to perform creatively. As performers in theatre and movies, one can constantly create and recreate what we do.  We are able to “take two” (or do many more ‘takes’) when our first attempt to communicate did not go so well.  Why can’t we develop that capacity in our every day lives?

In our therapeutic work, we can work together to learn how to break free of being stuck,  and avoid participating in unhealthy, ineffective or self-destructive approaches to our relationships. And very quickly we can begin to develop a repertoire for intimate, effective, more loving and positive interactions with our loved ones. This can be done in the context of shorter term couples and family therapy or ongoing development in our group work.

For more information or to set up a consultation, call me at (404)633-3282 or contact me via my contact page.

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