Our goal is to offer on-going innovative productions with peacebuilding educational programs that serve the greater community and to provide leadership in the use of the creative arts for healing. This includes encouraging others to recognize the role artists play in finding inspiring creative solutions for the challenges we face individually and globally in our rapidly changing times. We invite talent of all ages and crew to join our diverse troupe of visual artists, writers, poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and theater performers as cast and crew.
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An outline of the Peace Nouvella training and production program:
PHASE I: Group Training with Coaching Sessions
First Session A. History and purpose of the Peace Nouvella Players™. B. Program overview as part of the Peace Nouvella™ Educational Program includes: 1. Peace Nouvella™ classes combining the healing, creative, and performing arts. 2. Inner Peace Treaty™ journalingproject. 3. Peace Pulse™ healing arts project.
Second Session NOTE: Each exercise includes time for individual sharing and then group feedback. A. Introductory Self-Awareness Exercises Non-verbal communication awareness and skills training in: Voice tonality, diction, body language, movement and stage presence for interviews, auditions, performances and daily life experiences.
1. Watching and listening with feedback exercise. 2. Share examples of peaceful interactions with ones expressing conflict. 3. Self, other and group awareness defined with examples offered by each person.
B. Simple Meditative Exercises Inner listening and visualization skills to help you develop greater mental clarity, creativity, intuition, and a higher Self trusting awareness in the moment.
1. Guided visualization without music. 2. Guided visualization with music. 3. Self-directed visualization with journaling as record of experience.
Third Session A. Peaceful Life Experiences Interactive skills that bring out the best in your personal communications, performances, and creative presentations working with others in partnership and team.
1. Self-directed visualization with peaceful instrumental music. 2. Journaling as record of the self-directed visualization experience with group sharing. 3. Describe and share examples of peaceful experiences. 4. Describe and share unpeaceful experiences.
B) Confident Life Experiences
1. Self-confidence defined with examples: Alone compared to with others. 2. Each person demonstrates examples of self-confident non-verbal/verbal postures. 3. Discussion about each person’s examples of non-verbal/verbal confident postures.
Fourth Session Self-motivated Experiences: Self-directed motivational skills for dealing with both on and off stage performance "jitters" and a sustained ability to consistently experience inner peaceful calm, confident poise and greater harmony with others in real life circumstances.
1. Describe experiences when you were really nervous and then overcame it. 2. Group feedback and discussion of examples.
PHASE II: Continued Group Training with Coaching Sessions & Performance Development, Rehearsals with visual arts components as artwork, scenery, costumes, stage props, and promotions:
Fifth Session Peaceful and Unpeaceful Experiences:
1. Improvisational exercises expressing peaceful harmony. 2. Improvisational exercises expressing unpeaceful disharmony. 3. Group feedback and discussion of improvisational exercises. 4. Peace Pulse™ demonstration and exercises. 5. Individualize Coaching Survey Form filled out before session six.
Sixth Session The Characteristics of a Peace Nouvella Player™
1. Opening meditation. 2. Follow-up discussion and feedback on individual coaching sessions. 3. Handout discussion of the characteristics as: Trust, honesty, tolerance, patience, gentleness, non-defensiveness, open-mindedness, kindness etc.
Individualize Coaching – by appointment
1. Performance coaching: Voice diction and projection for presentations. Movement for confident stage presence. Overcoming anxiousness prior to and during presentations.
2. Life Skills coaching: Goal setting. Time management. Interpersonal communications skills development.
3. Peace Nouvella™ coaching: Leadership skills development. Teambuilding and group skills. Inspiration, intuition and creative expression.
PHASE III: Rehearsals, Performance and Visual Arts Presentation:
Development of Performance Presentations to include:
1. Improvisational exercises and simple "skits and bits" as "peace nouvella™ short scripts. 2. Development of presentations to include; adapted scripts, set design, and music. 3. Interpersonal and performance communications skills development. 4. Performance before a live audience.
