What This Talk Offers
This powerful session explores the journey of reconnecting with the creative spark that so often becomes buried under fear, trauma, or self-doubt. Through personal storytelling, myth, and theatrical process, the talk reveals how creativity, courage, and expression are deeply intertwined, and how each of us can begin to reclaim what once felt lost.
1. How the creative spark gets buried and how we begin to find it again
Grief, trauma, and fear can inhibit our ability to express ourselves. Through the ancient story of Persephone and Demeter, we explore a way to regain the energy and vitality, and imagination that went underground. This talk offers insight into how we might be able to using the story of Demeter and Persephone and the symboli
2. Discovering the hero in your own biography
Courage isn’t abstract — it’s something we’ve already lived. In this talk, participants reflect on a moment from their own lives where they showed courage, even when it felt impossible. By turning these moments into embodied characters, we uncover how the creative spark can reignite through truth, presence, and self-recognition.
3. Using myth as a map to navigate your inner landscape
By weaving the myth of Persephone with personal story, this talk shows how myth and theatre give us structure to understand our own creative cycles — from being silenced, to seeking, to returning renewed. It invites the audience to see their lives symbolically, and to use story as a tool for transformation.
4. Reconnecting with the part of you that still calls out
Even when we feel stuck or silenced, a part of us continues to whisper. Through voice, movement, character, and active imagination, this talk helps participants connect to that part — the one that says “help me” — and learn how to respond with creative care. The spark doesn’t disappear. It waits to be found.
Act of the Heart 