THE MAX – Stretching the Limits of Your Self-Expression

with Paula Shaw

The purpose of THE MAX is to discover yourself beyond who you know yourself to be. It is a formidable voyage through your own humanity—a journey to turn yourself inside out and discover the extent of your self-expressive power. Employing a variety of acting, communication and observation techniques, it’s designed to expand your limits, quite literally 'to the max' and move you into a new arena of personal creativity and self-expression.

During THE MAX, participants will be undertaking a challenging exploration of the sources of their emotional limitations, Working individually on a stage, each person is encouraged and supported to go at their own pace, playing to and with other group members. With strong guidance, people move through lifelong fears of being ‘on the spot’, emerging into greater authenticity and enhanced presence.

There are a rich variety of exercises that use raw emotion, role-playing, and challenging dressing-up assignments. This is an opportunity to experience yourself in ways you may have dreamed about but never thought possible. The game is risk. The premise: You're either daring or dead. THE MAX is not for the faint hearted, indeed it is specifically for those committed and courageous in their process. However, it is also full of heart, humour and irreverence, constructed with the understanding that this kind of risk taking requires a very safe workspace. If your heart beats faster when you think of taking THE MAX, it may be just be the thing to do.

THE MAX – It’s Like An Epiphany...

If you are ready to do surgery on your soul and simultaneously throw your
life up in the air to see how the chips fall, this is the workshop to take.
THE MAX is transformation, shape-shifting of the highest order, an absolute must for those
who want to mine the very depths and come racing back to the surface with armfuls of treasure.
If you want to feel the pulse of life, this is how! 

Naomi Lewis - Educational Director, The Sacred Trust