Host: Brown Cotton Outreach
Presents: Inner Theatre with Ellen O’Malley Camps
Discipline: Acting, Theatre, Psychology
Skill Level: Beginners
Description: A pioneer in the arts and social activism, Ellen is a qualified counsellor who helps individuals, groups and organisations reach their full potential. Join her for a Personal Development and Transformation journey in the comfort of your own chosen space.
Camps’ Creative Visualizations and Guided Imageries combine Theatre insights and techniques with those of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. They are not intended as therapy or mediation sessions.
The focus will be on Identification as the essential first step towards Dis-Identification … of ‘moving on’, of ‘letting go’. The sessions will create an opportunity for personality insight and transpersonal awareness allowing you to experience vividly and powerfully that you are infinitely more than whatever you think you are.
The sessions will increase your awareness of the interplay and interdependence between:
- Body: What is conveyed/learned through an inner body/physical exploration.
- Feelings: What is conveyed/learned through an inner emotional exploration.
- Mind: What is conveyed/learned through an inner mental exploration.
You are the only person you can empower, transform. release, forgive, let go, move on, and celebrate!
This four-part weekly visualization and guided imagery series will take place under the guidance of Ellen who is a highly trained and knowledgeable practitioner. It will be followed with time to discuss and process the experience.
Duration: 16th November – 11th December, 2020
Days | Times: Mondays – Thursdays | 8AM – 9AM [EST] (4 sessions per cycle)
- Cycle 1: Monday 16th – Thursday 19th November 2020
- Cycle 2: Monday 23rd – Thursday 26th November 2020
- Cycle 3:Monday 30th November – Thursday 3rd December 2020
- Cycle 4: Monday 7th – Thursday 11th December 2020
Location: Online (Google Meet)
Facilitator: Ellen O’Malley Camps
Ellen O’Malley Camps/Helen Camps has worked regionally and internationally as a human enrichment facilitator, counsellor, teacher/director and trainer/facilitator in both the public and private sectors.
She has been in the theatre since 1967 when she joined Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Trinidad Theatre Workshop and worked as an actor, adapter (Stage, T.V, Radio), script/continuity and costumes (Film).
In the 70’s she co-founded the Trinidad & Tobago Housewives Association (H.A.T.T), set up a production company (All Theatre Productions), helped rebuild and establish the Little Carib Theatre as a theatre space with a technical and administrative infrastructure.
In the 80’s, she founded the experimental Trinidad Tent Theatre Company, which attempted to create a style and theatrical form suited to the resources and the realities of the Caribbean.
During her training period at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London she was invited to lead participants at the World Conference on New Psychologies & Psychotherapies (Findhorn, Scotland -1989) in an exploration of national symbols, celebrations and rituals in order to raise consciousness to the possibilities for re-visioning, personal development and transformation inherent in ritual, theatre and performance art.
In the 90’s she read for and received her BA and MA in theology (Trinity College, Dublin) while co-directing the Irish Goodwill Street Theatre project. During this period she also devoted time to her private practice as a Psychosynthesis counsellor.
In 2000 she founded and became first artistic director of St. Lucia’s Téyat Toutafé and in 2004 she co-founded (with Louris and Wayne Lee-Sing) Trinidad’s Brown Cotton Tent Theatre Ensemble, where she became the artistic director. Both companies worked and trained out of a tent with aims and objectives akin to the Trinidad Tent Theatre Company.
Camps is a recent director for the Network of NGOs of Trinidad & Tobago for the Advancement of Women and lecturer at the Creative Arts & Festival Centre UWI, St. Augustine.
She also established (with Louris and Wayne Lee-Sing) EMERJ Associates a company working out of a restorative justice philosophy dedicated to human enrichment, empowerment and transformation. In June 2011 EMERJ Associates and Brown Cotton Tent Theatre Ensemble merged to become Brown Cotton Outreach (incorporated as a not-for-profit NGO).
About: Brown Cotton Outreach
Brown Cotton Outreach is a not-for-profit capacity building NGO which applies a unique and culturally appropriate process in all its training programmes, workshops, seminars and interventions.
This unique and culturally appropriate process now called “Theatre for the Real World’ continues the “Carnival Theatre” training process, which began with the original Trinidad Tent Theatre Company .
The process combines the personal empowerment and leadership training techniques of Theatre, West Indian Folk and Carnival traditions with the personality profile and assessment modules of the Enneagram and DJA, the insights of Psychosynthesis as well as Mediation/Conflict Resolution techniques.
Brown Cotton Outreach’s training programmes empower participants transferring expertise and encouraging self-reliance and confidence.
The focus is always “right relationship” and “best communication” practices based on a Restorative Justice and Gender paradigm of interconnectedness and interrelatedness.
Both process and focus help create an environment of human enrichment facilitating openness to the Transpersonal – to a search for a meaningful life beyond survival.
Cost: $600 TTD / $85 USD per cycle
Key Dates:
- Registration Begins: 9th November 2020 | 4PM [EST]
- Registration Ends: 11th December 2020 | 7PM [EST]
Workshop details submitted by: Louris Lee-Sing
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