23/11/2019
Had the pleasure of attending a Dramatherapy Wales conference yesterday.
All of it was fab but as I woke this morning the mantra of the fantastic keynote speaker/performer Clown Holly Stoppit.
The mantra she uses to help people move towards authenticity as they clown together is ...
"I don't know what I'm doing but it's ok"
When you were a naive child you were incompetent in every way and your response was to be curious and playful. So often as adults we labour under the idea that we must be competent at everything and the result is we stop playing, stop taking risks, stop learning and ... stop living.
So perhaps when you find yourself feeling unskilled, incompetent and awkward, try repeating Holly's mantra to yourself.
She did caution two scenarios where it's not appropriate ... driving and brain surgery.
