333 - Facilitating with Fabric, Feeling, and Freedom with Paula Short

A Mary Poppins’ bag of glitter, a big beating drum, a lump of clay, and a shiny gold crown. Bringing her wonderful, precious collection of props to the show, is the brilliant Paula Short.

As a personal development psychotherapist, talented actress, and the founder of a 1997 youth centre, facilitation has been a guiding constant in Paula’s life and work. Now as a self-exploration retreat host, she facilitates deep transformation through the expressive arts, helping people to welcome unchartered emotions without shame.

We explore how donning the cloak of the villain in a fictional story can become an embodied breakthrough, why the collective support of the group can be liquid gold, and why Paula has such an issue with tissues.

A special, heartfelt conversation – join us!

Find out about:

• How roleplay, costumes and props can help us to access buried feelings and emotions
• The importance of letting emotions free-flow without interruption, or ‘tidying’ them away
• How Paula create safe containers for self-exploration through play
• Navigating our trauma responses, and why we must learn to trust our own vulnerabilities  
• Normalising say ‘no’ – and why doing so gives us autonomy, helps us reconnect to our boundaries, and signals emotional safety to others

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