Who created The Game of Story ~ Telling Tales?

He was born sensitive. The nearby realms were nearer for him. He saw the untold truth and fabrication, and the systems of discord they produced. He screamed but was not heard. They cut out his vocal cords. But he learned to sing again. He christened his steps to school and back with tears until they blotted those too. So he began his journey into becoming a master of the arts. He learned how to act. With a voice he had to fashion from scarred vocal cords, he learned to sing. And he was heard. And his mask was a shield. And his voice was his sword. But they were not the voice nor the face with which he was born.

His mastery, the inevitable control borne of being the conscious creator of a new voice, gave forth sweet answers to the audience’s ear. They were destined to, for the audience’s ear was the object of his fashioning. He created a voice that wanted to be heard by the ‘other’. It was a voice he had made. Not his own. But he was rewarded for its song. They lifted him up and lent power to his sword and shield. Behind which he was all the while hiding.

He sang to the Pope in Rome.

His gifts favored arts and he walked a long journey that spanned music, acting, dance, physical theatre, film and television production, non-fiction writing, scriptwriting, directing and producing, curriculum development, children’s book and short story fiction writing, photography and visual art.

He completed a Journalism Honours degree in television and film production. He followed this with an honours degree in the dramatic arts, specializing in physical theatre, dance choreography, and scriptwriting. He later received a master’s degree for his exploration of the parallels between performance training and shamanic practices and completed his academic journey with a Ph.D. in philosophy, exploring ethics in embodiment practices in actor training and the use of self-enquiry and narrative tools to address concerns.

He produced, on his own or in collaboration, courses, processes, and products across a broad spectrum of tertiary education fields and for the corporate and public sectors with titles that include: Fluxing: The Ebb and Flow of Contact Improvisation, ACTivation: Playing Your Self, Existential Musing: The Art of Sovereign Sense-making, Self as Source, SourceworX: For Women Who Work, The Ama-Plus-Plus HIV Inversion Experience, Mantra’s in Motion: Move Your Body, Move Your World, Bioenergetic Healing of the Metascape, The LightCatcher Chronicles, Gardens of the Soul, The SoulSong Journey, and The Game of Story.

One day, he chose to hide no more. He put down his sword and shield. He surrendered to himself and set out on the path of unbecoming. He has yet to return.