More Joy
an experiment in expanding human awareness
Famous Accountants
We Are @ NURTUREart
910 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY
August 18 – August 22
Noon – 8pm
So, what exactly is this? It's a series of encounter groups, specifically an exploration of the encounter group techniques outlined by William. C. Shutz in his book Joy: Expanding Human Awareness. Will Schutz was a resident at Esalan from 1967 to 1971 where he lead numerous encounter groups. Famous Accountants will occupy NURTUREart for 5 days and host 4 encounter group sessions (consult the calendar below for those times) and reserve a slot. The maximum number of particpants is 12. There are two evening sessions and two day time ones. Ideally an encounter group would consist of 6 to 12 people who would participate in a program that would last a week. The exercise involved are outlined in detail below. But in this context, as a part of We Are, we are experimenting with a freeform approach of short 2 hour sessions. However, there are two basic rules: You have to stay for at least two hours on each visit; and, you have to particpiate. In fact, you will be directly engaged if you enter the room. No passive onlookers. If you are not a participant you will be asked to leave. And since encouter group techniques are designed for small groups, generally 6 to 12 people, the maximum number of people allowed in the room at any given time will be be 12. If we a session has less than 12 people we will accomodate a walk-in but it is in your interest that you reserve a two hour slot by emailing us here: moreandmorejoy@gmail.com.
Where is it? More Joy will happen at NURTUREart as a part of We Are. NURTUREart is located at 910 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.
When is it? Thursday, August 18 to Monday, August 22. Famous Accountants will occupy NURTUREart from 12 to 8pm during that time. There are four encounter group sessions. Consult the calendar at the bottom to select one. Reserve that time by emailing us here: moreandmorejoy@gmail.com . The program of encounter group techniques we will draw from is outlined below. The rest of the time we will be here avaailiable to discuss the project and conduting other possible experiments in expanding human awareness.
How do I participate? Email us and reserve a two hour slots as you like. Consult the calendar at the bottom of this page. We will accommodate walk-ins if we can but, again, as noted above, you will be expected to stay for two hours and participate. No passive onlookers. Also, we will limit the group at any time to 12 people. So reserving a slot is in your best interst. Email your reservation here: moreandmorejoy@gmail.com
"The true initiation is one that never ends."
Calendar Of Sessions
Below is a calendar of all the sessions. There are 15 two hour slots. Each session is limited to 12 people. You can sign up for as many sessions as you like. If there are fewer than 12 people in a session we might see if it's possible to combine those sessions. We will accomodate walk-in if there are fewer than 12 below. BUT, PLEASE, COME AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION.
RESERVATIONS: moreandmorejoy@gmail.com
| time/day | Wednesday, August 17 | Thursday, August 18 | Friday, August 19 | Saturday, August 20 | Sunday, August 21 | Monday, August 22 |
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| Noon | ||||||
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| 3pm | Session 2 | Session 3 | ||||
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| 7pm | Session 1 | Open Reception | Session 4 | |||
| 8pm | ||||||
| 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
The Program
This is the full program of encounter group techniques we will explore. In any two hour session we will explore sets of 3 - 5 of these exercises. Over the course of 5 days we will draw from the exercise on the chart below. These exercises were taken from Will Schutz's Joy: Expanding Human Awareness
| The Body — Physical Release (p39) |
The Body — Backlift (p41) |
The Body — Beating (p47) |
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| Personal Functioning — Freeing or Acquisition — The Fantasy Game (p65) |
Personal Functioning — Freeing or Acquisition — Doubling (p67) |
Personal Functioning — Association — Free Association (p72) |
Personal Functioning — Association — Humming (p74) |
Personal Functioning — Expression — Dyads (p80) |
Personal Functioning — Perseverance — It's been done before (p88) |
| Personal Functioning — Freeing or Acquisition — Body Position (p66) |
Personal Functioning — Freeing or Acquisition — Alone Time (p69) |
Personal Functioning — Association — Essence (p74) |
Personal Functioning — Expression — Wordless Meeting (p79) |
Personal Functioning — Evaluation — Bodily Feel (p83) |
Personal Functioning — Dramatic and Fantasy Methods — Lost Person (p90) |
| Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Making Contact/Feeling Space (p138) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Making Contact/Literal Representation (p139) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — New Names (p143) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Miling (p150) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — The Encounter (p158) |
Personal Functioning — Dramatic and Fantasy Methods — Fantasy/Guided Daydream (p101) |
| Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Making Contact/Blind Milling (p 138) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Making Contact/Bumping (p 139) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Break In (p 147) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Non-verbal Communication Dyad (p 153) |
Interpersonal Relations — Inclusion — Group Fantasy (p 161) |
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| Interpersonal Relations — Control — Physical Confrontation (p 175) |
Interpersonal Relations — Control — Pushing (p 188) |
Interpersonal Relations — Control — Breaking Out (p 190) |
Interpersonal Relations — Affection — Give And Take Affection (p 198) |
Interpersonal Relations — Affection — Roll and Rock (p 203) |