To Be and How to Be: Transforming Your Life Through Sacred Theatre

A star is born, and that star is you! Author and renown workshop leader Peggy Rubin brings her twenty years of experience coaching professionals in Sacred Theatre to deliver dynamic and creative visioning methods for perceiving your life as a grand and ever-changing play. Shakespeare’s immortalized words "all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players” exemplifies the heart of this book’s empowering message. Like characters in a play, each of us wears an assortment of costumes and embodies multiple persona. ‘Parent’, ‘spouse’, ‘boss’ and ‘customer’ are a few of the many familiar “parts” the average person might play through the course of a typical day. To Be and How to Be: Transforming Your Life through Sacred Theatre demonstrates how to transform these roles, bringing realization and adventure to your divine purpose. There are nine powers in Rubin’s ‘Sacred Theatre’: The Power of Incarnation, The Power of Story, The Power of Place, The Power of Now, The Power of Expression, The Power of Point of View, The Power of Conflict, The Power of Audience and The Power of Celebration are explained in detail with rich personal testimonies, artistic exercises and uplifting poems, allowing the reader to realize and engage life’s deeper purpose. Exercises such as Explore Who You Really Are and meditations from Buddhist greats like Thich Nhat Hanh enable readers to view their lives with greater clarity and to become champions of their own destiny. To Be and How to Be also offers vivid descriptions of theatre’s eight most prominent plots, demonstrating how these plots are so often played out daily life. Understanding scenarios such as the classic story of seduction The Spider and the Fly and trying relationship entanglements such as the infamous Triangle allow the reader to identify and resolve personal real-life patterns. We all enact a sacred plays fit with drama, antagonists, props and plots. This book directs us how to be in the midst of them. To Be and How to Be is an enlivening visioning guide for the individual and group work alike!

300 pages

About the author: Peggy (Margaret) Rubin is Founding Director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Primary activities of the Center include the creation of workshops in Living Life as Sacred Theatre, most often within the context of studies of the Divine Feminine. Peggy has led Sacred Theatre workshops in many locations in the United States, as well as Australia, New Zealand and The Netherlands. Peggy is also the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D., in Dr. Houston’s worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies. For the past eight years, she has also been a member of the core faculty of the School for Social Artistry, an intensive leadership training program. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy Rubin has presented classes, workshops and trainings throughout the United States, and in Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Egypt, The Netherlands, India, West Africa, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jamaica, and on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, in Albania, St. Lucia, Barbados, The Philippines, Kenya, and most recently the Republic of Maldives. Before joining Dr. Houston’s staff in 1987, Peggy was for 14 years the Public Information and Education Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the largest classical repertory companies in the United States. Before that she was a bank executive for First Western Bank in Los Angeles. She has also been a teacher of English, a freelance writer and editor, an actor and director. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas, and has taken courses, primarily in Economics, at the University of California at Los Angeles, and in Environmental Studies at Southern Oregon University. She has studied extensively with Elaine De Beauport, Ph.D., founder of the Mead Institute, leading teacher of humanistic and behavioral applications of current brain/mind research; and with William Emerson, Ph.D., pioneer in the field of pre and peri-natal psychology, and its importance in understanding human development. For more info visit www.sacredtheatre.org