Imagine you are in a theatre. You are waiting for a play to start. This play is your very own life story. What kind of play is this you are going to watch? Is it comedy, a tragedy? Is it high drama or a kitchen sink opera? Is it interesting or boring, heroic or matter of fact – or what?

1. See your life as a play
Discovering your own script

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Discovering your own script
• Dreams, fantasies, fairy tales
and childhood stories can all
give us clues to our script.
• While you do these exercises,
let your imagination run fee.
• Don’t bother thinking what
they are for or what they
mean.
• Don’t censor or try to figure
our what you are supposed
to say.
• Just accept your first images
and feelings that may come
with them.

4. Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Imagine you are in a
theatre. You are waiting
for a play to start. This
play is your very own life
story.
• What kind of play is this
you are going to watch?
Is it comedy, a tragedy?
Is it high drama or a
kitchen sink opera? Is it
interesting or boring,
heroic or matter of fact
– or what?

5. Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Is the theatre full, half
empty or empty? Are
the audience going to
be enthralled or
bored? Happy or sad?
Are they going to
applaud or walk out –
or what?
• What is the title of this
play of yours- your
very own life story?

6. Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Curtain is opening and
this is the very first
scene of your life.
• You were very young.
What do you see around
you? Who is there? Do
you see faces and the
expression in faces?
• What do you hear? Be
aware of what do you
feel.

7. Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Scene changes and now
you are a young child of
three to six years old.
• Where are you? What
can you see around
you? Are there other
people there? Who is
there?
• Are they saying anything
to you? Are you saying
anything to them? Do
you hear any other
sounds?

8. Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Similarly, go through
teenage, adulthood,
the present age and
ten years in the future.
• The last scene of your
play – your death
scene. How old are
you in this last scene?
• Share your experience
to the group.

9. Thank You

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