This document provides exercises for discovering your personal script. The exercises include imagining yourself as a favorite character, continuing a story or fable by becoming its elements, analyzing dreams by becoming its people and objects, and envisioning your life as a play in scenes from childhood to the future. The purpose is to gain insights from your imagination, dreams, and life experiences without overthinking or censoring your responses.

1. 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 1
Hero or heroine
• Who is your favorite
character?
• It may be someone for a
childhood story.
• Perhaps it is a hero or
heroine from a play,
book or film you
remember.
• Maybe it is a real
person.

5. Exercise 1
Hero or heroine
• Choose the first character
you bring to your mind.
• Be come your chosen
character. Talk about
yourself as long as you
like. Use the word I…
• Ex :Superman.
• Whoever your chosen
character is, now go
ahead, be him or her and
talk about yourself.

6. Exercise 2
Story or Fable
• Choose any story or fable. The
first one you bring to mind is
best. It may be a childhood
fairy tale, a classic myth or
anything else you want.
• You might begin : “ Once upon
a time, there was a beautiful
girl who was sent to sleep for
ages and ages by her evil
stepmother. She lay in a room
deep inside a castle. Round the
castle was a prickly hedge.
Kings and princes cam looking
for the girl, but none of them
was strong enough to hack
through the hedge.”

7. Exercise 2
Story or Fable
• To get more from the story, you
can go on and become each one
of the people and things in the
story.
• From the above story, you could
choose to be the girl, the
stepmother, the room, the castle,
one of the princes or the hedge.
• As the hedge, you might say : “I
am hedge, I am sturdy, rough and
prickly. All my prickles are
pointed outwards, so that people
can’t hack me around. My job is
to protect that young girl who is
asleep inside me.”

8. Exercise 3
Dream
• Choose a dream of yours.
You are likely to learn most
from a recent dream or
one which recurs, but any
dream will do.
• Tell the dream. Relate it in
the present tense, not the
past.
• Then, just as you did with
your story, become each of
the people and things in
the dream and talk about
yourself.

9. Exercise 3
Dream
• Recall how you felt
immediately after you
awoke from the dream.
Was it pleasant or
unpleasant feeling?
• Did you like how the
dream ended? If you did
not, you can continue the
exercise by re-writing your
dream ending.
• Tell the rewritten ending
just as you told the dream,
using the present tense.

10. Exercise 4
Object in the room
• Look around the room.
Choose any object you
see. The best one is the
first one you think of.
• Now be the object and talk
about yourself. For
example : “I am the door. I
am hard, square and
wooden. Sometimes I get
in people’s way. But when I
do, they just push me to
one side…”

11. Exercise 4
Object in the room
• To get even more from
the exercise, ask a
partner to conduct a
conversation with you
as the object you have
chosen.
• The partner is not to
make interpretation. He
is just to talk with you as
the door or fireplace or
whatever you have
chosen.

12. Exercise 4
Object in the room
• “I am the door. When I
stand in people’s way,
they push me aside.”
• “Well, door, how do you
feel when people push
you aside?”
• “I feel angry. But I am a
door and I cant talk. I
just let them do it.”
• “Aha. So is there
anything you want to
change door, to feel
better?”

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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.

16. 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?

17. 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.

18. Thank
You

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