Coming in 2024
Online Masterclasses | Self Paced
Bring rich, believable characters to life.
Assess gaps and strengths in your current process. Learn how self-awareness impacts a character's relationships with others, with the audience, and with you. With Character Mapping, nothing is left out.
Masterclass Topics Available Now as Customized Coaching for Groups & Individuals
An Integral View of Human Living
With Integral Theory as the foundation, Character Mapping lays out a comprehensive overview of the character’s world. Learn the four primary dimensions of human experiences and the research tools that best support backstory choices
Ties That Bind: Family Legacies & Social Roles
Learn how to quickly create a family tree that tracks relational dynamics across generations and through the present day. Discover how ethnic and cultural influences are broken down into common priorities, and master the dysfunctional relational rules that drive a character’s familial and social roles.
Systems of Selves
Develop layered characters, master the complex rules that govern inner selves, and learn how to avoid stereotypes. Identify core wounds and gifts driving motivations and internal conflicts. Apply unconscious “shadow work” and personality typing systems to the character’s story arc.
Survival, Attachment, Power & Control
Delve into the childhood attachment styles and wounds that inform a wide range of survival strategies and adult intimacy patterns. The shame accompanying attachment traumas and the underlying drive for power and control are illustrated in depth.
Myths About Madness
Discover new perspectives on common mental health diagnoses and the latest findings about the emotional brain and nervous system. Learn to distinguish between “Big T” and “little t” traumas, and identify the most common life experiences that bring out the best and worst in any character
Using Your Craft for Artistic Health
Identify the parts of you that block or support creative flow. Transform your relationship to procrastination, perfectionism, striving, insecurities, and rejection. Preserve and improve psychological health when taking on challenging characters. Learn tools for harvesting the character's gifts and releasing their burdens.
