The Kintsugi Circle











Ask any actor, athlete or soldier and they will tell you the place where they experience real joy and personal growth is in the rehearsal room, on the practice field or on the training ground.

The performance, the game and the battle are merely opportunities to show that growth to other people.

When you commit your participants, clients, volunteers or staff to an on-going immersion in rehearsal and reading with Broken Shoulders, you are opening them to a
self-leadership experience we call
a Kintsugi Circle. 

 

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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of pottery rejoining.

This rejoining of shattered pieces is done with gold- or silver-dusted lacquer, thereby highlighting rather than hiding the cracks between pieces and enforcing a new vision of the piece in which beauty is found in the now-flawed, but repaired bowls, pots and cups.

So it can be for the scars and wounds in human beings.

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A Kintsugi Circle at Broken Shoulders is a regularly meeting group of people dedicated to discovering, rejoining, and being inspired by their wounds.

We begin with a reading of one play conducted by the Project's experienced readers, followed by discussion and the assigning of participants to roles in a different play to be read at the next meeting. All subsequent meetings involve only the participants reading, reacting and connecting with that meeting's play.





It’s in these rehearsals that
The Broken Shoulders Project
expresses its true uniqueness
from all other organizations.