Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 45: Originate with Micah Ellars

<p>No matter where you&#39;re at there was an origin, where seeds were planted, successful and failed experiments were made. Exploring how things have grown and developed gives the explorer a sense of place, coherence, and greater self awareness. </p><p>In this episode of <em>Beth of Fresh Air</em>, I&#39;m sitting down with <strong>Micah Ellars</strong> to hear more of his origin story and explore how his years in filmmaking, acting, directing, and acting coaching eventually led him to use those same tools with people who have no particular desire to become actors at all.</p><p>Instead of &#39;name and fame&#39;, they want to remember themselves.</p><p>We&#39;ll talk about Micah&#39;s journey through film and acting, including his recent work as an actor in a film, and how his understanding of the craft has evolved through his years in &quot;the Work&quot; of self-remembering.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/z1sKsItZ-PE?si=M47h1ygy27h8zgVR">Watch the trailer of Micah&#39;s recent role in A True Myth</a></p><p>In the interview we&#39;ll exploring these questions:</p><ul><li>What is the difference between <strong>mechanical acting and conscious acting</strong>?</li><li>Why can someone who doesn&#39;t care about becoming a &quot;good actor&quot; sometimes become a better one?</li><li>Why is repetition the mother of skill?</li><li>And what happens to a human being when extreme self-consciousness takes over?</li></ul><p>We&#39;ll get into the <strong>King archetype and the nature of real agency</strong>, including an announcement about a new event we&#39;re creating around the King.</p><p>And then we&#39;ll take you behind the scenes of one of the most interesting experiments Micah and I have been doing together.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Self Remembering With Archetypes</strong></p><p>Earlier this year, we ran the first-ever <strong>Self Remembering With Archetypes</strong> workshop series, combining archetypal work, self-remembering, acting mechanics, scene work, and deprogramming.</p><p>It showed us something extraordinary.</p><p>Acting mechanics make the <strong>False Personalities more easy to see</strong>.</p><p>The archetypes reveal the <strong>architecture that False Personalities organize themselves within</strong>, while scene work allows us to actually embody that architecture and experience it firsthand.</p><p>We&#39;ll discuss how once you put these personalities on the stage, you begin to see the comedy, the drama, and sometimes the absolute horro