Javier A. Tabush

          During meta-dialogue number seven, I had an interesting connection with two movies, one called “The Cabin in the Woods”, and another one called “Guerreras Urbanas”, which was a student project that Javier Parellada’s sister made a couple of months ago and we helped her do it. One of the questions that rose up was that if our reality is something manipulated by an outside, much advanced civilization, and here is where I made the connection. In the first movie I mentioned, a bunch of scientists put a group of teenagers in a cabin and abnormal events start to occur. Spoiler alert! At the end of the movie we figure out that all of these events are controlled by the scientists, I also related a little to the Hunger Games. I find this completely amazing, but scary at the same time. What if someone is controlling our lives right now and everything is happening because this outside force wants it to happen? What if we live in some sort of video game? I know it may sound crazy but, who can tell if it is or if it isn’t possible?

          The other movie I mentioned is about the same thing basically. A group of girls with different psychological defects are placed in a house as a scientific experiment, and there is an outsider scientist (which I had the honor to play) controlling and watching everything that happens inside the house.
 

          Spontaneous order; there is not one specific someone needed to establish organization. I can relate this to the small societies I talked about before, but I can relate them by saying that they are completely the opposite because they are working due to the outside or external minds even though they don’t know it. I still believe that the spontaneous order may work, and it probably is a better way for a society, organization, religious group, or any other group of people to work in much fluent and creative way since creativity and spontaneity are the common factors.

          These subjects now drive us to the next meta-dialogue and the way of communicating with others. I feel that our dialogue on Difficult Conversations was extremely good, especially because we tried to use different ways of learning and communicating to each other instead of doing the typical dialogue we always do. I would also like to connect the topic on communication with the play we’re doing, 12 Angry Men, and much impact it has on our daily lives. During the meta-dialogue we spoke on how NOT trying to understand others has cause so many problems in the world. Just like Bohm, he thinks that dialogue can eventually change the world IF we try to understand each other.

          Today, April 7th I had an amazing opportunity to have lunch with a Franciscan priest and I had THE aha moment so far in my MPC journey. We were having a really interesting conversation about finding your vocation and how important it is to follow what your true passion is. So, I decided to mention Let Your Life Speak and surprisingly he knew the author, Parker J. Palmer. He told me that one of his friends was using Palmer’s work to make an education program for teaching students. I was completely astounded on the serendipity of my situation and how I made the right comment at the right time. I never actually understood how Pablito always talked about the serendipitous moments in life until this time.

          Going back to spontaneous order, I want to connect it to my acting class, specifically the one where we did the improvisation exercises. The exercises consisted on forming groups of four people and having random characters with one random situation and building a scene with one minute of planning. I feel that these exercises help create spontaneous order and build trust within the students since it takes out of our comfort zone involving other people as well.

          Throughout the acting classes that I’ve given so far we’ve been trying to learn how to really capture  the essence of the character that you are playing and the exercises I mentioned before help us a lot to achieve that.  Since you have so little time to do it you have to pick the key traits and actions that identify the character and then put a little bit of you into it.