INVITATION TO CONVERSATION No. 2

The Emotion Centre

March 7th, 2021

With Dr Russell Schreiber, Jesai Jayhmes and Anthony Blake
Music provided by Ruben Yessayan, technical support Jason Joslyn


This will be the second of our present series ‘Invitation to Conversation’. Each session is an experiment seeking ways to explore a topic and involve participants. The format is evolving and depends very much on the key contributors involved. The word ‘invitation’ is important, it’s saying please join our gathering but only if you want to. We urge all those who do not find what we do ‘corresponding’ for them to ignore our DuVersity Online and find something else that pleases them. Our gatherings are meetings of friends joining together to share what they can within the limits of what we can set up to do.

In this our next session, we are fortunate in being able to bring together the perspectives of Russell Schreiber, a practising therapist with a long background in 4th way practices and Jesai Jayhmes, a theatre director and actor. The scope of the subject is vast, and we cannot begin to do more than scratch the surface. We hope you will not be too frustrated by the limited glimpse we can provide. Our hope is that you can make use of our material. This is nothing to do with good or bad, right or wrong, etc.

Please reflect on your own experience and searchings and on the extract Russell provides here, taken from his book. The 4th way puts strong emphasis on the feeling centre and its central importance in our transformation. But little has been done to develop the idea and effective practices and there are many confusions of terminology which do not help.

The session is divided roughly into two main parts. After some introductory material the three of us will engage in conversation. It is not an interview nor is it scripted. Participants are invited to put in comments and questions to Jesai and he is tasked with the job of bringing in ideas from this to put into the conversation (only he will see the remarks). The conversation opens up to all participants in an open forum. After the forum the session will close with an input from Jesai taken from his current work in staging King Lear.