I've really loved doing it, and I want to encourage anyone who wants to pop in at any point and ask a question, please feel free to do so. Invites are on, and you're welcome to ask any of these very interesting people questions that you might have. But I will kick us off with the grand old question chelsea, what are you doing with your life?
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 3:00
So it's like using theater activities, conventions, but for education purposes, for community building purposes, for a lot of the times, social justice activism. And so that transitioned my interest into going even deeper with healing through dramatic techniques. And so I'm been taking lots of classes, and I'm getting closer, but I know it's going to be a long journey because I have a lot of more practical internship hours
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:19
Hey, Chelsea, thank you so much for doing this. And I love hearing about this. Of course, following you on Swell and hearing you talk, I can gather the sort of things that you do, but it's really nice to hear you talk about them in depth and hear how you feel about them. So interested in in drama therapy. And I think it's such I don't know, such important work. It's such a beautiful way to connect, at least for me
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 4:36
And then I was like, well, I heard one of my classmates from my master's program was going back into the CUNY program and getting her license to become, like, a theater teacher, because right now I have an applied theater a master's in applied theater, but I still don't have any licensing for the teaching credentials. And so I was like, oh, do I want to do that? Should I go back and get that?
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 3:01
So I love that your answer has a bit of both, because as I'm getting older, I realize that how valuable both of those approaches are and how well they work together. Actually, when I feel like so many times they've been presented in opposition, they truly shine when they work together. But that's beautiful. I love the going a step further, and it's not the history, it's like the the actual journey of of healing through through theater
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 4:10
Everyone has their own journey, and it's really complicated, I think, everyone's relationship with money and just the injustice for me, I really have looked at how I view money, and I've learned how I really have an issue with it. I think that I have issues ethically with millionaires and billionaires. There's so many just systematic oppressions that I just went on a very off tangent there. But, yeah, it's a very complicated, complicated topical money
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 2:14
And I will hop on that tangent with you because I think that's kind of where my complicated feelings arise as well, in terms of the ethics of just the system and the fact that billionaires can exist at all. But whatever, we don't need to get into that. What you were saying about having the privilege to choose with your heart, that definitely resonates with me. And I feel so grateful every day that I had a family who supported my artistic endeavors and believed in me. Yeah
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 3:32
Thanks Ro, for having this great chat. And I just really enjoyed this theme. And it's so nice to know that there are other people on this path of self discovery. And looking at it in that way and knowing that we're not we're not alone in this kind of really existential question where you can look at it in that way, like, what am I doing with my life?