CREATE PLAY GROW
Current Workshops
“What is most personal is most universal”
— Carl L Rogers
All workshops and groups are held in person in Los Angeles. For information regarding pricing, availability and registration please fill out our interest form.
“Lara served as an instrument to this work, at times quite literally, consistent in her ability to make me feel safe to explore as she played with me, (yes, played!) danced with me, laughed with me, cried with me, and challenged me, always, to keep searching myself. She was a partner, a friend and a guide through my journey. This was the most pleasant surprise I found in taking this course.”
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Stories in Motion:
A Transformational Performance Experience
Starting Sunday, September 6 - Nov 8th
Sunday afternoons 1:00am-3:30pm
This 10-week workshop invites you to explore your personal story through a unique blend of expressive arts practices. Through guided improvisation, creative writing, movement exploration, and ensemble-building exercises, you will transform lived experiences into an original performance piece. The process is designed to foster self-discovery, creative expression, and personal growth while cultivating a supportive community. Stay creatively active when you're not working or use it as a way to stay accountable and create a piece you can continue to develop in the future!
Your piece will range anywhere from 15-40 minutes that honors your individual journey using the creative process as a pathway toward greater empowerment and authenticity that translates both on stage and off.
The workshop culminates in a final performance where you will have the opportunity to share your original work with an audience, celebrating the courage, creativity, and transformation that emerge when personal stories are brought to life through movement and performance.
This workshop is suited to artists of all kinds who are curious, reflective and generative with a desire to be seen. Each person's piece will be completely different depending on your strengths. Some may be more movement based while others will rely more on text, or music. All performance styles are encouraged.
You'll leave with:
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An original performance piece inspired by your own story ranging from 15 -30 minutes
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Greater confidence in your creative voice
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New tools for movement, storytelling, and self-expression
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A stronger connection to yourself and others
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The experience of being witnessed through your art
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A supportive artistic community
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Greater freedom to take up space, share your perspective, and express who you are
$795 for the 10 week workshop. Early bird pricing until August 7th $750 (installments OK)
Cost includes, 10, 2.5 hour workshops plus 1 performance in a theater in LA with video recording.
Click below to schedule a chat and find out more! Space is limited to a small group.
The Messy Artist
Club
Feeling Stuck, overwhelmed, or isolated in your creative journey?
This group is your antidote: part support circle, part creative playground.
Being an artist of any kind means carrying a well of imagination, but also unique challenges—self-doubt, burnout and blocks. This group is a safe, supportive space designed just for artists and creatives to explore, express, and restore.
Through expressive arts techniques such as drama therapy, movement, storytelling, and journalling you will:
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Reconnect with play and spontaneity
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Transform inner struggles into creative expression
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Build resilience and self-trust
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Share the journey with a community that understands the artistic life
✨ Come as you are. Leave with deeper grounding, insight, and inspiration for your art and your life.
We meet once a week on Sundays at 11am for 1.5 hours in person
$150/month or $40.00 drop in
Embodied Support Group for
Parents: Playfulness is a Mindset
Rediscover your joy, release stress, and reconnect with your playful side.
This group is a safe, creative space designed just for moms—whether you’re seeking community, easing anxiety, or simply craving time to breathe, laugh, and be yourself.
Through movement, storytelling, and guided exercises, you’ll:
✨ Boost joy and playfulness
✨ Build supportive community
✨ Find calm and ease in your body
✨ Reduce stress and anxiety
No movement or acting experience needed—just an open heart. 💜
Meeting time TBD but we meet once a week for 1.5 hours
$150/month or $40.00 drop in individual/ $50 per couple
Acting To Heal:
Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance
This 12 week workshop invites you to create and perform your own original piece, crafted from the raw material of your life. Guided in a supportive, creative space, you’ll transform personal experiences into powerful performance, blending honesty, artistry, and imagination.
At the end of the journey, you’ll step on stage and share your piece with a live audience—an act of courage, creativity, and transformation.
You’ll gain:
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A completed self-created 20-30 minute performance piece
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Tools for effective storytelling, improvisation, and performance-making
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A sense of agency in your ability to create a shift in perspective
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Greater sense of confidence and worthiness
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Deeper self-understanding of harmful patterns
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The courage to be fully seen and heard as your authentic self
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A supportive community of fellow explorers and a sense of belonging
Your guide, Lara Gold will support you every step of the way—helping you transform your lived experiences into a powerful, original performance. Through a blend of expressive arts including writing prompts, improvisational exercises, role play, and movement, I’ll guide you in discovering the story you’re ready to tell and the most authentic way to bring it to life on stage. Together, we’ll shape your raw material into a performance piece that reflects your truth while honoring your unique artistic voice.
You’ll be held in a supportive, nonjudgmental space where vulnerability becomes strength, and performance becomes transformation.
*A brief interview with the facilitator will be required to register
Developmental Transformations
Let’s face it, the world is unstable and the only constant is change, right? So let’s get used to it--together! DvT uses embodied improvisational play to help lower our fear and anxiety of the instabilities of life and open up to alternative ways of engaging with ourselves and others through joyful and playful encounters. Historically rooted in drama therapy, DvT is now a life practice accessible to ANYONE, even YOU!
Check out these YouTube Links to watch and learn more.
Corporate
We provide in-person team building and creativity workshops using proven improvisational techniques to help with team-building, generating new ideas and practicing communicating with confidence and clarity. We travel to companies all over Southern California to provide unforgettable experiences and memories for your employees. Let’s play!
Continuing Education
DTX provides groups and workshops listed below for mental health professionals and Drama Therapy students who would like enhance their education or current practice. Courses provide the opportunity for psychotherapists, and allied professionals, to learn how to facilitate action-oriented and creative arts therapy processes and apply artful and effective therapeutic interventions with their clients.
CEU's are available for licensed professionals in the State of California and elective credits can be attained by students on the Drama Therapy alternative track.