Active Affirmations for Social Spaces
1. Body language: With everyone you encounter, make eye contact, smile, wave, touch a shoulder in a non-threatening way.

2. Breathing: Take time to breathe fully through every activity. When shaking someone’s hand or giving them a hug, take several deep breaths before releasing. They will sense your mindfulness and respond in kind.

3. Vocal stamp: Inside your regular voice another voice is waiting to be born. The voice you need to activate expresses your primal animal self. Howls, grunts, and shrill cries are appropriate.

4. Notice and respond: Your first priority as a Program participant is to engage fully in the world around you, no matter where you might be. Follow what attracts you. If it’s a person, start a conversation or somehow get their attention. If it’s a thing, use all your senses – taste, touch, sight, sound, smell – to experience it in its singularity. Your impulses are your best guides – learn to listen to them.

Presence for Institutional Spaces
You are now an important actor in a universal effort to reduce the mediocre moments in life. Your stage is everywhere, particularly in public buildings where time is compartmentalized and behavior controlled by the obligations of a social contract that privileges profit above all. Action at work or school re-humanizes these impersonal spaces. The element of surprise is essential, as is an attitude of play and hospitality towards those who might like to join in.

Ideas for Action
1. Unleash your vocal stamp whenever you find yourself at a stopping point in your work.

2. Bring the persona you develop during your solitary time to work, school, post office, city hall, etc. Costumes, wigs, and masks set you apart as a force for positive change in the eyes of those you meet.

3. Make art every day, every where.

Presence for Consumer Spaces
The uninspiring quality of most consumer experiences can be attributed to several factors: the need for convenience in a work-obsessed society, the prevalence of motorcars, and, not least, the market dominance of a few massive corporations responsible for a majority of the products offered for sale. Your presence as a committed adherent to the Program brings challenge and play to an otherwise mundane shopping trip. Remember, your own ideas are the best ideas. Every impulse should be pursued and elaborated upon. To get started, though, try this: enter a store in a favorite costume, examine the products for sale, greet shoppers and clerks, and then leave without purchasing anything. You are exercising your power of choice by choosing not to consume today!

Notes on Inappropriate Behavior
You may find that people around you respond to you differently as you begin to fully inhabit your performative self. Strangers may find you fascinating and attractive, or they may attempt to ignore you. Some friends will accompany you on your transformative journey, while others may find change threatening. Part of your growth is discovering who can assist your process.

Social expectations for public behavior don’t really concern us except insofar as their violation can bring about a new perspective. We don’t believe in damaging property or committing illegal actions for the sake of transmitting a message. Actions are a form of liberating public play; the goal is to keep the game going until the action is complete. Creative transgression will occasionally attract the attention of an idle security guard or officer of the law, who generally wish only to be reassured that the interests of their employers are not being compromised.