It all began by drawing.
Since I was very young, my mom made sure that I had a good stock of white sheets of paper on one side, and on the other with the script of the project I was working on at the time. She worked a lot in television as an actress, especially during my childhood, which allowed me to draw in those scripts all the dinosaurs, dragons and Pokémon that I loved so much. My source of inspiration often came from my dad: it was naturally all the toys or cartoons I saw and, a little later, video games because they excited me and allowed me to acquire models that I then had fun mixing and transforming. Without realizing it, I spent my time observing, absorbing and inventing stories and characters thanks to what I saw and what I played.
From this point of view, it all began by playing.
In my adolescence I started writing again, this time in love with the texts of the songs I listened to. At that time that was music for me: the lyrics transported by the voice and everything that voice told. For similar reasons, and for spontaneous fun, I approached theater for the first time when I started high school without consciously relating it to my mother’s profession. With that I grew up until, decided to write, although initially undecided between theater or philosophy, I traveled to Italy to study a degree called DAMS Drama, Arts and Music Studies at the University of Bologna Alma Mater.
My training and my first work experiences in Bologna were concentrated in theater, mainly in writing and later on in directing. And when I started to gain confidence in my knowledge, I decided to create an independent theater group together with two university classmates: Compagnia Icore. It was with them, and with the people who joined the group in the following years, that I was able to organize my first theater workshops focused on the relationship between bodies and stage presence. Today I realize, or at least that is what I think as I write, that it was those workshops that planted in me a kind of love for the way we relate, for the moods and perspectives of people, for their reasons, their wounds, their small hopes, their despair (Juan Mayorga in The Boy in the Last Row).
Perhaps it all begins with words, in the beginning was the Word as they say.
Until today I had always thought that my interest towards personal development had arisen gradually, very gradually, after a seminar of Psychology of Art on the symbolism in the Tarot. After that seminar I looked for ways and sources to learn about cartomancy even as a self-taught person. From one thing was born another: the same year I met Katherine Porto, who guided me in my relationship with the cards, and Ernesto Arias who began to talk to me about symbology through numbers, symbology in turn applied to what he called Quantum Coaching.
All roads lead to Rome, as they say, no matter where they start from, as long as Rome is your path, your narrative, your game.
Originally written in: Spanish
Daniel Vincenzo Papa De DIos
