I spent fifteen years in the good company of Gunduz Kalic. The projects I was involved with changed and evolved over that time. In our many iterations my peers and I were the Pack of Dogs, the Crocks, the Globetrotters, Theatre As Education and Taking Liberties. The skills I honed and acquired were many...writing, performance, stand up comedy, publicity and promotion. Practically there were the hands-on tasks of painting sets, sewing costumes, securing lights and gaining proficiency with nail guns and jigsaws. However it was the training in performance that was life changing. Gunduz Kalic is a master practitioner. He taught us that theatre is a sacred space. It is a space removed from the every day distractions that capture us and keep us hostage. It was a space where all the false inner sounds... the the fear based chatter, the second guessing, all the fake narratives and opinions, could find  quietude.  Instead we were immersed in the potent sounds of Shakespeare, and Euripides and Chekov and  Moliere. Steeped in such eloquence we began to find our own voices and create our own texts and be full of our own lives. Gunduz taught us to play, to wonder, to risk and to hold ourselves as sacred. My debt to him is beyond measure. "Move through fear, life is on the other side". Its's a mantra I still often say to myself. I learned from Gunduz that when you put aside your limits then the world is your oyster. I had a long held desire for a classical education but was  a little intimidated and confounded by academia. However, I found my courage and launched myself into studies of philosophy, classical Greek and Sanskrit. I now teach philosophy to senior students at a school in Brisbane and simply love my work.