The event will feature Shaun and two ventriloquist dolls. Shaun will conduct a workshop on the theme "What kind of thing is a conscious human being?" One ventriloquism doll will represent Shaun when he was thirty, the other will represent the even older man he feels himself becoming. Operating both at once Shaun will guide participants, by easy stages, through some of the paradoxes involved in consciousness and what it means as we evolve.