Acting for Business

Practical Acting Tools for Professional Development

 

Acting for Business (formerly entitled "Business Acting") is a course to unlock participant’s potential as a communicator by becoming proficient, thorough and masterful in the principles and practical interpretation of the techniques of acting.

 

Participants discover how to practically apply tools and concepts utilized by professional actors to maximize the potential of all verbal deliveries, thereby achieving:

 

* A new self-awareness and greater confidence in public communication.

 

*The expansion and diversification of one's range of personal expression.

 

*Methods to more effectively shape a public performance and of empowering the student to put his/her best self forward when in contact with an audience.

 

*A discovery of and re-investment in passion. – whether at the workplace, leading a team through a challenging project or negotiating one- on-one.

 

 

 

This course is divided into 5 Modules:

 

Part 1 - Physical Communication –

 

Proximity and environment impact communication

 

Body awareness through improvisation, yoga & movement

 

 

 

Part 2 – Vocal Performance

 

Focusing on breathing, releasing tension

 

Generating volume, articulation

 

 

 

Part 3- Engaging Audiences

 

A mixture of discussion, improvisation & exercises

 

Key concepts to defining objectives in deliberate communication

 

Commanding the space; - Expanding one's personal comfort zone

 

Achieving the "Audience-Pleasing Form;"

 

 

 

 

 

Part 4- Utilizing Theater excerpts

 

The participants identify their individual challenges and confront those challenges

 

head-on through the various role-play assignments.

 

 

 

Part 5- Practical Application

 

Participants apply these newly acquired skills to contemporary presentation texts

 

relevant to their professional work. The Course / Workshop culminates with a

 

sharing of each presentation for instructor, feedback and group reflection.

 

 

 

Note: A typical session runs four hours but can be customized according to time and

 

needs.

 

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