Recently, I have been wondering what to do in my crone years. I mean, that is coming soon, and I want to be useful and to enjoy it. But what to do? I remember many years ago being taken to an older woman's house on a Sunday afternoon and paying, what $10 to sit in her living room and hear her talk and answer questions and use her age, wisdom, and insight to help the people in attendance. I know that many of them met with her privately as well. I don't know what she was called. I mean Life Coach certainly doesn't fit, she wasn't a professional psychologist or a psychiatrist. She was just a woman whose advice and ideas were valuable and inspiration, at least to me.
I suspect that in this day and age, Wise Woman, has all kinds of herbal and crystal implications, and that isn't what I mean.
I have been tossing around "Conversational Empath" or "Insightful Listener" or "Professional Conversationalist."
I have been trying to figure out how I would get clients. Maybe as an adjunct to a really fabulous Day Spa? A special event at a bar, give her $20 and a Scotch and she will talk to you about you for a half hour? Or get a sign like Lucy in Charley Brown and sit at the big table at Meinl's?
I mean, I am not a psychic, nor a healer, nor a seer, I am just very good at helping people talk their way into something meaningful and then offering some ideas of direction. So maybe, Assistant Living Director?
Any ideas, let me know. I have been looking at the life coaching sites, but the all seem much more about being a success in the world and I just want people to find that success within themselves first. And, lots of the Life Coaches are Christian and as you know that is not high on my agenda.
Pretty soon, I am just going to go to a bar or a coffee shop on a slow night, sweet talk the manager, sit at a table and set up a sign- "What do you need to talk about? $20 a half hour plus drinks. "
Hey, maybe the title would be "life facilitator"? Seems awfully cold though.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Summer Teaching in Mpls
I will be teaching a class in Minneapolis this Summer, August 26-29th and there are still openings, so if you want to reserve a place, just e-me or call me at 773 561 1935
Acting for Non-Beginners
Two options to study with Jane Brody this summer-
Reawakening Your Possibilities-Single session
Thursday Aug 26 6:30-9:30, $50
or
Acts of Creation and Courage-Full session
Friday-Sunday, $250.00
Aug 27: Friday night- 6:30-9pm, Exploration and creation based exercises based on "Effort at Speech Between Two People."
Aug 28: Saturday day 11am-6pm, Exploration of “Effort” based in Super Scenes
Aug 29: Sunday day 12am-5pm, Putting all the elements together, ending in performance. We will invite a small audience of loved one.
Hopefully we will all gather for a Celebration Dinner following the workshop.
We will work at The Director’s Studio, 1170 15th Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 612-746-1372
To register- please e-mail Jane at Jbrody845@gmail.com with whatever picture and resume you may have.
Send your deposit or the full amount to:
Jane Brody, 4926 N Wolcott, Chicago, IL 60640
Acting for Non-Beginners
Two options to study with Jane Brody this summer-
Reawakening Your Possibilities-Single session
Thursday Aug 26 6:30-9:30, $50
or
Acts of Creation and Courage-Full session
Friday-Sunday, $250.00
Aug 27: Friday night- 6:30-9pm, Exploration and creation based exercises based on "Effort at Speech Between Two People."
Aug 28: Saturday day 11am-6pm, Exploration of “Effort” based in Super Scenes
Aug 29: Sunday day 12am-5pm, Putting all the elements together, ending in performance. We will invite a small audience of loved one.
Hopefully we will all gather for a Celebration Dinner following the workshop.
We will work at The Director’s Studio, 1170 15th Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 612-746-1372
To register- please e-mail Jane at Jbrody845@gmail.com with whatever picture and resume you may have.
Send your deposit or the full amount to:
Jane Brody, 4926 N Wolcott, Chicago, IL 60640
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
myth, Mirror Neuron and Stanislavski
As a learn by doing kinda person, I don't know how to put my article, Myth, Mirror Neurons, and Stanislavski in first position on my blog. But if you go to Nov 2009, it is there!
First Direct Evidence For Mirror Neurons Found
First Direct Evidence For Mirror Neurons Found
Here is some had data which seems to prove the existence of mirror neurons. Very exciting!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Monday, December 7, 2009
Reasons to Warm Up beyond vocal and physical conditioning
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 ABSTRACTPrevious research has shown that people solve insight or creative problems better when in a positive mood (assessed or induced), although the precise mechanisms and neural substrates of this facilitation remain unclear. We assessed mood and personality variables in 79 participants before they attempted to solve problems that can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. Participants higher in positive mood solved more problems, and specifically more with insight, compared with participants lower in positive mood. fMRI was performed on 27 of the participants while they solved problems. Positive mood (and to a lesser extent and in the opposite direction, anxiety) was associated with changes in brain activity during a preparatory interval preceding each solved problem; modulation of preparatory activity in several areas biased people to solve either with insight or analytically. Analyses examined whether (a) positive mood modulated activity in brain areas showing responsivity during preparation; (b) positive mood modulated activity in areas showing stronger activity for insight than noninsight trials either during preparation or solution; and (c) insight effects occurred in areas that showed mood-related effects during preparation. Across three analyses, the ACC showed sensitivity to both mood and insight, demonstrating that positive mood alters preparatory activity in ACC, biasing participants to engage in processing conducive to insight solving. This result suggests that positive mood enhances insight, at least in part, by modulating attention and cognitive control mechanisms via ACC, perhaps enhancing sensitivity to detect non-prepotent solution candidates. | ||||||||||||
Photo is Worth a Thousand Ways to Change Your Memory by David DiSalvo
This article has a lot to say to actors because it reinforces the need for images of the given circumstances.
Most of us realize that memory is fallible. We forget things all the time–car keys, passwords, whether we turned off the oven, etc. But how many of us would admit that our memory is susceptible to change from the outside? That’s different from simply forgetting–something everyone does on their own–because someone else changing our memory requires “getting in our heads” so to speak, right?
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know I’m about to tell you that not only is it possible, it’s probable. And it doesn’t even take very much effort to accomplish–just a few images and a little time.
A recent study in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology tested whether showing people photos of completed actions–such as a broken pencil or an opened envelope–could influence them to believe they’d done something they had not, particularly if they were shown the photos multiple times.
Participants were presented with a series of objects on a table, and for each object were asked to either perform an action or imagine performing an action (i.e. “crack the walnut”). One week later, the same participants were brought back and randomly presented with a series of photos on a computer screen, each of a completed action (i.e. a cracked walnut), either one, two or three times. Other participants were not shown any photos.
One week later, they were brought back to complete a memory test in which they were presented with action phrases (i.e. “I cracked a walnut”) and asked to answer whether they had performed the action, imagined performing it, or neither, and rate their confidence level for each answer on a scale of one to four.
The results: the more times people were exposed to a photo of a completed action, the more often they thought they’d completed the action, even though they had really only imagined doing it. Those shown a photo of a completed action once were twice as likely to erroneously think they’d completed the action than those not shown a photo at all. People shown a photo three times were almost three times as likely as those not shown a photo.
Two factors in this study speak to the malleability of memory. The first is duration of time. The experiment was carried out with a week between each session, enough time for the specific objects and actions to become a little cloudy in memory, but not enough time to be forgotten. This lines up well with real-world situations, such as someone providing eye-witness testimony, in which several days if not weeks might elapse between recollections of events.
The second factor is repeat exposure to images. The study showed that even just one exposure to a photo of a completed action strongly influenced incorrect memory. Multiple exposures significantly increased the errors. One real-world takeaway from this result is potentially alarming: the possibility of using images to alter someone’s memory of a face or other critical element such that his/her testimony is tainted.
A similar study discussed here tackled the same sort of memory issues with video instead of photos, and found a similar result. Both studies point to a realization becoming clearer with time: memory is far more changeable than most of us realize.
Henkel, L. (2009). Photograph-induced memory errors: When photographs make people claim they have done things they have not Applied Cognitive Psychology DOI: 10.1002/acp.1644
Photo is Worth a Thousand Ways to Change Your Memory
Most of us realize that memory is fallible. We forget things all the time–car keys, passwords, whether we turned off the oven, etc. But how many of us would admit that our memory is susceptible to change from the outside? That’s different from simply forgetting–something everyone does on their own–because someone else changing our memory requires “getting in our heads” so to speak, right?If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know I’m about to tell you that not only is it possible, it’s probable. And it doesn’t even take very much effort to accomplish–just a few images and a little time.
A recent study in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology tested whether showing people photos of completed actions–such as a broken pencil or an opened envelope–could influence them to believe they’d done something they had not, particularly if they were shown the photos multiple times.
Participants were presented with a series of objects on a table, and for each object were asked to either perform an action or imagine performing an action (i.e. “crack the walnut”). One week later, the same participants were brought back and randomly presented with a series of photos on a computer screen, each of a completed action (i.e. a cracked walnut), either one, two or three times. Other participants were not shown any photos.
One week later, they were brought back to complete a memory test in which they were presented with action phrases (i.e. “I cracked a walnut”) and asked to answer whether they had performed the action, imagined performing it, or neither, and rate their confidence level for each answer on a scale of one to four.
The results: the more times people were exposed to a photo of a completed action, the more often they thought they’d completed the action, even though they had really only imagined doing it. Those shown a photo of a completed action once were twice as likely to erroneously think they’d completed the action than those not shown a photo at all. People shown a photo three times were almost three times as likely as those not shown a photo.
Two factors in this study speak to the malleability of memory. The first is duration of time. The experiment was carried out with a week between each session, enough time for the specific objects and actions to become a little cloudy in memory, but not enough time to be forgotten. This lines up well with real-world situations, such as someone providing eye-witness testimony, in which several days if not weeks might elapse between recollections of events.
The second factor is repeat exposure to images. The study showed that even just one exposure to a photo of a completed action strongly influenced incorrect memory. Multiple exposures significantly increased the errors. One real-world takeaway from this result is potentially alarming: the possibility of using images to alter someone’s memory of a face or other critical element such that his/her testimony is tainted.
A similar study discussed here tackled the same sort of memory issues with video instead of photos, and found a similar result. Both studies point to a realization becoming clearer with time: memory is far more changeable than most of us realize.
Henkel, L. (2009). Photograph-induced memory errors: When photographs make people claim they have done things they have not Applied Cognitive Psychology DOI: 10.1002/acp.1644
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