Monthly Archives: May 2016

Follow up to ‘Performing Your Way to Growth’ – Your Questions Answered

We had a very successful webinar with Cathy Salit on May 10, 2016. We were disappointed when we ran out of time and didn’t get to everyone’s questions. So, as promised, here is a follow up on some of the unanswered questions.  Also, if you missed the webinar, you can see the recording here. Do you have a success story to share with us from a client using your techniques? How is this all related to presence?  The story I’m thinking about appears in my book (where there are quite a few others — hint, hint). I like this one because it’s about an everyday challenge that many of us face, and it’s not about fixing something that’s broken — it’s about making a choice to grow professionally. Here goes: Natasha had recently been promoted to report directly to the…

Performing Your Way to Growth – Webinar with Cathy Salit

  We had a great time with Cathy Salit today, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime.  A powerful company with a  funny name.  As you can see from the photos, she engaged a whole class of psychology students by asking them to perform (and groan and stretch).  Their teacher wrote: Hi Cathy,     My students and I enjoyed your Webinar. ​They groaned with you, and wrote what they learned afterwards. Play and performance is so radical, when people get it, it’s life transforming. Great job. Rafael​   Cathy spoke about her book, Performance Breakthrough:  A Radical Approach to Success at Work.  Based in a field called Performative Psychology founded by Lois Holzman, Fred Newman and Ken & Mary Gergen from the Taos Institute.  As Dr. Holzman said:  ”We collectively create our lives through performance (simultaneously who we are and…

Performing Your Way to Growth by Author Cathy Salit

Did you miss our webinar on May 10, 2016? No worries, we have it for you here. In this webinar, Author Cathy Salit will show us how leveraging our inborn ability to perform and pretend can help us grow in our work. Whether you are navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you’re facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need a new performance. And the good news, Cathy Salit says, is that even though you might not have been onstage since you played a tree in third grade, you — and all humans — have an innate ability to perform, pretend, and improvise. Tapping into this ability is key to learning and growing in new, exciting and profound ways.…