Empathy through Acting

Individuals can only advance when they know they are valued, listened to, and understood. Without having lived the same life as them, it's often hard to understand why people do what they do. It requires empathy, and practicing empathy can be tough when someone differs greatly from you, personally or professionally. But, being empathetic can be learned, for instance through method acting.

Let's talk about the fascinating acting techniques of Stanislavski, Strasberg, Adler & Meisner, and learn how you too can employ the Method to better understand (and work with) the people in your life.

PS: These slides are probably useless without the talk ;-)

Transcript

1. empathy through acting
2. @roy
3. an experiment
4. that's not what happened
5. why me & why acting?
6. a make-believe situation + a recalled emotion = good acting
7. what is empathy?
8. empathy is the psychological identification with, or vicarious experiencing of, the feelings, thoughts or attitudes of another
9. TL;DR the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes
10. sympathy
11. sympathy vs empathy pity vs understanding
12. self-care
14. drama triangle
16. victim rescuer persecutor
17. so, acting?
18. to listen
19. to be accepting
20. to let go of status
21. to work together
22. to work with what's there
23. what is acting?
24. feeling a genuine emotion in a make-believe situation
25. acting is always about conflict
26. the Method the Method
28. –Daniel Day-Lewis “the gravitational pull of another life that fires one’s curiosity”
29. some good news
30. –Konstantin Stanislavski “the art of experiencing”
31. employing the Method
32. The Empathetic Acting Method
33. TEAM
34. five steps to TEAM 1. let go 2. basic emotion 3. listen & learn 4. complex emotion 5. memory recall
35. 1. let go
36. 2. determine the basic emotion
37. 3. learn through active listening
38. 3. learn through active listening
39. 4. determine the complex emotion
40. a situation that seems uncontrollable and unavoidable, and a mood state of not being ready to cope with upcoming negative events
41. 5. memory recall
42. 5. memory recall
43. empathy through acting
44. BONUS: conflict resolution
45. be nice
46. be nice
47. @roy