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Everyone who comes to my classes and commits to the
Process becomes a better actor, singer, writer, performer. This is
guaranteed. This is easy.
Often, the improvement surprises me. "Oh!" I say to myself. "Look
at that!" This is because I am not so much a teacher as a guardian of
the space and the Process. The Process that I have discovered or been
given continues to delight and astound me even though I have been teaching
for 15 years. I believe that everyone has within them a particular genius,
a light. They are often blind to it. My gift is my ability to see it when it
begins to peek out. I don't tell people what they should do, who they should be,
what they should work on, but I will do everything I can to help them uncover
their own creative selves. It's nothing short of thrilling to me when I
see it happen. I have seen people open up like unknown seeds whose blossoms
amaze. I confess that even after all these years I might look at a seed and
think it will never grow, but I put it in the soil of The Process anyway and
before long I may be glancing up at a gigantic Sequoia.
What I cannot teach--and what frustrates me as a teacher--is courage
and a willingness to put that talent out into the world and fail or succeed--both
of which take great nerve and great heart. It often seems to me that the more
talented a person is, the more frightened they are, and the more they turn that
talent and desire into fierce negative judgment which protects them from risking
failure or success. I myself have failed and succeeded many times. There is no
problem with that. The problem lies in the times I have also been too frightened
to put myself forward. This was because I was ignorant of how frightened I actually
was. This is why so much of my work as a teacher is about self mastery: following
your heart's desires, being awake, allowing yourself to be supported--in other words, the
four principles of The Process: Commitment, Being Present, Relaxation, Communication.
E. Katherine Kerr
203-761-0206
actingclass@aol.com
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