Act Better, Donald By Lisa Loving Dalton The Poli-anna of Politics Donald Trump needs to be a better actor if he wants to be a winner, and I, the Poli-anna of Politics, am just the coach for him. I am not implying that the Don should be an actor. Most of us suspect […]
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Candidates need to be better actors because voters elect images, not people. Candidates: Actors know how to create images, ask Ronald Reagan. Lisa Dalton, master coach of Michael Chekhov’s technique and author of Murder of Talent says: “Great leaders paint images of life that constituents want to live, just like actors paint the life of […]
Michael Chekhov & the Chart of Inspired Action A Playground for the Craft by Lisa Loving Dalton National Michael Chekhov Association Master Teacher Would you like to be able to get Inspired on-cue? Any time you want? Great! All you need is Michael Chekhov’s Chart for Inspired Acting! It’s in Mala Powers’ Preface to On the […]
Lisa Dalton Blogger welcomes you! Most of these posts are contemplative and were written within a 30 day period of my life several years ago. A brief prompt was given, a limited time for writing was established, a title required and a photo selected all within about 30-40 minutes. I hope you enjoy them and […]
“The future Depends on what we do in the present” Mahatma Gandhi Enjoy Opening the Present! My step-son Marc at Christmas, 2010. I randomly went to my list of pix-picked this one which was listed only by numbers– had no idea even what, when or where this picture file would be–just hoped it might fit! […]
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius In an 8 year elementary school, the eighth graders are the “it” ones in the school. The kids all know […]
Falling, through the window-so many were falling-any little flecks you think you see are there. Things fall. Today, the leaves fell from my great ASH tree. Like giant golden snowflakes, streaming from above I lay in my bed gazing out the window Tibby too was transfixed by the phenomenon Classical music played gently. It […]
“I needed to buy some time to build my credibility with the people. So I developed a strategy.” ( #14 The Law of Buy-In) John Maxwell Perhaps the most notable Seventh Grade act of mine that relates to leadership unfolded in the spring of that year. I believe I mentioned that in 6th grade I […]