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....................................................................................................................................... The 5 QUICK CHANGE STUDIO Premises
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Premise 1
Premise 2 We all have access to 5 different styles of performing in life
Like a beautiful diamond, the human being is multi-faceted. We have far more abilities than we imagine. Performance Style Awareness Programs introduces five Performance Styles that each of us possess. These 5 styles are common human faculties that we use to display our ways of being, operating and interacting in the world. Each of the five styles exhibit both comic and tragic performance traits.
The Five Performance Styles Each of these performance styles manifest in our daily actions to different degrees. Some of us naturally have one or two styles that are more dominant than the others. The degree of performance style differences between us create our likes and dislikes, attractions and aversions to each other. Identifying these differences & learning to interact skillfully with them gives us the ability to maintain productive working relations. Having awareness and use of all 5 Performance Styles, gives you greater insight into untapped facets of the human instrument, the creative body we have been given for playing out our lives. (see The Programs)
 There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Hamlet, William Shakespeare .......................................................................................................................................
Premise 3 You can act your way out of the double bind box Given that we all find ourselves in a good state of mind one day and a bad mind state the next, Q C S directs you to another focus -- a third place for the mind to go, a clear headed viewpoint. Q C S calls it The Empty Stage Awareness. Learning how to be present in the empty stage of your mind can settle you in emotional poise and help you compose your thoughts for meetings, brainstorming sessions, or personal issues. The Empty Stage Awareness stops your busy mind and gives you a home base, a neutral space for the mind to go to relax from the demanding encounters at work, the frustration of a job undone, or the pressure of deadlines.
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Premise 4 The Real Me is always changing. What you tend to call the Real Me is actually the maximum comfort level you like to feel in the company of others. That is the “ME” who makes you feel good about yourself. When you say, “I wasn’t myself,” what you probably mean is that you felt “uncomfortable or embarrassed” by the “ME” who was acting in that moment. Though you may not always like the “ME” who is acting, it is still you. If you are not yourself, then who are you? Your neighbor? Your boss perhaps? You are, in fact, always yourself. Yet depending on the situation and the people you are with, unconsciously your emotional character and performance style can change. Sometimes you feel proud of your actions and regretfully, sometimes you disappoint yourself. The objective is to be aware of which “ME” you want to be in a given moment, and have the conscious, yet genuine performance power to generate it. Most of the time we see our self-image as solid…"I’m always this way," or "I never do that." This unyielding self-image creates a kind of Character Sclerosis – hardening of character. The inflexibility created by Character Sclerosis limits our capacity to function in various situations that we might otherwise find useful or even enjoyable. When you identify with the Empty Stage Awareness as your Real Me rather than a few solid character traits, you experience yourself as an innovative resource. You gain access to a wider range of character qualities within you, known and unknown, accepted and unaccepted. When you identify with the Empty Stage, your mind's eye can see and make the right character choice to suit the moment. Performance Style Awareness Programs give you the tools to make the best choices.
Premise 5
Like Superman or Wonder Woman, the Quick Change Artist is today’s ordinary everyday superhero or heroine. He or she must be prepared to change character at any moment in order to be of benefit to others and the situation. Though you have no magical flying powers, as a Quick Change Artist you do have the innate power to change your mind, your mood, and your posturing when unconscious choices make you think, feel and act in unproductive ways. Though you can't change you enemy into a frog, you do have the power to “read” others and make the internal quick changes necessary to bring out the best in yourself and other people.
Because over time, we rehearse strong unproductive performance traits (habits) that display our creative blocks, it's key to redesign a more desirable and productive self-image. In place of Superman's phone booth, you will have a rehearsal stage where you can change creative blocks into creative skills, and set the stage for a more beneficial ending. This enhanced self-image is what makes you exceptionally valuable to yourself, your business, and your friends and family. Developing yourself as a Quick Change Artist is a necessary performing art on today's global business stage. Like our fantasy super heroes & heroines, with PSAP you can be ready, willing and able without compromising integrity, to sacrifice, be adventurous, or to patiently wait out a situation and conquer good over…well, not so good. It is our inborn ability to change that gives us power – maybe not magical super powers, but certainly the power of choice…and choice can be magical.
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