…where Performance meets Psychology
…where Performance meets Psychology
…where Performance meets Psychology
I have thought a lot about anger recently – probably due to certain public events, but it’s also something that comes up in my work quite often. Plus: I’m human, so naturally, I experience it myself. When I look at my work as both a voice coach and a therapist, I cannot help but notice …
Petra Borzynski was the keynote speaker at the British Voice Associations Healthy Mind, Health Voice conference last month – and she hopes that attitudes in the industry towards performance anxiety are changing. — Read on http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/dumbarton-vocal-coach-hoping-smash-22358456
I’d like to talk about one of my favourite teaching and coaching tools today: Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. As singers, we probably all know one thing: Feeling isn’t hard (we do it all the time), but being at ease with our feelings, and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, is. We so often talk about “negative …
As you might already know, I am a big fan of mindfulness techniques and being more present in the moment when it comes to working with clients with performance anxiety (you might also want to read this previous blog post). This obviously doesn’t mean that mindfulness is the only, or even most effective, way of …
Fear of failure can be a powerful motivation. What though if this fear becomes so crippling that it makes us procrastinate or avoid doing what we love? It can turn into a limiting, self-fulfilling prophecy that only has one end result: Regrets. 1. Failure is unavoidable. How awesome if you can figure out the “perfect …