Emotionally developed performers find
performance a joy.

Emotionally underdeveloped performers find performance terrifying.

I can help you develop emotionally.

I have twenty years experience working with performing artists to help them overcome "stage fright."

I am concerned with emotional development, not fixing problems. Drugs and relaxation techniques will fix the problem of stage fright. Emotional development is much more difficult. For me, social therapy's great discovery is that we live in a culture of getting. A culture of getting does not support us to grow emotionally. It supports us to be getters.

I believe performers are conflicted getters. At their best, they are getters of the satisfaction of accomplishment, the process of improving, and the challenge to achieve more and be the best they can be. They are getters of professional recognition and material rewards. This getting is not morally wrong, but it is bad for their emotional health. Why? Because, in my experience, performers are also givers, and they struggle with how to do a giving activity - perform - in a getting environment. This struggle undermines their confidence and paralyzes them with fear. In my opinion, an important part of emotional development is learning how to give confidently in a getting environment.

Many of us have paid a heavy emotional price to learn how to be getters. We get angry that we have to change that dearly won life strategy. We worry about being ripped off. We feel degraded that we don't have enough to give. With all that getting, who could believe that they have enough? Paradoxically, the culture of getting undermines our sense of self-worth.

I can help you become a confident giver. I can help you to continuously create your life joyously (on and off the stage) with your performance, and the emotional reactions that you, and we all have to giving in a culture of getting.