My Lessons With Kumi: How I learned to perform with confidence in life and work - Paperback
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Performance Confidence Training Through Narrative Learning
My Lessons With Kumi presents psychological principles and performance skills through an engaging fictional narrative. Author Michael Colgrass, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and certified NLP trainer, combines neuro-linguistic programming, mime techniques, creativity training, hypnosis, psychology, and Grotowski physical training methods into a comprehensive self-development guide.
The book follows Nick's encounters with his teacher, Kumi, creating one of the most detailed self-development chronicles available. Through these lessons, readers learn practical techniques for performing with confidence in professional presentations, creative work, and everyday life situations.
What's Inside
This teaching tale integrates multiple disciplines into actionable lessons and exercises. The narrative format makes complex psychological concepts accessible while maintaining practical application. Readers gain exposure to techniques drawn from Colgrass's 45 years of professional performing experience and his work training over 25,000 people across six continents.
The methodology includes Deep Listening techniques for heightened concentration, strategies for creativity modeled by NLP co-founder John Grinder, and approaches featured in professional NLP publications. These methods have been applied in Excellence In Performance workshops for performers, students, and professional groups worldwide.
Author Background
Michael Colgrass holds degrees from the University of Illinois, received two Guggenheim Fellowships, and won both the Pulitzer Prize for Music and an Emmy for the PBS documentary Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass. His training includes studies in mime, acting, dance, directing, commedia dell'arte in Milan, and avant-garde theater with Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Laboratory in Poland.
As a certified neuro-linguistic programming trainer since 1985, Colgrass has conducted workshops throughout Europe, Britain, South America, South Africa, Indonesia, the United States, and Canada. His creativity strategies have been documented in Tools For Dreamers by Robert Dilts and his Deep Listening technique appears in Leaves Before The Wind, a collection of innovative NLP ideas.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Music Magazine. My Lessons With Kumi represents the culmination of his experience as both trainer and performer, offering readers a comprehensive resource for developing performance confidence and life skills.
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Performance Confidence Training Through Narrative Learning
My Lessons With Kumi presents psychological principles and performance skills through an engaging fictional narrative. Author Michael Colgrass, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and certified NLP trainer, combines neuro-linguistic programming, mime techniques, creativity training, hypnosis, psychology, and Grotowski physical training methods into a comprehensive self-development guide.
The book follows Nick's encounters with his teacher, Kumi, creating one of the most detailed self-development chronicles available. Through these lessons, readers learn practical techniques for performing with confidence in professional presentations, creative work, and everyday life situations.
What's Inside
This teaching tale integrates multiple disciplines into actionable lessons and exercises. The narrative format makes complex psychological concepts accessible while maintaining practical application. Readers gain exposure to techniques drawn from Colgrass's 45 years of professional performing experience and his work training over 25,000 people across six continents.
The methodology includes Deep Listening techniques for heightened concentration, strategies for creativity modeled by NLP co-founder John Grinder, and approaches featured in professional NLP publications. These methods have been applied in Excellence In Performance workshops for performers, students, and professional groups worldwide.
Author Background
Michael Colgrass holds degrees from the University of Illinois, received two Guggenheim Fellowships, and won both the Pulitzer Prize for Music and an Emmy for the PBS documentary Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass. His training includes studies in mime, acting, dance, directing, commedia dell'arte in Milan, and avant-garde theater with Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Laboratory in Poland.
As a certified neuro-linguistic programming trainer since 1985, Colgrass has conducted workshops throughout Europe, Britain, South America, South Africa, Indonesia, the United States, and Canada. His creativity strategies have been documented in Tools For Dreamers by Robert Dilts and his Deep Listening technique appears in Leaves Before The Wind, a collection of innovative NLP ideas.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Music Magazine. My Lessons With Kumi represents the culmination of his experience as both trainer and performer, offering readers a comprehensive resource for developing performance confidence and life skills.
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Author