{"id":42,"date":"2016-01-02T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-01-23T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:03:29","slug":"the-actor-takes-a-meeting-contents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=42","title":{"rendered":"The Actor Takes A Meeting Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction xi<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>How Do You Present Yourself? 1<br \/>\n<\/strong>Workshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 2<br \/>\nYour Goal 18<br \/>\nVictim 21<br \/>\nInauthenticity 26<br \/>\nIsolation 30<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #1 33<\/li>\n<li><strong>Losing the Victim 34<\/strong><br \/>\nWho\u2019s Interviewing Whom? Part One 35<br \/>\nWho\u2019s Interviewing Whom? Part Two 38<br \/>\nTell a Truth 42<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #2 42<br \/>\nWorkshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 44<br \/>\nThe Truth-Versus-Compliments-or-Questions Exercise 63<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building an Experience 66<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAvoid I\u201d Exercise 66<br \/>\nYes! And . . . 70<br \/>\nBasic Reflection 72<br \/>\nReflection Listening<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #3 80<br \/>\nWorkshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 82<br \/>\nCareer Applications 95<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heightening the Experience 99<\/strong><br \/>\nRules and Tools 99<br \/>\n40-Breath Process 101<br \/>\nExtend, Intensify, and Enlarge 103<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #4 106<br \/>\nWorkshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 107<br \/>\nA Successful Experience 128<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tracking and Changing Behavior 134<\/strong><br \/>\nTracking Behavior 134<br \/>\nKeeping Your Score 136<br \/>\nAttitudes 142<br \/>\nAttitude Lines 146<br \/>\nAttitude Line\u2014\u201cI Am\u201d 157<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #5 159<br \/>\nWorkshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 160<br \/>\nFine-Tuning 175<\/li>\n<li><strong>Creating Your Program 182\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nGaining Finesse with Score 182<br \/>\nYour Journal and Your Program 194<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boundaries 198\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nExtension Bumps 199<br \/>\nBoundary Walls 202<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Witness 205<\/strong><br \/>\nIntroductory Witness Walk 205<br \/>\nThe Schmoozing Witness 212<br \/>\nGeneral Interview Exercise #6 217<br \/>\nWorkshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 218<br \/>\nThe Waiting-Room Witness 238<br \/>\nThe \u201cI Am\u201d Witness 241<\/li>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s Your Career 242<\/strong><br \/>\nThree-Phone-Calls-a-Day Exercise 242<br \/>\nPhoto Sessions 244<br \/>\nThe Professional Actor Is a Business Person 245<br \/>\nThe Casting Director\/Agent As a Victim or an Intimidator 247<br \/>\nFinesse for Success! 249<br \/>\nConclusion 261<br \/>\nNotes 262<br \/>\nAcknowledgements 265<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction xi How Do You Present Yourself? 1 Workshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 2 Your Goal 18 Victim 21 Inauthenticity 26 Isolation 30 General Interview Exercise #1 33 Losing the Victim 34 Who\u2019s Interviewing Whom? Part One 35 Who\u2019s Interviewing Whom? Part Two 38 Tell a Truth 42 General Interview Exercise #2 42 Workshop Actors\u2019 Interviews 44 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Actor Takes A Meeting Contents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}