PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 1.0
This comprehensive 16-week course is designed to put students on a path towards success through fostering an awakening in students and equipping them with the tools necessary to manifest their dreams. The course will include the following elements:
- Declaration of INdependence (DOIN'):
A career can be likened to a road trip: a journey that requires strategic planning. The word “career” actually means “a race course; a running; full speed; or a rapid course”. With this concept, that a chosen career is a journey that requires planning and rapid movement in order to succeed, it is essential that one understands his/her current position and ultimately where s/he envision themselves to be. They must also create a road map for reaching their desired destination. The RLS flagship proprietary program, the DOIN’, is this critical road map. When students enroll, the very first task is to guide them in the development of their Personal DOIN’ roadmap. This essential tool will facilitate their attaining the knowledge and vision necessary to navigate the path toward the fulfillment of their dreams and goals. The Personal DOIN’ program will also ensure students attain the key skills, attributes, and abilities that will allow them to take charge of their lives and careers. - Film Acting Class:
Acting on the stage and acting on film is very different. Camera technique is taught to help the actor bridge the relationship between the stage and film. Acting on the stage is about what you say and acting on film is about what you don't say. An actor must learn how to act according to the stage they're on. A picture is worth 1000 words, so ultimately less is more. The actor will learn how to modulate the imagination, boldness, risk-taking, and the willingness to fail that one learns on the stage so that they can be just as effective, and no less evaluated, on the smaller stage of film. - Audition Class:
Auditioning and acting are two different animals that require completely different skill sets. A person can know how to act and do quite well if you put a script in their hands. But that same person who can deliver award-winning performances may not be able to audition very well.To be a great auditioner, one has to practice, rehearse, and create a winning routine that can only be developed over the course of time. One has to train weekly in order to master the technique and to have the process become second nature, the same way a dancer, singer, or pianist has to consistently beat on their craft in order to be the best that they can be. That takes time. The best way to become an effective auditioner, where you go in and book every room that you enter, is to consistently work at it.
- Film Making Class:
In this day and age, knowing how to create your own evidence is vital. You don’t need to be a gourmet chef, but you do need to know how to cook to feed yourself. Having the ability to create your own evidence allows you to market and distribute your product to anyone, anywhere. Instruction and guidance will be provided on how to shoot, light, sound, and edit a variety of short film projects that are assigned in this class.Seeing yourself on film each week is one of the best teaching tools there is. The camera doesn't lie. You will learn things about yourself that you never realized, and through teaching guidance, learn how to correct those things.
- Mentoring/Life Coaching:
People may find that this is a strange component to put into a teaching model. In fact, it is one of the most important parts of the teaching model. Most successful people gain their knowledge through some sort of mentor system. All successful people learned from other successful people. Someone showed them the way. We all pattern ourselves after multiple people throughout our lives. I can teach people about all the various components of success but at the end of the day, I have to help them put it all together. Eventually the separate parts have to come together as one collective knowledge. That's where mentoring comes into play.According to Wikipedia: Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the mentee)".
The focus of mentoring is to develop the whole person and so the techniques are broad and require wisdom in order to be used appropriately.
A 1995 study of mentoring techniques most commonly used in business found that the five most commonly used techniques among mentors were:
- Accompanying: making a commitment in a caring way, which involves taking part in the learning process side-by-side with the learner.
- Sowing: mentors are often confronted with the difficulty of preparing the learner before he or she is ready to change. Sowing is necessary when you know that what you say may not be understood or even acceptable to learners at first but will make sense and have value to the mentee when the situation requires it.
- Catalyzing: when change reaches a critical level of pressure, learning can jump. Here the mentor chooses to plunge the learner right into change, provoking a different way of thinking, a change in identity or a re-ordering of values.
- Showing: this is making something understandable, or using your own example to demonstrate a skill or activity. You show what you are talking about, you show by your own behavior. (For me this is the most important. It is part of my philosophy- DO AS I DO)
