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Coach Gregor Schleuning (left) reduces insecurities with acting exercises.
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Increasing self-confidence through acting: this is what awaits participants in a special workshop.
By slipping into other roles, insecurities should be overcome.
Munich - Many people know it: the situation in everyday life in which you don't really know how to react.
Be it due to insecurity, shyness or inexperience.
Munich acting coach Gregor Schleuning wants to help with this problem - and is therefore offering a special workshop.
The 32-year-old has been active in the acting business for several years.
He has already appeared in Tatort and SOKO Wismar, but above all in numerous theater performances.
From businessman to educator: Schleuning doesn't just want to help actors
Schleuning emphasizes that he doesn't just want to appeal to everyone who dreams of a Hollywood career.
On the contrary: from businessmen to educators, they have all visited the 32-year-old - and benefited from it in their careers.
The acting coach explains that his goal is to “feel yourself, get to know your own body.”
Through acting exercises, insecurities should first be perceived and then reduced.
This requires a bit of overcoming.
The initial exercise is a challenge for many people - it's actually just about looking the other person in the eyes and holding their gaze.
So simple, and often so difficult.
A little courage is also required during the introduction round, where the participants form a circle and everyone has to stand in the middle.
The course participants need a lot of creativity when it comes to pantomiming proverbs like “the poodle’s core”.
This should then be implemented “seriously, not in a slapstick way,” explains Schleuning.
Gregor Schleuning: “Adults have to thaw out first”
By the way, the acting coach wants his exercises to appeal not only to adults, but also to children and young people.
The approach is different: “Adults have to thaw out first,” says Schleuning, “so for them it’s more about play.”
It's different with children and young people - they're usually already done with playfulness anyway.
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That's why the young course participants start developing a concrete scene relatively early.
Schleuning has postcards with photos of different people.
The task for the course participants is to come up with a biography for the person in question.
Then it goes into the acting: the children and young people are supposed to portray their role first in an everyday situation and then in an extreme situation.
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“Slipping into a role has a lot to do with self-portrayal,” explains psychology professor Dieter Frey from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to our editorial team – and also with reflecting on one’s own behavior: “What do I say?
How do I talk?
What does my posture and my facial expressions and gestures look like?” Through regular practice and constructive feedback on external impressions, I learn to appear more self-confident and less shy.
So insecurity and shyness can be trained away?
“Definitely yes,” says Prof. Frey, “through practice, practice, practice.”
Through positive feedback, self-confidence is strengthened little by little.
Even many stage professionals used to be shy and insecure, explains the psychology professor.
“Incidentally, I felt the same way myself – sometimes to this day.
You always have to overcome yourself.”
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