Leadership Workshop by The Los Angeles Method

• How can I be the Leader of my life and my team?
• How can I take immediate control over my life?
• What can I do today that will make a difference?
• How can I achieve the change and express my full potential?
• How can I expand, grow, share in a meaningful and enjoyable way?

Join us at The Los Angeles Method Leadership Workshop on June 18th and 19th in Amsterdam to find out the answers to these questions.

The Los Angeles Method is a combination of Acting and Personal Development Techniques to assist you in unleashing your voice and acting on your life.

Successful Leaders know themselves and are connected to others.  
They can communicate what they want. This is why they always get what they want.

The Los Angeles Method

Act like the Leader you want to be. Be the Leader you want to be.

Learn the tools to discover your Authentic Self.

Understand how you can connect with your Authentic Self and then with everyone else.
Connection gives purpose to our lives. To be able to connect with yourself and with others, one must overcome the fear of "I am not good enough", "I am not strong enough", "I am not rich enough", "I am not enough...".
To be able to achieve connection, one must have a strong sense of worthiness. This comes fron courage, compassion, vulnerability. It begins with a thought.

In the two day Leadership workshop you will receive tools that will empower you to achieve your goals beyond fears, obstacles and confining convictions. We will do that through theory and experiential exercises that stimulate your creativity and imagination.

After the Leadership Workshop you will be able to put what you learned in practice and get immediate results.

Let yourself be seen.

Stand in the light and tell the world "This is me
and here I am!"

Become an Actor. Take ACTION. Enough coaching... more Acting!


Cost: 180 euros (excl VAT)

Contact us at thelosangelesmethod@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

"With all sincerity it has been a long time since I have used time so well. Theodora is just fantastic! She talks with so much power and love at the same time, creating a unique environment! I will certainly use what I have learned here. It is hard to describe how great I feel after the Workshop. Thank you so much!”
Jorge Fonseca. FAO, Rome- Italy.

"The Los Angeles Method for me was a real eye-opener. Theodora, you are the first person I saw that I can say, with my whole heart, is an excellent trainer/lifecoach in personal development. I can recommend this workshop to everyone in the world, the methods and te excercises are very universal and can fit for everyone who believes he/she can change and he/she is 100% responsible for their own growth. You are the best trainer in my opinion I saw till now in my life, with the best working method in personal development. My motto is from now, YES YOU CAN CHANGE AND YOU ARE 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR IT!, Thank you, Theodora!"
Nafize Sener.
 

” It was very direct (no bullshit or small talk), very professional and to the point advice”. Michael.

100 Theatre Plays that can change the way you perceive Life.

You are an Artist; whether you work in the theatre, in you are a dancer, an accountant, an entrepreneur, a salesperson- you are an Artist. You can take nothings and make them into somethings.

Here is a list of 100 theatre plays that can change the way you perceive Life. These plays will make you laugh, cry, think, will challenge you and empower you, will make you face the wall, will ask you questions, will give you answers. These plays will help you exercise your creative imagination and be able to find solutions to your life's challenges.

1. Poetics by Aristotle.
2. Oresteia by Aeschylus
3. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
4. Theban Plays by Sophocles
5. Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides
6. Hippolytus by Euripides
7. The Acharnians by Aristophanes
8. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
9. Dyskolos by Menander
10. Amphitryon by Plautus
11. Phaedra by Seneca
12. The recognition of Shakuntala by Kalidasa
13. Sonnets by Shakespeare
14. Richard III by Shakespeare
15. Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
16. Hamlet by Shakespeare
17. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
18. Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall
19. Eufemia by Lope de Rueda
20. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
21. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
22. Madness in Valencia by Lope de Vega
23. Le Cid by Pierre Corneille
24. Phedre by Racine
25. The Bourgeois Gentleman by Moliere
26. Tartuffe by Moliere
27. The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay
28. Oedipe by Voltaire
29. The Servant of Two Masters by Goldoni
30. Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin
31. Danton’s Death by Georg Buchner
32. Woyzeck by Georg Buchner
33. The Italian Straw Hat by Eugene Labiche
34. A Doll’ s House by Henrik Ibsen
35. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
36. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
37. Miss Julie by August Strindberg
38. Dreamplay by August Strindberg
39. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
40. Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
41. Cathleen ni Houlihan by W.B. Yeats
42. Three Sisters by Anton Checkov
43. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkov
44. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
45. Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky
46. A Flea in her ear by Georges Feydeau
47. Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
48. Street Scene by Elmer Rice
49. Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
50. Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey
51. The threepenny opera by Bertol Brecht
52. The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
53. Antigone by Jean Annuilh
54. Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
55. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
56. A Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
57. The Rose Tatoo by Tennessee Williams
58. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neil
59. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neil
60. The Maids by Jean Genet
61. Rhinoceros by Ionesco
62. The Bald Soprano by Ionesco
63. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
64. A view from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
65. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
66. Look back in Anger by John Osborne
67. Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
68. Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
69. The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
70. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
71. Barefoot in the park by Neil Simon
72. The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
73. The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
74. Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
75. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard
76. Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
77. A mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill
78. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
79. Educating Rita by Willy Russell
80. The Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson
81. The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
82. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
83. Three Fat Virgins by Ovidia Yu
84. Miss Margarida’s Way by Roberto Athayde
85. The grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati
86. Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
87. Proof by David Auburn
88. Red by John Logan
89. The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
90. Equus by Peter Shafer
91. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
92. The Cocktail Party by T.S.Eliot
93. Love!Valour!Compassion by Terrence McNally
94. Art by Yasmin Reza
95. Closer by Patrick Marber
96. August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
97. Children of a Lesser God by Mark Madoff
98. Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
99. The madness of George III by Alan Bennett
100. Skylight by David Hare

What are your favourite plays that we should add to this list?

What was the play you saw or read recently that you want to share with us? Why?

Leave your comment below and we will update the list.

Thank you for your contribution.

Theodora is the creator and founder of the TVP Foundation which operates through two main venues: The International Theatre in English and The Los Angeles Method. You can read more about her work here.

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The Los Angeles Method at the 4th International Scientific Conference.

A few months ago, after a long discussion about the Los Angeles Method and how the Arts can be therapeutic, I was invited by Ms. Dora Psaltopoulou-PhD, MA-CMT and the Aristotle University in Greece to join the 4th International Scientific Conference “Creative Arts Interconnection Paideia-Therapy” and present the Los Angeles Method.

The moment arrived.  On March 19th I flew from Amsterdam to Greece.  I was very excited to return to my country and present my work in such a distinguished environment.

Ms. Psaltopoulou runs the only Music Therapy Department in the country. Unfortunately the people responsible are not aware yet of the fact that Arts can be the solution to many challenges.  The Arts can cure practically anything, since all the challenges we are facing, whether they are physical or psychological, are based on the emotions we are having. Arts deal with exactly that; our emotions. They help us understand who we are and how we can achieve our full potential. This goes beyond therapy. Great multinational companies, pioneers in their field, are now preferring candidates with MFAs rather than MBAs. ( for more info you can check out our post “An MFA better than an MBA“).

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The chair of the conference, Ms.Psaltopoulou, has pioneered Music Therapy in Greece since 1992, and founded the Music Therapy Centre of Thessaloniki. She is a certified music therapist CMT (AMTA) and holds a PhD and a MA (NYU,NU,USA). Her clinical work includes neurosis, psychosis, autism and community music therapy.

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I am very honoured to have shared the stage with Pr. Barbara Hesser- CMT,LCAT, FAMI.  Prof. Hesser is the Director of the Music Therapy program at New York University.  In this capacity she coordinates the Master’s and Doctoral Degree programs of NYU. She is the program director of the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre and has served as President of the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT).

Prof. Hesser opened the conference. Her speech was about our “Healthy Potential”. We are all born with a healthy potential- our true nature. As Maslow states, we all need and have creativity and aliveness. If someone has mental, physical, emotional problems- these problems stand blocks to their Healthy Potential. It is those people, with these problems (mental, physical, emotional), that music helps them express their Inner Healthy Potential.

Prof. Hesser talked about the benefits and the life changing effects of the Arts and specifically Music Therapy; using as an example young Joshua. We first saw a short video of a young boy, 5 or 6 years old, in a room with a piano. A young man was playing the piano and another was singing, but the boy did not respond. The boy did not want to be touched and was completely secluded from its environment. The next video, shot some days later, shows Joshua being held by one of the therapists and singing along, even touching the piano and creating sounds.  Before we go on, prof. Hesser explains to us that Joshua is a blind autistic child.

Understanding the challenges that an autistic child faces and adding to that the blindness, one can realise the great progress that was achieved in a short period of time through music.  Through the videos, you begin to see a response, a vocalisation in tune with the music. Joshua is singing, Joshua is having a good time and Joshua reacts and does what the lyrics say.

In another video we see Joshua having a tantrum. The therapist playing the piano, follows through the music Joshua’s tantrum and gradually guides him to a more serene place, and Joshua follows and collaborates to the music. The music relaxes him. Joshua accepts the music.

Joshua, a blind, autistic kid, feels confident and allows himself to heal through music. He feels safer, accepted, calm and trusts himself and his environment. Joshua found a sense of rhythm, a desire to vocalise, an ability to play the piano, spontaneity, joy, pleasure and the ability to focus.  All that through music. He developed a new aspect of himself through Art. A new self concept was developed. He moved from wanting to control his environment to collaborating and improvising.

At the beginning Joshua would describe himself as disabled, unaccepted and unworthy.  Now all that has changed; he understands himself as being loved, accepted and able for anything.

Joshua experienced the Expansion of Being through the Arts.

If Joshua can do it, what is stopping you?

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thelosangelesmethod.com © Copyright 2009- 2015, Theodora Voutsa. photo by Thanasis Moutsianas

The next day I presented the Los Angeles Method. We talked about how our lives are the movies we write, direct and star in; how we are 100% responsible of our reality- since we are the ones creating it.

Acting is about our truth, it is not about pretending. I must first know who I am, what do I want, what kind of “tools” do I have- in order to be able to serve the role.  These are the techniques we teach “non actors” ( I am using quotation marks even though we are all Acting on our lives, we are all actors).

We play many roles throughout a day, we are not only one character. The techniques help you distinguish the different objectives and create different maps to achieve them all. (If you wish to read more on the Los Angeles Method, you can follow the link.)

We talked about our theatre project and how the Art of Theatre can be therapeutic and liberating. ( You can read more about the Theatre Project here.)

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thelosangelesmethod.com © Copyright 2009- 2015, Theodora Voutsa. photo by Thanasis Moutsianas

It was a wonderful experience working with all the participants in the Los Angeles Method Workshop. Their commitment and dedication were memorable. Most of the participants are studying towards the degree of Music Therapy. It makes you feel happy and trustful knowing that such able, committed and devoted individuals will be “released” into society soon to help others. The world is about to become a better place, and we can all be part of the process.

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It was a very rewarding experience.

My gratitude and appreciation to Ms.Dora Psaltopoulou-PhD,MA-CMT, Mr. Nikolaos Zafranas-PhD,MA,BA, Ms. Margarita Hatzinassiou-MA-NRMT and everyone on the organising Committee of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Aristotle University, “Creative Arts Interconnection Paideia-Therapy”.

My special thanks to Mr. Yiannis Kaminis for taking care of all the important details that make the difference- and Mr. Th. Moutsianas for the photos and assistance.

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Art can save Lives.