Beyond Charisma ...

The BioArt "Keystone" Workshop in Executive Presence

"You can rapidly improve your personal and professional life by clarifying the signals you send out to the world. " Madeleine Barchevska

BioArt Theatre Laboratories offers communication and presentation skills training to executives: the aim is to create sustainable personal development for each client, using carefully- evolved methods and practices.

Designed for executives and those in high-level management, this is an intensive learning experience that skillfully harnesses and combines essential knowledge and techniques drawn from both life sciences and theatre arts - a synthesis that is key to Barchevska's unique award-winning approach to training. Each workshop is customized to address the specific needs of the individual participants. Designed to enhance personal effectiveness, confidence, clarity and impact, promote the development of personal style and the capacity to manage and minimize stress, it can contribute dramatically to the individual's dynamism and success at the executive level, and indeed in all kinds of human interaction. This can be a profound and fascinating learning experience, with effects that are immediate and lasting, deep and subtle.

"Behind the Mask"
The six-hour workshop is typically split into two sessions, on consecutive days. Each group, with up to nine participants, is invited to explore different techniques and aspects of personal and group communication making extensive use of masks.

The mask is an ancient tool of liberation, used in the theatre for centuries. It magnifies perception and engages each person in direct contact with the flow of his or her nervous system, impulses and intuitive responses to life. (See video segment on mirror neurons, www.pbs.org/wgbh/#23E9EF )

What participants have to say about Executive Presence workshops:

"The workshop focuses on one's own natural grace in movement and thought, and the perception of this grace within oneself and others. The experience was powerful, especially as beheld in the delighted discovery of others. The workshop also touches on honoring. Honoring represents ritual, yet without a trace of orthodoxy….. unveiling insight into essential human values. Once you have witnessed this grace, you look for it everywhere…. What could be more profoundly useful? The workshop was absolutely marvelous."
-- Richard Cooper, International Relations Specialist

" I was very impressed with how Madeleine could create, in a very short time, a totally relaxed atmosphere within a very peaceful environment. After an hour of different relaxing exercises helping participants to de-stress from city life, I found out that I was even scared of putting a mask on. I originally thought, "Why the masks?" and realized after putting one on how helpful it was to feel different while still being myself. Everything was suddenly different. I actually lost my "society mask" and started to feel in much better harmony with my environment and totally free of the roles we play in our society and how we would like to be perceived by our peers. Coming out of Madeleine's course, I felt like I wanted to do it again. I wanted to be able to repeat this exercise and get back quickly to this personal harmony, not always easy in our city life. Thank you Madeleine for allowing us to discover this."
-- Martin Brand, OEM Business Manager Europe, Adobe Systems