Diversity+Difference

A presentation by Dorit Cypis and Milan Slama This is an interactive presentation that recognizes the important role that anxiety and identity play in challenging mediators to “mediate courageously”. To be effective mediators we must recognize our own anxieties when we mediate difficult situations, discomforting topics and challenging clients, and assess how much risk we are willing to take before endangering the process of mediation and losing necessary trust of the parties. Mediators...

Dorit Cypis will conduct “Diversity Inside Out”, a workshop for students of the Art Department, St. Cloud State University. Aesthetic tools of performance (movement, gesture), drawing (tracing), spatial awareness, and creative critical thinking will be used to build skills of self-reflection, bias awareness, difference recognition, empathy, and reciprocity.

Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:05 PM (PDT) View the live stream at sagaftra.foundation/livestream/ At its core, the job of an actor is to reflect humanity. Or, as Natalie Portman succinctly put it, “An actor’s job is empathy.” For the performer, this means more than just walking in someone else’s shoes; it requires us to inhabit experiences and perspectives that could be completely alien to our own. Join us for an exploration on the role of empathy in acting and how it can be accessed as a...