The Second Circle: Using Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation

Everybody should read this book! My son is studying acting and we had a discussion about Patsy Rotenburg and her teachings and he recommended I read the book. I found it a wonderful and enlightening way to communicate. I have recommended it to all my friends that are open to this type of teaching. Getting to know yourself and how to use positive energy to captivate your surroundings. Makes life a little more interesting!!!

In her book The Second Circle: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation, Patsy Rodenburg distills her concept of Second Circle energy, developed over decades of work around the globe with people from all walks of life. While her background is in the theater, working with the world's leading actors, the techniques she's developed can be applied by anyone, regardless of his or her vocation, to transformational effect. This is no abstract philosophical or metaphysical treatise. The writing is completely grounded in the work at hand, each idea seeming to spring spontaneously from the moment. Anyone fortunate enough to have worked with Patsy will immediately recognize her voice and spirit on every page. The book is chock full of practical exercises and examples. The bottom line: it works!

This is an excellent book. I bought it to help me teach Acting students, but its going to help me in my relationships, and in teaching long-acting students too! It's a wonderful book for teaching how the skills of Theatre and acting work apply to everyone and every field. This is the sort of book that can make our communities, societies, and world better. I wish there was an audible version so I could play it in the car for my family!

This could be a game changer if people would realize how our society is so caught up in multi-tasking and not present much at all -the worlds passes by- really we aren't even designed to multi task on a conscious level- I would say majority of people don't even know what being present even feels like-Ms Rodenberg gives clear cut examples and exercises to regain what we came into this world with- being present and aware of the ever changing brilliance of the here and now!

People who want to use their premise of second circle will have to indulge in a great deal of effort, but that effort could have substantial payoffs.

Maybe someday I'll come back and write a proper review. Right now, I just want to issue a warning: If you purchase Presence: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation, do NOT also purchase The Second Circle: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation. They seem to be exactly the same book, except for the title. I ordered both, after I somehow got the impression that they were two different books, based on the different titles.

This book was purchased for study by members of Dormant Phoenix ([...]) and the Haley Elizabeth Ilgenfritz school for contemporary art ([...]).Patsy Rodenburg's Second Circle work has done more for acting than anyone since Stanislavski. What she teaches is simply amazing. It focuses on the "It" factor some actors have and shows that ANYONE can find that presence. She teaches that this is not something ANYONE is missing, but something that was lost or stolen from us along the way.Most importantly she teaches us that this is something we can bring back.At our school, and in our company, Rodenburg's work is fully enabled - enabling our actors.DormantPhoenix.org

This is an excellent book and unlike many "How to" books there are a number of practical exercises you can do to develop the practices that the other advocates. I'll also add that as a trained musician I find her theory and practices corroborate some of the things I was taught many years ago. For me this a validation of her ideas. I've also found some interviews with Rodenburg that help amplify and reinforce what she writes.

I would recommend this book as another approach to interacting with people

Un libro que cambia la perspectiva de la vida y llego a tiempo sin ningún tema

Connection is everything in Acting. This is the guide on how to get out of your head, off script and into the moment.

The book is great.

Recommend it to anyone willing to feel CONNECTED to themselves and their surrounding. Anyone willing to be present.