tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post2979224906211556907..comments2024-03-05T04:01:39.623-05:00Comments on Green Room Speakers: Getting to the Root Cause of StagefrightSarah Gershmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09092765869493763383noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-63192900575103328882010-01-06T18:56:39.032-05:002010-01-06T18:56:39.032-05:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-2399644214178608772009-10-15T11:16:12.205-05:002009-10-15T11:16:12.205-05:00That is a great question. I do sit and reflect on ...That is a great question. I do sit and reflect on past performance related experiences - while of course making it clear that I am not a counselor. I would say that from what I know - a root cause is more often than not a bad experience with performance - but there can be other causes as well.Sarah Gershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09092765869493763383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-65354242448690783552009-10-15T11:16:03.669-05:002009-10-15T11:16:03.669-05:00That is a great question. I do sit and reflect on ...That is a great question. I do sit and reflect on past performance related experiences - while of course making it clear that I am not a counselor. I would say that from what I know - a root cause is more often than not a bad experience with performance - but there can be other causes as well.Sarah Gershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09092765869493763383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-18293817736055607792009-10-15T10:29:55.815-05:002009-10-15T10:29:55.815-05:00I'm really interested to know how you identify...I'm really interested to know how you identify the root causes of stage fright with your clients. Do you sit down and reflect back on past experiences? Are the traumatic experiences always directly related to public speaking or is the root cause of stage fright sometimes less obvious?chernikoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856670549574234166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-5098077803359671212009-10-12T15:09:14.931-05:002009-10-12T15:09:14.931-05:00Thank you so much for your thoughtful and percepti...Thank you so much for your thoughtful and perceptive comment. The difference between the civil rights example and stagefright is that in the case of racism the "root cause" has a much longer history. While finding ways to cope is important, I still think it is difficult to fully overcome stagefright if the connection is not made to the original trigger.Sarah Gershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09092765869493763383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374040349510552859.post-48095408293711383132009-10-12T11:22:38.298-05:002009-10-12T11:22:38.298-05:00Sure it's useful to identify the root cause of...Sure it's useful to identify the root cause of stage fright especially since, as you suggest,it can have different causes on different occasions. But sometimes effective coping techniques (i.e. behavior modification)can actually extinguish the original problematic impulse. An analogy: during the civil rights movement, MLK and other leaders focused on eliminating racist BEHAVIORS (discriminatatory acts in schools, buses, restaurants, etc) rather than on psychoanlyzing individuals for the root causes of their prejudice. Over time, as those legally & morally unacceptable behaviors disappeared, so too did the underlying racist impulse even without any internal recognition of its root cause.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com