Maintaining Control provides a unique introductory guide to the effective management of violence and aggression within the clinical environment. It explores all facets of the subject and explains simple, but highly effective, strategies for use in and out of the working environment. This new book enables the reader to understand both the principles and the appropriate techniques, regardless of academic or physical ability. It approaches the subject matter from a unique personal safety perspective, the main priority being the safety of the client and of the practitioner, no matter what the setting or situation. Issues of practical management are covered, alongwith a fully illustrated guide to Breakaway Techniques and Non-Aversive Physical Interventions. The practical techniques, along with the Management and Personal Safety principles, make Maintaining Control invaluable to any face to face Service Provider, including those working outside of the clinical setting

Maintaining Control: An Introduction to the Effective Management of Violence and Aggression

Gillett, John

Willis, Bob

Business & Money

Hodder Education Publishers

“I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting an introduction to Stanislavksi or Chekhov or acting in general.”—Matt Peover, trainer and theater director, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art An inspiring and technically thorough practical book for actors that sets down a systematic and coherent process for organic (from the “inside-out”/experienced emotion) acting. The author offers a step-by-step, Stanislavski-based approach to text, role, and performance to be used in everyday work and gathers together in one volume the essential tools that serve to re-create human experience. John Gillett builds on his experience of teaching at drama school level as well as thirty years of acting. For those acting students and professional actors who have become mystified and frustrated with trying to understand Stanislavski's approach, this book is an accessible guide to inspire a truly real and audience-captivating performance.

Acting on Impulse: Reclaiming the Stanislavski approach: A practical workbook for actors (Methuen Drama)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach (Performance Books)

About the Author\nChristina Gutekunst has been Head of Voice at East 15 Acting School since 2003. Apart from co-writing Voice into Acting, she contributed a chapter, Organic Voice: Vocal Integration through Actor Training in a book for Routledge, Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (edited by Christina Kapadocha, 2020).\nChristina trained as an actor in Germany and Britain, and then gained her Post Graduate diploma and MA in voice studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has taught voice in numerous acting schools, has worked on voice-overs as actor and director and co-ran two theatre companies. She has also coached on productions for TV and theatre. 
.\nJohn Gillett isthe author ofActing on Impulse - Reclaiming the Stanislavski Approach (Methuen Drama, 2007); the second edition, Acting Stanislavski – A practical guide to Stanislavski's approach and legacy (Bloomsbury, 2014); and Voice into Acting - Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach (Bloomsbury 2014, and now in a second edition, 2021).He has also written articles on acting and the preface for a new edition of Stanislavski's Creating a Role (Bloomsbury Revelations, 2013). John trained as an actor in the approach of Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov and has worked widely in theatre, radio, film and television. He has taught and directed in many drama schools, including RADA, LAMDA, CSSD, and GSA, and was Head of the Post Graduate Acting Course at East 15. John has run acting workshops here and aboad, is a member of Equity and has had a prominent role in the writing of recent arts policy documents for Equity and the Creative and Leisure Industries Committee of the TUC.\nHow can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one?\nChristina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors – the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world.\nThis updated edition contains: a new chapter on vocal embodiment of actions, new findings from neuroscience supporting the approach, more exercises, warm-up routines for training, rehearsal and performance, and a completely new glossary of terms.\nThe authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can:\n- Respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will 
- Fully express language in content and form 
- Communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience 
- Transform to adapt to different roles 
- Connect to a variety of audiences and spaces\nFeaturing 55 illustrations by German artist, Dany Heck, Voice into Acting is an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques or an alternative approach to harmonize with the actor's process.

Arts & Photography

Gutekunst, Christina

Performing Arts

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one? Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors - the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world.This updated edition contains: a new chapter on vocal embodiment of actions, new findings from neuroscience supporting the approach, more exercises, warm-up routines for training, rehearsal and performance, and a completely new glossary of terms.The authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can:- Respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will- Fully express language in content and form- Communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience- Transform to adapt to different roles- Connect to a variety of audiences and spacesFeaturing 55 illustrations by German artist, Dany Heck, Voice into Acting is an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques or an alternative approach to harmonize with the actor's process.

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one? 
Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors – the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world. The authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can: 
 respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will fully express language in content and form communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience transform to adapt to different roles connect to a variety of audiences and spaces
Featuring over fifty illustrations by German artist Dany Heck, Voice into Acting is an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques, or an alternative approach, to harmonize with the actor's process.

Voice into Acting: Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach (Performance Books)

Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and misapplied.
In Acting Stanislavski, John Gillett offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive account of the Stanislavski approach, from the actor's training to final performance, exploring:
• ease and focus • the nature of action, interaction and objectives • the imaginary reality, senses and feeling • active analysis of text • physical and vocal expression of character • the actor in the context of training and the industry.
Drawing on Stanislavski's major books, in both English translations, and on records of his directing process and final studio classes, Acting Stanislavski demystifies terms and concepts. It is for actors from an actor's point of view, and offers many practical exercises and examples as an integrated part of each subject.
Acting Stanislavski also creates an up-to-date overview of the Stanislavski approach, connecting his legacy with the work of his successors, from Michael Chekhov to Meisner, Adler and Strasberg.
A new, extended and fully updated edition of Acting on Impulse: Reclaiming the Stanislavski Approach (Methuen Drama, 2007), Acting Stanislavski now includes new exercises and biographies, a further chapter on The Character, and an expanded glossary along with many other additions to the previous chapters. It is an essential practical and educational resource for any acting student, professional or teacher.

Acting Stanislavski: A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy

Humor & Entertainment

What is caving? Caving is fun. Caving is in the darkness. Caving is illuminating. Caving is dangerous. Caving is a minority sport for idiots. Caving is international. Caving is a muddy pastime. Caving warms you up. Caving gives you hypothermia. Caving is a sport for the individual. Caving is for everyone. Caving is exploration. Caving refreshes the soul. Caving is a way of life. The author's exciting journey through a caving career provides an eloquently written whistle-stop tour spanning six decades and several continents that gives an insight into "what makes cavers tick." There is something here for everyone--from the experienced caver to the suburban non-caver - with tales to suit all tastes, of exploits from the humorous to terrifying, with interesting anecdotes that will maintain the readers' interest throughout. Each step of the journey keeps one wondering what lies around the next corner.

Sixty Years of Caves and Caving

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Mirador Publishing

Poems, like music and other art-forms, express a vivid perception of reality. They are created by artists attempting to share their experiences with other people. Such experiences are usually brief and transitory, but nevertheless catalytic. The poems in this anthology were written down spontaneously by the author after being inspired by events or sights that happened fortuitously. The poems seemed to come from another dimension and have a life of their own, quite independently of the author's awareness of them. It is hoped that readers will be able to receive their own inspiration and awareness from at least one of the poems here. The author is an octogenarian caver, walker, writer and a retired chemical engineer who lives in Gawsworth, Cheshire. He is a widower with one daughter, two grand-daughters and three sisters, all of whom have encouraged the publication of these poems.The proceeds from the sales of this anthology will be donated to The East Cheshire HospiceOther publications by the author include A Bedside Book For Older Cavers, Sixty Years of Caves and Caving, North Bucks Yokel and Jumble, also available in all good bookshops.

Polyanthology

Poetry

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Maintaining Control: An Introduction to the Effective Management of Violence and Aggression

Acting on Impulse: Reclaiming the Stanislavski approach: A practical workbook for actors (Methuen Drama)

Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach (Performance Books)

Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach (Performance Books)

Voice into Acting: Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach (Performance Books)

Acting Stanislavski: A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy

Sixty Years of Caves and Caving

Polyanthology