For Musicians, For Musicians Educators and Faculty, For Alexander Technique and Body Mapping practitioners Shawn Copeland For Musicians, For Musicians Educators and Faculty, For Alexander Technique and Body Mapping practitioners Shawn Copeland

“It’s not that big a deal.” “It’s just another performance.” “It’s fine. I’ve done this before.”

There is something we do before a big performance that we almost never talk about. We make it smaller than it is. This is not carelessness. It is a very specific kind of preparation. And it costs more than it saves.

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For Alexander Technique and Body Mapping practitioners, For Musicians, For Musicians Educators and Faculty Shawn Copeland For Alexander Technique and Body Mapping practitioners, For Musicians, For Musicians Educators and Faculty Shawn Copeland

The Impostor Pattern Is Not a Mindset Problem

We have spent decades treating Impostor Syndrome as a thought that needs correcting. It is not a distorted thought. It is a physiological strategy that is working exactly as it was designed to work. This piece names what that means, and why it changes everything about how we work with it.

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