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Equinoxe Germany

I’ve been at beautiful Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps. http://www.schloss-elmau.de/ It was a fabulous setting for the recent Equinoxe Germany workshop.

Barack Obama – Three Factors of Character Type

I’ve written extensively on the differences in Character Type between John McCain and Barack Obama. Both candidates’ response to the recent American financial crisis is further revealing of all aspects of their Character Types.

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McCain and Obama: Character Consistency in Storytelling

#ThinkpieceThursday – The Presidential election is an opportunity to see two Character Types play their roles on the world stage.

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John McCain – Three Factors of Character Type

The same tactics and approach can create totally dissimilar strengths and weaknesses, problems and opportunities because the two characters view the world so differently.

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New Book With A Powerful Backstory

“I pressed the button on the phone and the first sound I heard in the headset was a child sobbing. She was barely able to speak, kept saying the same thing over and over…”I just want it to stop.” It was Monday morning 7.30 am. My very first call as a ChildLine volunteer counselor.

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Values at Stake – Film

The obstacles in a film or television series should create the kind of risk, peril or danger that pushes the character to take actions that define what is most fundamentally important or true in a character’s life.

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Revolutionary or Rebel Part Two

#TypesTuesday – In order to have real power, a story and a character must have a single clear emotional focus.

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Revolutionary or Rebel

#MondayMusings – Rebels are opportunistic, but Revolutionaries strive for change

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The Dark Knight & The Power of Truth

In a Power of Truth film things are never what they seem. None of the major characters in The Dark Knight are what they seem at first glance. The tangled undergrowth of human duplicity catches and pulls at every character in the film.

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