From Storytelling 2020
Mark O'Connell • 5/1/2020
What do you do when you're wrong for the part?
Magazine Article
Using the Body as an Emotional Tuning Fork
Mark O'Connell • 4/1/2019
By Mark O'Connell - Today, as a psychotherapist, I approach my work much as I did in my former vocation as an actor: with the faith that my instrument—my body, my self—can serve as an emotional tuning fork to locate the inner lives of each and every client, regardless of our exterior differences.
Daily Blog
What Therapists Can Learn from Actors
Mark O'Connell • 3/7/2019
Therapists can flop in their “performance” with clients, coming off as inauthentic or over the top. One former actor discovers how to embody the kind of “scene partner” his clients need him to be.
Magazine Article