Passion for Dance

Do you have a teaching or coaching philosophy? Personally, it took me years to come up with my own personal teaching philosophy that was really specific to me and not just words you say on a job application. It took years of experience, challenges, successes, and choices. After all of that time, my personal coaching philosophy is simple but powerful. And above all else, as an educator, I have learned why it's so important to reflect and come up with your own personal teaching or coaching philosophy. So in this episode, I'm going to share why it matters, how it will save you so much time in the future, and some tips to get you started if you haven't written one before. And of course, I've got a free resource for you to help you tackle this if you're up for it.

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Today's guest is Caroline Liviakis, she is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Caroline Liviakis Dance Company (CLDC), choreographing and producing live performances and interactive experiences. In her most recent project, she brings her creative visions to digital form as a choreographer and director of film, music videos, and commercials. Caroline currently teaches at Loyola Marymount University and is currently in pre-production for her debut feature-length film: Lessons In Love. And towards the end of our conversation, today shared this amazing idea…What happens if dance isn't just a backup to the star of the show, but dance is actually an integral part of telling the story?! It's an amazing vision for our dance industry.

Caroline and I talked about transitioning from dancing for fun to choosing it as a career, the importance of connecting with the audience in commercial dance, the importance of cultivating relationships and what networking really means, and some great advice for those of you trying to chase your own dance career passions.

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This episode is a little heavier, but I'm learning to lean into the hard, so I hope you'll join me. I'm grateful that there is a growing conversation around mental health, increasing awareness and hopefully supporting your dancers. However, I also think that can leave dance educators feeling like they should be doing more or that they don't know enough to be responsible. Consider this episode an introduction to help you feel more comfortable with this challenging topic and know where to go next. I'm going to clarify the difference between mental health, mental illness, and mental toughness. I cover some current statistics on mental illness in athletes, and finally, what YOU can do to support your athlete's mental health.

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Today's guest is Stephanie Westbrook, who is based in Sydney Australia, and currently coaches the University of New South Wales Warriors Premier Dance Teams. Over the years her teams have won multiple National Championships, multiple international bids, and multiple Dance Grand Champion titles, and Stephanie has also received several awards for choreography. In this conversation, Stephanie shared with me that she only gets 1 hour a week with her team… one hour! It's crazy to me, so I asked her all about building team morale and trust, and she shares some great exercises to try in the summer to set the team up for success, turning things around when morale is low, what it means to be competitive, and Stephanie's great advice to "drop it and swap it!" She also shares advice on how to start a team from scratch and her coaching non-negotiables. This was such a fun interview and I'm excited to share it with you now, let's get to it!

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If you're a part of this community, I am pretty confident you are a lifelong learner and someone who cares about being the best version of yourself. Not every dance educator out there will spend time reading books, listening to podcasts, and attending conferences in an effort to improve. But you are here… so let's talk about personal growth today. When you are reading or listening and consuming all this new information, is it always focused on how you can be better for your dancers? What about a purely personal mission of YOUR growth? Today let's focus on you the teacher and coach and not your dancers, here are 5 simple ideas to help you focus on your own growth.

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It's summer, which for me as a mental performance consultant means busy season! Lots of dance studios and coaches want to focus on mental skills training in the summer, which is great. It's our "off-season" or as I like to say, "improvement season". So in today's episode, I want to address a question I get a lot… when should I teach my dancers about mental skills? It's a great question, so let's talk about when it's best to train for mental skills.

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Summer is often a time of vacations and relaxing, but also, intensives and summer camps, and usually whole love of planning! If you are someone like me who loves a good planner, color codes everything and enjoys mapping out your season, I'm excited to share my planning process with you. And if you are NOT a planner, I encourage you to stick around. While it may not come as naturally as it does for others, that doesn't mean you can't do it.

If you want to see some growth in your dancers next year, let's talk about the 4 step planning process that will help you make it happen.

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We know that being a dance coach with a positive impact is more than teaching dance skills and helping your dancers perform well and achieve competitive success. But how? What are the coaching strategies that actually help you teach your dancers those important life skills? How do you challenge them and help your dancers achieve mental strength and perseverance while also supporting their mental health? Well, there are 3 key pillars of being a positive dance coach and it's all inside the Positive Coaching Framework

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In this episode, I talk about the need for a little tough love in coaching. I'm not telling you to be mean and rude, but there is a time and place when it is our job to challenge our dancers. It's a common misconception that positive coaching means going easy on them, but that's not true. This episode explains how to give your dancers some tough love when they need it, because I know sometimes it's hard to be hard on them. But there is a time and place, and process, for doing just that. And your dancers will be stronger for it.

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Today's episode features two special guests, who are both professionally accomplished and exceptional dance educators. As I say in the episode, sometimes you just click with people right away because you are grounded in the same philosophy and approach to life, which is why I clicked so quickly with Joe and Michelle.

In today's conversation, we talk about our passion for dance and teaching, why we believe dancers can't take a compliment and need support from us now more than ever, and how we can help our students define success and get through the hard times.

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Thrive Dance Experience

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