My Journal
Healing The Inner Critic: A Workshop With Craig Behenna
At The Mercury Cinema on Saturday 20th April, 3PM-5PM I’m running a two-hour session on Saturday, 20th April on working with and healing our relationship with our inner critic. I work with a lot of actors and creatives. One of the biggest challenges people work with...
How To Embrace Your Inner Critic: A Path To Kinder Self-Talk
I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about the inner critic, and I think things are getting worse, not better, for many people who come to speak to me. It’s especially telling when I’m working with creatives and people who feel a strong sense of pressure...
Self-Compassion: the Antidote to Your Inner Critic
I'm trying to write an article on the importance of compassion. Ironically, I’m getting a bit of inner criticism as I go along. I want to write about how important it is to be kind to ourselves. Even - especially - when we feel the inner and outer voices...
Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s Directorial Debut, Makes a Stellar Debut at SXSW
Monkey Man is Dev Patel's step into the director's chair. It's a no-holds-barred action movie that I've seen referred to online as 'John Wick in Mumbai'. Monkey Man held it's world prem screening at SXSW this week. It gained a standing ovation, and at the time I write...
How Trusting Yourself Can Help You Grow As An Artist
(I have a long background working with actors, writers and creatives. I found that the issues we struggle with in the process of bringing our best, most personal work into the world are often the same issues many of us face in other areas of life. Whether you're a...
Midpoints: what they are, why your screenplay needs one, and classic movie midpoints that change everything
I’m tutoring Screenwriting again with a new cohort from John Yorke Story, UK’s leading screen story and narrative experts. We’re heading to our study of midpoints. It’s always my favourite part of the course and so I’m thinking a lot about what midpoints do, how they...
Your Creative Work Is An Infinite Game
Last week I recorded a self-tape for a role in a film - and I hated every moment leading up to it. Until I started playing a different game, and everything changed. It was the difference between playing for a ‘finite’ outcome that can only be given to you by others...
A Guided Meditation For Compassion, Creativity and Daily Life
I’ve had a few clients lately who are going through big changes. Some good, some difficult. All very big and taking up a lot of their mind and emotional space. Many talk about wanting to take news steps in their lives, in their creative work. They want to be more...