PHASE FOUR: REFLECTION
Assessing how the learning process went – including not only the performance but also each stage of the process.
PHASE ONE: INTENTION
Understanding the task by formulating goals and intentions and developing strategies and plans.
Performance Anxiety: 3 catagories
(Diana Kenny)
- Normal 'focal' anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Panic & major depression
PHASE TWO: EXPLORATION
Having space to get to know the repertoire, instrument and self, rather than just problem solving.
- What is "Practice"?
- Physical and mental tension
- Practicing getting it right first time
- Motivation: "How do I get myself to want to play?"
- "What is a good performance?"
- Matching skill and challenge
- Mindset
- Physical warm-up
- Practicing performing
- Circles of Eberspächer
- External focus of attention
- Task focus
- Improvisation
- The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning
- Self-regulation
- Performance anxiety
