MODELLING

The purpose of modelling behaviour is to create a copy that can be used by someone else to reproduce the same behaviour. It involves reducing a complex set of interactions into a reduced set of key elements. It’s not about analysing to understand, only to replicate enough to get the same result.  It relies on the skill of the observer and their internal “movie making” skills. It’s a simulation.

Models are used in all walks of life to test out and understand the properties and relationships in the outcome or result before it is built or perfected. Developing natural expertise or mastery will require considerable time and energy.

Modelling behaviour includes:

THOUGHT – strategies, beliefs and values

ACTION – physiology, behaviour and words

Often the psychological and affective elements are not visible and are hidden in the flow of Unconscious Competence.

Modelling can involve connecting at the human level by using one’s own personal intuition and subjective experience. Actors often say that when they go into costume and imitate the physiology expected of the character they are playing they gain insights and an intuitive feel for possible thought processes behind the behaviour, voice tone, posture, etc.  They try it on, refine it and anchor it through rehearsals.