Through others, we become ourselves” - Vygotsky

As the architect of The Becoming Principle and a leader of the performance activism movement, Cathy Salit can help you develop and create your story. As a performer, she can help you deepen your presence and bring your presentation to life. As a coach, she can help you grow in the process.

Join Cathy and Sarah Filman, leadership coach and founder of Playful Perspectives, to discover new and more effective versions of yourself and your project.

Using the tools of theater and improvisation, the developmental psychology of becoming, and a hefty supply of activist, business and street smarts, Cathy and Sarah will help you discover your power, creativity, agency, intellect, and soul.

In this two-part workshop Cathy and Sarah will lead an international group of performance activists, social entrepreneurs and project developers as they experiment, practice, and discover new and more effective versions of themselves and their projects (whether they are fully developed or in the conceptual stage).

Over the two sessions you will:

Create an “elevator” speech for your project/business/organization
Get actionable input and ideas from Cathy, Sarah, and the group that supports your vision
Develop greater creative flexibility in performing your story
Surprise yourself and your audience
Meet new friends from around the world–new ways to build help and support

Sessions held virtually, on Zoom, on Saturdays, December 7th and December 14th

Leader Biographies

Cathy Rose Salit is a social entrepreneur, executive coach, improviser, jazz vocalist, and performance activist. She is the founder of The Global Play Brigade, a community formed at the outset of the pandemic that provides free play and emotional support sessions around the globe. As a founder and now CEO Emerita of the award winning leadership consultancy Performance of a Lifetime, she led the growth of the company for over 23 years, working with thousands of leaders and teams in top brand companies. In her current coaching company she works with leaders and teams in large to small organizations around the world. Cathy is the author of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work, and her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company and the Wall Street Journal. She has been active as a grassroots community organizer since she was a teenager; building alternative schools, teen pregnancy prevention programs, social therapy centers, independent political campaigns, the All Stars Project, and the Performing the World and Applied Improv Network global conferences. Cathy lives in Setauket, NY where she is an active part of the cultural community there, performing at varied venues including The Jazz Loft and Science Plays Festivals at the Simons Center for Geology and Science.

Sarah Filman (she/her) is a leadership coach, facilitator, improviser, and emerging performance activist. An experienced people leader and technical product manager, Sarah has brought her heart and humor to tech organizations and education non-profits for over fourteen years. She is the founder of Playful Perspectives, with a mission to help leaders and their teams connect, create, and thrive by dissolving the work/play divide. Her coaching work with leaders helps them identify and unblock the new “leadership performances” needed to positively support the development of work relationships, culture, and confidence in the role. Sarah is also a Brigadier with the Global Play Brigade where she connects with people across the world to play with the spectrum of human emotions and experiences.