Thursday, April 4, 2013
Registration (Continental Breakfast Available)
8:30 – 9:00 am
Morning Session
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Reenactment in an Opening Statement (Demonstration)
Improv: An Introduction to Voice and Body
Improv exercises to warm up voice and body: As lawyers, our courtroom tools are our voices and our bodies. Of the five ways of communicating (spacework (i.e., engaging in a particular physical activity); movement; emotion; character; and words), lawyers tend to ignore all but words. These exercises will help the participants understand the power of non-verbal communication and to better understand the use of movement in the sacred space that is a courtroom.
Hero-centric Story Structures
Hero-centric story structure: The key to trial is story, but in order to understand how to tell a client’s story, the lawyer must first understand the component parts to classic herocentric story structure, as well as the character archetypes in such stories. This part of the course will focus on teaching the participants the nature of three act story structure (ordinary world, new world, climax and return), how the various parts of trial fit within that structure, how to paint the various characters in the case so that the jury will understand them to be Villain, Victim, Mentor or Hero, which, ultimately, is the role of the jurors. We will then transition to discovering the story in action, then to action-techniques for structuring the story.
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session
1:00 – 5:30 pm
Discovering the Story of a Case: Psychodramatic Storytelling
This part of the course is designed to show the participants how to discover the stories in their cases through dramatic reenactment techniques that bring the stories alive, thereby not only discovering the stories, but providing the participants with material that can be shown to the jury, as opposed to just told.
Faculty Demonstrations: Trial Pieces Based on Story Discovered
Story Spine Exercises Based on Story Discovered
Breakout Sessions: Story Spine
Processing
Networking Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Friday, April 5, 2013
Continental Breakfast Available
8:30 – 9:00 am
Morning Session
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Basic Psychodrama and Reenactment Techniques
Two-chair Work: Climbing Inside Your Client's World
Afternoon Session
12:00 – 5:15 pm
Buffet Lunch and Story Clips
12:00 – 1:15 pm
Breakout Sessions: Discovering Personal Stories in Action Using Psychodramatic Techniques Reenactment
Clips to Illustrate Story
Processing
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Continental Breakfast Available
8:30 – 9:00 am
Morning Session
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Breakout Session: Discovering Stories in Participant Cases
Shaping/Molding Pieces of a Case Story into Action in Opening, Closing, Direct Examination or Cross-Examination (Demonstration and Coaching)
Examples in big group of how to put pieces of a case story into action in Opening/Closing, or Direct/Cross.
Breakout Sessions: Putting Cases into Action in the Courtroom
Break out sessions for individual training in small group settings on putting cases into action in courtroom.
Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Afternoon Session
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Breakout Sessions: Putting Cases into Action in the Courtroom (continued)
Processing and Final Thoughts
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CLE Information
Earn approximately 20* CLE and NCA credits to be applied to your participation in the NCA's Achievement Recognition Program. For more general CLE information consult the FAQs or CLE coordinator at 800.622.1791, ext. 8612.
Professional Recognition Programs
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