How does it work?

The Galli Method starts where all intellectual strategies are no longer useful. The key word is acting.

Spontaneous solutions are revealed when a conflict, problem, or process is “acted out” in a short theatrical scene. The limitations of the intellect are broken through.

The playing, or the acting-out of scenes, forces the participant to establish the distance needed for reaching the solution. It is that simple. But, a further explanation can be added. To act out a process, principally means to copy it so that it may be reproduced. This is an enormous act of consciousness. The player has to recall a course of action, which takes place in daily life, and simultaneously portray it. The participants have to exchange their internal experience for an external experience. They have to observe themselves from the outside and they achieve extraordinary things. They break out of their automatic behaviour and also confront this behaviour by interpreting it with their acting.

To summarize: the players are able to objectively observe themselves and that is why they are successful in portraying a situation. By confronting themselves, the participants are able to penetrate their inner world of experience.

The technique helps break through the intellectual strategies individuals unconsciously employ to mask true feelings in their daily lives.

The enormous tensions created on stage force participants to play truthfully, with no time for pretending, and, in the process, discover the truth and solutions within. These truths and solutions are often already known but hidden behind the assumptions of who people think they should be. Instead, the highest level of performance is achieved—by playing themselves.

For some people one Play Scene experience is already enough to say: “It was a light bulb moment!” This is the ideal case.

Sometimes, however, the participant is so caught in the conflict that simply acting out the scene is not enough and does not reveal the solution. In this case it is useful to put the Play scene on another level to get away from the real life situation. A large field opens for creative ideas.