When navigating next level dynamics, high-stakes call-back cycles, higher-profile projects, grueling schedules, increased public scrutiny, clashing artistic visions, career-defining near-misses, and complex industry representation where the consequences of a misstep can be costly, performers need more than tools and strategies that depend on thinking first. In the Heat of the Moment, automatic reaction can take over before they can think.   

They need evidence-informed, targeted performance development designed specifically for the Heat of the Moment, with data-driven one-on-one implementation that quickly and precisely integrates what they build into the realities of their professional and performance environments.

This helps them:

• Maintain composure and professional demeanor when emotions run high
• Communicate clearly when conversations become difficult
• Persist through auditions, rehearsals, and performances despite setbacks and obstacles
• Voice objections constructively and respond appropriately to feedback when tensions rise
• Fulfill obligations and follow through on commitments when the impulse is to disengage

Performance TAU+™ is designed to address two gaps:

1. The gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it in the heat of difficult moments—a gap experienced by actors, musicians, entertainers, and other performers who are already competent in their craft and have learned tools and strategies for navigating difficult situations, but find that their automatic reaction can take over before they can put those tools and strategies to use.

2. The gap between building a new capability and making it work in your professional and performance environments quickly and precisely—a gap experienced by performers who have a critical new capability in place but must integrate it into the unique realities of competitive auditions, long rehearsals, demanding travel, complex productions, intense collaborations, and other dynamic professional situations, where figuring it out through trial and error has consequences they cannot afford.

Build the Reflex
Performance TAU+™ builds an automatic reflex to catch yourself before you react—without having to think about it. This creates a split-second pause that allows you to remain steady in the Heat of the Moment.

Make It Work Where You Work
With the new reflex in place, you learn to:

1. Forecast where automatic reaction may put you at risk in your professional and performance environments.
2. Orient to what has changed when the reflex does its job.
3. Work with the reflex instead of around it.

So that in the Heat of the Moment, when it’s all on the line, you can:

• use the emotional intelligence skills you already learned
• use conflict-management strategies
• use anger-management tools
• use performance, audition, and craft development skills
• use communication strategies
• use breathing techniques
• use mindset and other personal development strategies

Break the Cycle
Participants come away better able to align what they intend to do with what they actually do. With greater steadiness in the Heat of the Moment, they can break recurring cycles, make more intentional choices about how they respond and show up, protect important professional relationships and opportunities, have greater agency over where their career goes, and take greater pride in how they handle themselves.

More than just targeted performance development with coaching and action planning, Performance TAU+™ offers an integrated experience designed to build a critical automatic reflex for remaining steady in the Heat of the Moment and make that new capability work across your professional and performance environments.

Our Integrated System

Performance TAU+™ delivers the complete SteadyState System™ in two connected phases: first building the new reflex, then making it work in the realities of your working world.

• Phase I: SteadyState Foundations™ offers a deliberately protected development journey that builds the automatic reflex. The heart of this foundational journey is ForestRx™: a research-driven experiential learning method that provides learning by doing, real-time practice navigating uncertainty and the unexpected, and a clear view of automatic reaction patterns as they emerge.
• Phase II: SteadyState at Work™ extends that new reflex into actual professional and performance conditions through one-on-one, data-driven implementation and fine-tuning. Participants generate Heat-of-the-Moment data in their own professional and performance environments and work with SteadyState Specialists to analyze that data, see what happens in their unique situations, and make targeted adjustments. Through repeated application and feedback, participants gradually build toward independent use and decision-making.

Our Laser Focus

While other professional development teaches tools and strategies that require thinking first, SteadyState Foundations™ develops an automatic reflex that works in the Heat of the Moment before you can think, creating the split-second pause that allows you to use those tools and strategies to adjust and continue through ambiguity, interruptions, and competing demands.

Unlike coaching and action planning, SteadyState at Work™ provides precision implementation and fine-tuning alongside the participant, so they are not relying on trial and error when the consequences of getting it wrong are costly.

What Sets Us Apart

Together, the two phases of the SteadyState System™ provide:

• Steadiness while keeping your edge, so you keep the passion, intensity, drive, and other intangibles that make you compelling (without trying to make you calm down) while building the automatic reflex to remain steady when the Heat of the Moment hits.
• Learning under real-world conditions, beginning with real-time changing conditions in outdoor settings and continuing into participants’ actual professional and performance environments, where the new reflex is put to work and fine-tuned under the conditions where it must perform.

• A deliberately protected development experience, with ultra-small cohorts, no required group sharing or personal disclosure, structured private reflection, and one-on-one professional implementation that allows personal meaning and professional situations to remain personal.
• Discovery before explanation, allowing participants to experience what happens first, observe their own automatic reaction patterns, and build from what they actually experienced.
• Progressive practice and participant indépendance, with changing conditions, real decisions and individual tailoring.
• Development integrated with real professional activity, carrying the new reflex from the experiential learning environment into auditions, rehearsals, performances, collaborations, and other professional situations, where Heat-of-the-Moment data informs continued implementation, calibration, and refined decision-making.

TAU+™ includes:

Phase I: SteadyState Foundations™

• Six in-person instructor-led sessions in outdoor settings
• 14 hours of in-person ForestRx™ experiential learning, instruction, and practice
• Ultra-small cohort delivery with up to five participants (no group discussions)
• Structured observation and private reflection during and between sessions
• Real-world application in participants’ professional and performance environments between sessions
• Individual tailoring informed by participants’ own Heat-of-the-Moment observations
• Temple Method™ instruction and practice
• A Personal Terrain Map™, developed from individual observations and associations
• Trained SteadyState and safety staff
• Participant portal access and session-readiness guidance

Phase II: SteadyState at Work™

• Six hours of one-on-one remote workplace implementation over six weeks
• Collection and analysis of Heat-of-the-Moment data generated in participants’ professional and performance environments
• Continuity Risk Forecast™
• An assigned SteadyState Calibration Specialist

Professional Continuity Certificate
Conferred upon successful completion of both phases

Preparing for the In-Person Experience

Weeks 1-3 (Remote)
In the three weeks leading up to the in-person intensive, participants begin their Performance TAU+™ journey with required onboarding and readiness activities while observing Heat-of-the-Moment experiences as they naturally occur in their professional and performance environments. These observations are used to tailor the TAU+™ experience.

Completion of these activities is required for continuation into the in-person experience and helps ensure participants receive maximum benefit from the program. Please review Program FAQs for additional answers to common questions.

Learning In-Person (Delivered in Outdoor Settings)

5-Day In-Person Intensive — Week 4
In-person sessions delivered in outdoor settings are held over 5 consecutive days, for 2.5 to 4 hours each day, between 7:00 am to 12:00 pm local time.

Day 1  | 2.5 hrs
Day 2 | 2.5 hrs
Day 3 | 2.5 hrs
Day 4 | 2.5 hrs
Day 5 | 4 hrs

2-Week In-Person Intensive — Weeks 4-5
In-person sessions delivered in outdoor settings are held three days per week over two consecutive weeks, for 2 to 4 hours per session, between 7:00 am to 12:00 pm local time.

Week 4
Day 1 | 2 hrs
Day 3 | 2 hrs
Day 5 | 2 hrs

Week 5
Day 6 | 2 hrs
Day 8 | 2 hrs
Day 10 | 4 hrs

Half-day sessions are designed to allow participants to return to their professional and performance environments, observe what happens in real situations, and bring those experiences into subsequent sessions.

SteadyState at Work™

6-Week Remote Workplace Integration
Following SteadyState Foundations™, participants begin six weeks of one-on-one remote workplace implementation. Participants generate Heat-of-the-Moment data in their own professional and performance environments and work with their assigned SteadyState Calibration Specialist to analyze that data, evaluate performance under their unique operating conditions, and make targeted adjustments.

Professional Continuity Certificate

Upon successful completion of both SteadyState Foundations™ and SteadyState at Work™, participants are conferred the Professional Continuity Certificate.

Performance TAU+™ includes an in-person experience conducted outdoors on natural trails in the Austin, Texas area, followed by remote workplace integration. Participants should expect changing terrain, weather, temperature, trail surfaces, elevation, and other conditions inherent to outdoor participation.

Participants are responsible for their own clothing, footwear, required personal equipment, hydration, nutrition, transportation to designated meeting locations, and any travel-related expenses, including airfare, lodging, meals, and local transportation.

Detailed readiness and logistics information is provided to enrolled participants through the participant portal. This includes specific meeting locations, equipment requirements, clothing guidance, weather procedures, and other instructions for their scheduled in-person experience. Because weather and outdoor conditions can change, locations or session logistics may be adjusted when necessary.

Requirements for Program Participation

Before enrollment. Prospective participants complete a Program Readiness Review, a structured conversation to review the program experience and participation requirements, discuss individual needs and considerations, and answer questions before enrollment.

Before in-person sessions. Performance TAU+™ includes required preparation, observation, and readiness activities before the in-person experience. Completing required onboarding and preparation activities is necessary for participation in the in-person intensive and helps ensure participants receive maximum benefit from the program.

During in-person sessions. Participants are expected to attend all scheduled sessions, arrive with required personal equipment, and follow outdoor safety instructions and participation requirements. Specific requirements are communicated with ample time for completion.

Payment & Cancellation Information

Following completion of the Program Readiness Review, participants receive an individual enrollment and payment link for their selected Performance TAU+™ offering. Payment is required to confirm and reserve the participant’s place.

If you need to defer or cancel an enrollment, terms may apply. Please review our Cancellation & Deferral Policy for complete details.

For additional questions about participation, scheduling, preparation, and program logistics, please review our Program FAQs.