A funny thing happened on the way home from Acting Camp

I just arrived back from our Summer Acting Camp and was so "blown away" by what happened there I wrote the following letter to the students who attended.

I thought I'd also share it with you here ...

A Funny thing happened on the way home from ACTING CAMP…YOU CHANGED THE WORLD!!

Let me explain…

As you read this you will be in mixed emotions. Part of you will be sad that it is over, proud that you hold in your hand over 80 compliments from people who really care, part happy to going be home to your family and there will be possibly be this CONFUSED feeling, hard to place, like you are somehow different.

WELL YOU ARE!

You don’t have an experience like this and not grow. Some of you will have grown HEAPS, some quite a bit, some maybe a little…

BUT YOU ALL HAVE GROWN.

So that leads you to the big QUESTION…NOW WHAT?

YOU HAVE A QUEST!

YOU MUST BEGIN TO COMBINE THE WORLD ON AAA CAMP WITH THE REAL WORLD.

WHY SHOULD BEING CONFIDENT, NICE, CARING, SUPPORTIVE, CREATIVE AND JOYFUL BE SOMETHING THAT YOU HIDE?

THIS COULD BE HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY!!!

If people think your strange for being like this WELL WE THINK YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT!

I truly believe together we can change the world.

Here are 3 steps to make it possible.

Step 1: Change how YOU treat people. Start small then build. Maybe only 20% at first, but then you will soon build this to more. People were nice to you on camp because you were nice to them.

Step2: Journal. Get all the ‘DRAMA’ in your life on the page or on the stage. GET IT OUT OF YOUR LIFE.

Step 3: Find allies for QUEST. Recruit your friends into the world of the AAA. The more people you can get to experience what you have the sooner we will see the change.

IMAGINE…
If we could get more people to experience the AAA, and the SAFTEY NET, you could STOP PRETENDING and BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE.

Before long BEING POSITIVE would not be the minority, it would be the MAJORITY!!!!

IMAGINE
NO BULLYING, NOT JUST AT THE AAA! Soon it would be NO BULLYING in schools as so many school kids (private and state) would have experienced the AAA, and as students left training at the AAA to join university or the workforce the SAFTEY NET would go with them there as well.

IMAGINE
A simple philosophy would begin sweeping this corner of the country and then as people trained up to be AAA teachers to share this wonderful philosophy, and began to share it in other countries soon teenagers around the world would be having the same experience you just had on camp.

IMAGINE
A ripple crossing the globe that you HELPED CREATE!

I know some of you will say TOO HARD and give up… No Matter I WON’T!

I was told by many well educated people that the Acting Academy is JUST a place where kids ‘DO’ acting after school. It won’t go anywhere.

Well 14 years later and over 40 000 kids and TEENS have experienced the AAA, with international positivity rippling out from it around the world I GUESS THEY WERE WRONG. BUT THERE IS MORE THAT CAN BE DONE.

DON’T KEEP THIS PLACE TO YOURSELVES.

It takes many people to make this positive change go global. But the sooner we start that happening the sooner the change will occur.

May you join with me in silencing the critics and creating a place where we truly can BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

Thank you for sharing your journey with me, may you have the courage to share it with your friends.

With the deepest respect and gratitude ...

Brendan Glanville
Founder - Australian Acting Academy

PS: We have also included some info for you to use on your QUEST. Make sure it gets INTO THE RIGHT HANDS.

PPS: I have attached a quote from Steve Jobs for your wall…sounds like us don’t you think?


"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." Steve Jobs