An Experiential Effect from Charismatic Encounters

Abstract

This paper describes the experiential effect upon students who encounter charismatic educators via videotaped interviews conducted by typical students. The tutorial effect on viewers is unusually stimulating because viewers feel a surrogate relationship with the interviewers. Also described is the process for creating such video documentaries as a respectable publishing medium. The various benefits from alternative modes of using those video experiences relate to different need situations so that the utility of videodocumentaries can be matched to diverse objectives. An institution dedicated to facilitate production and distribution of such media has been established and is available to all faculty.