Weekend Intensive: The Whole Actor
About this Event
Weekend Intensive: The Whole Actor
with Joanne Wilson & Alan Powell
Course Overview
As an actor, do you find it difficult to let go of your character’s trauma or emotional journey? Or do you need tools to help take you deeper in character in a safe and caring manner?
Acting often asks us to enter intense emotional worlds—sometimes exploring grief, trauma, fear, anger, or deeply vulnerable experiences. This course offers practical techniques to help navigate that emotional journey while protecting mental and emotional well-being.
Beginning with script and character analysis, participants will explore grounding and mindfulness, emotional preparation, boundaries between actor and character, managing triggers, and healthy recovery after demanding scenes.
Learn to fully embody your role while tapping into your own inner resilience for a performance that is authentic and with a practice that has your emotional safety in mind!
Participants will gain:
- Practical mindfulness tools for rehearsal and performance
- Enhanced character analysis and scene study skills
- Strategies for emotional regulation and resilience
- Techniques for actor-character differentiation
- Embodiment exercises that support character exploration
- Sustainable approaches to emotionally demanding work
A supportive and challenging laboratory for actors seeking a trusting space for creative risk-taking, deepening craft, increased self-awareness, and more sustainable artistic practice.
Agenda
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Friday October 16 - Welcome/Introduction to weekend
Host: Joanne Wilson
Info: Introduce core concepts of Acting Mindfully & Actor Care® work, overview of weekend and learning outcomes, establish group agreements to foster a safe, respectful, and supportive learning environment, create group container, assign scenes.
🕑: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Saturday October 17 - Investigating the Character Vs Self
Host: Joanne Wilson
Info: Participants will begin exploring their assigned roles and scenes through script and character analysis and learn how to fully embody these characters and their vulnerabilities. We’ll learn ways to help spark imagination and support intuition. As we delve deeper into a character’s inner, emotional world, we will learn how to support choices that create authentic performances while keeping actors emotionally safe.
🕑: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Sunday October 18 - Embodying the Character's Inner World
Host: Joanne Wilson
Info: Participants will continue to deepen their understanding of their scene work by exploring the relationship between their own individual strengths, vulnerabilities, and defensive responses and that of the character. Through mindfulness and embodied awareness, participants will further investigate the character's internal world while maintaining clear awareness and boundaries between themselves as an actor and that of the character they’re portraying by applying specific well-being principles for the actor.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 400.71
