![]() OI can help you to learn how to regulate your emotions in a healthy way, so that you can perform at your best without being overwhelmed. However, this can also lead to burnout, exhaustion, or emotional dysregulation. For actors, OI can be especially important for a few reasons:Įmotional Regulation: Acting can be an emotionally demanding profession, and you may need to tap into intense emotions in order to convincingly portray a character. Organic Intelligence® (OI) is a framework that teaches individuals to regulate their nervous system in order to promote optimal functioning and well-being. This leaves the actor confident, unshakable and inspired to feel more pleasure and curiosity in their life and art.ġ:1 Organic Intelligence sessions with Helena "The Actor's Practice" is a compassionate and deeply transformative practice which moves both the actors process to a whole new level and changes their lives for the better. ![]() This was inspired by the week-long retreats we regularly host in Clonakilty, West Cork, where actors from LA, Ireland and Europe come together for an intensive week of acting and surfing. So, with my friend and colleague Benjamin Mathes of Crash Acting LA, we co-created a ten-week advanced acting process. I became more curious about how we could create a more organic and holistic approach to the actor's process. My work in Organic Intelligence® complimented the work I had embodied through Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Roy Hart and my mentor Andrea Ainsworth. After burning out in 2017, I discovered Organic Intelligence®, and since then I have been training and working as a human empowerment and resiliency consultant. Over the years, I became more and more interested in trauma, PTSD and anxiety, which were coming up a lot during workshops with my clients. I was appointed to the role of European director of the Fitzmaurice Institute and was the co-director of the Freedom and Focus Fitzmaurice Voicework® Conference in 20 in Dublin and London respectively. I studied voice through the International Roy Harte Centre in the south of France and trained in Fitzmaurice Voicework® at Central in London. Voice & Acting Coach | Human Empowerment & Resiliency Organic Intelligence® Consultant.įor over 25 years, I have been transforming personal and collective lives, as a voice, acting coach and empowerment coach in the international arts world. This is really about compassionate, collective change and co-creativity and how do you in groups, find your voice and speak from a place where you feel very much yourself, your authentic self and then Helena will be working with you on embodying the text.Īnd just who will also be teaching you The Actor's Practice: The Art of Being Human? And then she works with the Neurosystemics™ of the group. Helena works with Organic Intelligence®, and that'll be working one to one with you in the room. They started moving out of the "what's wrong attention" and into real enjoyment and pleasure inside their lives, their work with story, their relationship with character and their relationship with their scene partner. They started moving out of intensity and into complexity. Helena started to work with this in more detail and discovered, that her actor's performances became much more complex. Students will work closely with Benjamin and Helena in this intimate-group setting of limited participants, receiving focused and personalised feedback.Ī lot of the work Helena has been doing over the last five years, has been studying nervous system regulation with some of the top people in the world. Because Helena began to realise that one of the biggest challenges for actors was performance anxiety and personal anxiety. Through exercise, scene work, and discussion, actors will explore The Path™, a revolutionary 4 point process designed to bring more depth, ease, and joy to your acting and auditions. The scene work is about being in and experiencing the story, building a belief in story through specific tools given by Ben and Helena to give you an unshakable craft so that you can risk, be dangerous and more creative as the actors in the incarnate experience of your character. It is a fusion of the relationship of the physiology and biology with the imaginative circumstances of the story.It is a journey into alignment of imagination body and breath, working with the fight / flight / freeze mechanisms that ignite in the actor’s nervous system when working with creative impulse. We will explore the subtle nuances in our rich vulnerability so that the experience of your character is more embodied and alive. The work is inspired by Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Organic Intelligence® and Neurosystemics™ and works from the principles of stability, support, pleasure and play. Twice a week, there will be voice, body, character integration work and nervous system regulation work with Helena Walsh.
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