Led by Ashlie Walker, a UK-based international acting coach and one of the lead teachers of our One Year Training, this session invites you to explore the essence of Meisner’s work in a supportive, hands-on environment. Ashlie’s teaching is known for its clarity, depth, and compassion, making this an inspiring experience for both newcomers and professionals alike.

As a valuable add, you’ll also meet Heini Ryynänen from Aura Actors Agency, who will share her perspective on how Meisner training supports actors in developing emotional presence, professional confidence, and creative authenticity in their careers.​

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OPEN FOR EVERYONE
Whether you’re a starting or already advanced actor, performer, director, or simply curious about authentic human connection — or interested in our One Year Training — this evening offers a powerful and inspiring introduction to the Meisner Technique.

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WHAT YOU'LL GET?

Live participants get to follow Ashlie as she works with alumni at the studio, as well as participate in the exercises themselves. You’ll also have the chance to meet and talk to Heini Ryynänen in person and take part in a Q&A session at the end of the evening. Live spots are limited and early booking is recommended.

Zoom participants will follow the full session online and take part in the shared Q&A at the end.

 

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YOU'LL EXPERIENCE:

Through guided exercises and live demonstrations by our trained alumni, how Meisner training helps actors to:​

•  Listen and respond truthfully in the moment
•  Let go of self-consciousness and control
•  Connect deeply with a scene partner and their emotional life
•  Find authentic emotional expression — grounded, alive, and free

 

 

 

INFO

• Price:   Live: 35€   Zoom:10€

• Time: Thursday 4th December 2025, 17:00 - 20:00  ( 3 hours )
• Location: Pursimiehenkatu 26 H, Helsinki 00150

• The LIVE places are limited and will be filled on 'first-come first-serve basis'.

• The booking for all events and workshops is binding. No cancellation, but you can pass on your spot to another person without an extra fee.

• The event is held in English (Please keep in mind that you do not need to have perfect English skills, and you do not need to worry about accent and pronunciation).

• All rights to changes reserved.

• You can find the event on Facebook in this link here.
 

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ABOUT ASHLIE WALKER

A wealth of experience as a professional actress for 20 years and extensive training in Meisner Technique, Ashlie is a highly respected international teacher, tutor and personal coach. As a tutor, she especially focuses on unlocking the actors' instinct for truth, elevated by dramatic choices in performance. She guides actors to deepen their understanding of the craft, experience emotional freedom, build their actors' faith and, perhaps most importantly, to take risks. ​Alongside teaching, Ashlie has numerous directing credits and holds a Bsc (Hons) in Psychology and Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, both of which expand her capacity to work with and empower her actors on and off stage. As a personal transformation coach, Ashlie guides those living in fear, anxiety and stress to discover a life of freedom, purpose and joy. Ashlies soul calling is to guide others back to love and into their light.

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ABOUT MEISNER TECHNIQUE

The Meisner technique is an approach to acting which was developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner. The focus of the Meisner approach is for the actor to "get out of their head", such that the actor is behaving instinctively to the surrounding environment. To this end, some exercises for the Meisner technique are rooted in repetition so that the words are deemed insignificant compared to the underlying emotion. In the Meisner technique, there is a greater focus on the other actor as opposed to one's internal thoughts or feelings associated to the character.

Meisner Training is an interdependent series of training exercises that build on one another. The more complex work supports a command of dramatic text. Students work on a series of progressively complex exercises to develop an ability to first improvise, then to access an emotional life, and finally to bring the spontaneity of improvisation and the richness of personal response to textual work. The techniques developed the behavioral strand of Stanislavski's. The technique is used to develop improvisation skills as well as "interpreting a script, and creating the specific physical characteristics of each character the actor played”.

Sanford Meisner said that his approach to training “is based on bringing the actor back to his emotional impulses and to acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive. It is based on the fact that all good acting comes from the heart, as it were, and that there’s no mentality to it.”

Learn to live in the moment as an actor, and let go of any idea of result. Learn what it means to really “do” and to respond truthfully to a given moment based on what you get from your partner. Through improvisation, emotional truth and personal response learn to resonate authenticity within a given circumstance. Only in this way will you begin to understand the definition of real acting, which is “to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances”.

 

“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.”

                             - Sanford Meisner

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