Throughout the day, Ashlie will lead participants in pairs through the Repetition practice, offering individual guidance and feedback along the way. Teaching will be tailored to each participant’s level of experience: beginners will gain a strong, practical introduction to the fundamentals of the Meisner Technique, while more experienced actors will be encouraged to deepen their instincts, emotional availability, and capacity to take creative risks.

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Expect a warm, inspiring, and challenging space where growth happens through curiosity, courage, and connection — a space that encourages you to listen deeply, respond truthfully, and rediscover the joy of spontaneous play.

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TO WHOM THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR?

• Actors (both advanced and beginner)

• Non-actors curious about acting and the Meisner technique

• Performers and directors

• Writers and artists

• Coaches and anyone curious about understanding their emotional life and authentic human connection more deeply

• ​Our alumni wishing to reignite their Meisner practice

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​​​WHAT DO YOU GAIN?

Through this workshop you will approach closer into:
•  Reawakening your instincts and emotional availability
•  Refreshing your acting muscles and rediscover playfulness
•  Deepening your listening, presence, and truth in connection
•  Strengthening your confidence to take risks and stay open under pressure
•  Learning to respond authentically and moment-to-moment
•  Expanding your sensitivity and awareness of your partner’s emotional life
•  Discovering organic ways to release fear, control, and self-consciousness
•  Gaining practical tools to bring authenticity and emotional truth to any performance setting

 

 

 

INFO

• Price: 125€ 

• Class time: Friday 5th December 2025, 10:00 - 15:30
• Location: Pursimiehenkatu 26H, Helsinki

• Place is limited and will be filled on 'first-come first-serve basis'.

• The booking for all events and workshops is binding. You can cancel 30 days prior the event and receive a 50% return of your payment or you can pass on your spot to another person without an extra fee.

• Teaching language is 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

With 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. Ashlie's 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 with the character.

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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”.

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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.”

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Learn to live in the moment as an actor, and let go of any idea of the 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