About The Event

​​What You’ll Explore in This Workshop?

Core Steps for an Acting Career

• Practical actions and mindset for building a sustainable acting practice
• How to set clear goals and take purposeful career steps
• Approaches to audition preparation and self-promotion
 

Mindset & Confidence Tools
• Techniques to overcome self-doubt, fear, and performance anxiety
• Practical exercises to strengthen presence on stage and screen
• How to stay grounded, focused, and confident under pressure
 

Authentic Performance Presence
• Exercises to access freedom, truth, and expressiveness in your work
• The connection between emotional authenticity and compelling performances
• Tools to manage nerves and step fully into your creative strength

Interactive Q&A & Guidance
• Space for questions, reflection, and professional insights

Who Is This For?
Actors of all levels — from beginners to seasoned performers — who want to:
✔ Explore more authentic ways of approaching their work
✔ Build confidence and emotional resilience
✔ Understand the mindset behind long-term success
✔ Walk away with practical tools and inspiration

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Don’t miss this inspiring and grounded experience with Ashlie — a workshop that bridges craft, mindset, and real-world acting success.
 

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Reserve your spot now!
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INFO

• Price: 35€ 

• Class time: Thursday 29th January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00 ( Finnish time )
• Online via Zoom

• 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.”

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                              - Sanford Meisner