ONLINE
TRUTHFUL CAMERA ACTING ONLINE WORKSHOP
WITH ASHLIE WALKER
28 APRIL 2026 | 17:00 – 19:00
BUILD A REAL PRESENCE ON CAMERA AND TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS
A online workshop led by UK acting coach Ashlie Walker, focused on helping you develop a more truthful and natural presence on camera.
The session explores how to reduce overthinking and self-consciousness, strengthen your ability to listen and respond, and shift away from “performing” toward authentic connection.
You’ll gain practical tools, clearer direction for your training, and more confidence in your self-tapes and on-screen work, no matter your experience level.
This workshop is designed to help you build a more natural, truthful presence on camera.
Through guided exercises and exploration, you will:
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Understand what supports truthful presence on camera
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Notice and reduce self-consciousness and over-efforting
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Build connection and responsiveness in simple on-screen work
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Shift your focus and attention in a way that translates more naturally on camera
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Recognize what to keep training beyond the workshop
Ashlie Walker, one of the lead coaches of our One Year Training, is known for her direct, honest approach and her ability to create a space where actors can safely push beyond their comfort zone and access something real.
“Ashlie's teaching ignited my passion for the craft of acting. She approaches teaching with an inspiring level of dedication, patience and compassion which she then, inevitably, instills in her students.”
Open to all levels — whether you’re new to acting or already experienced, you’ll leave with clearer direction, practical tools, and more confidence in your on-camera work.
BOOK YOUR SPOT
INFO
• Price: 55€ incl. 25.5.% VAT
• Time: Tuesday 28th April, 2026 - 17:00-19:00 (Finnish time)
• Location: 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).
• No previous experience needed, the course is open to anyone.
• All rights to changes reserved.
• You can find the event on Facebook in this link here.
MEISNER INTRO SESSION HELSINKI
Are you curious about what the Meisner Technique really is, and why actors around the world swear by it? Now is your chance to find out. Join us for a dynamic evening that introduces you to one of the most transformative approaches to acting — a method that helps you respond truthfully, connect deeply, and bring authentic life to your work. Click here for more info.
MEISNER ONE-DAY WORKSHOP HELSINKI
Guided by Ashlie Walker (UK), whether you’re returning to Meisner training or encountering it for the first time, this workshop provides a focused and supportive space to rediscover authentic emotional connection and freedom in your work. A space that encourages you to listen deeply, respond truthfully, and rediscover the joy of spontaneous play. Click here for more info.
ONE YEAR TRAINING
HELSINKI
International acting training brought to your doorstep! With London’s top teachers, you’ll dive deep into the Meisner technique, gather hands-on experience from the field, finishing the year with an industry-ready toolkit, including a professional showreel, headshots and voice reel, all produced by industry professionals. Click here for more info.
Acting is a mind, body and soul craft, culminating in a deeper understanding of ourselves and the characters we play.
- Ashlie Walker
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.
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