ACT offers a unique approach to learning STAGE and FILM ACTING skills - a system which builds profound SELF-BELIEF and CONFIDENCE in both Actors and Non-Actors. The skills learned can be used creatively in almost any walk of life. Josephine's Workshops take the participant on a journey directly through creative blocks to the heart of SELF-expression, exploring why we censor 'parts' of ourselves and therefore also the parts (roles) we can potentially play.
Josephine, creator of the ACT approach, is a highly trained and experienced Actress, Director and Teacher, and has enjoyed working professionally in Europe for the past 35yrs with some of the most pioneering minds in the arts.
" you're a rock, an inspiration, a star - I wish to the heavens I'd had teachers like you when I was at school!!! My God, I could have done anything..."
"You are the best teacher in the world; with a very special and unique talent for teasing out of us, our hidden selves. You hold an exceptional physical and emotional beauty, grace and enigma. You're one in a trillion. So glad I came back to your classes!"
"Josephine, Thank you for the acting group tonight ..you must get told this a lot but I must say it too..This is something amazing that you doing"
"I am really enjoying your acting group...it is absolutely incredible!! The funkiest way to begin the week and the most amazing journey..I truly thank you for doing what you do so well."
"[I've gained] ...a sense of belonging. A deep respect for the bravery of others, lessening of my own self-importance and a lessening of the fear of failure."
"I love it. Thank you, I am learning self-art and mastery. You're a fab teacher."
"Better than two years therapy."
"It exceeded my expectations. The pamphlet and website does not do the course justice. I've done and tried more things than I ever thought I'd be able to do with the blocks I was aware of. And my needs are satisfied as it is a very safe environment."
"It was really good fun and scary and supportive and personal growth making."
"[I've gained]...a lot! I have certainly found my self-belief and confidence have grown."
"It was much more than I thought and hoped it would be. Your personal care and personal way of being (honesty) helped set an example for us and made me feel very supported."
"I have been meditating for 5yrs and never got so close to myself and my real physical being as with this Acting thing ... Acting is totally experiential in a way meditation can never be and yet it touches on the same knowledge. This is extra-ordinary stuff ..."
"Acting
is about everything Human .. it's related to Meditation, Shamanism, NLP, Psychology,
Fun, Life, Play, being Childlike, Imagination, ART ... why aren't we taught
this in schools!!!!!?"
PASSION
"It's
about passion I realise;
what I used to call madness.
Somebody told me it was unacceptable.
Now I've found this space,
This wonderful receptacle
This crucible, where I can be wild
Where I can go to the edge
And even plunge over,
Knowing that I'm safe,
Knowing that I'm loved.
It's a place where I can flex myself,
Where I can roar and pout and scream,
Where I can laugh and dance
With all those demons
That fill the stage with their implements
And increments of pain and celebration.
It is the dance of creation and destruction,
The Shiva two-step.
It is a marvellous thing
That reaches through my gut
to grasp my spine and say:
I AM ALIVE!"
Paul Goldfinch