About Mindful ActingCompassion and 'no BS'
Mindful Acting is an interdisciplinary technique that combines acting techniques, mindfulness and humanistic psychology in order to break through personal barriers and blocks.
At Mindful Acting, we don’t just see wellbeing as something separate to acting to help with stress management, but as integral to the very craft of acting itself. We learn how to integrate mindfulness and actor training the same way voice and movement are integrated. Here we teach mindfulness as it was originally intended; not as a bandaid, but as a pathway to emotional, psychological, and physical freedom.
We believe under the right guidance and context, the experiential exercises developed by generations of actors and acting teachers can help people of all backgrounds to access their inherent presence, self-worth, creativity, vulnerability and authenticity.
Mindful Acting is an interdisciplinary technique that combines acting techniques, mindfulness and humanistic psychology in order to break through personal barriers and blocks. These blocks are what inhibit actors and working professionals from being able to fully embody their authentic selves in front of others.
We believe that the wisdom cultivated over thousands of years of empirical exploration in the traditions of mindfulness, secular buddhism and other contemplative traditions, removed of their cultural assumptions offer both a rich vocabulary and no-nonsense, practical approach to cultivating skills important for all but essential to actors and those in the public arena such as attentional endurance and flexibility, introspective and relational awareness, deep listening, working with anxiety and nerves and emotional accessibility and openness.
By forming an interdisciplinary approach that embraces all available sources of inspiration, we hope to help foster the next generation of great performers, artists, leaders, public speakers and storytellers.
