PAST WORKSHOPS

Emotional Fluency in Action

5-day introductory intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond and Tom Stroud at the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 16 -.20, 2019.

Emotional Fluency in Action

5-day introductory intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond and Tom Stroud at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, May 13 – 17, 2019.

Emotional Fluency Introductory Workshop

5-day intermediate intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond, Ines Buchli and Gayle Murphy at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, May 21 – 25, 2019.

Emotional Fluency Introductory Workshop

5-day 30-hour training in the Emotional Effector Patterns for the Centre for Indigenous Theatre students, graduates and teachers. The training furthered research into the safe and effective practice of emotion in contemporary theatre.

Centre for Indigenous Theatre, January 10-15, 2020, Toronto, Ontario

Online workshop - Part One

16 hours of synchronous instruction and 4 hours of asynchronous instruction in learning the basic Emotional Effector Patterns

Introduction to the Emotional Effector Patterns, December 7-18, 2020

Online workshop - Part Two

16 hours of synchronous instruction and 4 hours of asynchronous instruction in the use of the basic Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice

Applications of Emotional Patterns, January 4-15, 2021

Online workshop

8 hours of synchronous advanced instruction on the use of the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice

The Actor’s Emotional Body: Intermediate and Advanced Actors Study, Jan 3 –24, 2021

Online Workshop

25 hours of synchronous advanced instruction in applying the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice and integration into existing acting techniques

Setting the Patterns Free, June 7 -18, 2021

Workshop

30 hours of advanced instruction in applying the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice and integration into existing acting techniques. Led by Tom Stroud

Embracing the Irrational, January 4-8, 2023

Working with Emotion

A Practical Approach for Acting Teachers, Coaches andDirectors, Aug 23-27, 2023, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Our Teachers

Workshop Leaders

Ines Buchli is a theatre director, dramaturg, film maker and writer. Her creative research focuses on the neuroscience of emotion and its application to acting. Ines has a Level 4 certification in Alba and instructor level in Emotional Body. Ines taught acting and directing for many years at York University where she is currently continuing her research in emotion as a Senior Scholar.

Tom Stroud is an Emotional Body Instructor and a certified Alba teacher. He has a long career in experimental dance and theatre as a performer, choreographer and director. He is the former Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, and currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film where his research is focused on emotion and the body in performance.

Assisted By

Gayle Murphy is an Associate Professor in the BFA Acting program at the University of British Columbia and a vocal coach for actors and other professional speakers. She is a certified Breathexperience instructor, a director of Breathexperience Canada, and an Instructional Apprentice with Emotional Body.

Dana Smith is an actor, director, and Professor of Theatre at Truman State University. She is an Apprentice Instructor with the Emotional Body, a Certified Trainer of Lessac Kinesensics (voice and body work), and a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. During her sabbatical in Fall 2020, she studied crossover applications of Kinesensics and Emotional Body work for the actor. Her current focus is on exploring the Emotional Effector Patterns as an acting technique.

To protect the integrity of the work and to insure quality of experience and transmission of knowledge for students and practitioners, only certified teachers are authorized to independently train people.