WORKING WITH EMOTIONS

A Practical Approach for Actors, Acting Teachers, Coaches, and Directors

June 6 – 10, 2025, Vancouver and in Toronto, July 3 – 7, 2025

Led by Emotional Body Instructors Ines Buchli and Tom Stroud, this five-day intensive will provide participants with an introduction to Emotional Fluency Training for Actors (EFTA). EFTA is a somatic, trauma-informed approach to safely working with emotion in the acting process that utilizes the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns (EEP) to enter, exit and regulate emotion with control and agency. Participants in the workshop will:

Learn the basic Emotional Effector Patterns (EEP): how to use them to create complex emotions; how to safely enter, exit and regulate emotions
Explore drills and exercises to increase somatic awareness and how to integrate EFTA into the classroom or rehearsal studio
Work with scripted text and improvisation to integrate the EEP into the acting process

This workshop is limited to 16 participants. If you have previously taken this workshop, we have found that many people get great benefit and significantly advance their skills by taking it for a second time. For those that have previously done the workshop the cost will be $400 CAD.

EMOTIONAL FLUENCY WORKSHOP CANCELLATION POLICY

If you need to cancel

An accurate attendance count is critical in the planning and success of our workshops. If an attendee needs to withdraw from a workshop, they must inform us in writing via email prior to the first day of the scheduled workshop. If you need to cancel your participation in a workshop, the following refund schedule applies:

More than 30 days before the start date: A cancellation fee of 10% of total workshop registration paid applies
Less than 14 days before the start date: A cancellation fee of 40% of total workshop registration fees paid applies
48 hours or less before the start date: No refund is available

The Emotional Fluency project follows the professional guidelines of conduct outlined in Not in Our Space on the Canadian Actors Equity website.
This agreement makes our working environment safe and productive for all participants. If these guidelines are breached the faculty has the right to terminate your participation in the workshop, and in this case, no refund will be provided.

Workshop Cancellation

Although it is highly unusual, if a workshop must be cancelled for any reason, participants will be notified immediately and will receive a complete refund of all workshop fees. The Emotional Fluency workshop is not responsible for expenses incurred beyond the registration fees.