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SUMMARY:Actors Horror & Hypnosis workshop: Overcoming Performance Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT!\n🗓 Date: Saturday\, 10th May 2025\n⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (BST)\n📍 Location: Online via Zoom\n🎟 Booking deadline: Wednesday\, 7th May \nA unique and immersive online experience blending horror scene performance with powerful mindset work and hypnotherapy. Whether you’re an actor drawn to the genre or someone looking to overcome performance nerves\, this workshop will guide you through both the technical and internal elements of impactful acting. \nWhat’s Included?\n🔪 Horror Scene Performances & Feedback – Perform a chilling scene in front of horror film director Stewart Sparke and receive expert direction and notes.\n🧠 Mindset & Hypnotherapy Session – Led by Lore Deviene & Michaela Longden\, this transformative session is designed to target performance anxiety\, using both mindset tools and guided hypnotherapy.\n📜 Pre-Assigned Horror Scenes – You’ll receive your script and scene partner in advance for preparation. \nTHE GUESTS … \n🎬 Stewart Sparke (Film Director & Writer)\nA celebrated British horror filmmaker\, Stewart is known for cult indie hits like Book of Monsters and The Creature Below. With multiple feature films distributed globally\, he brings first-hand knowledge of directing actors in high-pressure\, high-stakes genre storytelling. Stewart’s insight into performance\, tone\, and screen presence in horror makes his feedback both specific and transformative. \n🧠 Lore Deviene (Hypnotherapist\, Coach & Wellness Practitioner)\nLore brings a rare and powerful blend of expertise: a qualified clinical hypnotherapist\, physiotherapist\, acupuncturist\, and coach. Her work focuses on somatic and subconscious tools to help performers release tension\, unlock confidence\, and break through performance anxiety. Her hypnotherapy sessions are safe\, supportive\, and tailored specifically for creative professionals. \nWHY ATTEND? \n✔ Perform a horror scene with expert feedback\n✔ Explore new tools to manage and transform performance anxiety\n✔ Experience live hypnotherapy in a supportive group setting\n✔ Learn how to harness fear as fuel for stronger performances\n✔ Connect with filmmakers\, actors & creatives from across the UK and beyond \nWHO IS IT FOR? \n\nActors with a passion for horror\nPerformers struggling with stage fright\, self-doubt or overthinking\nArtists seeking tools to overcome blocks and access creative flow\nThose looking for practical\, psychological\, and somatic techniques to build confidence\n\nLIMITED SPOTS. 
URL:https://empowerwithmichaela.com/event/actors-horror-hypnosis-workshop-overcoming-performance-anxiety
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SUMMARY:EMPOWER ACTORS WORKSHOPS MANCHESTER DAN THORBURN!
DESCRIPTION:ACTOR WORKSHOP WITH BFI DIRECTOR DAN THORBURN. \nSOLD OUT!! \n🗓 Date: Saturday\, 31st May 2025\n⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM\n📍 Location: Droylsden\, Manchester\, M43 7AJ (Free Parking available on site)\n🚨 Booking deadline: Friday\, 24th May (scripts & partners sent after this date) \nWHAT YOU GET? \n🎭Performance & Feedback – Perform in front of DIRECTOR DAN THORBURN & Michaela Longden (Host) and receive tailored notes on your scene work. Each group will have up to 30 minutes of performance time!\n🎤 Q&A with Dan Thorburn – Award-winning filmmaker shares insights on directing\, storytelling & artistic career paths.\n🧠 Mindset Deep Dive – Explore the psychology behind procrastination\, creative resistance\, and how to shift gears into action.\n📜 Pre-Assigned Scenes – Scripts & partners sent one week in advance for preparation. \nPLUS become part of the Empower supportive community; walks\, catch ups and most importantly we make friends. \nTHE GUEST… \n🎬 Dan Thorburn (Writer & Director) \nA rising talent from the North of England\, Dan transitioned from painting to filmmaking after studying at Central Saint Martins in London. His acclaimed short films Salt Water Town and Trucker’s Atlas have played at prestigious festivals including BFI London\, Raindance & LIFF. \n\nWinner of the Sony Future Filmmaker Award 2023\nMember of BAFTA Connect\nGraduate of NETWORK@LFF Talent Lab\nDebut feature Barfly is in development with the BFI\, having won Best Project at Galway Film Market 2023. Previous short films played at BFI London\, Raindance & LIFF.\n\nDan brings a visual artist’s eye and powerful storytelling approach to filmmaking and is passionate about helping actors understand the director’s vision. \n✔ Perform & receive professional feedback\n✔ Get practical tools to overcome procrastination & mental blocks\n✔ Gain industry insights from an award-winning filmmaker\n✔ Prepare in advance with script & scene partner\n✔ Network with actors & creatives
URL:https://empowerwithmichaela.com/event/empower-actors-workshop-manchester-with-director-dan-thorburn-michaela-longden
LOCATION:Black Octopus Studios\, Black Octopus Studios Greenside Mill\, Droylsden\, M43 7AJ\, United Kingdom
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