The Empowerment Blog
“Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers” ~ unknown
So how do you speak up when you feel silenced?
Your voice is your body and if the voice has been silenced, so too has the body. Leaders are responsible for empowering others to find their voices and speak up and...
In our industry we are encouraged not to have boundaries, that being an actor means being open and available but this is often misinterpreted and misguided.
There can be no availability and openness without coherent boundaries within yourself and in the environment you are asked to be vulnerable...
Curiosity liberates difference, liberates equality, liberates inclusion. It dissolves expectation, dissolves knowing , dissolves judgement. Curiosity ignites story, ignites adventure, ignites new visions. Curiosity inspires more layers to story, inspires deeper relationship with character,...
Invite the Forrest, in all its shades from morning, noon, twilight and night into your body's deeper knowing, beyond the mind, so the mind can discover new insights out of the light of your autumnal days. We are in the autumn of our curiosity. The nature of this curiosity is to fall...
In curiosity there is no knowing just discovery. It creates an adventurous heart and allows each day the rite of passage it yearns for, with each new dawn and each new sunset ! As nature changes so too does our nature slowly, incrementally, organically ! As this season invites the leaves to fall,...
This dialect has ten thousand tones vibrating with the sensuality of life itself,
placing the human experience at the heart of the matter.
Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ® , Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeurosystemicsTM
Graphic Design: Gianluca...
If we embrace our own vulnerability then it is easier to notice others. Why ask our vulnerability what is wrong ? When vulnerability is neither wrong nor right it just is. It is the dialect of the human heart, a micro moment expressed through a micro movement. The heart needs a more sophisticated...
What if falling apart is really coming back together. What if what the mind perceived as you falling apart is in fact you becoming more whole, more alive to a whole part of you, you were taught was wrong. That all along these feelings you have been experiencing were just the...
When your thoughts ambush you like a bunch of hyenas because you are too tired to notice their approach , rest in the embrace of the environments you love, the people you feel easy and soft with. Rest in places the eyes feel beauty, the eyes feel nourished, the eyes feel kissed. Rest in the...
Your job is not to know,
your job is not to look for
who you already are
in the character
you are playing
but to discover more
of who you could be.
This too applies to life.
Your engagement with the unknown
through the intention
of exploration and curiosity
is very different to your intention
to look to...
What an inspiring and transformative ten weeks we have had. Congratulations everyone for taking the leap into the unknown and having the willingness for old habits to be challenged and watch them slip away. In their place a deeper more expansive sense of yourself in the world and as an actor....
To be an empowered speaker, we wish to speak from experience but if I am an academic and steeped in analysis, I don't really need to speak from experience. I am speaking from what I already know. However if I wish to make my content inspiring for others to listen to or to change their perception...