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The University of Winnipeg

Working With Emotion

Thu. Jan. 30, 2025

I’m standing in front of an actor, demonstrating and explaining something with an expressive gesture. My hand is raised, lightly meeting theirs in a kind of interactive movement, and I’m pointing with my other hand to emphasize my instructions. I’m wearing a dark sweater, and my focus is on engaging the person in front of me. Behind us, the background is blurred and dark, like a rehearsal or workshop space.

Tom has been busy offering workshops, presentations, and refining his work with Emotional Fluency Training for Actors (EFTA). EFTA workshops provide Actors, Directors, Coaches, and Theatre Educators with a comprehensive, somatic, consent-forward, trauma-informed approach to understanding and working with emotion in theatre practice. Participants learn to enter, exit, and regulate emotions with control and agency, enhancing their capacity to stimulate and manage emotions safely and effectively in the acting process. For more information on Tom’s research, activity and upcoming workshops visit The Emotional Fluency Project.

Photo: Chris Randle

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