How Helena works with you?

The Actor's Practice™: The Creative Path to the Integrated Actor
Created by Helena Walsh, this unique, holistic approach to acting unites 30 years of experience with somatic awareness, emotional resilience, and creative freedom. Designed to help actors not just survive but to thrive in their life and art.  This framework supports nervous system regulation, enabling actors to stay grounded, present, and expressive in highly pressurised environments. 

Through daily practices, actors awaken their sensory awareness and connect with breath, body, and imagination—unlocking a deeply rooted pathway into their acting and storytelling. Rather than pushing through emotion or technique, actors learn to integrate their creative mind and body and their inner and outer worlds, becoming more present to subtle impulses that lead to greater complexity in their acting. 

This work deepens relational intelligence, allowing for stronger ensemble connection and richer storytelling. It also nurtures personal growth, helping actors rebalance, restore and remember their purpose in their life and art and what is most meaningful at this stage in their career. 

Sustainable and transformational, The Actor's Practice™ empowers actors to move beyond acting as “product” and into artistry rooted in presence, truth, and relationship.

How Ben works with you?

The Non-Dominant Approach to Acting
Created by Benjamin Mathes, The Non-Dominant Approach to Acting is an invitation to let go of control and return to presence. Rather than chasing results or managing outcomes, this approach asks the actor to listen more deeply—to the text, the body, the imagination, and to Creativity itself. It is a practice of unlearning performance habits, unlearning the need to prove, unlearning the belief that more effort means more truth.

In its place, something quieter and more essential emerges. The work becomes less about performing and more about revealing; less about pushing, and more about allowing. It is through this gentle undoing that the actor rediscovers their creative instinct, reclaims their voice, and begins to trust the artistry that’s already within them.

Through this approach, acting becomes not just a craft, but a path back to the actor themselves.

Scene Work
With Ben, scene work becomes a space of discovery—where the goal isn’t performance, but the deepening of process. As such, scenes are not seen as an end in and of themselves but are used to further explore the Non-Dominant Approach to Acting and help to deepen the actor’s process. Often emerging out of Non-Dominate exercise-ritual work, scenes are assigned and used as the central exercise throughout the workshop.

Exercise Ritual
As part of The Non-Dominant Approach, Ben has developed a series of “exercise rituals”—intentional, repeatable practices designed to open the actor to a deeper sense of presence, play, and belief. These rituals invite you to engage with story not just intellectually, but energetically and imaginatively—to honor both the creative structure and the mystical nature of story. In doing so, actors foster a more integrated relationship with character, one that is felt rather than forced, discovered rather than imposed. The result is a performance that is free, embodied, and alive.

This work is for actors ready to challenge conventions, rediscover their artistic power, and create deeper, more meaningful performances. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a dedicated student, this experience is designed to elevate your craft.

This 20-week deep dive course is an enjoyable, playful, transformative, empowering couple of weeks together. If this sounds like something that you would love, then come join us!