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Classes focus on principles of `connected interaction'. Emotional preparation, and the intellectual barriers utilised by the `character' to `cope' with these emotions in the specific moment, are at the core of these classes. Modern psychological theory is used to enhance students understanding of what it is they are doing, and/or trying to achieve. Many of Sandford Meisner's techniques are used to explore emotional interaction and to free up the actor's physiological and emotional instrument. Some of the topic areas include; Interaction, Focus, Personal Space, vulnerabilities, Behaviourism, Status, Relaxation, Recovery, Preparation, Improvisation, Scripted `Improvisation', Objects, Items, Memory Encoding, Script Analysis, Impulse, `Other', Stage Craft and Sociological Spheres of Influence.

Many current acting methodologies have the actors focusing on themselves, what they want, why they want it, what they have to do to get it, what stands in their way, what brand toothpaste they use, etc, etc. While this information is valuable as a background, many actors find that all this information, in the foreground, spinning around their heads can get in the way of actually being connected within the interaction. Although the classes have a significant theoretical base, the method of acting it spawns is such that the actor's mind is free of clutter and open to explore and `live' each on stage/camera interaction as it happens and not from an idea of what they think `should’ be happening.