Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Recently your colleague has become a little more withdrawn than usual and their work performance has deteriorated.
How do you talk to them about their work without making things worse?
We all encounter challenging situations like these at some point as part of our daily working lives. Recognising and understanding the emotions of our co-workers can help us to respond in ways that support us in developing strong and positive workplace relationships.
This two-hour workshop will introduce you to some of the perspectives actors use to study and discuss emotion. By viewing these challenging scenarios as ‘scenes’ involving ‘characters’, this session offers the opportunity to begin exploring how strategies in emotion management and assertiveness can support your ability to manage challenging emotional scenarios.
Emma Heron is a theatre maker, writer and educator based in Liverpool, England. Originally trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Emma studied Text and Performance at Masters level at RADA and Kings College, joining Edge Hill University as a Senior Lecturer in Drama in 2006. In 2010, she co-founded Theatr Gadair Ddu, a Welsh-English bilingual theatre company based in Liverpool and Rhuthun. Cadair Ddu creates theatre focused on exploring the narratives and experiences of traditionally underrepresented communities in the Welsh diaspora.
Throughout her career, Emma has developed her acting and directing work in parallel with her work as an educator, maintaining a strong commitment to using theatre skills and techniques as tools of empowerment for education and training. A member of the Pankhurst Centre’s Heritage Committee since 2018, until the pandemic Emma was also Artistic Director of Mrs Pankhurst’s Players, Edge Hill University’s feminist theatre collective for female, male and gender non-binary students and recent graduates. In 2019, Emma’s work with Mrs Pankhurst’s Players was presented to Her Royal Highness Princess Ann.
Currently, alongside her work for #WECAN, Emma is researching female histories in the Liverpool Welsh community for the Daughters of Gwenfrewi project, part of Theatr Gadadir Ddu’s Breaking the Stone series, created to explore previously hidden histories of groups often marginalised from the Liverpool Welsh community.
