Coaching
Octavia is passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential.
She provides coaching in acting, improv and public speaking.
Her coaching is available in person and online to individuals and groups.
To find out more or book coaching get in touch via the contact page.
Acting
Coaching
How to smash your next audition and land that role
How to get into drama school and become a professional actor
Learn to give truthful performances - connect to the text, connect to you, connect to your audience!
Discover what it takes to make your self tape stand out and get that part
How to prepare for your role and find your character
How to use the Meisner technique to give authentic and alive performances
Learn improvisation tools for actors to be adaptable and ready to respond in the moment
Improv
Coaching
Beginner’s - learn the basic building blocks of improv, fall in love with the fun of improvisation, and bring into your life the core skills of improv - listening, commitment and cooperation.
Narrative - discover how to craft a play or movie live on stage with no script.
Musical - learn how to perform an entire unscripted musical on stage. Discover the joy of improvised song!
Acting for improvisers - discover to connect to your fellow actors and improvise truthfully.
Character - Improvise distinct and compelling characters that serve the show.
Shakespeare - Learn how to improvise the plays the Bard never wrote.
What People Are Saying
“A firm resounding “It was great” “so much fun” was felt by everybody. The energy of the zoom workshop was sustained throughout; your leadership made sure the length of the activities were long enough to develop character and short enough to remain engaging (to do and also to watch!). The range of games helped immerse everyone into improvisation without feeling self conscious/ We thoroughly enjoyed it, the two hours flew by. Thank you again”
— King’s Players / Running A Mock
Corporate
Team training
As well as performing in some of the UK’s favourite improv companies, Octavia offers improv based workshops to corporate clients to help teams work as effectively as they can and solve everyday work place problems.
There is a reason why the top companies and business schools have introduced improv into their training. The core principles of improv enable team work and effective communication.
These workshops are suitable for staff training programmes, conferences, away days and even office parties.
Team Building Workshops
These workshops focus on developing the following skills:
Overcoming curve balls
Effective communication
Productive collaboration
Listening skills
Building on each other’s ideas
Connecting to colleagues and clients
Adaptability
Confidence
Creating a supportive work environment
Team Bonding Workshops
Bringing the joy and values of improv into the workplace. These workshops consist of icebreakers to get to know each other better and games that will increase team bonding through laughter and good old fashioned fun!
What people are saying
“Octavia ran an online improv workshop for one of my high profile corporate clients. She facilitated a fast paced, exciting workshop four times, back to back for over 120 guests. The energy was fantastic, she kept everyone on their toes and had great control over a large group. Many of the guests said they had never done improv before but had so much fun they would love to try it again. I had great feedback from the client thanks to Octavia’s fantastic workshop. She is hardworking, reliable and injects fun into everything she does. I will definitely be using her again.”
— Sedona, Goldilocks Entertainment, Owner
Corporate Training is available online and in person.
To find out how a training workshop could benefit your business please get in touch here.
Public Speaking
COaching
Learn to:
share your message, make an impact and shine to success
turn your anxiety into excitement
move hearts and change perspectives
achieve real results with the help of performance and vocal techniques for public speakers
be authentically comfortable presenting on camera, on stage, on video conference
be an exceptional communicator and land that job
What People Are Saying
“I was absolutely terrified of public speaking, but Octavia immediately made me feel comfortable. Her calm, non-judgmental approach enabled me to let go of my anxieties and build up my confidence. I would thoroughly recommend sessions with her - she will make you a confident public speaker in no time!”
— Isabelle, BBC, Broadcast Journalist
To book public speaking coaching or find out more click here.