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I feel like the whole experience worked just so well. It happened at the best time. I feel like as a performer it’s always very important to know how to manage yourself and your mental health, and I feel like the experience was so neurologically calming. The mindfulness and breathwork we did, is something I would definitely carry on and hopefully use for the rest of my life. Virág Hankó

I felt very calm and very mindful and it felt like a lot of like a weight was lifted. It was really nice to just have some time to zone in and listen to my body and to my brain when it’s going through some things, so it’s just nice to relax. Phoebe Maeodell

Beyond the Artist is something that I wouldn’t usually go to but I am so glad that I did. As someone who doesn’t give a lot of time for myself and my wellbeing, this workshop gave me the chance to open up that door in such a welcoming and non-judgemental space. I learnt so much about myself and the people around me and thoroughly enjoyed exploring a more connected side of myself. Jazz Phillips

I really enjoyed this workshop, I feel like it really healed me as an artist and healed my inner child. I really enjoyed it! Melody Adberrakib

We really enjoyed it, especially going into third year in drama school it's really important to take the time to actually think about what we're doing and why we’re doing it. It’s so easy to get caught up in our everyday life and ‘Beyond the Artist’ really just made me think and really made me breathe as well, which breathe you don't think about a lot, so it was really helpful.  Thank you so so much .Joy Silweya

I really enjoyed ‘Beyond The Artist’ because I feel like especially where I’m at in my training, we don’t take time to realise how we actually feel and actually having time and space to do that with people in a safe space, so I’m very grateful for that, thank you. - Tulle Slads (

I really liked ‘Beyond The Artist it was really freeing, it was nice to just sit and be, instead of being on the go as a performer all the time. - Jess Fudge ( Third year MT Student)

It was nice to be able to unleash positivity and just feel seen in a room with like-minded creatives, and just be… me! - Maisie Smith ( 3rd Year MT student)

I’ve just finished the most amazing workshop ever. I learnt so much from it, and I am walking away feeling like a new version of myself, and I would genuinely recommend anyone to do this, because it’s just one of the best things i’ve experienced. Thank you!!. -

I just had a really, really fun workshop with ‘Beyond the Artist’ It was so relaxing and just what I needed, and I feel so much more peace about the future now. - Keira Waring ( 3rd Year MT Student)

It was really good and kind of spiritual. Akeem you were incredible, an amazing person to lead it, I couldn’t think of anyone better to do it! -

I Found the workshop very helpful and insightful, there’s often a lot of workshops that talk about mental health and mindfulness stuff and I think in modern age its often easy to brush it aside, or think that you know what it looks like. Maybe try a couple times here and there but not have it work in a way or just kind of go that’s a thing I should be doing that.. but I found Beyond the Artist was really practical in a sense to what we’re actually doing here. It very much got down to what is actually stopping us and limiting us and helping to dissolve that in a way that felt more rooted in technique, in practises, in research, in science in all of that, where a lot of the times it’s not. My worry was that it would be ‘wishy washy' but it wasn’t at all, therefore I found it very helpful and insightful. ( 3rd Year MT Student)

“I actually loved the workshop. I think it’s really good to realise that things are smaller than they seem and it’s so common you get stuck in your head and it’s good to just kind of look around and see you’re with people that are also human, that are living and feel and share the same things.” - Jessica Rechitean. ( 1st Year Acting Student)

I finished my workshop with Beyond The Artist. I loved it. It made me discover that it’s okay to accept myself, both my entire self but also in my performative and musical theatre self. I believe that if I carry on using these practises outside the workshop, I can genuinely make and feel a change in my day to day life, so I will set myself a goal to use the practises that I've had today and I hope to be more confident in myself and Ii’m already starting to believe it! It’s beautiful. - Skye (2nd Year MT student)

I’m Ava Grace and I really enjoyed the lesson. It was very emotional and it was honestly the best lesson I've ever had. It was just beautiful and life-changing. I think we all really bonded in the lesson and we had a little group hug, which made me really happy. I thoroughly recommend it, it’s life changing. - Ava Grace ( 1st year MT Student)

“We took part in Akeems’ Beyond the Artist workshop and I must say it was incredible. I feel uplifted, I feel lightweight, I feel like today is just going to be a very good day”. - Jasper ( 2nd Year Acting student)

“I think it’s help me realise some stuff about myself. I need to appreciate myself more, and we all need to appreciate ourselves more. This realisation is really powerful, I just feel so empowered and feel like I'm ready for anything now”. Adrian Koh( First Year MT student)

“I just feel so much better in myself and everyone in the room. It just makes me think we’re all human and all want to get to the same place, and we all have to remember to just be kind to each other because at the end of the day, we’re all on planet earth and we’ve all just gotta be kind”. Amelia McCreedy (First year MT student)

“I now feel so connected to everyone around me and just feel like I know I'm not feeling alone anymore”. - Cherry ( First year MT student)

Today we did the ‘Beyond The Artist workshop’ and it was absolutely beyond amazing! I Just feel so refreshed and so amazing. I feel really happy and I love my peers. Ruya Mulachy ( 2nd Year Acting student)

It got to help me see much clearer in my life and I’m so appreciative to be in this space with everyone. It was amazing, thank you! - Tara Atri (2nd year Acting Student)

It was amazing, I feel so connected with myself. It was just such a good experience. I’d do it again! - Maita Hobwana (2nd Year Acting student)

We just had our first Beyond The Artist workshop. It was really good at helping us appreciate ourselves more, and those around us. It helped us realises we weren’t alone in how we feel and everyones on the same journey, it helped me identify what’s holding us back so that we can become better, together ! Everyone go and check it out! - ( First year MT Students ) Tilli Kavanagah & Elizabeth Rye

We just did Beyond The Artist, and I honestly I Just feel like I'm that BITCH! - Eden Anthony (1st year MT student)

It just made me much more appreciation for the people around me, so much more grateful, and just so much appreciation for myself awswell. - Eve Buttress (1st year MT student)

I think it’s a great bonding experience. It was a great thing today because it brought us a lot closer, because even though we’ve been here for a while, we’re not as close as we could be, so it was even nicer to get closer to everybody - Hayden Redfern (1st year MT student)

We did Beyond the artist, and it was really nice because it really made me connect to everyone else and it was really nice to take a moment to just realise that everyone has feelings, thoughts and emotions. It just makes you feel so less alone and more connected to everyone. Everyone just needs to give themselves credit. I feel like meditation has never really worked for me because my brain is always all over the place but this time I really sat with my feelings and thought like, about my future and how I should be treating other people, and how everyone is going to feel the same way at some point in their life. Everybody just needs to give themselves some credit. Kacey Barker & .. ( 2nd year Acting & MT students)

After the workshop I definitely feel alot lighter, I feel happier, and I feel so much more connected to everyone. I just feel like today is going to be a good day now! - Laci Monroe ( First year MT student)

I just feel like Akeem comes with the best energy and it made us feel all together. I feel like I've got rid of my negative thoughts. It was great! - Phoebe Stevens (1st year MT Student)

I felt like it was really helpful in understanding the way I think about things. I feel like it’s help me connect more. like actually connect! Not just be around people in my year group, but actually connecting with them and being like; I am alive with these people, who are gonna do great things, and I am going to do great things too, and just knowing that everything is gonna be ok. - Jordan Otchere ( 1st year MT Student)

Hi I’m Katie, I'm Paige & I’m B. We just took part in the ‘Beyond the artist’ workshop with Akeem. I just feel really proud of myself and everyone who took part in the workshop, because we all had a go at coming to terms. with things we find negative about ourselves and turning it into something else. I feel like I’ve discovered that I have more worth than I give myself credit for. It was really nice and calming experience, and I feel alot better/ I agree I feel alot more refreshed. I actually feel undertstood my other people, and no longer feel alone. It was amazing how everything worked for everyone, there wasn’t one thing where someone was like “oh yeah I'm not feeling this' Everything that we did helped everyone and I think that’s a really cool thing that you can connect to everyone in a room. It was fun! I Totally recommend! - Katie White, Paige Goldsmith, Beatrice Moriera 2nd year MT & Acting Students

I Think for me it was a lot about connecting to myself more. I really loved it because I’ve been wanting to do meditation and that kind of thing more, so having a workshop like this is so nice to ground myself in the crazy world of performing arts. And just be like stop, take a breath! I have gained tools that I can use in the future to self regulate and connect to myself. - Rose Rowland (2nd year Acting student)