DATE: Saturday, April 15, 2023

START TIME: 1:00 PT/4:00pm EST/10:00pm CEST

DURATION: 4 hours

LOCATION: Zoom (Link will be sent to all participants one day before the workshop begins). No recording provided.

PRICING: Tickets for this workshop are offered on a sliding scale ($99, $139, and $169) in order to increase accessibility to the class, with a limited number of reduced price tickets. BIPOC participants are welcome to purchase a ticket at any price point. We also have available a limited number of tickets at $50 each for BIPOC participants with financial need (please email training@IPAinternational.org if you would like to request one of these tickets). ALL TICKET PRICES ARE IN USD.

LEVEL: This workshop is open to everyone, whether you are still training to become an IC or you have been working as an IC for years.

EVENT DESCRIPTION​​

Film sets are inherently emotionally charged spaces. Add the stress of filming an intimacy scene and the stakes quickly escalate, and if the tension boils over, it’s often the IC who can either become a target or bring calm to the situation. The difference between the two outcomes? Emotional Intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize and regulate emotions, in order to guide thinking and behavior, and to manage relationships. The course combines theory with practice, empowering participants to take the skills learned in the course and apply them immediately to the real scenarios we encounter on set.

This interactive course will teach participants to:

• Identify emotions in self and others and labeling them. Interpreting emotion in faces, posture, gesture, voice, and physiology

• Understand emotions, the causes and the consequences of emotions and how they influence attention, thinking, decisions and behavior

• Use emotions to facilitate the task at hand; knowing how and when to express emotions appropriately with different people and in multiple contexts

• Manage emotions: using effective cognitive and behavioral strategies, to prevent, reduce, initiate, maintain, and enhance emotions

This course will be taught by IPA-certified intimacy coordinator Rebecca Johannsen (see below for more info about her) and facilitated by IPA founder Amanda Blumenthal. The class will be a combination of lecture and break out group sessions, which will allow students to practice the skills they are learning in class.

By the end of this class, you will have had the opportunity to:

• Learn about your own EQ, the areas of strength and how to leverage those

• Practice proven EQ exercises and learning tools that you can use yourself and with your crew members, family members and others

• Learn how to read people better, including the hidden messages in body language

• Strengthen your own emotional intelligence

Participants will be asked to complete an intake form before the start of class.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Rebecca Johannsen (she/her) is a certified intimacy coordinator who has worked on series for Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, and Apple TV+, as well as feature films. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from UC Irvine. Prior to certifying with IPA, Rebecca worked for over 12 years as a specialist in Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration, Communication, and Unconscious Bias training, working with clients at Fortune 500 companies, including high tech, biotech, marketing, finance, retail, government, and automotive industries. She taught with UC San Diego's Rady School of Management's Center for Executive Development. Clients include: Janssen Pharma (Johnson & Johnson), Citibank, JLL, CalaPRS, Sempra Energy, and several Silicon Valley companies (on whose devices you are likely reading this right now). She has also taught in the theatre departments at NYU, Fordham, CSU Northridge, and Mercy College.