THE EMOTIONAL TYPES BY APRIL
The Emotional Type Modules
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Initial Class Prep
Start here: gather your class supplies, then review and submit your agreement, initialing each section before beginning the modules.
Start here: gather your class supplies, then review and submit your agreement, initialing each section before beginning the modules.
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Start Here: Academy Roadmap & Worksheets
See the full working course sequence, directions, and worksheet downloads in one place. Emotional chords are the notes; an Emotional Type is the symphony.
See the full working course sequence, directions, and worksheet downloads in one place. Emotional chords are the notes; an Emotional Type is the symphony.
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Module 1: Dreaming Out Loud — Discover Your Emotional Life
Begin the Emotional Type Technique™ by listening to yourself. Watch April’s TEDx talk, complete four lists of 25, and explore the emotional patterns, values, and survival strategies you can bring to character work.
Begin the Emotional Type Technique™ by listening to yourself. Watch April’s TEDx talk, complete four lists of 25, and explore the emotional patterns, values, and survival strategies you can bring to character work.
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Module 02: Twelve Chapter Reflections
Read one zodiac chapter each day from Sex Signs. Gather emotional language, recurring themes, and specific lived examples across all twelve signs.
Read one zodiac chapter each day from Sex Signs. Gather emotional language, recurring themes, and specific lived examples across all twelve signs.
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Module 03: The Three Faces of Self
Sun: the public face. Moon: the hidden emotional world. Rising: strategies for getting what you want. Complete this separate self-portrait after all twelve chapter reflections.
Sun: the public face. Moon: the hidden emotional world. Rising: strategies for getting what you want. Complete this separate self-portrait after all twelve chapter reflections.
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Module 04: North Node — The Aspirational Emotional Type
Explore the recurring lesson and the person you are becoming. Keep this separate from the Sun/Moon/Rising portrait and your four Emotional Types.
Explore the recurring lesson and the person you are becoming. Keep this separate from the Sun/Moon/Rising portrait and your four Emotional Types.
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Module 05: Imago — Tell the First Story, Then Rewrite It
April’s adaptation of Harville Hendrix’s work for actors and storytellers: identify the wound, tell the first story, rewrite it with what you know now, and explore the first-time weight of truthful acting.
April’s adaptation of Harville Hendrix’s work for actors and storytellers: identify the wound, tell the first story, rewrite it with what you know now, and explore the first-time weight of truthful acting.
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Module 07: Describe Your Four Emotional Types
Write the wound, reaction, survival strategies, goal, and mastery of each life lesson. April names the Emotional Types from your descriptions.
Write the wound, reaction, survival strategies, goal, and mastery of each life lesson. April names the Emotional Types from your descriptions.
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Module 08: 100 Films & Anatomy of a Scene
Apply your Emotional Type discoveries to roles, central conflict, transformation, actions, and the lesson. Bring three scene worksheets and source material to class.
Apply your Emotional Type discoveries to roles, central conflict, transformation, actions, and the lesson. Bring three scene worksheets and source material to class.
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Module 09: Scenes, Reel, Auditions & Writing
Apply your four Emotional Types to scenes, build an Emotional Type reel, recognize audition roles, and develop your own writing.
Apply your four Emotional Types to scenes, build an Emotional Type reel, recognize audition roles, and develop your own writing.
April Yvette Thompson is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media. Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.
Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty CityThe Exonerated (w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, Antigone & Light Raise the Roof.
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival, Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony).
April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop. Her latest play, Black Livesis in development at NYTW.
Education: Vassar College & Rutgers University.
AprilYvetteThompson.com
Frequently Asked Questions
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Fun. Like that one aunt that is brilliantly unfettered in her opinions and interests. Well travelled and free of heart, April is the teacher who wants you to take your stories out into the world and transform your life. Making a living from your stories and creating a life that matches your dreams is the ultimate goal. You know, the stuff no one teaches you in school. We don’t want to just take your money. We want to give you the tools to change your life.