The Emotional Lab

NEUROACTING A new dimension in actor training.

Emotion is also a trainable skill. Discover a specialised methodology integrating acting, psychology and emotional neuroscience to transform emotion into a conscious, adaptable and accessible tool for screen performance.

  • Bogotá: 25 to 28 November
  • Medellín: 3 to 6 December 2026
  • 14 places each
  • COP 550,000
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  • Poster for Andrea Velásquez García’s Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Red Movie Awards.
  • Andrea Velásquez García on the Premios Macondo red carpet.
  • Poster for La venganza de Analía 2.
  • Viviana Santos smiles holding a clapperboard from La venganza de Analía 2.
  • Poster for the Netflix series DOC.
  • Juan David Escobar holds a DOC clapperboard beside a cinema camera.
  • Cast poster for La venganza de Analía 2.
  • Close-up of George Slebi in a scene.
  • Poster for Her Mother’s Killer, featuring George Slebi.
  • Juan David Escobar on set with a clapperboard and an actress.
  • Poster for Darío Gómez: El rey del despecho, starring Diego Cadavid.
Part of Antoine Campho’s career as an acting coach in Colombia, supporting professional actors in their preparation for film and television, including George Slebi and Viviana Santos for the second season of La venganza de Analía.

Where acting meets the science of emotion.

The Emotional Lab is an interdisciplinary acting research and training project that brings together acting, psychology and emotional neuroscience to explore, understand and develop emotion as a trainable performance skill.

Through the Campho Neuroacting Framework, we translate this knowledge into a specialised methodology that enables actors to access different emotional states, sustain them, modulate their intensity, transform them into behaviour and regulate them. Our purpose is to expand actors’ performance capabilities and provide technical tools to respond with greater precision, awareness and emotional availability to the demands of screen acting.

What the scene demands

  1. Access emotion with precision.
  2. Contain it while listening and responding.
  3. Transform it into behaviour.
  4. Reproduce it across takes.
  5. Regulate when the scene ends.

From Technique to Screen

Emotional training develops more than the ability to access an emotional response. It prepares actors to sustain, modulate and transform that response into behaviour within the circumstances of a scene.

Viviana Santos: From Training to Performance

Two perspectives on the actor’s work: an emotional training exercise and a professional screen performance.

Emotional Training | Six Emotional States Viviana Santos explores six emotional states using The Emotional Lab’s original emotional activation protocols. After each activation, she performs the same line, transforming emotional experience into performance behaviour through voice, gaze and impulses. (22 sec)
Screen Performance | La venganza de Analía Viviana Santos in a scene from the second season of La venganza de Analía, demonstrating emotional expression through the character’s actions, gaze and relationships. (62 sec)

George Slebi: in practice

Acting Preparation | George Slebi Silent video. Antoine Campho worked on George Slebi’s acting preparation for the second season of La venganza de Analía. This footage presents part of their emotional training process. (91 sec)

Andrea Velásquez García: in practice

Emotional Activation | Exploring Anger Silent video. Andrea Velásquez García explores tools from the Campho Neuroacting Framework through a technical emotional activation exercise, working with anger and its manifestations in the body, gaze and behaviour. (42 sec)

Juan David Escobar Arango: in practice

Emotional Access | Crying Access Protocol (PAL) Silent video. Juan David Escobar explores emotional access through PAL, an original crying-access protocol developed within The Emotional Lab’s training methodology. (37 sec)
From Technique to Performance Juan David Escobar integrates emotional training tools into a monologue, modulating his emotional response in service of the character and the circumstances of the scene. (67 sec)

Campho Neuroacting Framework

The Campho Neuroacting Framework is an actor training model developed by Antoine Campho at The Emotional Lab. It integrates acting technique, the body, breathing and experiential imagination to work with emotion on camera.

It incorporates protocols for emotional access, activation and regulation, grounded in principles of emotional neuroscience. They are reviewed and internally validated by The Emotional Lab’s interdisciplinary team.

Its aim is to give actors greater precision, choice and repeatability in their emotional work: accessing emotion, sustaining it, translating it into behaviour and recovering their readiness for the next take.

  1. Phase 01

    Emotional Activation

    Develop conscious access to emotional responses through original activation protocols and experiential training resources.

  2. Phase 02

    Emotional Containment

    Train the ability to sustain and modulate emotional intensity while preserving listening, attention and availability.

  3. Phase 03

    Behaviour / Action

    Transform emotional activation into concrete actions and behaviours in service of the character.

  4. Phase 04

    Emotional Deactivation / Regulation

    Apply original regulation protocols to manage emotional activation and support recovery after performance work.

Cross-cutting dimensions

  • Body
  • Breathing
  • Experiential imagination

These three dimensions are integrated throughout all four training phases, responding to each actor’s individual needs and responses.

The process is dynamic: actors can move between the four phases according to the needs of the scene and each take.

An interdisciplinary team

Emotion in performance involves acting craft, the body, behaviour and regulation.

The Emotional Lab brings together acting, psychology and emotional neuroscience to develop specialised emotional training tools, combining professional performance experience with complementary expertise.

  • Portrait of Antoine Campho in a black-and-white check jacket, white shirt and black tie, against a grey background.

    Antoine Campho

    Neuroacting Coach | Researcher and Founder

    A Theatre graduate of Universidad de Antioquia, specialised in film and television acting. Founder of The Emotional Lab and developer of the Campho Neuroacting Framework, his work focuses on emotional neuroscience and psychophysiology applied to actor training.

  • Portrait of Carolina Roldán smiling, in a navy jacket and holding a pen, against a grey background.

    Carolina Roldán

    Psychologist | Emotional Assessment and Profiling

    A psychology graduate of the National University of Colombia, with training in clinical hypnosis. At The Emotional Lab, she leads actors’ emotional assessment and profiling, identifying individual resources, patterns and potential barriers to guide personalised training in emotional access, containment and regulation.

  • Portrait of Safaa Hakim smiling, chin resting on her hand, in a cream blouse, against a grey background.

    Safaa Hakim

    Counsellor and Psychotherapist | Emotional Regulation

    A psychology graduate of Swinburne University, with postgraduate qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy, EMDR certification and PACFA membership in Australia. At The Emotional Lab, she contributes to the interdisciplinary analysis and development of original protocols within the Campho Neuroacting Framework and guides strategies for actors’ emotional regulation and wellbeing.

Medellín Intensive

Emotion can be trained too.

Over four intensive days, you’ll explore the Campho Neuroacting Framework, an actor-training methodology developed by The Emotional Lab that brings together tools from acting, psychology and neuroscience to work on emotional access, activation, containment, behaviour and regulation on camera.

Dates
3 to 6 December 2026
City
Medellín, Colombia
Venue
To be confirmed
Format
In person
Hours
15 hours, Thursday to Sunday
Led by
Antoine Campho
Places
14 people
Fee
COP 550,000
Certificate
Certificate of participation included
Applications
Close 1 December 2026

Schedule

DateTime (Colombia)Duration
Thursday 3 December 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm 3 hrs
Friday 4 December 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm 3 hrs
Saturday 5 December 9:00 am – 12:00 pm 3 hrs
Sunday 6 December 9:00 am – 3:00 pm 6 hrs
Total: 15 hours

What you’ll work on

  • Emotional activation: Explore ways to access different emotional states through the body, breath and experiential imagination.
  • Containment and modulation: Learn to sustain, transform and modulate emotional intensity to suit the needs of the scene.
  • Emotion and behaviour: Train how to turn emotional activation into concrete acting choices, bringing together objectives, relationships and text on camera.
  • Emotional regulation: Develop tools to manage the emotional load, support recovery and be ready again for the next take.

Who it’s for

  • Professional actors and actors in training, aged 18 or over.
  • Film, television and theatre performers who want to deepen their emotional technique.
  • Actors who want to build greater precision, independence and emotional repeatability on camera.

What your investment includes

  • A high-quality recording of your monologue, shot on a single camera in a cinematic style, filmed on the last day of the workshop.
  • A certificate of participation.
  • A text learning and memorisation guide for actors, based on neuroscience techniques.
  • The foundations for recognising emotional states linked to the body, plus tools for emotional activation and regulation.

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Bogotá Intensive

Emotion can be trained too.

Over four intensive days, you’ll explore the Campho Neuroacting Framework, an actor-training methodology developed by The Emotional Lab that brings together tools from acting, psychology and neuroscience to work on emotional access, activation, containment, behaviour and regulation on camera.

Dates
25 to 28 November 2026
City
Bogotá, Colombia
Venue
CICE, Centro de Investigación y Creación Escénica
Cra. 19 #45a-21, Palermo, Bogotá
Format
In person
Hours
15 hours: Wednesday to Friday and Saturday morning
Places
14 people
Fee
COP 550,000
Certificate
Certificate of participation included
Bookings
Through La Maldita Vanidad, our partner theatre school

Schedule

DateTime (Colombia)Duration
Wednesday 25 November 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm 3 hrs
Thursday 26 November 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm 3 hrs
Friday 27 November 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm 3 hrs
Saturday 28 November 9:00 am – 3:00 pm 6 hrs
Total: 15 hours

What you’ll work on

  • Emotional activation: Explore ways to access different emotional states through the body, breath and experiential imagination.
  • Containment and modulation: Learn to sustain, transform and modulate emotional intensity to suit the needs of the scene.
  • Emotion and behaviour: Train how to turn emotional activation into concrete acting choices, bringing together objectives, relationships and text on camera.
  • Emotional regulation: Develop tools to manage the emotional load, support recovery and be ready again for the next take.

Who it’s for

  • Professional actors and actors in training, aged 18 or over.
  • Film, television and theatre performers who want to deepen their emotional technique.
  • Actors who want to build greater precision, independence and emotional repeatability on camera.

How to book

  1. Click on the book button below.
  2. Book and pay for your place on the La Maldita Vanidad website, our partner theatre school in Bogotá.

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