Strategic Samurai is obsessed with the art of speaking. The business offers fully featured speaker training, from content to performance, for those who want to create and deliver short-form high-stakes Talks that matter. We work with organizations and individuals who desire to enhance their public communication skills and crystallize their messages. We specialize in discovering a speaker's core idea and transforming it into a message the world needs to hear through story, structure and staging.

Welcome to The Frisch Approach, your ultimate acting school in Santa Barbara, CA. As actors and serious adults, our work is specific, constructive and imagination-based. These actor workshops are designed for students to transform and grow class by class. To achieve these goals, students are encouraged to approach their work boldly and with a spirited sense of play. They are trained to be in the habit of experimenting and working without fear. Only by taking risks can an actor fully create and inhabit a dynamic character.