The Viewpoints is a training technique developed by renowned American director Anne Bogart, which been utilised by Zen Zen Zo as one of its core training methods since 1998. The Viewpoints focuses on reawakening the actor's instincts through impulse work and play, and exploring the basic elements of performance - the body in time and space - so that the artist can learn to use them articulately when performing and creating new work. The training is all ensemble-based, with each actor learning to respond impulsively and playfully to their fellow performers. It allows them to function together with synergy, intuition and spontaneity, creating courageous theatrical work quickly. The Viewpoints also develops the fundamental performance skills that help the actor/ dancer/ performer achieve a dynamic stage presence.

Anne Bogart visited Australia in 1997 for the first time to demonstrate the Viewpoints technique at the Victorian College of the Arts in a workshop in which Lynne Bradley participated. Simon Woods had previously studied the Viewpoints whilst in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1993. Lynne and Simon and the Zen Zen Zo Core Company have since studied intensively in America with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and were the first practitioners to teach the Viewpoints in Australia