Our workshops help you to develop your own creative, strategic thinking and reflection. Integrate your practical side with your creativity and individual way of thinking.

All sessions focus on practical business skills that you can immediately apply – but with the freshness and inspiration offered by being able to see the world with new eyes.

2012 workshop schedule here.

I thought you were brill – really kept everyone thinking and moving on at the right pace.

(Social entrepreneur, Leadership and Management workshop.)

Communicating with awareness

Good presenters don’t rely on their PowerPoint technique – they turn their attention to their audience and communicate the right message with relevance, engagement and meaning.  Specific workshops available:

Communicating with awareness 101

Communicating with awareness uses concepts and tools inspired by theatre and clowning to help you step into the shoes of your stakeholders and deliver relevant, engaging communications. Read more.

Engaging, meaningful presentations: improvisation for technical people

Designed for the more technically-minded but ideal for anyone who wishes to (or really needs to) better understand their audience to deliver a presentation or communication that is memorable and useful.  Inspired by improvised theatre to help you put yourself in the shoes of your audience, customers and clients. Improvisation for technical people – workshop information

Clowning for Facilitators

“You’ll practice letting go and rediscover spontaneity.”

The Clowning for Facilitators series of workshops is a unique opportunity to use concepts from performance and clown to help you delve into your role as a facilitator and communicator (or simply someone who likes to run meetings and a team in a positive way) through physical practice, play and reflection.  More about Clowning for Facilitators I.

Effortless project management

Put your energy into what matters and find projects are much easier to manage.

People-focussed project management

How well a project would go if people didn’t have opinions, views and many, many idiosyncrasies!  Reflect on the part of your role as project manager that is about creating a team, inspiring them with a shared vision, and getting people to do things on time and in the way that things need to be done.

Project management stripped bare

How to effectively manage projects, without the technical jargon. Particularly helpful for creative types, social entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to strip back project management to the bare essentials.

Creative, effective meetings

Meetings must be useful first, interesting next.  Reflect on your approach to meetings – why you hold them, why you invite who you do, and why you run them in the way that you do – and whether you are creating sessions that truly meet their intention.  Play around with ways to ensure that your meetings are the sessions that your colleagues will be on time for.

Social impact

From the outside looking in

Understand your organisation’s place in the world as a mix of subjectivity and objectivity and individual and collective experiences and use this 360 degree view to create a holistic strategy.

Personal wellbeing at work