Humanise your workplace through creative facilitation and professional development.
Discover highly engaging, interactive and seriously playful avenues for professional development and artistry.
Make change work for people and business.
Improve workplace wellbeing by developing a truly inclusive and creative culture.
Encourage creativity and innovation in your organisation and teams.
Become known as a creative and curious learning organisation and a great place to work.
The challenge of change
Creating positive change can be challenging and yet hugely rewarding for people and for the business. Engagement and buy-in is required in the early stages – and it’s not necessarily easy to achieve.
Our facilitated workshops provide an environment where true collaboration and cooperation, and innovation, can be achieved in a fun, playful, meaningful and unique way. We work with you to create the right environment for positive change to happen.
Why a workshop?
My research is based in the Creative Industries with a particular focus on arts-based and aesthetic approaches to facilitating workshops. Our Artful Inquiry approach allows participants to open up on issues and themes, rather than closing them down.
People in my workshops experience curiosity, risk-taking, courage, a willingness to suspend judgement and get comfortable with ambiguity. We encourage people to be open and vulnerable enough that experiences and learnings can be incorporated into their personal and professional lives.
“I attended a workshop facilitated by Cathryn on creativity and ‘playfulness’, which was fun, interesting and challenging. Cathryn brings a wonderfully warm yet focused approach to her work, which effortlessly engages attendees and encourages engagement, openness and creativity. Everyone and every organisation needs to find more time for creativity and reflection, and Cathryn is just the person to inspire it.”
How do the workshops work?
Our facilitated workshops are a way for individuals and groups to explore ideas imaginatively and strategically through a range of innovative, inventive, resourceful, reflective, and aesthetic methodologies.
Together we look at your needs, and work out how long you need to commit, what progress looks like, and when to expect results.
We then set to work, applying the arts-based and aesthetic methods to get you and your teams fully involved and inspired! From images and stories, to drawing, painting, music, nature, mindfulness, applied improvisation, play and journaling, we use a range of unique approaches to promote creative inquiry, connection and wellbeing.
Workshops can be delivered as consecutive whole days, or a series of full or half-days over a few months. We can collaborate in a neutral space, or I can come to your site. Whatever best suits you and your availability.
Why should I book a workshop?
Enhance collaboration for greater innovation.
Cultivate a creative culture and discover new ways to work together.
Shift your thinking and gain a new perspective.
Build creative confidence, experimentation, and resilience within the organisation.
Realise the opportunities and challenges within your organisation.
Discover what is important and uncover what is possible.
Bring about positive change.
FAQs
What is facilitation?
There are many pathways to facilitation and how facilitators actually facilitate. A facilitator is engaged to help a group or team come together to better understand often complex situations, identify common objectives, plan and navigate the change required. Learn more about how I operate as a facilitator: read more on a conversation exploring facilitation.
Who is a facilitator and what do they do?
The role of the facilitator will vary depending on the client and need. This is established in the scoping and contracting phase. My preferred style is based on co-creation. Together, we agree on the approach and a way forward. Relationships, issues and themes, decision-making and creativity are openly engaged with and negotiated as we go. Together we create an open supportive environment where new ways of thinking and being are encouraged, ideas are born, decisions are made, and accountability is valued.
What makes a good facilitator?
A good facilitator will achieve the desired outcomes for their clients, such as:
- Enhanced collaboration for greater innovation.
- Cultivating creative culture and discover new and helpful ways to work together.
- Collaborating for greater innovation.
- Shifting their thinking and gain new perspectives.
- Recognising systemic and complex interdependencies.
- Building creative confidence, experimentation, and resilience within the organisation.
- Realising the opportunities and challenges within the organisation.
- Discovering what is important and uncover what is possible.
I encourage people in my workshops to think broadly with a ‘creative systems thinking’ mindset. Through curiosity, thoughtful risk-taking, courage, questioning, improvising, a willingness to suspend judgement, and tolerating of ambiguity, we begin the process of learning to live and work well into the future.
Could coaching be for you?
Some people prefer the 1-1 or team coaching approach. Check out my coaching solutions for individuals and teams.