Workshops

Holly’s workshops are designed to be of benefit to everyone, from professional performers seeking performance skills training, to the brave and curious seeking self-development and everyone in between. Through skillful holding and carefully paced progressions of games and exercises, Holly creates the ideal conditions that allow creativity, play, insight, wonder and discovery to thrive.

Holly has been devising and delivering workshops for adults since 2007. She draws upon her huge history of training and experience in many areas, including: improvisation, clowning, fooling, dance, physical theatre, voice work, creative writing, dramaturgy, dramatherapy, mindfulness, playwork, group process and nonviolent communication to deliver bespoke, bountiful group experiences. To read more about Holly's experience or see her Bristol TEDx talk, click here.

See below for a full list of Holly's workshops. If you have a company or are an individual artist looking to commission your own bespoke training, have a look at what’s on offer below, check out Holly's services pages and get in touch with Holly to begin co-designing your ideal workshop. Holly’s workshops range from 2-hour play sessions to 10 day residencies.

Upcoming Workshops and Events

10th December 2024

Hello Friends,

After wandering in the wilderness in search of home for over a year, I’ve landed back in Bristol, the vibrant city that played a massive part in helping me develop my work and my identity.

I have decided to celebrate my return by running The Well-Held Space, my 3-month creative facilitation course here in Bristol, starting in January.

I'll also be offering another term of one-to-one online therapy, supervision and creative consultancy from January - April.

I’m getting some lovely offers for guest teaching / facilitating and I’m co-organising several residential research labs (all private for now, but watch this space for open residential workshops and labs later in 2025). I’m really loving collaborating with other people to make things happen. It’s so lovely not having to shoulder all the responsibility for organising everything myself! I’m open for more of this, if you’re interested, get in touch.

I’ve been weighing up whether I can squeeze in another 5-day Fools School next term, but it’s seemingly impossible with all the other wonderful workshops and co-created residencies and retreats I’ve got going on. So I’ll look to organize a few more from April onwards. As soon as I’ve got them set up, I’ll let you know here or in my newsletters.

You can sign up to my newsletter at the bottom of this page to be amongst the first to hear what's on offer.

1.) The Well-Held Space: Creative Facilitation training in Bristol, UK

Back for 2025! This 3-month course is an opportunity for a small group of 12 people to come together and support each other's development as creative facilitators.

3 weekends over 3 months, starting January 18th 2025

Who's it for? Facilitators, artists, therapists, teachers, managers, leaders and anyone who wants to develop skills and cultivate awareness to hold inclusive and accessible space, which is safe enough to take risks.

More info about The Well-Held Space Creative Facilitation course here.