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

3rd September 2024

Hello Friends,

I’ve just landed back in Glastonbury after a summer of adventures. In July I got to explore the archetype of ‘Wise Woman’ in Cardiff with a bunch of artists from different disciplines, delivered my final Mindful Play weekend in Bristol and attended a four day IFS-fool-clown research lab in Nottingham.

In August I co-created a 2-day Clown Congress dreaming process with Robyn Hambrook in Bristol, flew over to Germany to share my Clown-o-therapy toolkit with a bunch of clowns at the Ravensburger Clown School Summer Academy, whizzed back to Devon to attend a week-long Buddhism and Psychotherapy retreat with Nigel Wellings at The Barn, hunkered down in Bristol at Beccy Golding’s at home writing retreat and yoyo’d back to Devon to co-facilitate a week of Deep Play at Embercombe with Briony Greenhill.

Phew! No wonder I’m so tired!

If you'd like to read more about my summer adventures click here.

If you'd like to know what's in store for the autumn, read on...

1.) The online one-to-ones are back!

Due to popular demand, I'm offering a fourth season of online one-to-one Creative Clarity, Supervision and Creative Consultancy sessions online on Zoom!

From September - December 2024, you can book a series of 6 or 3 one-hour sessions to explore yourself, your work, your creativity, or your path.

One-off sessions are also available for anyone wanting to dip their toe in.

For more info about one-to-ones click here.

2.) New online Creative Facilitation course

New for Autumn 2024, a 6-week online dive into creative and empowering group facilitation. Starting on October 22nd.

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 Creative Facilitation course here.

3.) 5-DAY FOOLS SCHOOL IN BRISTOL

The Fool, approaching life with openness and curiosity, walks into the empty space and says, "Wow, look what I found!”

Fooling is a form of solo improvisation where you get to meet and play with the cast of characters who normally live inside your head.

Dates: 11th-15th November 2024

Times: 10am-6pm each day

Venue: The Bristol Improv Theatre

More info and application form here.

4.) Dramatherapy and IFS workshops in the autumn

I am delighted to announce that I will be sharing some of my research at two dramatherapy conferences this autumn! Dramatherapy Southwest in Exeter on 14th September and The British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) online in the week of the 14th October.

More info about Dramatherapy + IFS workshops here.