In our first workshop, we will start by exploring a series of group games, exercises and structures that are designed to liberate us from our stiff adult personas. By playfully freeing our body, mind and emotions, we will connect to that more innocent and carefree part of ourselves known as the inner child.

As the course progresses we will look at certain muscle-groups of playfulness such as catharsis, exaggeration, imagination, silliness, spontaneity and misbehaviour. We may also dive into play in other ways such as playing with paint, playing with musical instruments or playing with our voices as well as leaving space for spontaneous free-play much like kids in the playground.

Above all, as our inner child wakes up and is given permission to be free, we will build a bridge between our outer adult and this childlike part, so that integration can happen.

During this workshop you will:

✔ Discover how The Practice of Playfulness is a healing medicine that can transform emotions such as repression, numbness and disconnection into feelings of happiness, optimism and inner aliveness.

✔ See how the path of self-expression develops inner qualities such as courage, creativity, confidence and improved communication skills.

✔ Understand how play gives a strong taste of emotional freedom and moment-by-moment living in a real, embodied way.

✔ Be supported through regular sharing circles and times for self-reflection.

In the Speak from your Heart workshop we will begin our journey into vulnerability and authenticity by looking at the fears and blocks that we have around ‘being seen.’

Many of us carry a deep and profound fear of expressing ourselves in public, but together, we will create a safe space where each individual can discover how to gently melt and unfreeze the fear inside their system. Rather than trying to get rid of this fear, our approach is one of accepting and integrating it.

Once the melting has begun we start to look at how we can help our energy flow into self-expression and what the inner pathways might be for us to share our radiance, wonder and silliness with the world around us. This will involve a combination of playful, theatrical and mindful exercises that will support us to most lovingly ‘be who we are.’

During this workshop you will:

✔ Learn how to relax and melt the fear of public speaking and being seen through a soft and accepting approach.

✔ Tap into your innate gifts, talents and skills and learn to be yourself even when others are looking at you.

✔ Find a pathway for dissolving your fears of criticism and failure by learning to open your heart and blend humour and playfulness with sensitivity and vulnerability

✔ Discover that sharing yourself in front of others is a powerful journey of self-discovery and wholeness that can guide you to become the most relaxed, easy and natural version of yourself.

✔ Learn to share the uniquely weird and wonderful version of yourself that you can be with your best friends but not yet in public!

✔ Bring forward the charisma or confidence that you secretly know lies within.

In our Clown Healing workshop we start to weave together the playfulness and the vulnerability that we have been working on so far. ‘The Clown’ is an archetype that can allow a human being to be both silly and irreverent as well as tender and sincere at the same time. This is a potent cocktail that allows an individual to truly get in touch with their emotional world. The catharsis of play and the sincerity of the heart brings forward both the emotions that we feel in the moment, as well as buried treasures lying in our emotional basement.

The Clown Healing approach lets us make our journey into our underworld a more light-hearted and irreverent one than traditional therapy, yet without sacrificing any of the depths. Because of their ability to be vulnerable, our inner clown can connect us to our own woundedness, bring it out into the open and from there, give the space to let these wounds transform. It’s very subtle work, but one tinged with the tears of joy and relief.

During this workshop you will:

✔ Develop a sense of emotional freedom and emotional flexibility

✔ Understand that your sense of humour is a vital lifeline in maintaining mental health and equilibrium

✔ Develop the capacity to accept yourself more easily and feel comfortable in being your weird, unique self

✔ Learn to love and accept both the ‘good and bad’ parts of yourself, the strong and the weak

✔ Bathe in laughter, play, merriment, joy, uplift and silliness

Discover a greater ability to ‘go with the flow’ and accept situations

✔ Let go of perfectionism through the Clown path of failure