Bringing our real lives into our creative work requires both courage and a safe structure. This workshop invites you to look at your personal history from a new angle, using the distance of theatre, ritual, and play.

Welcome to an exploratory, hands-on workshop designed to spark your creativity, deepen your self-compassion, and leave you feeling empowered. Led by registered dramatherapists Abigail Nelson and Kate Stevens, these sessions are a reflective, experimental playground for anyone interested in using the arts to explore who they are and what they want to say.

Rather than creating a finished piece, you will explore a range of reflective and creative exercises and techniques to bravely begin your own journey.

Together, you will:

• Explore: Use playful warm-ups and dramatherapy frameworks to gently see what parts of you and your story want to be expressed.
• Experiment: Play with telling your story through metaphor, ritual, projection and embodiment, dipping a toe into a variety of self-revelatory arts techniques to find your unique, authentic creative voice.
• Connect: Discover the power of witnessing and being witnessed to transform the way we tell and relate to our personal and collective stories.

Absolutely zero professional creative experience is required. Whether you are an artist looking to unblock a project, or simply curious about creative wellbeing, this is about process and play, not perfection. Come to connect in a warm, shared space, feel witnessed by others, and walk away with a fresh toolkit of ideas and methods.

You can join online on Thursday 22nd October (6.30pm-9pm), or in-person in Leith, Edinburgh on Saturday 31st October (1pm-5pm).