Two practitioner workshops for facilitators, teachers and people who work with groups. The days stand alone, but they also speak to each other.
A two-day weekend of in-person workshops. You’re welcome to attend either day on its own, or both.
Saturday is a full-day, practical workshop focused on a familiar frustration: work that looks engaged but somehow stays on the surface. Sunday is a slower, reflective day offering time and structure to step out of the week-to-week churn.
Book your placeYou plan carefully. The session runs smoothly. Participants are engaged, responsive, cooperative.
And yet something stays on the surface.
The group perform scenes accurately but without inhabiting them. Workshop discussions circle around plot or opinion. Devising generates ideas that are clever, competent, and somehow weightless. People are doing what you ask, but they are not really in it.
You try to shift things. Push harder and people resist. Step back and nothing changes. Invite depth and someone performs profundity – darkness, intensity, knowingness – or the work drifts into territory you are not equipped to hold.
The problem is not a lack of techniques. It is knowing when depth is possible, how to create the conditions for it, and how to sustain it without losing your footing.
This day works directly with that capacity.
Depth is not about heaviness. It is not therapy. It is not emotional intensity for its own sake.
Depth is a shift in the quality of engagement – when discussion moves from what happened to why it matters; when a performer stops imitating behaviour and begins to understand what drives it; when participants move from reproducing ideas to discovering something they did not already know.
Depth can be physical, intellectual, aesthetic, critical – often several at once. It is not about the topic. It is about how people are thinking, sensing and engaging.
This workshop develops your capacity to:
The work is practical and embodied. Ideas are explored through doing, not just talking.
This workshop is for practitioners who recognise surface engagement as a persistent pattern in their work and are ready to address it seriously.
You might be a drama teacher wanting students to inhabit rather than mimic; a facilitator tired of clever participation without real thinking; or a youth or community worker navigating voluntary engagement while seeking depth.
You do not need to be “advanced”. You do need to recognise the problem – and be willing to do challenging, grounded professional development to work with it.
Book Saturday · £150Much of professional life is spent responding – to emails, deadlines, expectations, funding cycles, institutional rhythms and group dynamics. Sometimes there is too much going on. Sometimes there is not enough. Either way, it can begin to feel as though the work is always leaning on you.
This day is an opportunity to step out of that churn.
Not to fix anything. Not to optimise or reset. Not to perform reflection.
Just to spend a Sunday alongside your practice, with enough structure to think clearly and enough space to breathe.
We’ll work with four simple lenses:
These are not categories to get right. They are ways of sorting experience.
The focus is not on improvement, but on seeing more clearly what is central, what is necessary, and what may be draining energy unnecessarily.
This is not a training day and not a therapy space. Instead, the day uses guided reflection, structured conversation and simple framing exercises to help you:
People often leave with fewer problems, but better questions.
This day is for practitioners who feel the need to pause without stepping away completely – whether you are carrying a heavy workload, navigating uncertainty, juggling multiple roles, or sensing that things are not quite right without being sure why.
You do not need to be stuck. You only need to be willing to spend a day thinking carefully about what you are doing, and how it is held.
Book Sunday · £95DoES Liverpool CIC
1st Floor, The Tapestry
68–74 Kempston Street
Liverpool, L3 8HL
Full refunds available up to 28 days before the workshop. After this point, refunds are not available. You may transfer your booking to another person by notifying us in writing at least 7 days before the event.
If you’re unsure whether this weekend is right for you, or have any other questions, feel free to get in touch before booking.