Workshops and training
We offer hands-on training across the public, corporate, health, arts, educational and therapeutic sectors. This includes:
- creative professional theatre training
- community-based arts and theatre workshops
- personal development workshops
- therapeutically based workshops
We have vast experience working with all ages and abilities, from pre-school children to later life learners. We cater for professional practitioners, absolute beginners and everyone in between! We also work in a variety of contexts, from classrooms to boardrooms.
Our flexible workshops and trainings can be:
- online or face-to-face
- run at a time to suit you
- designed from scratch to meet your specific needs
- accessible to all audiences, including neuro-diverse, blind and partially
sighted, disabled and deaf communities
We can also re-run or re-purpose any of our existing trainings for age, ability, content and timing. See a list of our upcoming and recent workshops below (each is individually priced).
Questions? Contact us for a friendly chat!
Upcoming workshops and trainings
Psychological safety
A fast-paced session on how to create work spaces where employees feel comfortable speaking up.
A child and young person’s emotional wellbeing check
Many children and young people are experiencing changes in their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing – often as a result of the pandemic. How might we support them?
Talking to children and young people about Ukraine
How do we talk proactively, sensitively and constructively to children and young people about the crisis in Ukraine? 50% of workshop fees donated to DEC Ukraine appeal.
Some of our recent workshops and trainings
Serious Play
Damn Cheek invites you to share a slice of your Saturday with our seasoned servers of silliness, Darren Cheek and Katie Taylor. Join them as they explore how ridiculous can you get in only 2 dimensions…! Saturday 29 October 2022, 11.30am.
Children and young people: sexuality, identity, relationships
How can we best support our young people to make sense of sexuality in today’s world?
Exploring grief in the workplace
How might we support those in and around our workplaces who are dealing with the grief brought about by the pandemic?
Engaging authentically with emotional text
An experiential workshop on how to relate deeply to your own and to other authors’ emotional work.
Life lessons from improv
A workshop to help bring more playfulness, spontaneity, creativity – and compassion – to our lives.
Making a scene
A workshop for all writers who want their work – prose, poetry, drama – to be effective when performed.
Serious fun
An experience-based exploration of professional rehearsal room games and exercises.
Theatrical collaboration – developing a play through a whole-team approach
An inside look at how one of Damn Cheek’s upcoming productions is being brought from page to stage.
What acting can teach us about truth
Exploring the link between therapeutic ideas of ‘healthy, authentic, actualised’ living and performance ideas of ‘great, real, true’ acting.
