The space and themes I open as a facilitator are in a constant state of research, play, refinement and evolution. My facilitation practice is informed by my own creative practice as a dramaturg and performer and by all the practitioners, creators and students I meet and work with.
Teaching has always been a part of my life: it was one of my earliest impulses, wanting to share whatever I knew with others and I was unexpectedly offered my first job at the age of 14 as an Assistant Dinghy Sailing Instructor. From then I have always been teaching: first sailing and later performance arts, as well as tutoring academic subjects.
Alongside this, I create workshops for various settings and run my own training and workshops for both professionals and for those who love to move/sound– both solo and with a wonderful team of collaborators.
My pedagogical approach is based on creating a particular kind of space: one that is safe enough, playful and encouraging, where there is a sense of enough time and where we can experience, learn and reflect, both individually and together. A kind of refugio where we can practice and play whole-heartedly together and gradually come more and more into our bodies and our whole selves.
As a facilitator and creator, I consciously acknowledge and attend to the personal, interpersonal and artistic layers that are always in the space. It is not just about what we do but how we do it and acknowledging how this works on and resonates at different scales.
I am also always in response to how we’re changing in society. To the challenges we face, the off-balances that are intensifying and how the work needs to change and adapt to face this, to be of real value. As such awareness, presence, attunement, regulation (self- and co-), reflection and nourishing supportive habits are always implicit in the spaces I open and hold. There is also always an emphasis on giving real tools to practice and play with, to take some of what we open in the space together into your daily life.
My current areas of research include:
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coming home to our embodied voice – bringing the body, breath, voice and imagination back into contact and conversation with one another
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living with story – developing a new-old way of seeing, understanding and embodying story, image and metaphor. Becoming story carriers and letting the stories we need unfold within us.
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practices and principles of dramaturgy – how to attend to what wants to happen in a creative process and help to reflect and navigate the artistic, interpersonal and personal challenges and opportunities that arise.
See more on the different research and training opportunities below.
MENTORING
For creators, artists and practitioners from any discipline (performers, writers, directors, dancers, visual artists, dramaturgs, musicians, poets etc..) looking for mentoring and support for a creative project - either new or existing.
EXPLORING
For anyone - whether you come from an arts field or another profession - who would like to explore and deepen the connection to themselves: to the body, to the imagination and to story.
Contact me here.
EXPLORING
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
NEXT DATES
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Speaking Jewels, Speaking Toads: Embodied Voice and Becoming a Storycarrier
Autumn 2026 - Dates TBC | Berlin, DE
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Speaking Jewels, Speaking Toads: Embodied Voice and Becoming a Storycarrier
1st-6th November 2026 | Waldorf English Week, Köln, DE
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Speaking Jewels, Speaking Toads
Embodied Voice and Becoming a Storycarrier
In these unique and challenging times we are experiencing a flattening, a thinning: from the connections increasingly mediated by screens to the diminishing ecosystems with their vanishing more-than-human inhabitants. How we relate to image and story suffers, too - shaped as we are by algorithms, fake news, toxic influencers. We are in what storyteller Martin Shaw called many moons ago “a pandemic of the literal”.
This workshop is a countermove to this flattening, a gesture towards rebalancing. It’s an invitation to drink deeply from the well of myth, to rehydrate and refresh and to expand into the depth that mythic image and story offer.
We will work with the fairytale “The Woman Who Spoke Jewels”, variants of which popped up, mushroom-like, in many places around the world. The story takes us down many paths, asking (amongst other things) -
What does it mean for us, when we hold our tongue?
How do we stand up to be heard?
What’s the process whereby we grow from speaking flowers to speaking jewels?
And what about dealing with the toads slurping out of our mouths?
We will explore ways to playfully approach and embody (this) story, as well as vocal exercises - bringing the story into our body, breath, voice and imagination. Becoming storycarriers.
We will also look at how we hold space for such stories, not just in us but for others. How we can become good story stewards: companions and accomplices to metaphor and playfulness.
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
THE ARTIST AND STORY
with Cat Gerrard, Lionel Ménard and Adi Weinberg
The Artist and Story online workshops offer a practice-based lab space in which creators and practitioners can dig into a creative project they are working on - or would like to begin working on - in a mentored environment.
Part One: Deepening our Relationship with Story & Exploring Autonomy in the Creative Process
(5-weeks, approx 35 hours contact time)
opens different themes of embodied research, looking at where the story meets you as an individual and how you can embody multiple roles in your research.
Part Two: The Spaces In Between
(5-weeks, approx 40 hours contact time)
deepens the research of Part One, bringing the questions: where does your story meet the audience?
and how can we be a midwife to our creation and others'?
Each course combines movement research, guided sessions, group discussions, dedicated individual research time (with individual tasks and two opportunities to digitally submit your work) and one-to-one mentoring sessions. The course will culminate in a closed sharing.
REVEALING THE JEWELS
with Adi Weinberg & Cat Gerrard
Revealing the Jewels is a guided exploration of our connection to our body - to our movement, breath, voice and to story. Each course works with a different story - a myth or fairy tale. Through weekly sessions - of movement research, other practical invitations and discussion - we allow the story's themes to come into contact with the body.
Don't Go Back to Sleep: Trailing the story of Taliesin
(5 weeks of 3 hours/week & 2 optional cycles of 4 weeks each)
An invitation to wake up into the fullness of our senses.
We explore our connection to: our senses and sensuality; our wildness and ability to shape-shift into whatever shape we need; our ways to keep turning up for what we really want; and how we let all of these discoveries sink into the body and be available for us in our day-to-day lives.
Homecoming: Calling towards The Lindwurm
(4 weeks of 3 hours/week & 2 optional cycles of 5 weeks each)
A journey towards those parts of us that have been exiled, towards calling them and ourselves fully home. We spend time with The Maiden; The Wise Woman of the Woods; The Queen; The Dragon; The Storyteller
Each course has a cyclical format, with three distinct cycles. Cycle 1 consists of a weekly online practical session following a theme. Cycles 2 and 3 consist of online discussion sessions, allowing us to revisit these themes from Cycle 1, deepening our connection with them through discussion in community.
