Experience Opportunity

Creative Facilitation: transforming women's lives through theatre

Clean Break’s Creative Facilitation training focuses on using theatre practices to safely bring creativity into women only groups and spaces.

Participants will gain the tools they need to deliver theatre workshops with people who have experienced trauma, or to bring creative interventions to their group work or 1-to-1 sessions with clients.

Benefits of the training session

Clean Break’s Creative Facilitation training focuses on using theatre practices to safely bring creativity into women only groups and spaces.

Participants will gain the tools they need to deliver theatre workshops with people who have experienced trauma, or to bring creative interventions to their group work or 1-to-1 sessions with clients.

Who is this training for?

This one-day training is for anyone who works with, or is interested in working with people in challenging or vulnerable circumstances, and wants to safely bring creativity into their practice. You could be a groupworker, facilitator, theatre maker, or frontline practitioner of any kind.

What the training covers

Through a mixture of interactive exercises, group work and discussion, our Creative Facilitation training provides participants with the space to build their confidence as facilitators and develop a rich toolkit to improve their practice. This session covers:

  • Clean Break’s approach: Understand the foundational principles that drive Clean Break’s work.
  • Safer Spaces: Develop your approach to holding spaces from Clean Break’s trauma-informed practice.
  • Boundary Setting: Learn effective techniques for setting and maintaining boundaries.
  • Inclusive practice: Build an anti-oppressive framework for holding women-only spaces.
  • Challenging Situations: Develop and rehearse the skills to navigate challenging situations with women in vulnerable circumstances.
  • Unlocking Potential: Explore transformative creative exercises designed to support women in reaching their full potential.

Why Clean Break

For over four decades, Clean Break has been working creatively with women with lived experience of the criminal justice system or who are at risk of entering it. The only organisation of its kind, we use tools from the world of theatre to help women build confidence, self-esteem and gain new skills.

Our work in the theatre, criminal justice and women’s sectors gives us a valuable and unique perspective on the power creativity holds to change lives, when practiced safely by trained facilitators.

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