You don't come here to be taught.
You come here to explore and discover.
Different people, different rooms, one goal:
To create spaces where pre-teens and teenagers feel safe - in body and mind, to show up as themselves.
My toolbox currently holds theatre games, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, storytelling, improvisation, and role play. These are the methods. The labs are what they make possible.
The Teacher Lab
- what I do -
Most teacher training treats learning like information transfer. The Teacher Lab works differently. It is an in-school programme for teachers from pre-primary through secondary, built around the real challenges your school is facing.
Every programme is designed from an initial conversation with the school, not before it.
- how it works -
It starts with a conversation. Before anything else, I sit with the school to understand what teachers are carrying and what the classrooms need. From there, we meet twice a month for full-day sessions using applied theatre methods: theatre games, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, storytelling, improvisation, and role play. The work is experiential and embodied.
- what comes out of it -
Teachers leave with tools they can use in the classroom the next morning. They develop a shared language for what they are experiencing, build peer support structures, and first-hand understand what experiential learning actually feels like, the very approach NEP 2020 has been pushing schools toward. Burnout becomes something the school can identify and address together rather than something individual teachers carry alone.
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism." — Colleen Wilcox
The Play Lab
- what I do -
Most spaces ask teenagers to perform: the right answer, the right reaction, the right version of themselves. The Play Lab asks something different. A workshop series for ages 11 to 16 built around what adolescence actually feels like: the confusion, the shifting friendships, the emotions that don't have names yet.
- how it works -
Each workshop is designed around what the group brings into the room. Using theatre games, Playback Theatre, storytelling, improvisation, and role play, teenagers work through their real experiences without being told how to feel about them. The work is embodied and non-judgmental. Nothing is performed for an audience. Everything stays in the room.
- what comes out of it -
Teenagers leave with a larger emotional vocabulary and a quieter confidence in who they are. They build the capacity to navigate friendships, conflict, and identity not by being given answers but by rehearsing life on their own terms. For many, it is the first time they have been in a room where being exactly themselves was enough.
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am." — Sylvia Plath
The Nurture Lab
- coming soon -
There is no shortage of advice for parents. There is a shortage of spaces where parents can simply be, without performance, without judgement, without having to have it figured out. The Nurture Lab is a monthly gathering for parents, guardians, and caregivers using embodied learning, shared reflection, and community co-building to explore what it means to raise children intentionally.
If this sounds like something that might interest you, please get in touch with me and I'll gt in touch with you as soon as it's ready.
"Without community, there is no liberation... but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist." — Audre Lorde