FACILITATION
I facilitate creative writing, storytelling and drama workshops for schools, universities, creatives and communities that center on storytelling, creative expression, and embodied practice, offering spaces for both reflection and collective creation. Designed to spark imagination and confidence, these workshops invite participants to explore storytelling, poetry, and performance in an interactive and playful way.
Each workshop is flexible and adaptable, with offerings available for commissions, partnerships, or one-off sessions.
FEATURES
Workshop Offerings
Call and Response: Practicing the Respons(ability) of Embodied Dialogue
This workshop is an invitation to explore call and response as a method for being in co-creative conversation with the body and the space it occupies. What if language begins in the body, long before words arrive?
Through concepts inspired by Zulu and Xhosa forms of storytelling from South Africa, the body as a place of knowing and generative space is explored to find words for that which is already felt. Participants are invited to explore the body’s agency and aliveness as it accompanies us in witnessing the world. This practice of listening is traced on the page or stage through memory, movement, voice, and text.
Threading Tongues: Call and Response with Poetry and Beadwork
This participatory poetry workshop draws on South African storytelling traditions of Call & Response, introducing kwasukasukela and its answering phrase chosi in Zulu storytelling tradition, where language is collective and embodied. From there, the focus shifts to ukuzimamela - listening to the body as an archive of memory and language.
Participants are also invited to explore the resonances of home and heritage through personal and everyday objects and imagine what languages they carry, what histories they hold and what they want to keep alive. We explore beadwork as a material language and poetic archive, reflecting on how colour and patterns tell stories.
Storytelling and poetry workshops for young people
• Storytelling & Play: Using folktales, song, games, improvisation, and movement to build confidence in creative expression
• Poetry & Spoken Word: Exploring rhythm, language, and personal voice through writing and performance
• Collaborative Creativity: Encouraging young people to co-create, listen, and respond to one another’s ideas