EMPOWERED CONNECTION - Creative and Grounding Connection Workshop

EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Creative and Grounding Connection through Play and Consent

A workshop programme exploring connection and self-expression through

multilayered creativity, consent-based practices, and holistic disciplines. Open to

both artists and the wider public.

Participants are invited to engage with themselves and others in consensual,

playful, and grounding ways, using tools that foster clarity, creativity,

communication, and deeper awareness. For artistic communities, the workshops

also provide fertile ground for collaboration, inspiration, authentic expression, and

embodied research.

Each session interweaves movement, breathwork, energy practices, consent

exercises, embodied storytelling, music, writing, dialogue, and interactive physical

activities. The duration of the workshop is three and a half hours, including a break.

Why join?

Because meaningful connection begins with consent, and creativity flourishes

when we dare to play together.

What you’ll take home:

• Practical tools for clear and empowered communication

• A deeper understanding of personal and shared boundaries

• Confidence in navigating relationships with respect, playfulness, and ease

• Embodied exercises to spark creativity and collaboration

• Inspiration for new ways of connecting and co-creating with others

• A sense of freedom and joy in self-expression

• Practices that nurture resilience, balance, and deeper awareness

Who it is for:

Artists, performers, writers, and movement practitioners who want to strengthen

individual and group processes and develop new pathways for authentic

expression and collaboration.

It’s also open to anyone who feels scattered or overstimulated and wishes to

cultivate creative grounding, balance, and presence in their relationships and

daily lives.

🕰 Time: 18:30 – 22:00 (including break)

📅 Date: 23 November 2025

🎟 Tickets: £16 / £13 concessions

🌿 Includes a 15% discount on a 1-to-1 holistic treatment with Lidia Ravviso and an

Amygdala tea blend.

Facilitated by: Lidia Ravviso — intimacy coordinator, sound healer, Reiki

practitioner, and founder of Amygdala, integrating art, embodiment, and holistic

practice.

About the Facilitator — Lidia Ravviso

Lidia Ravviso is a film industry professional and accredited intimacy coordinator

(Safe Sets Ltd, P.I.P.), with over a decade of experience creating safe, supportive

spaces for exploring intimacy through artistic and holistic practices. She is also a

certified sound healer and Reiki practitioner, with extensive knowledge of

interdisciplinary grounding methods.

Lidia is the founder of Amygdala, a holistic programme that combines artistic and

body-based practices with herbalism and energy work. Her work as a film

producer, often centring female and queer perspectives on sexuality, has been

showcased at international festivals, featured in magazines, and cited in

academic publications.

As Artistic Director of Uncensored, an interdisciplinary art festival, she curated

screenings, talks, and workshops on intimacy, pleasure, and safe practices.