Do you...

• Work with vulnerable adults or children?
• Care for a family member, or work in a care setting?
• Have a stressful job or role that requires a lot of your emotional energy?
• Have a job which requires you to lead groups, lessons or teams?

Whether you're a professional looking for some fresh ideas or a single parent looking for some stress relieving strategies. This practical and fun day will help you to learn ways of establishing healthy practices that can help you, or the people you work with feel more embodied, present and happy.

This creative, collaborative and fully immersive day will explore themes of connection, creativity, presence, playfulness and joy. We will learn how to cultivate our playful presence through experience and find new ways of overcoming our challenges and strengthening our inner resilience.

This is an invitation to unleash the playful, mischievous and silly part of ourselves; an opportunity to play, to ponder and connect with likeminded people. This isn't a therapy session, (although many of the ideas and exercises may be beneficial to our health) this is an opportunity to be inspired, to learn something new and to walk away with a fresh take on how we can break free from the negative patterns that no longer serve us.

This day will be very practical, with specific focus on playful practices including therapeutic laughter techniques, movement-based improvisations, and mindfulness-based techniques and principles. We will have a gentle focus on ‘mental immunity’; how playful presence can help to support our mental wellbeing and in turn enliven our lives.

And if you need more convincing heres some comments from my last Playful Presence day...

"What a wonderful day - leave your inhibitions at the door, if you can't do that they will be lovingly extrapolated from you. I arrived brimming with emotion and feeling weighed down. This day has helped me connect with myself (and others) and leave feeling free, content and positive. Definitely worth attending!"

"A joyful, freeing workshop that opened doors within me that I had forgotten were there. Katie holds the space with pure grace and joy" Charlotte - Councilor

"From dreading it at the start, wondering why I signed up on my day off from caring, to not wanting it to end. I would recommend it to absolutely anyone who needs a relaxing, funny, amazing day." Jacqui - Sensory Trust

Lunch is not included in the price, so please bring your own. I will be providing a selection of hot drinks, biscuits and fruit for everyone!

*Please let me know if you have trouble with travel, we can arrange a lift share*

Feel free to contact me with any questions at thebestmedicine@outlook.com