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Brighter Works

Brighter Works

Training & Guidance for More Confident Communication

Our workshops are about giving people confident communication skills through practice and play. We focus on bravery: not as a personality trait, but as a set of actions people can practise in a safe, low-risk environment. Because confidence doesn’t need to be something you wait to feel. Confidence grows when you feel scared and act anyway.

Bravery looks different for everyone: from speaking with presence, to making and deepening useful connections, to challenging a comment, to influencing people or asking for what you want. Even highly confident people have moments they avoid.

We give people a place to practise those moments, so they leave feeling more capable, more courageous, and more confident than when they arrived.

Who are we?

Kirsty Cooke is a communications professional and marketing consultant who has spent the last fifteen years helping brands find and tell their story. She brings that same thinking to people: helping them work out what makes them worth listening to.

Michelle Fahrenheim is an actor, writer and coach who has spent the last fifteen years helping people find and use their voice. She has helped diplomats, educators, and senior creatives to speak with more clarity and impact.

Together, they combine the craft of storytelling with the tools of performance: so workshop participants don’t just uncover what they want to say, they learn to say it with confidence.

Both are trained improvisers, and regularly perform in theatres across the UK. They believe that bravery isn't something you wait to feel: it’s something you need to practise. And they believe doing hard things can be fun.