Creative Thinking & Playful Training
Bringing together a wealth of experience in creativity training, play techniques, and personal development.
I have been leading people on immersive, powerful, playful creativity workshops for 16 years and have offered hundreds of individuals and several organisations new ways to see their world.
My facilitation style is warm, engaging, professional, and relaxed, with bespoke training available to cover everything from exploring creative ways to communicate with imagination, passion, and clarity to inspiring random acts of kindness within your organisation or community.
Having been through the range of similar workshops in the Silicon Valley tech world, Tiu’s approach is better than any of them.
It was mischievous and thought-provoking.
Eric Johnston
Senior Quantum Engineer, PSIQ (Formerly at LucasFilm & NASA)
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Creative Workshops Menu
In Real Life
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The Pronoia Project — An Urban Adventure
A 2-hour workshop of random acts of kindness and covert beauty, where we learn how to interact with the city as a source of connection, playfulness, sensory delight and creative possibilities. We explore the idea of seeing our world and our challenges through the lens of “pronoia” where everything can be interpreted as a blessing in disguise, and then go out on the streets to engage in joyful acts of beautiful intervention, learning practical, playful tools to transform our world through the deliberate spreading of joy and delight. (Note: Ideal group size is up to 10)
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Magic Portal Walk — A Mythic Journey
A 2.5-hour workshop in an ancient forest (in North London), learning and practising a technique that allows us to fire up our innate imagination and reconnect with nature, as well as explore the power of storytelling, both for yourself and others. This is a simple, powerful, yet playful way of connecting deeply with ourselves and each other, as well as a practical tool for active meditation, meaning-making, and profound communication.
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Storytelling In Nature
A 3-hour workshop where we learn more about ourselves - and each other - in a playful practise that allows us to experience deep listening and imaginative expression. We learn how to tell stories from a place of passion and purpose and how to use our bodies and our voices in bringing our message to life, connecting to our audience in new and deeper ways. This can also be extended to a 1 or 2-day training.
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Appreciation Session
A 2-hour session where we get to reconnect with our teammates, share our gratitude, honour everyone's contributions and practise giving and receiving feedback. This session can also be extended into a process of reflection and celebration, looking back over where we have been and committing to wherever we want to go, both individually and collectively. (Note: group size works best when no more than 30 and can be done inside or outside.)
The experience had a dramatic effect on my senses and feeling of presence.
It renewed my sense of the mystical, found not in fairy tales but in the very mundane.
Melanie Jamieson
Joint CEO, Leader's Quest
Online or IRL
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Authentic Networking
We are all connected in ways that can empower and inspire us - and this lively, interactive session unleashes the potential of your people to connect in brand new ways.
When we learn to ask the right questions and listen with generosity, we can discover how much we have in common with our friends and colleagues, unearthing real life solutions to a variety of challenges, while having fun along the way.
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Triggering Flow States
When we access a flow state, we are utterly absorbed, focused and creatively inspired. This 90 minute workshop gives you practical tools for triggering productive flow states through a variety of techniques using psychological, environmental, social and physical triggers, exploring ways to eliminate procrastination and dissolve creative blocks. Once you know how to create the conditions for flow to happen, you can adapt the tools for all your projects and to begin to cultivate a life where you simply have more moments of being utterly present, unexpectedly inspired and connected to your innate creativity, ultimately transforming work into something that feels more like play.
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Ritual Design 101
This 2 hour workshop takes you through the Ritual Design Checklist TM to design a moment of meaning which you can immediately apply in your life and work. Human beings have created rituals to mark milestones and honour transitions since the dawn of time – from the big to the small, the once in a lifetime to the day-to-day. A ritual could be personal or professional, playful or purposeful. It might be about letting go of the old or welcoming the new. It could be about how you start your day, eat your lunch, connect with your team or tackle your tasks. And it could be about the big picture – connecting to the light on the horizon that pulls you forward in purposeful, inspired action.
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Meet Your Idea
A 2.5 hour workshop where we each bring a project or creative idea, personal or professional, to introduce the tools we all need to unpick creative blocks and bring fresh energy and clarity to any creative endeavour. The session includes a guided meditation in the session where we each get to “meet” the essence of our idea. Participants will also receive two downloadable guided meditations which can be used after the workshop any time they need to unpack a problem, reconnect with their creative vision or widen their imaginative thinking.
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Engineering Serendipity
A 1 hour workshop on the 7 Steps to Engineering Serendipity for yourself and others. When we learn to cultivate the conditions for magic to happen by itself in our lives, we start to experience more joy, more wonder, and more moments of inexplicable synchronicity in every aspect of our lives. This workshop gives you the practical tools you need to ignite your intuition, step out of your comfort zone and kickstart all sorts of coincidences, connections, and synchronicities appearing, as if by chance.
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The Disney Model For Creativity
A 2 hour workshop where we explore our inner Dreamer, Planner, and Constructive Critic, exploring these three skill sets to take an idea from the imaginative realm into reality – and troubleshoot any potential pitfalls along the way. We start by inhabiting each of these strengths and then take an idea through these three stages, literally stepping from one space to the next to follow the sequence through from ideation to delivery, identifying our natural strengths, and exploring where we can support others.
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Writing Club
A 2 hour session to get creative, think in new ways, and bring fresh energy, perspective, and imagination to your writing, including bringing a new lens to a current client as well as tools to unpack meaning-making and metaphor. We will also experience 'the cut-up' - technique David Bowie used to write all his songs. This workshop can also become a regular peer mentoring group to explore and support each other in trying out new experiments in our written work.: Writing Club
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Creative Quest Kit
A 2.5 hour workshop taking you through 8 Steps to Transforming a Challenge into a Creative Quest. When we see a problem or a project as a creative quest, it becomes a call to adventure. When we gamify a goal, we are more likely to access our courage, our curiosity, and our creativity. And we might even have fun. This workshop includes hand-drawn printable worksheets and can also be delivered via a daily drip-feed of videos with instructions for every step.
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Four Seasons
Book: A 1.5-2 hour workshop that takes place 4 times a year, taking each person through a series of reflections to look back over the moments and milestones of the previous quarter and to create inspiring steps and easily doable micro-actions for the quarter to come. This is not about goals, this is about mapping our lives with awareness and a commitment to what truly matters to us - from the individual to the team and beyond.
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Reflecting on the Year
When we get to the turning of the year, we all benefit from a pause to process what has happened in the past 12 months in a structure that allows for deeper connection to ourselves and others.
This 1-2 hour interactive workshop can be delivered on or offline and can be calibrated to the specific work culture and questions of an organisation or explore the universal aspects of leading an examined life where we learn from both our successes and our failures and learn to calibrate our compass by what truly matters to us.