Creative Wellbeing Workshops
Slow, process-led textile workshops for busy adults who want to slow down, reconnect and explore creativity gently.
Foundation Workshop
Hands. Thread. A Simple Circle
Begin with a workshop designed to help you slow down through material and rhythm.
In this recorded session, you'll work with simple materials, white fabric, black thread, an embroidery hoop and two foundational stitches.
There's no instruction to create a final piece, no pressure, just the invitation to begin and notice.
This foundation workshop helps you:
- settle into rhythm and pace
- connect with touch, line and space
- arrive in your body before introducing ideas
- experience presence through making
Some people choose to keep or share what they make; others find value in the making itself. Both are welcome here.
This workshop forms the base of all further work and can be revisited whenever you need.
Explore the Lenses
After you've completed the foundation workshop, you might choose to explore workshops guided by different ways of noticing.
Each lens offers a unique way to move from experience into reflection, if and when you're ready.
Connection
Explore how you come into contact with yourself, with materials and with the world. This workshop invites you to notice rhythm, edges, closeness and distance through stitch.
Identity
Explore what feels like you; your marks, your rhythms, your way of making. Here, the focus is on noticing personal expression that arises through thread and touch. Identity Your Way of Making Overview This short course invites you to explore your own visual language through stitch, limited colour and photographic imagery. Building on the earlier black-and-white foundation workshop, Identity introduces carefully chosen colour and personal imagery, while keeping materials and techniques intentionally simple. The focus remains on process rather than perfection, noticing gesture, rhythm and pattern whilst gently helping you to recognise what feels like YOU whilst you are creating! This course draws on: Simple stitch (running stitch and back stitch) Black and white imagery limited colour choices Repetition and placement You are encouraged to work slowly, allowing personal marks and preferences to emerge naturally. Materials Needed: White cotton fabric (or recycled sheeting) Black embroidery thread 3-4 additional embriodery thread colours (your choice, limited palette) Embroidery hoop Printed black and white photographs (personal or provided) Needle, scissors Optional: tracing paper fabric pencil light box or window for tracing Session Structure (can be delivered live or recorded) Session 1 – Returning to the Body and the Page Begin with slow stitch in black thread on white fabric Revisit rhythm, pressure and gesture Notice repeated movements Introduce the idea of personal marks Reflection prompts: Where do your stitches naturally go? What movements feel familiar? Session 2 – Introducing Image Add black and white photographs Explore placement within the hoop Stitch into, around or through images Notice how fabric and image interact Focus: composition edge relationship between photo and stitch Reflection: What draws your attention? Where do you linger? Session 3 – Limited Colour Participants choose one or two colours only. Colour is introduced gently, as emphasis rather than decoration. Exploration includes: highlighting specific areas following existing stitch paths responding intuitively to image or fabric Key idea: Colour is used sparingly, to express identity rather than overwhelm it. Session 4 – Pattern, Gesture and Personal Language Repeat a stitch movement or motif Build small areas of pattern Explore scale and spacing Participants begin to recognise: recurring gestures preferred rhythms emerging visual language This is where many people experience: “This feels like me.” Session 5 – Reflection and Optional Finishing Gentle review of the process Optional hoop finishing or framing Discussion of keeping, displaying, photographing or letting go Participants are reminded: The work may feel like artwork. It may feel like process. Both are valid. Course Intention This is not about producing polished outcomes. It’s about: recognising personal gesture developing confidence in making exploring identity through material allowing meaning to emerge slowly Participants leave with: a stitched textile piece greater awareness of their creative preferences a sense of their own visual language permission to trust their process Optional website summary (short) Identity: Your Way of Making is a short creative textile course exploring personal marks, gesture and pattern through stitch, black-and-white imagery and limited colour. Participants are guided gently toward recognising their own visual language, using simple materials and slow making.
Change
Explore how processes move, shift or transform. This may include layering, reshaping or letting go, responding to change through material engagement.
You can complete these in any order. Each offers a different way of noticing through making.
Practitioner Sessions
Professionals working in education, counselling or wellbeing are welcome to enquire about practitioner-focused sessions. These offer space for personal creative practice and optional discussion on adapting process-led textile approaches within professional settings.
Enquire About Practitioner SessionsKeeping, Sharing or Letting Go
Some participants enjoy keeping their stitched pieces. Others photograph them or let them go once they're finished. There's no right choice, it's personal to you.
If your piece feels like art to you, that matters. If the experience alone was enough, that's fine.
Available Workshops
Browse our current workshop offerings below.
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Foundation Workshop
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