✨🔮Big Feelings Creatives provides workshops, events and coaching for creatives. Our aim is to nurture creativity and vulnerability, and foster community.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️We are curating a warm, non-judgemental, inclusive space, where queer, neurodivergent, and disabled creatives are particularly welcome.
Make connections with fellow creatives and turn your emotions into your creative superpower.
What kind of creatives is this for?
ANYONE.
You’re welcome whether you’ve never created anything, or if you’ve done it loads.
This isn’t about experience. It’s about the desire to express yourself, to create, and to connect with others.
What is this workshop about?
This workshop will focus on your experience with vulnerability & resilience in today's world, and in your creative practice.
Our agenda for the afternoon:
Informal socialising with fellow creatives, with optional ice breaker prompts, and free drinks and biscuits at our fabulous. (30mins).
Please arrive no later than 2:30pm to avoid missing the start of the discussion.
- Open discussion about your experience with vulnerability and resilience in today's world, guided by readings of book extracts and poems. What does being vulnerable mean to you? How does that play into your creative practice? What does resilience feel like for you? Do you see vulnerability and resilience as opposites? (1h)
- Creative prompt: an invitation to translate your feelings and takeaway from the conversation in whatever form you'd like: prose, drawing, poem, doodles, mind map, dialogue… (10mins)
- ZINE making, building on the discussion and creative prompt: create a mini zine, and/or a few A5 pages about your experience with vulnerability and resilience in this world. If desired, these can be included in a future Big Feelings Creatives zine shared on our social media platform. All materials provided. (1h20mins)
Ethos & Agreements
- This is space where big feelings and busy brains are not only welcome, but celebrated. Be your whole self. Ask for the accommodations you need. We've got each other.
- This is an unapologetically inclusive space where we want to cultivate acceptance. We have a zero tolerance policy for any form of discrimination or harassment, including racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, ableism or ageism.
- We’re fostering a warm, friendly, relaxed environment where everyone feels comfortable sharing and being vulnerable. Community is built out of mutual care. We want to encourage you to practice active listening, and to be gentle and supportive when discussing the experiences of others.
This is a confidential space. Anything shared by others during our events, whether personal or creative, is private, and should not be shared with anyone else without prior consent.
Future Events
In addition to creative workshops like this one, I'm also launching reccuring Creatives Body Doubling sessions, starting Tuesday 30th September from 7-10pm at the fabulous London Night Cafe. Come and work on any project you'd like, get stuff done, hang out with other creatives.
Tickets to the event will include an optional 10/15 minute chat with myself in my capacity as a creative coach and story producer if you want to get yourself hyped up or talk through a particular roadblock. Tickets to be released one month prior.
Keep up to dates with all future events on our Instagram or Whatsapp Announcement Community.
Event Organiser
Hi there, my name is Laurie and I'm the founder of Big Feelings Creatives. I love empowering creatives to tell stories and have made a career out of it. I have fifteen years of experience in TV drama & comedy development as well as story producing. Most recently I story produced the fabulous comedy drama Death Valley for BBC one.
I get things done - with curiosity, kindness, and passion.
As a neurodivergent, queer woman with c-ptsd, I feel incredibly strongly about making space for the authenticity of people's lived experiences and emotions. I also run a social called Big Feelings ENM, aimed at building community and fostering vulnerability in ENM communities.
This year, I expanded into creative coaching, and working with people with big feelings who are keen to make their project a reality and would like support in bringing their vision to life and to translate those emotions into action. I offer 1:1 coaching in addition to community events and workshops.
Our venue - The London Night Cafe
Our events are held at the fabulous London Night Cafe near Liverpool Street. It’s the BEST place to get cosy and inspired.
It’s got soft seating, comfy vibes, fairy lights, and even a mini ball pit. The venue offers free, unlimited caffeinated and decaff hot drinks (teas, coffees, dairy free milk) and complimentary biscuits (inc GF).
Venue accessibility:
- There are two floors in the venue: ground floor and basement.
- There is a low step between the street and ground floor. The toilet is on the ground floor, but not specifically accessible.
- There are steep steps leading to the basement floor.
If you have any questions, please DM me on instagram at @BigFeelingsCreatives or via email at laurie@bigfeelings.uk.
I can't wait to meet you!
- Laurie at Big Feelings Creatives