FACILITATION & COMMUNITY BUILDING
Georgina facilitates in a huge range of settings; from intimate workshops to Pupil Referral Units to online, with 100 professionals or members of the public.
She has facilitated in communities, with senior management, schools, universities, climate change, regeneration, in artist contexts & within some of the UK’s leading arts & charity organisations.
OFFER
Drawing on a wealth of tools and training Georgina delivers creative, interactive, well-paced programmes. Specialisms include;
Designing engagement, co-creation and person-centred consultation processes.
Leading skills-based workshops in interactive & place based work, participation, working with communities, festival design, etc.
Exploring project design and co-creation.
Creating new communities of practice (more below), leadership schemes and artist development schemes.
Engaging young people (14 - 30yrs old) within educational, local & non formal settings, especially those at risk.
Thematic content across grief, Identity, conflict, non-hierarchical approaches to politics & resilience in ‘passion sectors’.
Away days, board meetings, emergency meetings & using creativity at work.
Hosting conversations & chairing live panels, convening multi partner meetings, advisory or stakeholder groups.
TESTIMONIALS
“I want to thank you for all your hard work. I was grateful for your attention to detail, perseverance and your care of the participants. It was great to have such an experienced collaborator on this project and to know that the workshops were, with you, in utterly safe hands”
“I found Georgina’s workshop on Building Resilience incredibly useful. The workshop itself felt like such a safe space to discuss the issues that I and others have with our work, and I left with tips and tools which I have already started applying to my work”
““It has been an incredible pleasure to work with Georgina, she is an incredible professional and human being. Her work facilitating groups specially for young people is so productive, thoughtful and brilliant, she has an easy, gentle and fun pace in promoting a community building with people that could feel it all the time, promoting this space virtually is not easy and making everyone feel included specially for big groups of people, but Georgina makes it feel so easy in creating an organised, enjoyable and generous atmosphere, with much attentive eye to social and inclusive practices”.”
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY BUILDING
Georgina has designed communities of practice for cohorts large & small, for The Southbank Centre, The British Council, Roundhouse and Children’s Society in person and online. She creates highly personal, thoughtful, creative and connected spaces regardless of group size, or outcomes. She used a mixed toolkit of personal development, thought leadership and coaching to co-design authentic and personal learning journeys for professionals, artists & students.
During Lockdown 2020, Georgina established Un-Coaching, a small group creative workshop to support participatory artists who were not receiving support from any programmes or buildings to stabilise their workflow during the Pandemic.
CASE STUDY: BRITISH COUNCIL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME (2022)
Ahead of the Venice Biennale, Georgina designed a 6-week training programme for 60 participants 18-25yr olds. The brief was to create a connected community, chair high profile speakers & Q&A’s and lead skills sessions on project design, co-creation and communication. Georgina co-curated the speaker line up with the British Council and independently curated a diverse, stellar line-up of 8 mentors for one, large scale mentoring session.
FACILITATION BIO
Georgina trained as a facilitator through arts organisations such as Ovalhouse & Paddington Arts, before training in Forum Theatre with Cardboard Citizens over two years. she advanced The Children Society, training in personal development, safeguarding and interactive session design. These skills were put into practice as the Community lead at the Roundhouse, leading large cohorts of emerging artist personal development programmes and through freelance work. She was a trained Faith & Belief facilitator for 10yrs, regularly delivering content on communication & intercultural dialogue and recently retrained with Solutions Not Sides.
She has developed facilitation programmes for The Royal Opera House and co-created a wellness review with staff at one of London’s leading dance organisations. In 2019, she trained in non-hierarchical decision making processes with Extinction Rebellion and was an ‘on the ground’ street facilitator for two protests. She regularly facilitates public engagement processes in planning & regen, learning & delivering stakeholder meetings with Engage FC & the GLA.
Georgina has facilitated for:
Tonic Theatre, The British Council, Goldsmith University, Camden People’s Theatre, Faith & Belief Forum, XR Camden, The Royal Opera House, Engage FC, The British Science Association, The MUJU Crew, NT Studio, Solutions Not Sides, Bittersuite, Represent Theatre, The US Trust, The Big Stem, Stratford Circus, The Barbican Centre, Street Child United, The British Council (DICE), and Save the Children.