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Workshops, Team Building days and courses
Workshops and team building events
Workshops and team building events are tailor made for your specific needs.
These can vary from 2 hour community group/school workshops based on an environmental theme or history to corporate team building events of building a live willow sculpture.
Team building days and staff fun days
Creation is a great way to build confidence and a fantastic way to bond your staff or your team in alternative ways to their day to day relationships. Rowenna has many years experience in nurturing artistic gifts and is an ideal individual to help you regenerate enthusiasm in your staff. The projects can range from the individuals having a piece to take home to creating a permanent live willow sculpture or creating a sculpture for the day and left for nature to take its course. These days can either be at your premises or at an arranged venue.
The fun days are informal creation days where individuals are shown basic skills in construction and then given a free rein to create their own work. You can choose with which materials you would like your staff to work (e.g. Art Rock, Willow, recycled materials, tissue or a combination of materials).
Team building days are more structured. It is essential that Rowenna knows what you wish to gain from these events to create a day that will be fruitful for your team.
Some of the most successful team trust building events have been very simple such as mask making, while other team problem solving events can challenge your team to building living willow sculptures that can be achieved at your teams’ premises or for the benefit of a local school or community project.
Training
There is more and more focus due to government initiatives for children and young people to become more involved with their environment, outdoor activities and also with recycling. It is often difficult for schools to find appropriate workshop leaders or training for their staff in these areas. Rowenna is a confident trainer and leader and encourages all attending any of her events to pass on their skills to others. Specially designed training can be offered for individuals from your organisation or school in any of these fields.
Workshops/Courses available
Living willow sculptures (usually Nov-March)
Hedgerow basket – learn to recognise weaving material and make your own basket
Personally made baskets – learn to weave with intention
Wild sculptures
Nature arts and crafts
Recycle arts and crafts
Grow your own food organically
Christmas decorations – various decorations using natural materials
Story stick – Level 1 – make a story stick
Level 2 – take a walk, collect materials and make a story stick
Lanterns (willow and tissue)
Wool wheel
Young warrior woman – Workshop for girls at their time of change in their teens
Head garland – perfect for May Day celebrations or natural weddings/handfastings
Natural sculpture – These can be small or large, portable or standing. These sculptures are designed to reflect the changing nature of our environment and its seasons and will change with time
ArtRock/ModRock craft
Tissue craft
Collecting seeds
Planting seeds
Compost heap awareness and building
Introduction to foraging – learn to recognise edible plants and how you can safely use them in your everyday cooking.
Feedback from workshops
“Wedi mwynhau dros ben” – “Really enjoyable” K.W.J.
“Great – thank you. Great day relaxing, learning, feeling at peace and learning creating a lovely unique basket, thank you.”
“Lovely energy, tutor very patient and supportive” A.G
“A really good introduction to basic basket making – it was amazing to see the end product after feeling in the beginning that it wasn’t going to look right!!! I have come away with a new skill which I plan to use again and again.” A.H.
“Rowenna was excellent and I loved her course” E.E
“Had a lovely day and basket making will defiantly feed into my arts/life practice from now on.” M.N.
“Really good, 6 yr old really learnt a lot quickly and soon became very confident with maps. Also I had to run a bit after him – which is a good thing – I think!” B.G.