Workshops, presentations, and interactive talks
I offer a range of workshops, interactive talks and facilitated discussions. These include professional development workshops for schools, colleges, universities and community groups. I specialise in equality, diversity and inclusion, community development, creativity and the arts.
Bespoke sessions can be created to suit your organisational needs. Alternatively, choose from existing sessions, which can be adapted to suit different settings, participants and age groups.
Examples: The arts, creativity and inclusion
Understanding inclusion: What do we mean by inclusion and how can we achieve it?
Community development, arts and inclusion: Exploring theories of community development and inclusion and engaging in arts activities.
Personal and social benefits of the arts: Exploring the role of the arts for wellbeing, belonging and social connection.
The arts and social justice education: Exploring social justice and the role that the arts play in supporting positive social change.
Examples: Creativity and wellbeing
Creativity, participation and inclusion
Creativity, wellbeing and community
Therapeutic use of the arts for wellbeing
Developing creativity: An expressive arts approach
Collective creativity: For communities and groups
Inclusive creativity: Arts for connection and belonging
Examples: Anti-racist school practice
Anti-racism and uncomfortable dialogue: exploring ways forward for developing anti-racist school classrooms: This session takes a dialogic approach. Participants will join in a conversation, together exploring ways forward for developing anti-racist school classrooms.
Dealing and not dealing with racist incidents: This session draws upon a framework to explore different ways of responding to racist incidents and the potential outcomes of each. It questions what is a racist incident and discusses ways forward for building effective responses to racism in schools and community settings.
Whiteness, power and privilege: This session explores what these terms mean, and questions are they helpful or a hindrance? Using a critical race theory framework, the session examines the term racism from individual incidents, discrimination and structural racism and the relevance for practice.
Free speech controversies: This session discusses the principle of free speech and its central role in a democracy. It explores controversies arising in relation to free speech and questions what happens when the right to freedom of speech and the right to freedom from harm collide and what solutions can be found.
Dual heritage and multicultural Britain: This session explores the history of multiculturalism, interracial relationships, and growing diversity in schools. We discus implications and ways forward for schools facilitating diversity.
Heather Knight 