Menstrual Creativity Workshop

Online event 17th Dec 2022 10:00am

led by Amy Draper

A 2 hour online workshop that explores how to run a menstrual cycle aware process to benefit both your participants and the work. It will demystify, provide language to use and give confidence to talk about this, incorporating:

+ Fears and taboos of bringing menstrual cycle awareness into the workplace

+ The Inner Seasons – an outline of the different monthly energies

+ How to harness these as an individual creative

+ How to run a team or a room with this and menstrual wellbeing in mind

+ Further resource list

Why?

Menstrual cycle awareness is all about people who menstruate understanding and working with, not against, the natural and consistent energies of each cycle. It’s brilliant, eye-opening and game-changing. The more I’ve engaged with this, both as someone who menstruates and someone who leads creative processes, the more it hasn’t made sense to exclude it from other wellbeing practices.

Who for?

+ Full companies of a rehearsal process

+ Permanent arts building teams

+ Freelance arts facilitators or leaders who want more awareness and confidence

Amy Draper

What is the Mayven?

“Even though the festival features women, it certainly isn’t exclusive to them “ explains Rebecca Mordan, artistic director of Scary Little Girls. “We want everyone to get involved as the artists in our Radical Rep use wit and wisdom to pay special honour to the Mayven and Cornish creativity” 

“A Mayven is, when independent of guardians and fee of dependants, a woman is at her most magnetic, sexy and powerful. How long does it last? Until the woman herself is ready to enter old age. We believe it’s time to celebrate it!”

Find out more about the Winter Mayven Festival