Freelancer Skills Workshop: The Creative Facilitator’s Playbook – Sheffield

A hands-on workshop for creative freelancers looking to build facilitation skills

The Freelancer Skills Workshop: The Creative Facilitator’s Playbook is an energising, practical session designed for creatives who want to confidently design and lead engaging workshops, collaborative projects, and group-based creative experiences.

Delivered in partnership with Fair Collective and Culture Sheffield, this workshop takes place at Gut Level in Sheffield city centre.

What you’ll learn

Through creative warm-ups, visual storytelling, and collaborative exercises, participants will explore how facilitation skills can strengthen existing creative practice and open up new income streams. The session is suitable whether you’re already running workshops or simply curious about adding facilitation to your freelance offering.

Topics explored include:

• Essential facilitation skills every creative should know

• Designing engaging creative activities and exercises

• Reading the room and managing group dynamics and energy

• Tools for visual facilitation and collaborative creativity

• Adapting facilitation for different audiences and contexts

• Building confidence as a creative leader

• Pricing and positioning facilitation services

• Creating psychological safety for creative risk-taking

• Handling challenging moments and keeping groups on track

• Using your own creative practice to enhance facilitation

Alongside practical learning, the workshop creates space to connect with other creative freelancers and small business owners, share experiences, and grow your professional network.

Workshop leader

The session will be led by Valerie Monti Holland, a sociodramatist and applied theatre practitioner. Her work in prisons sparked a deep interest in how organisations, groups, and teams function, and how hope, power, and empathy can help create environments where people feel safe enough to play, explore, and create together.

Important information

Participation requires Gut Level membership. Membership is open to everyone and starts from £2 per year.

💷 Price: Free

🌐 More information: https://gutlevel.co.uk/whatson/fair-collective-freelancer-skills-workshop-the-creative-facilitators-playbook