ARTFUL HEALING PLAYSHOPS

Feel. Imagine. Begin again.

Sensory healing experiences rooted in Africa ancestral

wisdom - for women ready to feel their way back to

themselves, and for organisations ready to give their people

something that actually lands.

ARTFUL HEALING PLAYSHOPS

Feel. Imagine. Begin again.

Sensory healing experiences rooted in Africa ancestral

wisdom - for women ready to feel their way back to

themselves, and for organisations ready to give their people

something that actually lands.

"After three sessions with Birungi I feel my creative side beginning to blossom. I'm finding new talents and confidence to share poetry and perform at open mic sessions."

Dawn — participant

In collaboration with: Makerere Institute of Social Research · Science Gallery London ·

Black Women's Kindness Initiative

How We Serve You

There are two ways into this work

For Individuals

Creative healing for your whole self

If you've been carrying something that therapy alone hasn't reached - grief, disconnection, the slow quiet of creative numbness - this is a different kind of practice. We work with the body, the hands, and African materials that hold memory. You make something. And in making it, something in you shifts.

For Organisations

We co-create with you

If you commission wellbeing provision and quietly wonder whether it lands, this is a programme built to work differently. Not a team day or wellness workshop people forget in a day. A carefully designed creative experience that gives your people permission to be present - and something to carry forward.

ORGANISATIONS WE'VE WORKED WITH

Meta

Royal Holloway

Imperial Health Charity

Science Gallery London

Royal College of Nurses

Hackney Empire

Peckham Platform

Chisenhale Gallery

ADHB Babes

Afri-Co-Lab

Pembroke House

Rosetta Arts

Makerere Institute of Social Research

Black Women's Kindness Initiative

Signature Experiences

Programmes to come home to yourself

Programme

Past, Present & Future Selves

An eight-part journey through self-portraiture and writing. Explore who you were, who you are, and who you're becoming — with an artist and a therapist by your side.

Programme

Mindfulness Through the Senses

A six-part sensory experience through African materials and traditions. Reconnect with your body, creativity, and joy through touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound.

Membership

Artful Healing Membership

A monthly rhythm of ritual, writing, art, and reflection. Weekly sessions with therapist conversations, embodied movement, and a circle that holds you.

VOICES

What people experience

"It actually changed my life... you see how much your life has been enriched and blessed by these experiences."

Jenice — Past & Future Selves participant

"Thank you for delivering such a warm, inviting and authentic session. The women really enjoyed and were impacted by your sessions."

Cherell Hutchinson — Black Women's Kindness Initiative

"What you create in your workshops is nothing short of magic!"

Nicolla Walker — Dark Matter Marketing

"Her work is beautiful and playful, tapping into memories of celebratory fabrics and diaspora making home. She is a treasure."

Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf — Peckham Platform

MATERIALS AS MEDICINE

Rooted in Ugandan material culture

Every session begins with touch. Bark cloth — the ancient Ugandan textile beaten from fig tree bark, carrying centuries of ceremony and care. Banana fibre, stripped and dried into golden threads. Raffia, stitched and woven in acts of slow repair. These materials are not decoration — they are healing technology. Cultural memory held in fibre and thread. When you stitch, you mend. When you mend, something in you mends too.

Bark Cloth

Ancient Ugandan heritage textile

Banana Fiber

Golden threads of repair

Raffia Stitching

Ancient Ugandan heritage textile

African Textiles

Vibrant print fabrics

You deserve more than resilience. You deserve joy

Whether you're seeking your own creative healing journey or bringing

artful transformation to your organisation — let's begin.

Birungi Kawooya

Wellbeing and liberation artist-researcher, facilitator and cultural custodian. Translating healing, ancestry, and imagination into creative rituals.

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