ARTFUL HEALING PLAYSHOPS
ARTFUL HEALING PLAYSHOPS
"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
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.
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
Signature Experiences
Programme
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
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
A monthly rhythm of ritual, writing, art, and reflection. Weekly sessions with therapist conversations, embodied movement, and a circle that holds you.
VOICES
"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


Wellbeing and liberation artist-researcher, facilitator and cultural custodian. Translating healing, ancestry, and imagination into creative rituals.
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"Rest is my right"