Where creativity meets connection
Arts Based Inclusion
The arts have a unique power to spark conversation, challenge assumptions, and open hearts. When combined with inclusion, creativity becomes a tool for connection - helping people share experiences, explore identity, and see the world from different perspectives.
Workshops, watch parties, and interactive sessions give participants a safe space to reflect, express, and engage, making difficult topics like menopause, diversity, or workplace culture accessible, human, and inspiring. By engaging through art, we move beyond discussion into shared experience, creating lasting understanding and empathy.
The Pause Workshops
The Pause, a darkly funny short film by Sam Grierson, explores menopause with honesty, humour, and heart. The workshops bring the story to life through film screenings, discussion, and interactive sessions.
Participants can join Q&As with Sam, or choose from themed sessions led by expert facilitators including Liz Crutchley, Vikki Hobson, Sarah Wright, Katie Deacon, and Kate Evans. Workshops cover menopause, wellbeing, career, workplace support, coaching, hypnotherapy and sound. Tailored for corporate or community settings, each 3.5-hour workshop creates a safe, engaging space to share experiences, reflect, and feel seen, supported, and empowered.
The Programme Workshops
The Programme is the first short film from award-winning writer and director Sam Grierson, featuring a neurodivergent, non-binary character over 40 navigating a dystopian Birmingham. The story explores identity, loneliness, and the impact of Artificial Emotional Intelligence.
Workshops begin with a screening and Q&A with Sam, who brings lived experience as autistic, ADHD, and queer. Facilitated by DEIB consultant Liz Crutchley, sessions explore themes from the film - neurodiversity, identity, grief, and loneliness. Tailored for corporate or community settings, workshops run for 3.5 hours, online or in person.
Let's Get Creative
Let’s Get Creative brings people together through inclusive, arts-based experiences that inspire connection, self-expression, and belonging. Using painting, music, songwriting, acting, poetry and storytelling, participants explore identity, diversity, and shared experience in a safe, welcoming space.
Facilitated by experienced practitioners, sessions encourage experimentation, collaboration, and reflection, helping participants uncover new perspectives and creative strengths. Designed for corporate, community, and educational settings, workshops are adaptable for all abilities and backgrounds. Whether it’s writing, performing, or visual expression, Let’s Get Creative offers a space to engage, express, and celebrate difference through the transformative power of the arts.
Contact Liz to find out how we can bring creativity to improve your life or workplace liz@orange-orchid.co.uk