Playing at the Edge: Dancing with the Inner Critic (Nov 2026)

A two day experiential face to face workshop led by Steve Chapman and Simon Cavicchia that uses a variety of creative experiments to help us get to know and better understand our inner critic and the effect it has on realising our full creative potential.

Participants will be invited to take part in a variety of gestalt psychology techniques, exercises in spontaneity and creativity, art, masks and movement work, mindfulness practices and a variety of other methods to get to know and better understand their inhibiting voice and other ways in which they inhibit their spontaneity

Playing at the Edge: Dancing with the Inner Critic
26th & 27th November 2026
£495 + VAT
The Umbrella Rooms
239-241, Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8EH

Timings for day 1 (26th November):  10:30-1800
Timings for day 2 (27th November):  10:00-17:30 

This workshop is limited to a total of 12 attendees.

To find out more about some of the philosophies and practices behind this workshop you might want to watch Steve's TEDx talk on learning to dance with the Inner Critic here.

SELF-CARE
This work can be extremely rewarding, liberating and challenging. It requires a degree of resilience and capacity for self support in the face of inner criticism which can be painful to see and experience. We expect participants to be able to support themselves in the face of these challenges and would like to invite you to consider your levels of support before signing up for the programme. If you would like to speak to Steve our Simon before signing up then please contact us.

VENUE ACCESIBILITY
Whilst the venue is located on the ground floor there are three big steps up to the door which unfortunately means that the room is not wheelchair accessible. If you have specific access requirements and would like to attend a future workshop then please get in contact and we can work something out for a future session.

BURSARY/LOW INCOME OPTIONS
It is important to us that these workshops are both value for money but also accessible to all so we hope this is a price that does that. However if you would like to attend but do not have the financial means to afford this price then we have three discounted bursary tickets available. Please e-mail sc@canscorpionssmoke.com if you would like to explore this option.

About the workshop facilitators

Simon Cavicchia: Simon is a coach, executive coach, organisational consultant, supervisor and a gestalt psychotherapist. He has consulted at all levels in organisations working with individuals and groups. He was Programme Director of the MSc in Coaching Psychology at the Metanoia Institute until 2017 and is now on the faculty of the Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching. He is particularly interested in integrating relational and psychodynamic perspectives on organisational life and consulting, and is committed to continually researching how these perspectives can be used to inform effective practice in organisational settings. He supervises consultants and coaches, and has a psychotherapy practice in London.

Steve Chapman is an artist, writer, speaker coach and consultant interested in creativity and the human condition. He specialises in crashing together ideas from socio-complexity, gestalt psychology and various therapeutic creative practices to help individuals and organisations navigate their way through change in a way that is more responsive, lively and innovative. He holds an MSc with distinction in organisational change and is visiting faculty on the Ashridge Business School and Metanoia Organisational Development and Coaching MSc programmes as well as teaching creative facilitation at Schumacher College. Steve has trained in gestalt psychology, mask work, improvisation and completed a foundation programme in Art Therapy. (www.canscorpionssmoke.com)

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It is important to us that these workshops are both value for money but also accessible to all so we hope this is a price that does that. However if you would like to attend but do not have the financial means to afford this price then some bursaries are available. Please e-mail sc@canscorpionssmoke.com to find out more.

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CANCELLATION POLICY

As numbers are limited on this programme we have in place a cancellation policy. Full refunds will be given for cancellations made 4 weeks before the event . 50% refunds will be given for cancellations made between 1-4 weeks before the event. No refunds can be given for cancellations shorter than this.  The option to pass on your ticket to somebody else or carry forward your ticket to a future event will be given to any cancellations.

If a cancellation is enforced for any reason we will refund all tickets irrelevant of the timescale or offer ticket holders the opportunity to transfer to another programme.