We offer a variety of workshops to help your organisation thrive.
If you want to develop cohesion in your new team, would like support improving interview skills for young people you work with, need a session for clients or beneficiaries to build confidence and have fun, or if you wish to build theatre industry skills, we deliver a range of bespoke plans to meet your needs. Best of all, we come to you.
To discuss your interest and to book, please email:
laura@vividrootscollective.co.uk
What We Do
CPD for Teams
To support the continuing professional development of your team, we deliver workshops on team building, wellbeing, pitching, and presentation skills.
Work & Life Skills
Specialising with young people and school leavers, these workshops include interview skills, networking, presentation skills, and confidence.
Drama Skills
We can deliver to a range of levels, with workshops in performance skills like acting and devising, or other industry skills like playwriting and producing.
When you reach out to book a workshop with us, we will initially meet you to discuss what you need, and will provide a proposal of workshops to meet your desired outcomes so that you can be sure that our service will be a high-quality experience.
Pricing
£300 up to 2 hours
(over 20 participants £350)
£480 up to 6 hours
(over 20 participants £630)
We offer discounts for first-time clients, and package deals if you are booking a series of workshops.
If you are a start-up (first 3 years of trading) or a charity, we can also offer shorter bespoke sessions that will suit your budget while still delivering our high-quality experience.
The increased fee for more than 20 participants covers our costs of recruiting a workshop assistant but may be waived if you provide a team member to support.
Testimonials
“Always a hoot” – Interview Skills participant
Our clients tell us that Sophie’s leadership is always bright, friendly, and creative as she takes participants through the workshop; making her sessions memorable, joyful, and informative.
Our Strategy & CSR
The wider impact of booking workshops with us:
The Highlands, like many rural areas, has a problem with regional depopulation – this forms the bedrock of our work because we know that arts play a vital role in the regeneration of rural communities (see the 2020 Scottish Government Culture Strategy and the Forgotten Regions Report by Lindsay Dunbar).
While the Highlands is continuously developing more work opportunities across many industries, this is only part of the big picture of inspiring people to live and work in the Highlands. People will come for work but stay for culture and community.
We know that by working towards the cultural development of the Highlands, we can help to make the region somewhere people want to make their home.
This is particularly clear in our work with Highland-based artists. We know that artists in rural areas are more likely to move to other parts of the UK and the world in search of opportunities, and that artists at the beginning of their career are more likely to be working jobs in other industries as they build their professional portfolios. So, by inspiring artists to remain in the Highland as they pursue work, they are likely to contribute to the wider workforce.
In a recent report from Scottish Youth Theatre which showed: when asked what affected their pathways into the theatre industry, young people in Aberdeenshire were 10 times more likely to identify their location as a barrier than young people from Edinburgh City. As a note, of 93 respondents, 17 were from Edinburgh City, 11 from Aberdeenshire, and only 2 from the Highlands. Which implies that the Highlands may pose more barriers due to the lack of local arts provision and infrastructure – this has shown up in our own research, FUTURES, which we produced in 2023 and hope to revise in 2026.
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