Services
Bobbi Kidder empowers others to envision their preferred futures. She works around the world helping individuals, educators, businesses, and communities claim themselves.
Workshops
These are where we play our way to healing. Examples:
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Re-storying the Personal Narrative - Teasing out the exceptional and the strength within a pain-saturated story. Through re-engaging the imagination and sparking resilience, we point to a new direction.
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Addressing Conflict - Whether managing, resolving, or transforming conflict, there is potential for forgiveness, curiosity, and a commitment to change. Periodically we offer a workshop on "sociodrama" to foster empathy and understanding of different perspectives.
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Points of Light - 1-2 day workshop featuring the basics of Drama and Creative Arts Therapy for therapists and educators.
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Improv SPA Day utilizes the strengths of improvisation and focuses on spontaneity, playfulness, and attunement throughout different activities. Includes curriculum creation and adaptation for early childhood, K-12, young adults, elders, and intergenerational groups.
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Story Theatre gets people moving in whatever way they are able and utilizes familiar and/or original narratives. We use embodiment, essentially "putting stories on their feet,” through improvisation and creative writing. Stories such as “Stone Soup” or fairy tales retold and illuminated in a new way are cornerstones of this beloved form. Participants also write their own monologue around themes such as fear and generosity, great grist for this story mill. See more in the Briskworks blog post.
Consultancies
These can be short term or long term, and are offered at your preferred site, targeting your specific needs. Bobbi consults with teachers, individuals, and communities around the world. She has worked at senior centers to help residents navigate solitude. Bobbi has also worked with a convalescent/retirement home to elicit moments of illumination in an intergenerational project that included kindergarten children.
Retreats
These are intensive and purposeful multi-day explorations where a community forms in a powerful way. For example, Bobbi co-created Living Waters, a restorative pre-holiday retreat that took participants to Mount Angel in Oregon. The retreat featured time to write, be silent, and do gentle movement and conversation with a group. The participants also broke out into smaller story circles to explore more deeply. Retreats help de-escalate anxiety and leave people restored and reinvigorated.
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion.
~Howard Zinn, Author & Activist
Performances
A creative adventure! Bobbi's signature model is called “Briskworks.” In it, we focus on the creative process of putting on a performance in a concentrated timeframe. In about 5-6 days, a community assembles, utilizes, and hones their skills around staging and performing a story based on a central theme. This is done with businesses and communities.
Customized Healing
Bobbi gladly customizes programs for your specific needs. Some examples:
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Guest workshops at businesses creating crucial mission statements
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Inside Out. This took place at a correctional facility; participants sought to rejuvenate their community by connecting over play and performance.
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Wisdoms and Reflections. This featured us interviewing retirement community members to create portraits that were displayed in a life-affirming gallery, complete with an opening reception.
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Decades. Through storytelling and scenes, this addressed differences in perceptions and goals of different age groups.
Whether you’re aiming for personal, professional, or community affirmation and transformation, your goals will be met and reinforced with follow-up sessions.