Circles & Shadows delivers structured, professionally facilitated workshops designed to support sustainable capacity, reflective leadership, and embodied awareness in the workplace.
They are carefully paced, psychologically safe environments where attention, energy, and perspective are explored in a practical and grounded way.
Workshops are suitable for organisations seeking thoughtful, evidence-informed approaches to wellbeing, burnout prevention, and adaptive leadership.
Why This Work Matters in Professional Settings
High-performing environments often reward urgency, endurance, and constant output.
Over time this can lead to: reduced reflective capacity, burnout and presenteeism, poor pacing, decreased creative problem-solving and emotional fatigue in leadership roles
Circles & Shadows workshops introduce structured reflective practices that help teams notice capacity, improve regulation, and make more sustainable decisions.
The work is calm, practical, and applicable.
To discuss your organisation’s needs, group size, and format options, please get in touch.
Bespoke programmes can be designed around the needs of your employees.
Examples of Corporate Workshops Include those on this page but can also combine any elements of workshops across the Circles and Shadows website.
🌊 Sustainable Capacity: A Mermaid’s Map of Workload
A structured session exploring fluctuating energy, output expectations, and sustainable pacing.
Using the metaphor of: Shallows (low capacity), Midwater (variable capacity), Deeper Water (higher capacity)
Participants map: Current workload reality, Hidden energy drains, Warning signs of overload, Practical boundary strategies
Outcomes:
Increased self-awareness around capacity
Improved language for discussing workload
Clearer pacing strategies
Reduced stigma around fluctuating performance
🌊 Perspective Under Pressure
A practical workshop using embodied and spatial metaphor to explore cognitive flexibility.
Participants experiment with somatic perspectives and physical shifts in perspective (standing, seated, movement within space) linked to:
Problem-solving under stress
Leadership viewpoint
Emotional distance and proximity
Cognitive reframing
This is subtle, grounded embodied work — no performance, no physical strain.
Format Options
Corporate workshops can be delivered as:
90-minute sessions
Half-day programmes
Full-day development days
Leadership retreats
Multi-session reflective series
All workshops are structured, clearly facilitated, and paced with accessibility in mind.
