Language & Chaos
Workshops
Inviting you into a space of experimentation
Language & Chaos For Beginners: A Lab For Play & Possibility
Do you ever feel like creative writing is unfamiliar territory, and that your attempts at crafting prose are quickly cut short by self-doubt? Or that – when it comes to language and story – you can’t unstick yourself from frustrating patterns?
This session invites you into a space of experimentation through games of chance, memory excavation, and playful dives into half-remembered myths. We’ll spark the creation of new language, scenes, and storylines. It’s particularly well-suited to those from backgrounds outside of prose writing, offering intuitive, image-driven approaches to language and story. We are interested in the emergent: the ideas and worlds which appear in us regardless of our own beliefs about our writing skill. By loosening our grip on outcome and leaning into surprise, we’ll sidestep habitual thinking and discover unexpected access points into storytelling.
If you have no English literature background whatsoever, you’ll feel right at home; no prior literary training is assumed or required. Our approach is accessible and unpretentious, with an emphasis on creative exploration rather than jargon.
Game objects like dice and tarot cards will help us invite random chance and 'good chaos' into our work, encouraging surprise and spontaneity in the creative process. You'll collect a range of practical tools to carry with you: ways to jumpstart new projects, tap into unfamiliar voices, re-enter stalled scenes, and re-engage with memory.
You might walk away with the beginnings of something new: a character, a scene, an idea. But the real goal is to give you an experience of writing that feels alive and personally meaningful. This is a space to write without pressure, to get curious, and to let your creative instincts lead the way.
What to expect:
A welcoming, self-paced space where prompts and playful constraints invite you to follow your own curiosity, with no pressure to share or “get it right.”
Experiments with image, memory, and chance that nudge you into unfamiliar creative territory and let the work surprise you.
What you’ll walk away with:
A handful of approachable, repeatable techniques for sparking ideas and loosening creative knots in your own time.
Glimpses of new characters, moments, or worlds, and the confidence to keep exploring them on your own terms.
Language & Chaos For Teams: A Writing Workshop to Break Patterns & Spark Ideas
In an era where generative AI offers endless content at the push of a button, many of us have quietly lost touch with our own creative instincts. Language & Chaos For Teams is a low-stakes, high-reward creative writing workshop designed to help teams reconnect with spontaneity, imagination, and story. We’re not looking for polished outcomes, but for the sheer value of thinking differently together.
This session isn’t about perfect grammar or literary skill. It’s about building trust, curiosity, and new neural connections through play. Using tools like dice, memory prompts, visual cues, and even tarot cards, we’ll explore how randomness and intuitive thinking can sidestep creative blocks and open the door to unexpected ideas. No prior writing experience is needed – just a willingness to embrace the unknown.
Whether your team is grappling with creative fatigue, siloed thinking, or the pressure to generate original ideas in a data-saturated environment, this workshop offers a refreshing reset. Through short, surprising exercises that favour spontaneity over planning, participants will rediscover their creative capacities and leave with a sense of renewed confidence, connection, and imaginative range.
What to expect:
A quiet, welcoming entry into the session; minimal pressure, no awkward icebreakers
A series of guided writing games that invite collaboration, improvisation, and surprise
Prompts and activities designed to unlock imagination, loosen self-censorship, and ignite new ideas
No sharing required! This is about the process rather than performance
A closing reflection space to connect insights with team dynamics and creative workflows
What you’ll walk away with:
A renewed sense of creative possibility, both personally and professionally
Tangible strategies to combat creative blocks and groupthink
A toolkit of generative writing practices that can be adapted into any ideation, innovation, or storytelling process (none of which involve LLMs!)
A shared experience that deepens team cohesion in an unforced, memorable way
Language & Chaos For Executives: Creative Risk-Taking For Strategic Minds
For high-performing leaders, imagination is often the missing lever. You’ve built strategy, delivered results, and mastered the language of your field – but when it comes to creative writing, even the most visionary minds can find themselves boxed in by habit, self-editing, or a vague sense that their best ideas sit just out of reach.
This one-of-a-kind session is not about becoming a novelist. It’s about thinking in new dimensions.
Language & Chaos For Executives is a guided experience designed to jolt you out of default patterns and into sharper, stranger, more surprising ways of thinking. Through unusual creative exercises – anchored in game mechanics, visual triggers, memory work, and narrative prompts – you’ll access the parts of your mind that strategy sessions and boardrooms rarely touch. It’s equal parts reset, mirror, and high-performance warm-up.
You don’t need to be a writer. You just need to be willing to drop the script and follow the idea wherever it leads.
What to expect:
A high-trust, low-pressure creative environment tailored for leaders
Carefully designed writing sequences that bypass analysis-paralysis and invite bold lateral thinking
Prompts that unlock originality by using randomness and intuitive logic
No public sharing, performance, or feedback – this is about sharpening your own internal process
A closing synthesis to map creative breakthroughs back onto your leadership and innovation goals
What you’ll walk away with:
A fresh toolkit for creative problem-solving: portable, repeatable, and designed for decision-makers
Sharper instincts for story, tone, and timing, along with skills that elevate communication across any domain
New neural connections that support innovative thinking under pressure
A tangible reframe of how you approach stuck points, whether in writing, strategy, or ideation
An hour that delivers lasting value: mental clarity, expanded range, and unexpected inspiration