We’ve spent more than a decade delivering drama workshops in primary and secondary schools. This short course shares the practical lessons we’ve learned along the way. It offers guidance on building meaningful relationships with schools, working confidently with young people, and shaping programme offers that range from one-off workshops to longer projects and sustained partnerships. 

It includes: 

• How to build out your workshop offer and structure

• Outlines for different length projects that you can replicate

• Tips and tricks for contacting and building relationships with school staff

• How to bring your own artistic approach or practice into a new context

• Space for questions, specific challenges and ideas

Led by our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy and our Associate Director Mariana Aritizábal Pardo, this hands-on course will show you how to create devised plays with teenagers about the topics, ideas and stories they care about the most.

As well as an introduction to co-creation practice and methodology, this workshop will focus on:

• Making - Exercises and tools to generate ideas and start a co-creation process.

• Shaking - How to incorporate movement and choreography to help tell a story.

• Scribbling - How writing activities can develop the process further. 

This is a practical workshop with time to apply exercises and trial learning with the group. Everyone will leave with a toolkit of practical exercises, information and feedback, created in collaboration with the cohort to support in your co-creation journey. 

This is a course for people who work with young people and want to provide space and co-create with young people in a wide range of disciplines. As practitioners it’s important we keep learning, growing and being curious. If you want a space to playfully discover or rediscover your practice when looking at co-creation, this is the course for you.

We deliver courses because we think it's important to share practice and provide spaces for artists to grow and learn.

As a charity, we rely on the income from our training courses to sustain and grow our work with young people. This course has been carefully developed through years of practice and reflection at Company Three, drawing on the expertise and experience of our skilled facilitators. Every payment made for this course directly supports our work with young people.

The full price of this course is £250, but we offer a number of subsidised options to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

£250 – Full Price

If you’re able to pay the full cost of delivering this course, or if your organisation or employer is covering the fee, please select this option.

£150 – Self funded rate

If you are freelancing or paying for your own place, please choose this option.

£75 – Subsidised rate

If the course fee would otherwise be a barrier to your participation, you can select this option. 

Practitioners working with teenagers are meeting increasingly complex needs. The Youth Theatre Census 2024 highlighted young people’s mental health as one of the sector’s biggest challenges, and many youth theatres are now offering far more pastoral support than ever before.

Wellbeing and care is central to Company Three’s practice - it’s fundamental that young people can feel appreciated, safe and have fun in all our sessions.

This short workshop shares practical tools to help adults centre wellbeing and care in creative projects, especially when working with young people who are already juggling a lot.

Join our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy to learn about Affinity Groups at Company Three: spaces for young people to come together with artists who share an identity, and to creatively explore that together.

Nuna will share Company Three’s journey and approach to this work, and some tips for setting up your own Affinity Groups and making work about identity, led and owned by the teenagers involved.