ARTS-BASED TRAINING

• Builds Essential Interpersonal Skills

  Nurses develop key skills such as empathy, listening, assertiveness, and perspective-taking—helping them navigate complex patient interactions with confidence and compassion.

• Reduces Anxiety in Simulated Settings

  Our theatre-based approach familiarises nurses with healthcare simulations, reducing performance anxiety and enabling more realistic, committed, and effective simulation experiences.

• Addresses Critical Issues in Healthcare

  The training provides hands-on experience dealing with unconscious bias, microaggressions, and other workplace challenges, helping nurses foster an inclusive and supportive care environment.

• Strengthens Teamwork and Communication

  Nurses learn to communicate more effectively, work collaboratively, and resolve conflicts, ensuring smoother interactions with colleagues, patients, and families.

• Builds Resilience and Support Networks

  Our programme is designed to not only strengthen nurses’ personal resilience but also encourage strong support networks among peers, enabling them to handle the emotional and physical demands of nursing.

Communication and Relationship Management Skills

The NMC (2024) highlight that effective communication is essential for delivering safe, compassionate, person-centred care. Our training offers a safe space where student nurses can develop these crucial interpersonal skills. By engaging in realistic scenarios, students gain hands-on experience in a controlled environment, allowing them to confidently refine their communication and interpersonal abilities. Our supportive setting enables trainee nurses to practice skills like empathy, and conflict resolution without real-world pressures, better preparing them for the challenges of simulations and their future careers.

Our training covers a range of topics that enhance communication and relationship management skills including unconscious bias, body language, navigating conflict, empathy, dealing with stress, resilience and intuition.

Building Resilience: Preparing for the NHS

Our training uses theatre-based techniques like forum theatre, improvisation, and role-play to help student nurses reflect on and enhance their practice, building the essential interpersonal skills needed for success in challenging healthcare settings.

Being an Accountable Professional

Our training integrates immersive theatre-based techniques to highlight key elements of professional practice. By concentrating on critical skills such as self-reflection, resilience, and effective communication, we prepare future nurses to deliver compassionate, person-centered care while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and accountability in healthcare settings.

• Enhanced Self-Reflection: Our training encourages students to critically assess their own actions and decisions, encouraging accountability and continuous personal development.
• Ethical Decision-Making: Immersive scenarios challenge students to make complex decisions and navigate ethical dilemmas, reinforcing their ability to act with integrity and transparency.
• Effective Communication: Through role-play and improvisation, students develop strong communication skills, crucial for clear, honest interactions in professional practice.
• Resilience and Responsibility: Nurses will develop resilience and emotional intelligence.
• Bias Awareness and Challenge: The training helps participants identify and understand their own unconscious biases, empowering them to confront and address discriminatory behaviour and micro-aggressions in the NHS.