Training and Conference Services

With all our experience with so many different projects and so many different groups, you will find throughout this website references to conferences, consultancies and training opportunities that we provide.

If you are interested in finding out more as to what Wolf + Water can offer your organisation or event in these fields, please do get in touch.

Training, Consultancy & Conferences

Wolf + Water have & can:

•    Provide training courses for staff, artists, organisation & institutions on using arts approaches creatively or to explore specific issues. Our “Big Meal” training course on using drama & music with people with learning difficulties has been very successful across the UK, & been run for wider agencies such as “Children in Scotland” & others.

[quote author=”” source=””]If you eat a wonderful meal, you leave the table regretting that the meal is over – that’s what I feel like – the whole course was a delight[/quote]

[quote author=”” source=””]It was great to attend a course where for once the material was relevant to work with people with severe learning difficulties[/quote]

[quote author=”Training Course 
Participant feedback” source=””]Stimulating, thought provoking, full of ideas. I’m going home with a total new impetus[/quote]

More detailed consultancy & organisational development – we can provide training on an organisation by organisation basis, working holistically with staff & clients over an extended period of time to generate new creative approaches. For example we ran a series of consultancy workshops with Devon County Council Day Services clients in the light of the “Valuing People White Paper” that, using creative techniques such as drama & cartoons, helped people to express what they wanted from their services. This was then developed into “The Inspectors” – a piece of audience interactive Forum Theatre, that was performed to other groups of people with learning difficulties across Devon, to garner their views.

[quote author=”Head of Devon Social Services Learning Disability Services” source=””]I was tremendously impressed with the performance you gave at the Learning Disability Partnership Board. I found it funny & provocative. I have had a number of unsolicited comments from a variety of people all who have participated in one of your performances. They all wanted me to know how powerful & important the messages were that you were communicating[/quote]

[quote author=”Audience member” source=””]It was really good and I enjoyed it and it helps people with learning difficulties to have confidence[/quote]

[quote author=”
member of the learning disability partnership board” source=””]A wonderful performance – great that we can have a good laugh as well as face serious problems[/quote]

[quote author=”Audience member” source=””]Absolutely brilliant – the audience participation could be used in all sorts of places to improve communication and spread the word[/quote]


We also facilitated the South West peer education training for Mencap’s “Getting It Right from the Start” program, looking at front line GP services for people with learning difficulties.

Conference Performances – we have provided bespoke performances for conferences & events looking at learning disability issues for the British Institute of Learning Disabilities, MENCAP, Devon & Cornwall Police & Devon County Council -using members of our regular drama groups as performers & workshop facilitators.