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Shauna O'briain

London

Summary

Professional artistic workshop facilitator with 20 years experience working in STC's, PRU's, Theatres, Community centres and Schools nationally. Gifted in facilitating discussions and planning hands on activities to enhance learning and social development. Friendly and personable, organised and able to stay on top of deadlines. Published author, performer, poet, a self made woman with lived experience. I am passionate about the transformative power of the arts, creativity and play.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work history

Public Speraking trainer

Speakers Trust
London/Essex
04.2024 - Current
  • Deliver the Jack Petchy Speak out challenge to 30 year 10's
  • Oracy sills - increased confidence - structure and building original ideas

Schools and Partnership Lead, DSL

YUAF
Londonderry
08.2024 - 08.2024
  • Designed educational schools music programme
  • Safeguarding train the team
  • build partnerships with community partners

Summer Camp Leader

U Teach Mi
London, England
  • Planned out schedules to optimise use of time and resources throughout each day at camp.
  • Kept precise records of attendance and incidents during summer camps, ensuring transparency in operations.
  • Encouraged active participation from all members during group tasks, fostering camaraderie amongst attendees.
  • Ensured safety of children by implementing rigorous health and safety procedures.
  • lead a team of 5 staff with 35 - 45 children aged 5-13

Workshop Facilitator

Tender Arts & Education
London, England
10.2021 - Current
  • Deliver workshops on healthy and unhealthy relationships in a variety of schools, Pru's, Youth justice and university settings
  • Assemblies, long term in house projects at a school.
  • Facilitated discussions, Drama exercises.
  • Working on the issue of gendered violence.

EEDI facilitator

Bestseller - Ealing council
London
06.2022 - Current
  • Designed and delivered with a co facilitator 3 workshops delivered to 20 regional managers for Jack Jhones
  • Delivered to 70 of the whole sale team. experiential learning, using arts based activities and facilitated discussions
  • covering micro aggressions, intersectionality, equity vs equality, the power wheel as well as creating an inclusivity statement through a facilitated writing process.

Consultant facilitator

Battersea Arts Cantre
london
12.2022 - 06.2023
  • Mentored a Young Man from the Agency project who has invented a game that looks at life choices based on life on an estate and the potential for criminal activity. the game is life size.
  • Supported the development of the workshops to be ready for school delivery,
  • curated the lesson plans, Safe guarding protocol, a reflective practise document to evaluate each sessions effectiveness.

Creative Arts Facilitator

Young Urban Arts Foundation
London
06.2017 - 06.2023
  • Co Facilitated Skip to the Beat four times in Pupil referral units working with aged 11-14 year olds.
  • Weekly workshops for two terms. Community building through drama, creative writing, visual art and team building.
  • Worked with groups of 15 young people at a time. Creating a showcase at the end of term from work devised by the young people.
  • Created, planned and took responsibility for the evaluation process.

Mentor for Interns on the Incubator project

Lyrix Organix
London
12.2021 - 07.2022
  • Working with 6 female and non binary young people under 25 from marginalised communities
  • Designed mentoring program
  • co facilitate workshops on event production
  • detailed reports
  • work on wellbeing, goals and job opportunities

Spoken word facilitator

Eastside Education
London , Hertfordshire
01.2022 - Current
  • Designed and delivered a residency at a Primary school in Southhall working with three year 5 classes curating new work on identity that was performed at a cultural festival.
  • evaluated the project, maintained relationship with school

International Creative Arts Facilitator

Partners For Youth Empowerment
09.2021 - Current
  • Facilitate workshops for teachers, community leaders, social worker and youth workers as part of a global network.
  • Using a range of art forms as a tool for learning, spoken word, drama, story telling, singing, movement.
  • Build strong, cohesive group
  • Make learning fun and memorable
  • Engage a wide range of learning style
  • Boost inner motivation and confidence
  • Develop key life skillsBring out the quiet voices
  • Minimise resistance and disruptive behaviour

Awesome Coach

YUAF
London , London
11.2020 - 04.2021
  • Designed Awesome Coach program for the YUAF
  • Designed to support YP to work on their mindset and achieve their goals.
  • Trained two teams of staff to deliver the program, resulting in two young people signing up for college and a young person starting work after doing the program.
  • Designed the evaluation process

Drama and Spoken Word Tutor

Phoenix Theatre
Essex
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Curating and delivering a project with young people aged 8-10 who are in foster care.
  • we devised an original piece of theatre in a professional theatre space, to their social workers and parents
  • Delivered and designed spoken work workshops to 5 groups of young people aged 13 - 16 over 5 days this year online, to develop confidence, increased welling, and to connect with the community.

Young woman's associate

Abianda
London
01.2018 - 03.2022
  • 121 weekly sessions with 12 ages 13 - 25 young women facing CCE CSE.
  • Record keeping
  • Sign posting to services
  • Advocate in professionals meetings
  • Support young women to develop critical consciousness around safety
  • Safeguarding

Spoken Word Tutor

Lauderdale House
London
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • Curated 14 workshops from 7-10 years olds from the local estate.
  • The young people created work that was performed at a community event.

Spoken Word and Rap Tutor

Garsington Oprah
City Of London, LND
06.2019 - 07.2019
  • Collaborated with a director, composer and Oprah singer working in 4 secondary schools with 4 groups of 40 young people year 10
  • Devised Spoken word pieces for a remake of a classic Oprah piece which was performed at Guildhall for the Mayor of London

Rap tutor and Director

Breakin Convention
London
06.2016 - 07.2018
  • Collaborative project with a breakdancer called "moving rap" we worked with 4 schools in East London simultaneously with year 8
  • Devised a show fusing rap and spoken work, directed by myself and the dancer, performed at a showcase with another 4 schools.
  • delivered this project twice.

Writer in Residence

First Story
London
09.2012 - 09.2017
  • Writer in residence for 6 years at Acland Burghley school
  • delivered creative writing sessions to 20 year 7 and 8's.
  • Edited the books
  • Published poetry anthologies and had a book launch each year.

Rap tutor and director

Roundhouse
London
06.2017 - 07.2017
  • Curated 16 workshops with 20 students aged 18-25 working towards a final performance for the Last Word festival at the Roundhouse.

Spoken word outreach facilitator

The Roundhouse
london
02.2016 - 04.2023
  • Outreach spoken word facilitator with Queens Crescent community centre for the Light Up festival, working with the Parkour team.
  • Worked with a group of 6 excluded Young women producing spoken word pieces used in the festival.

Youth Worker

Young Hackney
London, Hackney
06.2015 - 06.2017
  • Directed activities that promoted growth in mental, emotional and educational areas in an informal setting.
  • Worked across two hubs one on the Kingsmead estate, one on the Shakespeare estate in Hackney
  • young people aged 9-19 two evenings a week.

Theatre practitioner and performer

Kompany Malaiki
Bristol
10.2011 - 04.2012
  • Acted in a show that toured in schools nationally a forum theatre production with the actors freestyle rapping.
  • Delivered drama workshops in the schools nationally to year 10's

Spoken word artists school residency

Eastside Education
Southall
05.2022 - 07.2022
  • Designed a series of workshops delivered to year 5 producing original pieces of poetry
  • creativity
  • imagination
  • performance skills
  • supporting the school with a performance festival

Skills

  • Behavioural disorders knowledge
  • Interactive classroom instruction
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Multicultural education
  • Educational leadership
  • Lesson planning expertise
  • Trans inclusion training
  • Diversity training
  • Solution Focussed Brief Therapy trained
  • Creative Arts facilitator
  • English drama and poetry knowledge
  • Complex safeguarding trained
  • Public speaking

References

Jennie Matthais

7 Arlington Road

London

NW1

Kerry O'brien

YUAF CEO

Railway Arches,

Concordia Business Enterprise,

420-421 Burdett Rd,

London E3 4AA

Timeline

Schools and Partnership Lead, DSL

YUAF
08.2024 - 08.2024

Public Speraking trainer

Speakers Trust
04.2024 - Current

Consultant facilitator

Battersea Arts Cantre
12.2022 - 06.2023

EEDI facilitator

Bestseller - Ealing council
06.2022 - Current

Spoken word artists school residency

Eastside Education
05.2022 - 07.2022

Spoken word facilitator

Eastside Education
01.2022 - Current

Mentor for Interns on the Incubator project

Lyrix Organix
12.2021 - 07.2022

Workshop Facilitator

Tender Arts & Education
10.2021 - Current

International Creative Arts Facilitator

Partners For Youth Empowerment
09.2021 - Current

Awesome Coach

YUAF
11.2020 - 04.2021

Drama and Spoken Word Tutor

Phoenix Theatre
06.2019 - 03.2021

Spoken Word Tutor

Lauderdale House
06.2019 - 08.2019

Spoken Word and Rap Tutor

Garsington Oprah
06.2019 - 07.2019

Young woman's associate

Abianda
01.2018 - 03.2022

Creative Arts Facilitator

Young Urban Arts Foundation
06.2017 - 06.2023

Rap tutor and director

Roundhouse
06.2017 - 07.2017

Rap tutor and Director

Breakin Convention
06.2016 - 07.2018

Spoken word outreach facilitator

The Roundhouse
02.2016 - 04.2023

Youth Worker

Young Hackney
06.2015 - 06.2017

Writer in Residence

First Story
09.2012 - 09.2017

Theatre practitioner and performer

Kompany Malaiki
10.2011 - 04.2012

Summer Camp Leader

U Teach Mi

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