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Welcome & Terms of Service

Our practices involve looking at and being intimate with the structures of one’s personal reality, including how we make sense of experience, individually and collectively. Carrying over assumptions from other practices can lead to misunderstandings. Read over the following statements to determine whether or not our practice will be a good fit for you.

Self-Responsibility
We see you as a free agent capable of honest self-assessment and responsible choice. This is an invitation to take responsibility for yourself and your experience, including a willingness to set and maintain appropriate boundaries. By attending our events you take responsibility for your own safety and comfort, choosing to leave the practice or participate in any given moment. 

Not Psychotherapy
We do not follow a therapeutic model of diagnosis and treatment. Our method is educational. Our emphasis is relating. Our facilitators and coaches are guides. Our practices are practices of connection and meditation whose aim is to reveal more presence. We do not prescribe choices or actions. We are not psychotherapists; we do not see you as being in a therapeutic relationship with our facilitators. Participants are welcome to speak and explore developmental intentions such as “getting somewhere,” growing, and evolving, but we do not presume these are the drivers of experience. We work in the present moment, assuming wholeness moving to greater wholeness. 

The Expectations of Leadership
Our facilitators act in service of better relating through bringing more presence to what’s happening in the here and now. This may not follow typical expectations of a “group leader,” such as telling people the “right way” to act or making sure everyone gets along. We include the internal experiences of the leaders as part of the process. We invite you to listen to your own inner direction for leadership, and consider others’ responses as feedback to you in the context of the moment.

Is this Right for You?
Our workshops can be intense. We explore the unknown, the volatile, the ambiguous, as well as welcome emotions many deem as “negative” or “inappropriate” such as feelings of inadequacy, anger, sexuality, and joy. We often explore multiple sides of seeming opposites at once, and believe this can reveal an underlying unity of the immediacy of experience. We see bringing awareness to intense feelings as distinct from acting upon these feelings—we may ask you to pause or leave if we determine certain expressions risk leaving the practice of relational presence.

If the above description of our workshops sounds potentially overwhelming or destabilizing for you, if you have mental illness or significant emotional challenges that you feel may be exacerbated by this type of transformational environment, or if you are not sure that you can be self-directed in taking care of your needs during the event, then we advise you not to enroll. Finally, you must be at least 18 years old to attend.

By participating you acknowledge that you have read and agree to abide by these Terms of Service.



London Creative Presence Weekend - May 2025

On 10-11 May, you are warmly invited to join us for a weekend of Creative Presence. 

We will be weaving together relational mindfulness (Relatefulness) activities with creative practices such as poetry, storytelling, and theatrical improvisation.

We will be listening for the streams of creativity that want to express through us, individually and collectively. We will play and imagine, breathe and notice, experiment and reflect.

This will be a space of nourishment and inspiration. We hope that you will end the weekend with new tools and ideas to help you express your creative potential in your everyday life and in your everyday relationships. We will adventure into new possibilities for how we can create together and for how we can create from presence.

 

  • Each day will run from 1030-1730, with breaks
  • The event is non-residential
  • The group size is capped at 10. 
  • The event will take place at The Bonnington Centre (SW8 1TD, near Vauxhall Tube Station).

 

The event is open to all, regardless of your prior experience with either Relational mindfulness (Relatefulness) or with any of the creative practices that we will be exploring. If you find it daunting to express yourself creatively, you are not alone, and you are especially encouraged to attend. When we write poems, you are welcome to write and share poems in a language other than English.

 

What people are saying about previous events weaving Relatefulness and creative practice: 

  • “The sessions were a cauldron of inspiration, surrender and trust. The other participants were wondrous and every session brought more love and magic out of us. I'm infatuated and I want more!” - Elsa May

  • "I enjoyed the group immensely. It felt like a luxury and a blessing to have two hours of time devoted to creative exploration each week. Will brings a lot of playfulness and heart which creates an inclusive and powerful container.” - Alex

  • “I love being in the spaces that Will creates and inhabits, where it feels like anything is possible. I have a deep and growing trust in Will’s loving intention as a human and a facilitator. I remember coming out of Will’s sessions feeling amazing, alive and transformed!”  - Christine  

 

Activities during the weekend are likely to include: 

  • Pair and group exercises for bringing awareness, acceptance and creativity into your connections with other people (including Relateful Focus and Relateful Flow sessions). 
  • Time to reflect, individually and collectively, on what creativity is, and on how we relate to it
  • Opportunities to listen to, and explore your responses to, carefully chosen poems. 
  • Invitations to play with writing and speaking your own words, phrases and poems.
  • Experiments in spontaneously co-creating poems and stories together.
  • Accessible and fun activities inspired by improvisational theatre.

 

The themes explored during the weekend will be determined in large part by the passions and interests of the group that assembles. Some of the themes we are excited about include: 

  • The creativity of presence: When we let go of trying to create anything, and instead give our full attention to what is already here, what emerges.

  • Relationship as co-creation:  How can we see all relating as a co-creative practice? What can practices like improvisational theatre teach us about how to make co-creative practice go well?

  • The truth in fiction:  How can improvised stories and poems reveal new layers of what is happening, here and now, in us and between us?

  • Tending to our creativity: What are the ways we long to be creative? What are the ways we hold ourselves back? How can we help each other unfold into our creative potential?

 

About the facilitators:

Will Jefferson and Jayne Jones are colleagues and friends, and have been exploring practices of Creative Presence together since 2021. This event has emerged through years of friendship and collaboration. 

 

Will is a philosopher, a facilitator, a poet, and a lover of co-creative practices. He leads Relational Mindfulness (Relatefulness) with The Relateful Company, and offers 1:1 sessions to individuals to develop their skills in mindfulness, communication and creativity. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and wrote his dissertation on the moral significance of empathy. He regularly leads Poetry and Presence groups. He was a founding member of a theatrical improvisation group in Oxford, and co-directed an improvised play at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

 

Jayne has been a creative practitioner and educator for over 30 years. Her art practice expresses the relationship between surrender and agency in the painting process. Alongside this she has been a tutor in both Fine Art and Critical Theory. In 2018 Jayne co-founded the Feral Art School (https://www.feralartschool.org/) which she now manages. An independent cooperative, it offers visual art courses, studio provision and supports the creation of emerging artist groups fostering community, confidence and well-being. For over a decade Jayne has been engaged with relational practices and is a facilitator with the Relateful Company.