Circus skills Workshops

Benefits of Circus Skills Workshops

  • scientifically proven to improve co-ordination
  • fantastic health and fitness benefits
  • boosts self-confidence
  • personal progression- whatever your starting level
  • empowering people to overcome blocks and achieve progress
  • minimal injury risk
  • good for children and adults who don’t enjoy the team aspects or physical contact of traditional sports
  • can be practiced alone, whilst still being a good group activity

Workshops are suitable for

Schools- this can be in the form of one-off 'taster' sessions where groups of children are taught the proper way to learn juggling, diabolo & poi spinning.

Even better are continuing sessions, perhaps in the form of a regular after-hours club or, a short period of regular sessions aimed at enabling the school to set up it's own circus skills club.

(see the Greystones Primary page for details of their 'Circus skills Zone' for an example of this)

Community Groups- workshops for community festivals, one-off 'taster' sessions at community centers.

Additionally, I am experienced in working with groups to put in funding bids so they can aquire funding to buy their own equipment and create self-sufficient circus skills groups.

Have a look at Pye Bank Primary for details of how they benefitted from a bid I put in to 'Burngreave Small Grants'; or Unicycle Project for details of my £3k funding bid from 'Awards for All"

Team building sessions for corporations- Also fantastic for ‘ice-breaking’ as the participants relax whilst working on new skills in a friendly atmosphere

Session Details/requirements

I can work indoors or outdoors- for focused learning,indoors is best- if the session is to be outdoors, you will need a contingency plan for if the weather is bad

My speciality is teaching small groups the core skills of juggling, diabolo and poi in one session- ideal session length for this is 1 hr 20 mins (this can be trimmed to 1 hr if necessary) and works best in an indoor space

For effective learning of the skills, groups sizes of 8-12 are best. Under some circumstances I can work with group sizes up to 20.

Ages 7 and upwards are a good guideline- younger children will tend to struggle with co-ordination.

Juggling is a skill which takes time to develop- few children will master 3-ball juggling in one session. However, I will be able to teach them the necessary practise drills with 1/2 balls (and, just as important, point out the common mistakes which would otherwise block their progress) to enable them to successfully achieve the 3-ball juggling pattern within a few weeks.

Diabolo and poi are easier to learn and, I find, using my method of teaching, all members of the group will be able to get both going and learn a few tricks in one session