Writer. Performance artist. Facilitator.
Workshops and participatory performances that help people communicate with clarity, hear one another, and create together.
Discuss your event For companies, nonprofits, and institutions.
Help people find the story in their work and communicate it with clarity and presence. Participants practice shaping a narrative, presenting an idea, and using voice and body with intention.
For teams preparing presentations, pitches, or moments of leadership.
Practice listening beyond the first assumption. Through paired storytelling, improvisation, and the Yellow Chair, participants hear one another’s experiences and explore different perspectives. In live mirroring, a shared story is reflected back through voice, movement, and, when included, music.
For team offsites, leadership gatherings, and groups working across roles.
Make the people in the room part of the event. Drawing on their stories and contributions, Brenton creates improvised performances that give a gathering a shared experience to reflect on. Live music can be part of the collaboration.
For conferences, retreats, company gatherings, and special events.
Brenton brings more than a decade of participatory performance and over 1,200 one-to-one mirroring encounters to his work with groups.
Sessions combine doing and reflecting: try an exercise, notice what happened, and connect it to how people communicate and work together. Participants choose how much to share; no performance experience is needed.
Engagements can take the form of a focused workshop, a full-day or multi-day program, or a performance with guided reflection. The format, group size, and creative collaborators are agreed around your aims.
A program moving from storytelling to deep listening and Yellow Chair encounters, then public speaking and pitching ideas.
A live mirroring performance with violinist Jaime Westendarp, bringing participants’ stories into a shared performance.
Tell Brenton about your group and what you’d like the experience to make possible. Scope, format, and fees are discussed around the engagement.