Experience the work.
Discover the method.
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Fully Funded Wales Practitioner Places — 2026

The complete Trainer Pathway is typically

£1,000 - Inner Pathway

£2,500 - Outer Pathway

For 2026 only, Arts Council of Wales funding allows a limited number of fully funded places for practitioners living or working in Wales.

This is a rare opportunity to undertake the full pathway without financial barrier and join a growing national network of Coming to Our Senses facilitators delivering courses to NHS and Social Care Wales staff.

Places are limited.

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The Art of Looking at Ourselves is the starting point from where Context Oriented Arts unfolds in two directions: inward toward creative mindfulness facilitation, and outward toward immersive, multi-sensory, site specific, one to one theatre.

The Inner Pathway develops the facilitator.
The Outer Pathway develops the encounter.

AOLAO A forms the first stage of the Sensory Labyrinth Theatre Pathway.

Here, the focus is outward: developing ensemble awareness, creative responsiveness and the capacity to meet an audience through lived encounter.

Later stages introduce devising, design and performing a full Sensory Labyrinth Theatre production.

This stage establishes the ground from which artistic risk, presence and audience relationship become authentic rather than performative.

The Outer Pathway

AOLAO B forms the first stage of the Coming to Our Senses Trainer Pathway.

Here, the focus is inward: developing the awareness, sensitivity and relational capacity required before learning to deliver the course itself.

Later stages introduce facilitation, delivery and supervision. This stage establishes the ground from which those skills become authentic rather than performative.

Before learning to guide others, you encounter the work directly.

The Inner Pathway

  • Theatre Makers

  • Artists and creative practitioners

  • Mindfulness teachers and therapists

  • Arts-in-health and wellbeing facilitators

  • Educators and group leaders seeking deeper practice

No prior knowledge of Coming to Our Senses or Sensory Labyrinth THeatre is required.

Only curiosity, professional maturity and a willingness to look honestly at one’s own practice.

Who is it for?

Expert Facilitation & Supportive Space

The training is led by Iwan Brioc, originator of Context Oriented Arts, drawing on over three decades of work at the intersection of applied theatre, mindfulness and group process.

The facilitation emphasises clarity, consent and respect for individual pace, creating a carefully held environment in which participants are invited — never pressured — to engage as fully as feels right for them.

While the work can be challenging and deeply engaging, it unfolds within a culture of mutual care, psychological safety and collective responsibility, allowing curiosity, creativity and honest exploration to emerge naturally.