“The qualities that underlie all positive human endeavour and success are not ‘soft’ but ‘CORE” skills – and they can be learnt.”
CATHERINE ARDEN

Catherine Arden, former Royal Navy, draws from over 25 years’ experience as a theatre director, trainer, and speaker. She has delivered her tailor-made, drama -based training to adults and youth, covering a wide range of topics and themes.

Catherine has helped hundreds of people in the Corporate, Education and Public/ Social Sectors, including C-level, Directors, Managers, PA/EA’s, high achievers, disadvantaged youth, parents, teachers, in the UK and Internationally.

Interactive Drama Based Workshop Courses

The fun, practical issue-based workshops help participants realise potential, learn and experience how their value system and choices impact positively in different scenarios.

The individual becomes more empowered and skilled to make choices that have mutual benefit and support the success of any project or endeavor.

Benefits

• Immediate impact
• High knowledge retention
• Helps your people build on strengths
• Gain new perspectives and fresh insights
• Break down barriers
• Increase motivation and self-confidence

How we work with your organisation

• Getting to know you and your company by exploring what is important to your success.
• Creating a tailor-made programme to help you achieve your goals.
• Helping your people to explore, through specially designed interactive exercises, the obstacles to individual and collective success.
• Providing a safe environment to explore and learn new ways to improve relationships with self and others.
• Enabling your people to start using their new skills, immediately.
• We follow up and do monitoring sessions to guide, support and measure progress..

After the programme, your people will;

• Have a clear understanding of their own potential and that of others
• Have an awareness of what gets in the way of healthy interaction and creating good relationships and enabling innovation.
• Will be able to correct themselves and help others.
• Will have confidence to enable them to perform more effectively in the workplace.

Measuring Effectiveness and Improvement:

• Using business metrics Catherine offers qualitative and quantitative feedback analysis and the opportunity to follow up at 3 and 6months to monitor impact and support progress

Our work with educational organisations

As an educationalist, Catherine’s unique methodology for experiential learning of ‘Life and Social Skills’ delivers specifically designed themed workshops and has helped both high academic achievers and disadvantaged youth. She has worked with multicultural groups; aged 5-25yrs, as well as parents, teachers, and principals in the UK, Europe and India. She was a headline speaker at the ‘International Enlightened Education Conference’ in Europe.

Catherine has also developed interactive learning programmes in partnership with educational institutions, non-profits, NGOs and community initiatives, social enterprises, e.g. ‘WorkSmart’ - Employability Workshops, ‘Big Life’ – Early Intervention Programme and Businesses Against Crime workshops.

Our work with business and corporations

Give your organisation the professional edge!

Executives and employees across the corporate sphere, companies large and small, have already benefited from Catherine’s in-depth knowledge, engaging style, and invigorating workshop content.

Among the many clients Catherine has delivered workshops and courses for:

Black Rock’s ACE EPP, Executive Presence Programme and ACE Connects. Bank of America, Citco Financial Services Group, Redmayne and Bentley Stock Brokers, Framestore/Cultural Investment Holdings, Hilton International and more

Catherine has also worked in partnership delivering workshops with the LPAN for The PA Show and as a speaker at International CONFEX, Olympia.

Our work with the public and social sectors

As an educationalist, Catherine’s unique methodology for experiential learning of ‘Life and Social Skills’ delivers specifically designed themed workshops and has helped both high academic achievers and disadvantaged youth.

She has worked with multicultural groups; aged 5-25yrs, as well as parents, teachers, and principals in the UK, Europe and India. She was a headline speaker at the ‘International Enlightened Education Conference’ in Europe.

Catherine has also developed interactive learning programmes in partnership with educational institutions, non-profits, NGOs and community initiatives, social enterprises, e.g. ‘WorkSmart’ - Employability Workshops, ‘Big Life’ – Early Intervention Programme and Businesses Against Crime workshops.

How we work with women in business

How we work with your organisation

We enhance your people power by:

• Getting to know you and your company by exploring what is important to your success.
• Creating a tailor-made programme to help you achieve that.
• Helping your people to explore, through specially designed interactive exercises, the things that get in the way of individual and collective success.
• Providing a safe environment to explore and experiment with new ways to improve relationships with self and others.
• Enabling your people to start using their new skills, right away.
• We can do follow up and monitoring sessions to guide and support to help them fly.

After the programme:

• Your people will have a clear understanding of their own potential and that of others
• They will have a clear awareness of what gets in the way of healthy interaction and creating good relationships and enabling innovation.
• They will be able to correct themselves and help others.
• They will have the confidence to do it in your work and in life that very same day

Effectiveness

• Using business metrics Catherine offers qualitative and quantitative feedback analysis and the opportunity to follow up at 3 and 6 months to monitor impact and support progress.