Workshops

Shareefa Energy facilitates poetry, spoken word and creative writing workshops in schools, youth clubs, PRU's and organisations with young people and adults seeking asylum, in prisons, immigration detention centres and refugee camps, with vulnerable women who have experienced domestic violence and the criminal justice system, with victims of state violence and with complex grief. She has facilitated workshops with children, young people and adults locally and internationally, including intergenerational workshops. Alongside facilitating hundreds of workshops, she has facilitated workshops for Apples and Snakes, The WOW Foundation, The Roundhouse, The Curve. She has worked with university students and lecturers to encourage creative writing and covered various topics from decolonisation to mental health and improving self esteem. She was the London youth and community coordinator on stop and search and facilitates workshops for young people to know their rights when stopped and searched by the police and how the public can be proactive bystanders to prioritise safeguarding and child protection when witnessing police abuse their powers.

Shareefa has worked on various projects with all ages in the education system. All workshops are bespoke designed sensitive to participants needs, catered for adults and young people. Workshop fees vary according to booking and project requirements.

Shareefa facilitates workshops and projects that are bespoke bookings. Her workshops offer education as well as having a creative output to capture learnings.

Some of her workshops include:

• Poetry, spoken word and creative writing

• Poetry as catharsis

• Processing grief and anger management using creative writing

• Directing poetry and creative film

• Poetry, lyrics and writing for music

• Creative writing and studio recording

• Performance workshops

• Monologue writing

• Photography and storytelling

• Nature as Magic

• Social Justice workshops - Writing about topics passionate about

• Consent workshops & healthy boundaries

• Stop and search and bystander intervention workshops

• Anti racism workshops

• Anti sexism and misogyny workshops

• Self esteem and strengthening self-confidence and intuition workshops

• Art as Cultural Resistance

• Poetry and creative writing as tools for advocacy

• Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing - Express Yourself

• Cultural celebration and diaspora storytelling