Holly Stoppit
So you’re a good, experienced vocal improviser. Perhaps you’re interested in performance. Maybe folks are starting to get their phones out and video you when you sing in some kind of a public way.
What happens for you? Is it inhibiting? Do you start over-performing? Do you clam up? Do you want to get the hell out of there and run for the hills?
Drama-Therapist, Clown, Fool, Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist extraordinaire Holly Stoppit will lead us into deep playful exploration of the inner voices that come up when we are witnessed by audiences.
You may have parts that are shy or insecure, you may have others that are critical or mean, there may be others that hoik you out of your body or make you want to be sick. With curiosity and deep respect, we’ll spend the week meeting these parts in meditation, through artwork, writing, embodiment and singing.
This is a week for experienced improvisers who’ve worked quite a bit with at least one vocal improv teacher. If you’re a beginner, try Vocal Transformation.
In giving creative form, body and voice to our parts, we can discover how they are trying to help us stay safe (even if “helping” looks like constricting, restricting, over-efforting or dissociating).
Through gentle, compassionate dialogue with our parts, we can help them to let go of their not-so-helpful strategies and find a different role within our systems, one which supports us towards unselfconscious flow and ease.
In welcoming our parts home, perhaps we’ll discover new realms of vocal delights? Perhaps they will help us find a way to let the vocal river flow to its fullest?
Throughout the week we will create a safe enough container which will allow us to delve deeply into our inner worlds together. We’ll drop into our bodies through somatic meditations, invitational movement and embodiment. We will sing sing sing (Briony will provide CVI forms)! We will creatively reflect on the parts that come up when we sing for each other, and we will offer each other support through structured dialogue and compassionate witnessing.
There will be laughter and lightness, tenderness and depth. Holly has been leading “Deep and daft” workshops for adults for 18 years, combining performance skills with self-exploration. More about Holly here: https://www.hollystoppit.com
Briony will be part participant, part back up teacher, part suggester of CVI forms to work with (that’s not Holly’s realm). Otherwise, Holly runs the show.
Price
If you’re going to come, we would like you to book and pay a depsit before 23rd March.
Earlybird, before 23 March 2026
Tier 1 · £675
Tier 2 - £575
Tier 3 - £375
Alumni Assistant - £245 - please contact Briony or Holly
27th March 2026 onwards, late bird prices
Tier 1 - £775
Tier 2 - £675
Tier 3 - £575
Alumni assistant - £345 - please contact Briony or Holly
Where to stay?
There are lots of good accommodations, lovely homestays and affordable one room short term rentals: See here.