A Mind Apart

09/10/2026

Time to introduce our next teacher.

Meet Bronwen . She leads our Creative Launchpad Arts Award and runs our Youth Theatre every Thursday.

She left Sheffield at 22 to study acting and has since moved 22 times. Her career highlights include setting up a community arts café and performance venue in Liverpool and helping grassroots artists and companies bring new work to life. Bronwen returned to Sheffield in 2016 and became a secondary school teacher in 2021. She still teaches through supply and part-time roles alongside her creative work. She first connected with A Mind Apart in 2024, volunteering in classes and supporting our annual show.

We’re thrilled to have her as a regular member of the team and feel very lucky to work with her.

08/10/2026

A Place to Express – Reflective Practice for Helping Professionals ✨

When you're the one supporting everyone else, who supports you?

Whether you're holding difficult conversations, managing emotional demands, or simply carrying the weight of your role, reflective practice provides the opportunity to pause, process, and reconnect with yourself and your work.

A Place to Express is a professionally facilitated reflective practice group, led by an HCPC Registered Therapist and Clinical Supervisor, offering a confidential, compassionate, and psychologically safe space to reflect on the impact of working in helping professions.

Through reflective discussion and creative approaches, you'll have the opportunity to:
💙 Explore the emotional impact of your work
💙 Develop greater self-awareness and resilience
💙 Gain fresh perspectives and insight
💙 Connect with others who understand the realities of caring for and supporting others

Open to:
• Therapists and counsellors
• Teachers and education staff
• Support workers
• Youth workers
• Doctors and nurses
• Social care professionals
• Anyone working in a helping profession
These sessions can contribute towards supervision and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.

📅 2026–2027 Dates
• Wednesday 16th September
• Wednesday 28th October
• Wednesday 16th December
• Wednesday 17th February
• Wednesday 31st March
• Wednesday 2nd June
• Wednesday 21st July

⏰ Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm

📍 Venue: A Mind Apart, Burton Street Foundation, Sheffield

💷 Cost: £65 per person (workplace invoicing available)
Book your place:

https://amindapart.org.uk/creative-therapy

For further information:
📧 [email protected]

"You cannot pour from an empty cup. Reflective practice creates the space to refill it.

06/10/2026

Art 4 Wellbeing 🎨✨ | Bringing creativity, connection and wellbeing into your community

Last month, our Head of Therapy and Wellbeing, Natasha, had the pleasure of delivering an Art 4 Wellbeing workshop for Harthill WI and what a beautiful day it was.

Before the workshop even began, Natasha heard stories of women’s struggles, but also their resilience, endurance, strength and power.

It felt particularly fitting that the workshop was inspired by Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise and these women certainly did rise.

Through creative activities, conversation and reflection, the group explored themes of strength, identity, resilience and what it means to keep going, creating a space where women could connect, express themselves and share experiences.

At A Mind Apart, we believe creativity can be a powerful tool for wellbeing. You don’t need to consider yourself “creative” or be an artist** to take part. Our workshops are designed to be accessible, welcoming and engaging, using creative approaches to encourage connection, reflection, expression and wellbeing.

🌿 Art 4 Wellbeing workshops can be created for:
• WI and community groups
• Women's groups
• Charities and voluntary organisations
• Workplaces and staff wellbeing days
• Schools and youth groups
• Community events and wellbeing programmes

Each workshop can be tailored to the needs, interests and themes of your group.

If your organisation or community group is looking for something a little different something meaningful, creative and focused on wellbeing we'd love to talk to you.

📩 Contact A Mind Apart to discuss an Art 4 Wellbeing workshop for your group.

Because sometimes, we all need a little space to pause, create, connect… and rise. 💛

MindApart

06/10/2026

🌟 1-2-1 Therapy for Children, Young People & Adults 🌟

At A Mind Apart, our highly qualified and experienced therapists provide a safe, supportive space where individuals can explore their mental health, heal from trauma, and build confidence and self-esteem.

We support children, young people, and adults with:
💙 Anxiety
💙 Depression
💙 Neurodiversity
💙 Disability
💙 Trauma

Using creative approaches such as dramatherapy and arts-based interventions, we work with the whole person—supporting both mind and body while building on existing strengths, interests, and skills.

Our sessions are often creative, engaging, and enjoyable, allowing for deeper exploration in a way that is accessible to people of all ages and abilities.

✨ We currently have availability for new referrals.
✨ We may also be able to help you access funding for therapy.

If you would like to find out more, please contact Natasha at [email protected] to arrange a FREE initial consultation.
Please feel free to share with anyone who may benefit.

03/10/2026

Did you know we were award winners for being the most inclusive performing arts education organisation in South Yorkshire. That's quite an award in our books.

Check it out on the SME News, Business Elite website:

A Mind Apart Theatre Company Limited is one of the 2026 winners of Business Elite Awards.

29/09/2026

Time to meet our teachers!

Next up is Danielle Murphy (Dani to most of us). She joined the team in October 2020, when many organisations were making redundancies due to Covid; we were fortunate to be hiring and instantly knew Dani was a great fit. Since then her roles have ranged from Performing Arts Teacher to Creative Learning Manager. After returning from maternity leave she decided not to continue in that managerial role.

Obviously we didn't want to let her go, so we asked her to teach our adult class, which works perfectly around her childcare commitments. Dani is a qualified primary school teacher and is well known across Sheffield’s professional and amateur performing arts scenes. She’s taught learners of all ages and has previously delivered the BTech performing arts course at Sheffield College. More recently she's been performing for a murder mystery company outside of Sheffield and is about to play Bonnie Harris for the Ellesmere Musical Theatre Company in Come From Away (https://buff.ly/NdC1XSJ)

Outside of work, Dani enjoys spending time with her son, listening to music and playing games.

28/09/2026

We pride ourselves in creating performing arts spaces that are accessible to everyone. In addition to a highly experienced team we have some special ways we make sure everyone can take part, irrelevant of background, accessibility or age.

❤️ Structured Sessions: All of our sessions are structured in a specific way to support with creating a safe environment. No matter what session an individual attends with us, they will always know what to expect.

❤️ Resources to support regulation: We have a range of resources to hand to support individuals with regulation, from headphones to sensory resources.

❤️ Visual prompts to help with communication: For those who might struggle with finding the right words, we use visual prompts to ensure they can take part in the activities.

❤️ Guided peer mentoring: We intentionally mix the age ranges of our classes, so that those participating can learn to work successfully with a wide range of ages. We encourage those older to support the younger and new participants and guide them in how to mentor them into the safe space.

❤️ Practical activities: Our performing arts activities are accessible and practical with the aim of supporting individuals to build up their confidence and improve focus and social skills.

We've been using this structure for nearly 20 years, and it has never failed us. We know that what we do is powerful and works for all individuals, irrelevant of age, background, needs or ability.

25/09/2026

We’re halfway through our first half term and we’re thrilled to be welcoming so many new students!

It feels like the perfect moment to introduce you to our teaching team and share a bit about who they are and what they do alongside their work with us. All of our teachers hold degree-level qualifications in performing arts, and many have gone on to further study through Master’s degrees or teacher training.

First up is the founder and leader; Jodie Marshall. Since starting the company in 2008 she’s been guiding our direction and focusing on strategy and growth, alongside other projects she runs outside of A Mind Apart. Lately she’s stepped back into teaching and has been reorganising parts of our work to make the organisation more sustainable and ensure we’re here for the long term.

Jodie has taught from the very beginning, mentoring and teaching lots of people who now work across the sector locally and nationally. She brings professional experience in performing, stage management and directing. Alongside A Mind Apart, she runs a consultancy and coaching business supporting purpose-driven organisations, including creative groups in the VCSE sector.

In her rare spare moments she loves salsa dancing, training her border collie in dog agility, and spending time with her family.

24/09/2026

✨ A Place to Express – Reflective Practice for Helping Professionals ✨

When you're the one supporting everyone else, who supports you?

Whether you're holding difficult conversations, managing emotional demands, or simply carrying the weight of your role, reflective practice provides the opportunity to pause, process, and reconnect with yourself and your work.

A Place to Express is a professionally facilitated reflective practice group, led by an HCPC Registered Therapist and Clinical Supervisor, offering a confidential, compassionate, and psychologically safe space to reflect on the impact of working in helping professions.

Through reflective discussion and creative approaches, you'll have the opportunity to:

💙 Explore the emotional impact of your work
💙 Develop greater self-awareness and resilience
💙 Gain fresh perspectives and insight
💙 Connect with others who understand the realities of caring for and supporting others

Open to:
• Therapists and counsellors
• Teachers and education staff
• Support workers
• Youth workers
• Doctors and nurses
• Social care professionals
• Anyone working in a helping profession

These sessions can contribute towards supervision and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.

📅 2026–2027 Dates
• Wednesday 16th September
• Wednesday 28th October
• Wednesday 16th December
• Wednesday 17th February
• Wednesday 31st March
• Wednesday 2nd June
• Wednesday 21st July

⏰ Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
📍 Venue: A Mind Apart, Burton Street Foundation, Sheffield
💷 Cost: £65 per person (workplace invoicing available)

Book your place:
https://amindapart.org.uk/creative-therapy

For further information:
📧 [email protected]

"You cannot pour from an empty cup. Reflective practice creates the space to refill it."

17/09/2026

Supervision Spaces

A Mind Apart's Head of Therapy and Wellbeing is now offering 1-to-1 and Group Clinical Creative Supervision.

Following the successful completion of the Creative Supervision Training with Relight in Bristol—a course recognised by the UKCP Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)—Natasha is now welcoming supervisees for both online and face-to-face supervision.

Throughout the training, there was a continual invitation to explore not just how to supervise, but who to become as a supervisor. This has shaped a supervision practice that is deeply relational, creative, and rooted in the belief that supervision is about far more than clinical work alone.

Natasha offers a space where the whole person is welcomed.

A space that recognises supervision isn't simply about the therapist role, but about the many parts we each carry. By exploring the different roles we play, the strengths we know, and the parts that remain hidden, supervision becomes a place of deeper understanding, curiosity, and growth.

Creative approaches are woven throughout the process—not as a test of artistic ability, but as a way of containing the richness and complexity of therapeutic work. Through story, objects, movement, art, poetry, photography, music, and metaphor, supervisees are invited to discover new perspectives, notice what may have been hidden, and deepen their connection with both themselves and their clients.
Whether you're newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, this is a space to reflect, explore, be challenged with compassion, and feel supported in your practice.

Clinical Creative Supervision is available:
✨ Online
✨ Face-to-face from A Mind Apart's beautiful therapy space on the Welbeck Estate or at The Burton Street Foundation in Hillsborough.
To find out more, visit:

https://amindapart.org.uk/creative-therapy

Or email [email protected] to arrange an initial conversation.