Supporting Global Majority Leaders in the Cultural Sector
Brilliant Routes
The Brilliant Routes Network run by Clore Leadership is a supportive space for Global Majority cultural leaders addressing issues of progression and retention in the cultural sector.
Brilliant Routes forms a key part of Clore Leadership’s Inclusive Leadership delivery for Arts Council England’s Transforming Leadership programme, which prioritises activities to address existing gaps in diversity in the leadership of culture.
Re-UP!
Re-UP! is a workshop programme aimed at Global Majority cultural professionals about how to practice Restorative Care. After reflecting on her own cycles of burnout as a Global Majority professional leading cultural change, Gaylene Gould produced research into alternative, healthier pathways. Restorative Care Practice (RCP), the regular use of exercises that help repair, revive and alleviate stress, is suggested as a necessary leadership approach. By drawing on simple mindful, embodied, care-based, creative and relational exercises, stress relief can be integrated throughout your day.
For the past three years, Clore Leadership and Studio Gaylene Gould have been running a regular Restorative Care Practice programme for the Brilliant Routes network of Global Majority cultural leaders. Over this time, Re-UP! has established itself as a reputable space that empowers Global Majority leaders to explore Restorative Leadership, fostering practices of support, care, and communal growth. Through workshops, “Reasoning” talks, Kinship Circles, and embodied and creative activities, Re-UP! has provided cultural professionals with an opportunity to replenish their energy while deepening their capacity to sustain a healthy professional life and strengthen their networks.
Re-UP! Associates Programme
For the past two years, the Re-UP! Associates programme has supported a cohort of facilitators and creatives to develop their own restorative facilitation practice. Through a peer-led process featuring design and CPD sessions and test workshops, the group have collaborated to co-design new restorative care workshops drawing on their own interests and skills. These workshops will be shared during Re-UP! Reset which includes an in-person event on June 22nd and an online workshop on June 29th. The Re-UP! Associates are Aki Schilz, Anisha Parmar, Amy Zhang, Chris Webb, Indy Hunjan, Natalie Chan, SJ Martins and Stuart Taylor. Read more about them below.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Re-UP! Reset – in person
June 22nd 2026
Workshops 10am to 4pm
Salon: 4.30-7pm
Venue: Brixton House 385 Coldharbour Ln, London SW9 8GL
A day of experiential workshops and a salon event centred around restorative care for Global Majority cultural professionals.
Re-UP! Reset is a restorative and experiential day to reconnect Global Majority cultural professionals to their intuition. Global Majority cultural professionals often work in cultural isolation on the frontline of change. Add to that an extraordinary political climate that has moved from black squares to flag waving in a matter of years, it’s difficult to know where and how to focus. Re-UP! Reset will be a day of experiential workshop designed to reconnect us to the wisest parts of ourselves – our intuition.
The all-day event has been designed collaboratively by the Re-UP! Associates, a cohort of creative facilitators working together to offer new restorative care workshops. Four new pilot experiences will test new approaches to real world career questions while providing a re-up space for participants.
How can we approach loss and change at work with wonder? How can we deal with daily overwhelm and confusion through tactile play? What other parts of ourselves might we draw on to support ourselves at work? And how can we remember how far we have come?
Expect an immersive day of surprising, playful and thoughtful activities led by Anisha Parmar, Amy Zhang, Chris Webb, Indy Hunjan, Natalie Chan, SJ Martins and Stuart Tayior held together by breath worker Nicola Griffiths. Participants will select to take part in two of three sessions and there is an optional lunchtime session. The day will end with a special salon event with drinks and canapes that will allow us to reflect and connect.
Access Information
- We have a small budget to assist with travel and childcare costs if needed. This will be divided between those who apply.
- BSL translators will be available on the day
- The building is wheelchair accessible
- There will be wellbeing support available and a quiet space
- We will also send a care form to all participants in advance to discover your access needs
Ticket price:
All day ticket: Pay-what-you-can. Suggested price: £25 – £10 minimum.
Salon ticket: Pay-what-you-can. Suggested price: £5
Ticket price includes lunch, refreshments and salon drinks and canapes.
The Salon is included in the ticket price and is optional to attend. The Salon can also be booked separately.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Deadwooding In Wonder
90 Minute workshop
Led by Indy Hunjan and SJ Martins
Deadwooding with Wonder is an invitation to meet disappointment gently and soften the effects of professional loss through a connection with wonder. Indy and SJ will help you journey through the five senses, harnessing the power of wonder to expand our capacity to deal with professional loss. This experiential workshop is designed to restore balance, activating the ability to hold loss without losing oneself.Participants will leave with a pick and mix of mini-practices that can be used for a restorative pause throughout the day.
What inspired Indy and SJ to create this workshop?
“We connected through sharing our own navigations through the layers of loss. Our conversations led us to see loss and wonder as two sides of the same coin – often sharing the common thread of mystery. These conversations developed into cultural framing focused on the alignment of traditions throughout global majority cultures, viewing bereavement is a journey through rituals, cycles and connection with others.”
What to expect
- A journey through the senses that includes simple touch, sight, sound, taste and smell exercises – all optional.
- Opportunities for reflection, writing, drawing and gentle movement
- Space to share reflections with the group, this is optional
- All physical activity is optional and adjustable and all materials will be provided.
Crafting a Feeling
90 Minute workshop
Led by Amy Zhang, Anisha Parmar and Chris Webb
How touch, texture and making can become tools for rest, reflection and reconnecting with yourself.
Amy, Anisha and Chris will guide you through a hands-on workshop exploring how touch and the senses can offer a different kind of knowing. Working with haptic prompts and sensory materials, you’’ll move through moments of making and reflection, by using our hands and bodies to slow down, make meaning, and find a little rest inside a system that rarely offers it.
Participants will leave with a smile, a slower breath, and something you made with your hands. A new way of processing, one that lives in the body, not just the head. And hopefully, a little more permission to feel rested.
What inspired Amy, Anisha and Chris to create this workshop?
“This workshop comes from our own lived experience as neurodivergent practitioners who have found in touch and texture a different way of processing the world. We’ve been sharing our practices with each other for a while now, and this workshop is the meeting point of that processing, made tangible.”
What to expect
- A warm up making activity
- Space to make an object from a range of materials
- Guided visualisation
- Space to share in small groups
- A takeaway activity and materials
Inscendent Inquiry
90 min workshop
Led by Stuart Taylor
Explore your ancestral and cultural heritage, as deep resources for agency and sustainable wellbeing.
The Inscendent Inquiry workshop invites you into an accessible and experiential self-inquiry process. Within a unique care-centred and decolonial framework, we will explore a reflective and resourcing process of engaging with some of the eight facets of selfhood. Inscendent Inquiry is a creative process of personal archaeology. It creates space for reflection, care-based renewal and actionable insight.
What inspired Stuart to create this workshop?
“Inscendent Inquiry activates my passion for two reasons. Firstly, I created this model based on a decade of work as a systemic constellations’ practitioner. Secondly, as a Black creative professional, I understand with bone-deep empathy the pressures and possibilities of working within the culture sector as a Global Majority professional.”
What to expect
- The Inscendent Inquiry introductory workshop will involve participants moving (walking or wheeling) around a floor-based mandala, that represents eight facets of our identities, ancestry, interests and passions.
- Solo journaling
- Meditation
- Group sharing
A Love Letter to Your Past Self
15 min – Optional end of lunch session
Led by Natalie Chan
As humans, we have somehow gotten through everything we’ve faced in our lives up until this point. This short writing exercise invites you to reflect on and celebrate how far you have come and how you did it which can help to fuel you with hope and courage for what’s next.
What inspired Natalie to lead this workshop?
“There is often a huge emphasis on staying present and looking forwards. I am interested in how leaning into the past can lead to courage, motivation and hope”
What to expect
- Self determined reflection
- Guidance prompts
- Solo writing
Re-UP! Reset Online
(Re)connecting with Joy with Aki Schilz
Date: 29th June
Time: 1pm – 2.15pm
Free
Arts-based practice is often tied into a deep sense of purpose. But without joy, purpose can become burdensome and overwhelming. Many Global Majority cultural professionals are mission-driven which offers great benefits to the sector. However this can sometimes lead to a disconnection from joy in how we work. In this poetry inspired online workshop, we invite you to reconnect with joyfulness, as a way to bring levity, movement, and energy. You will need writing materials that work for you.
Who are the Re-UP! Associates?
Aki Schilz is the Director of The Literary Consultancy, the UK’s longest-running editorial consultancy. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of literature and has been shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women in publishing. Aki is a certified Museum of Happiness facilitator and works as a business coach and workshop facilitator.
AMY ZHANG
Amy (she/her) is a creative practitioner working in heritage and the arts. She has participated in multiple EDI-driven placements for young people aimed at increasing inclusivity and breaking down barriers to working in the art and museum sector. She can be happily found browsing boutiques and craft markets for art pieces that resonate.
Anisha is an UK-based artist, jewellery designer, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of adornment, identity and the divine feminine. Her work is rooted in her diaspora experience, drawing from the richness of South Asian heritage and the complexity of living between worlds. Through jewellery, curation, consultancy and workshops, adornment is the golden thread that runs through everything she does.
Chris is a consultant, educator and curator who has worked as an activist and change maker within museums, galleries, and higher education since 2004. In 2023, he set up Let’s Make Culture Ltd a consultancy focused on collaboration, co-production and strategic change-making in the cultural sector
Placed at the intersection of heritage, creative industries, community, academia and creative development, the past thirty years has seen Indy and her values of equity bring to life a variety of large-scale projects, festivals and programmes. She also mentors self-identifying cultural individuals to dial up their best selves and has created policies for institutions rooted in contested histories.
Natalie is an award-winning arts fundraiser and producer from Hong Kong and working in the UK. Currently, she works as Arts and Culture Project Commissioner for Luton Borough Council and as Production Coordinator for Jonathan Church Theatre Productions with a focus on productions touring to Asia.
Sarah Jane Martin works with progressive organisations to design future-fit cultures where people can play to their strengths and reach their potential. She brings 20 years’ experience partnering with C-Suite and execs across global brands, consultancies and high-end hospitality, drawing on her own lived experience as a Black, late diagnosed neurodivergent leader.
Stuart is committed to positively and concretely transforming the way organisational development is addressed across civil society, corporate, cultural and government sectors. He advocates a decolonizing, trauma-informed, healing-centred and co-production inspired regenerative approach to product, programme, service design, delivery and evaluation. His work supports individuals, teams, organisations and networks
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This programme is designed in collaboration with Studio Gaylene Gould, a company founded by Clore Fellow Gaylene Gould.
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