Meet the Kwirkeez!

Meet the Kwirkeez!

This interactive workshop introduces the Kwirkeez family – a set of 12 cartoon characters who have been designed to facilitate the exploration of identity.

Kwirkeez invite a playful and creative approach which can inspire practitioners to understand more about their coaching signature and help executives articulate their leadership brand. The concept is simple: choose the parts of the characters that help you construct a narrative about how you show up in your work.

Initially, participants will have some time to fully notice the constituent pieces of each Kwirkee family member. The cartoon characters were designed to reflect the diversity of our current context and in small groups we will encourage you to share what you notice, what you are drawn to, what you resist … and to consider how your clients might respond to the characters.

Posing the question “Who are you at your best”, participants will have some independent time to build their own Kwirkee, before sharing, in a small group, the story of what they have created. This activity will be de-briefed, and attention given to the use of metaphor, and sharing experiences of connection and resistance to the exercise.

From this foundation, a range of exercises will be available to work with Kwirkeez at a deeper level. Perhaps considering what of your identity is core, and what’s evolving? Perhaps considering which parts change or absent themselves when you are not at your best? Perhaps noticing what process you adopted and how that reflects how you process elsewhere? And perhaps you will have your own sense of where you would like to go next…?

For the final section of the workshop participants will be organised into groups according to focus (coaching clients, supervision clients, team members) and asked to consider how the Kwirkeez might be of use to them. Learning from all groups will be shared before drawing the workshop to a close.

So who would benefit from attending?

• Coaches
• Supervisors
• Mentors
• Facilitators
• Leaders

What can you expect to learn?

• More about your own identity in one or more contexts
• How the Kwirkeez might be useful for your own client work
• Raised awareness of your own responses to caricatures of diversity

Venue: Wesley Chapel, City Road, London (nearest tubes Old Street or Moorgate)

Price :

• Early Bird (until 2nd May 2024) - £50 including one pack of Kwirkeez
• Standard - £65 including one pack of Kwirkeez

Both tickets include a pack of Kwirkeez provided on the day.

Note: Tea, coffee, and water will be provided and the room will be available one hour before the start time if you would like to bring some lunch and network with others.

Host or Publisher Michelle Lucas