Unleash Your Team’s Potential with Our New Creating Performance Workshops

Is it time to re-energise your team and build stronger leaders while doing something truly memorable together?

We’re thrilled to introduce our Creating Performance Workshops – a completely fresh approach to leadership and team development that combines hands-on craft with powerful behavioural science.

This innovative programme is designed for purpose-driven SMEs and corporate businesses that want more than just a typical team-building day. It’s for organisations that want to invest in their people, spark creativity, build resilience, and develop skills that stick.

Where Craft Meets Culture

Our workshops fuse upholstery and leatherwork with experiential learning and leadership training. Why? Because making something with your hands is a proven way to boost confidence, deepen understanding, and foster authentic connection.

The idea is simple: when people create together, they connect differently. They think differently. They lead differently.

This is not a day of passive listening – it’s a day of purposeful doing, guided by experts in psychology and craft.

Live! Cheshire Board of Trustees and Leadership Team participating in a workshop making storage crates.

Meet the Experts Behind the Experience

This unique offering is brought to you by two highly respected professionals:

🧠 Sarah Clarke, Business Psychologist at Think Organisation

A Chartered Director and behavioural change expert, Sarah brings years of experience in helping leaders and teams shift culture, improve communication, and deliver performance through psychology-led interventions.

🛠 Emma Semper Hopkins, Master Craftsman & Founder of Semper Hopkins Creative Workshops

As a B Corp™ certified craftswoman, Emma combines deep artisanal knowledge with a passion for creating safe, inclusive, and sustainable spaces for people to learn through making.

Together, they have created an environment that blends creativity, psychology, and performance improvement in a way that’s truly transformative.

Emma Semper Hopkins, Semper Hopkins Creative Workshops and Sarah Clarke, Think Organisation.

What Makes Our Workshops So Different?

Traditional training often falls short because it lacks emotional impact or practical relevance. Our Creating Performance Workshops go deeper. They are:

  • Tangible: Participants leave with something they’ve physically created — a symbol of their learning and achievement.
  • Inclusive: Fully accessible and adaptable, ensuring every employee can participate, no matter their role or ability.
  • Evidence-Based: Grounded in behavioural science, psychology, and adult learning theory.
  • Sustainable: Delivered by a B Corp™ certified organisation, we prioritise ethical, social, and environmental responsibility.
Akerlof B-Corp™ at a team day making stools and footstools.

Choose Your Focus

Our one-day experiential workshops cover a range of themes to meet your organisational needs:

🔹 Leatherwork of Leadership
🔹 The Making of Managers
🔹 Crafting Communication
🔹 Threads of Teamwork
🔹 Reframing Resilience
🔹 Stitching Stronger Strategies
🔹 Creating Confidence

Whether you’re developing new managers, building cross-functional collaboration, or navigating change, there’s a workshop designed to support you.

👥 Ideal for groups of 12–16
💼 Prices start from £2,999
📍 All tools, materials, and expert guidance provided — just show up

The Impact: Real Results, Real ROI

This isn’t just anecdotal feedback – our participants report meaningful, measurable outcomes:

📈 +48% increase in creative confidence
😊 +68% improvement in overall well-being
💪 +62% boost in personal resilience

But that’s just the start. Participants also report:

✔ Greater psychological safety
✔ Stronger communication and collaboration
✔ A growth mindset that carries back into the workplace
✔ Renewed energy and connection across teams

Why Choose Creating Performance?

No prep needed – We take care of everything
Fully inclusive – Accessible for all roles and abilities
Sustainable – Proudly B Corp™ certified
Memorable and meaningful – Learn through doing, not just listening

This is development that sticks – mentally, emotionally, and back in the workplace.

Lucy Hart, Managing Director at Sinclair Law Solicitor shared her experience

“The Sinclair Law Solicitors team traded legal briefs for fabric shears and spent a few hours together on a sustainable upholstery team-building course – a rare opportunity for the team to unite. A brilliant day of creativity and teamwork! A heartfelt thank you to the team for hosting this unforgettable workshop!”

Sinclair Law at a team building day making noticeboards.

Let’s Craft a Better Culture Together

If you’re ready to spark lasting impact, boost performance, and strengthen team dynamics (while creating something beautiful in the process) we’d love to work with you.

📩 Download our brochure for full workshop details and pricing
📞 Book a discovery call with us today

Let’s unlock the potential within your team — one stitch at a time.

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