Workshop facilitator

Closing date for applications: 21 September 2025 at 5.00 pm

Salary: London fee - £110 per day, paid pro rata based on total working hours throughout October - December 2025

Bring your passion for community arts to life by creating and facilitating empowering workshops that help displaced communities share their stories through theatre, music, movement and visual art.

Good Chance is seeking two workshop facilitators for our pilot co-creation project with people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds, as part of our new Hope Shows programme. We are looking for individuals with energy and enthusiasm, who are great with people, eager to share their skills and knowledge, and who are open to developing within the role. Creativity and kindness are at the heart of this project, so we’re seeking facilitators who can inspire participants and support them in shaping and sharing their stories through a collaborative artistic process. This role is part of Good Chance’s Stage Door Programme, designed as a professional development opportunity open specifically to people from a refugee or asylum seeking background with lived experience of displacement. We are looking for people who already have a strong foundation of experience in facilitation and the arts, and who are excited to continue developing these skills within a supportive professional environment.

Ten years on from the original Hope Shows in the Calais Jungle, Good Chance is reviving this powerful project for a new era. Working with refugees, asylum seekers and people seeking sanctuary living in temporary accommodation in London and beyond, the Hope Shows will combine trauma-informed participatory art and applied theatre practice with high production value performance grounded in artistic integrity. Each Hope Show will be co-created with local communities, enriched by sessions with prominent guest artists, and will culminate in extraordinary public performances hosted by leading theatres. The project will bring Good Chance’s unique Hope Show format to refugee support organisations across the UK, starting with London, using theatre as a powerful medium for healing, empowerment and public awareness. Through safe and creative workshops, displaced people will have the chance to share and develop their unique talents, connect with others and take part in high-quality performances. The Hope Shows will also reach diverse audiences bringing together displaced and settled communities and amplify stories of hope through press, digital and social media campaigns.

We are looking for experienced, compassionate and creative workshop facilitators to co-lead participatory workshops that will form the foundation of each Hope Show. Facilitators will work closely with Good Chance’s deputy artistic director, Elias Matar, and collaborate with professional artists with lived experience of displacement to design and deliver inclusive, trauma-informed sessions that empower community members to share their stories through theatre, music, movement and visual art. The workshop facilitators will work as part of the creative and administrative team to support the workshops, rehearsals and performances for the first Hope Show in London.


Responsibilities

• Facilitation: co-design and co-deliver engaging, trauma-informed creative workshops that are inclusive, safe and responsive to community members’ needs.
• Co-creation: support community members to develop and shape material for the final performance through storytelling, improvisation, movement and collaborative scene-making.
• Collaboration: work closely with Good Chance’s artistic team, partner organisations and other artists to ensure workshops are dynamic, accessible and culturally safe.
• Participant support: build trust with community members, ensuring dignity, agency and care are embedded throughout the process.
• Rehearsals & performance: contribute to the rehearsal and creation process and support the final Hope Show performance at a professional theatre venue.
• Reflection & learning: take part in evaluation and feedback to support the ongoing development of the new Hope Shows model.
• Communication with community members: be a main contact for community members during workshops, rehearsals and performances, monitor attendance, support with their learning and development, give advice and feedback.
• Administration: take notes in rehearsals, check these notes with the creative team and work with the workshop assistant to ensure that they are shared with the community members.
• Set up: in conjunction with the workshop assistant, make sure rehearsal spaces and any other rooms are set up for each workshop.
• Communication with team: in-person, phone and email contact with creative team, wider project team, partners, community members and wider contacts.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Demonstrated experience facilitating participatory drama workshops, ideally with refugees, asylum seekers or other marginalised groups
• Strong skills in theatre-making/directing and/or other art forms (e.g. movement, music, visual arts, storytelling)
• Knowledge of applied theatre practices and community arts approaches
• Ability to create inclusive, culturally sensitive and multilingual-friendly workshop environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Commitment to Good Chance’s values of dignity, co-creation, excellence, access and legacy
• A strong interest in theatre work in the community, and desire to develop these skills on a large-scale professional performance project.

Desirable

• Experience working in partnership with grassroots or frontline refugee support organisations
• Multilingual skills
• Trauma-informed or therapeutically informed approach to facilitation

Further information about the role, as well as information on how to apply, can be found on our website via the 'Apply' button.

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