Facilitation and Consultancy

I am always interested in working with new people. If you would like to work with me, please email:

hello@francesmorgan.co.uk

Performing, writing, facilitation, producing and curation are equally important and co-constituting parts of my artistic practice. Across all of these roles I seek to create caring spaces that enable collective inspiration and empathic understanding.

As a facilitator I have worked across both independent and institutional settings. When working collaboratively with groups, I begin by establishing individual/collective desires and needs, encouraging an approach that attunes to difference, barriers to trust, and structural oppression. Working together, we define what accountability and care look like in practice to create spaces where conflict can be worked through courageously. This work is supported by my current MA in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University, and previous training in facilitating collaborative groups with Navigate.

Across all of my work I advocate for more equitable distribution of resources and decision-making, informed by an understanding of power difference and always reaching towards the principle that those who stand to be most impacted by a decision should be the ones to make it. I have explored this work as a participant on Transformational Governance’s Power Shift learning cohort #1, on behalf of Chisenhale Dance Space.

I currently work at CDS in collaboration with their artist-member community, to support artist-leadership and move towards radical governance change. As part of this work I have facilitated and produced a paid steering committee of five marginalised artists since November 2021, focussing on anti-abelist and antiracist practice. I regularly facilitate in-person and online spaces, including regular meetings with our broad artist community, discursive coffee mornings, and our annual organisational AGM. 

I have led creative workshops and discursive events in collaboration with artists and organisations such as Yewande 103, Conditions, The Place, The Yard Theatre, Charlie Ashwell, Eleanor Sikorski, and Sara Sassanelli, responding to overlapping themes within our work: intimacy, touch, creative writing, tarot, & queer and post-work futures.

In 2021 I consulted with seven UK-wide dance and live art organisations on how they can better support trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming artists with a mind towards intersectionality, informed by a collaborative writing project with five trans artists, supported by Arts Council England.