Lauren Silver, the founder of PlayWell, brings a unique blend of expertise and creativity, drawing on over 15 years of experience working with creative and corporate clients worldwide.
Her work is charming, joyful, and full of humanity, and she campaigns for proactive and preventative mental health care within the workplace.
As a seasoned Welfare Consultant and a “jolly-anxious” clown, Lauren’s joyful, human-centred approach effectively sparks change in workplace wellbeing. With certifications in Mental Health First Aid and from the Counselling Foundation, Lauren advocates for proactive and preventative mental health care across all sectors
Lauren’s coaching infuses work and life with playfulness and creativity, empowering people to unlock confidence, joy, and a renewed sense of purpose. Throughout her career, she has developed a unique purposeful play toolkit—tailored strategies that help individuals and teams cultivate resilience, boost innovation, and foster authentic connections. Her workshops and training sessions, grounded in behavioural change and leadership principles, help teams break down communication barriers, adapt to change, and nurture organisational creativity.
Her background as a clown has taken her to stages worldwide, from London’s Vaudeville Theatre to the Sydney Opera House, and it’s this spirit of play and connection that she brings into her training. As a corporate coach, Lauren works with leaders from international humanitarian agencies and creative organisations, guiding them in Personal Impact, Creative Strategic Thinking, Crisis and Conflict Management, Innovation, Behavioural Change, and Leadership.
Having personally navigated challenges surrounding mental health, Lauren is deeply committed to helping workplaces build cultures of support and empathy. Her work brings a fresh, playful perspective that transforms workplace dynamics, enabling teams to communicate openly, thrive under pressure, and embrace each other’s potential.
The Team
Liz Barker
Access Advisor
Liz Barker is a disabled and neurodivergent, multidisciplinary theatre-maker based in Liverpool. Liz puts access at the core of their work, using their lived experience of autism and neurological disability to advise, consult and contribute to making theatre and live art more accessible for artists and audiences. Liz has advised on the accessibility of Pleasance Theatre Trust (with PlayWell), Ugly Bucket Theatre, Homotopia Festival, and RAWD (where they are also a trustee).
Outside our access advice, Liz works as a Lighting Designer and Production Manager. They are the director of March for the Arts and Acting Company Director of Ugly Bucket Theatre.
What People Say
“Lauren’s credible, refreshing and engaging style made an immediate positive impression on the group. Great ice-breakers and a seamless series of fun and supportive activities to encourage the group to mix, remix, encourage empathy, share and work together differently. Playful, without being foolish. This was all achieved in less than three hours, with minimal set-up and left participants keen for more and feeling very energised.
I’d highly recommend Lauren to help you facilitate a wellbeing and team working event with an existing team or to get a more disparate group working together effectively.”
Kate McGhee
Managing Director at emBold London
“We walked away with new ways to work together that will stick with us”
Aran Potkin
Brand consultancy Managing partner
“Lauren’s credible, refreshing and engaging style made an immediate positive impression on the group. Great ice-breakers and a seamless series of fun and supportive activities to encourage the group to mix, remix, encourage empathy, share and work together differently. Playful, without being foolish. This was all achieved in less than three hours, with minimal set-up and left participants keen for more and feeling very energised.
I’d highly recommend Lauren to help you facilitate a wellbeing and team working event with an existing team or to get a more disparate group working together effectively.”
Kate McGhee
Managing Director at emBold London
“We walked away with new ways to work together that will stick with us”
Aran Potkin
Brand consultancy Managing partner
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