PlayWell founder Lauren Silver is a jolly-anxious clown and Preventative Care Consultant who has worked with corporate and creative clients worldwide for over 15 years.
Her work is charming, joyful, and full of humanity, and she campaigns for proactive and preventative mental health care within the workplace.
A qualified Mental Health First Aider and with a certification from the Counselling Foundation, Lauren also works as both trainer and Ambassador for the Liverpool based charity Chasing the Stigma.
By coaching people to be more playful and creative in their work and life, Lauren is an expert in cultivating confidence and joy in others. Through her career, she’s developed a purposeful play toolkit that can be tailored for anyone and everyone and has an unparalleled knack for unlocking potential in people.
As a corporate trainer, she works with leaders from within international humanitarian agencies; specialising in Personal Impact, Creative Strategic Thinking, Crisis and Conflict Management, Innovation, Behavioural Change and Leadership.
As a clown, she has played in national and international venues, including London’s Vaudeville Theatre, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse and Sydney Opera House. Lauren is also an associate artist for Pleasance Theatre.
Having experienced firsthand the challenges surrounding mental ill-health, Lauren is passionate about helping people better support each other – for everyone’s wellbeing. You can read more about her work at laurensilver.co.uk
The Team
Georgia Craib
Strategy Consultant
Georgia comes from the world of consultancy where she used coaching rather than traditional consulting methods to help transform businesses from the inside out.
In 10 years working with global corporations to facilitate their vision, culture and brand, Georgia saw a disconnect between theory and action when it came to creating positive change. Looking holistically at creativity and wellbeing it became apparent to her that in order for an organisation to thrive, each individual’s creative confidence must be encouraged and nurtured.
Today Georgia likes to create good trouble with a big dollop of Play. To help you see the potential within your organisation and give your team the creative confidence to pull it off!
Helen Foster
Livid Co-Host
Helen is an actor, director, improviser and clown. She is passionate about playfulness and loves to explore authenticity, connection and spontaneity through a range of techniques and approaches.
Helen has performed internationally as an actor and improviser and is a member of Soho’s premier late night all-female improv comedy company ‘The Yes Queens’ as well as being a regular at the London 50 hour-Improv Marathon and co-host of Livid Podcast.
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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