Motivate. Regulate. Navigate. Enhance your teaching.
Why ENGAGE?
Teaching means more than passing on steps — it’s about inspiring the next generation of artists. But that’s not easy. Before you even walk into the studio, you need to process everything you’ve learnt from your own teachers, combine it with your professional experience, and turn it into clear, manageable steps.
Once you’re in the room, the challenge shifts: juggling different needs and interests, spotting each student’s potential for growth, and motivating them to put real effort in — all while looking after your own mental health and self-regulating.
That’s why professional development outside the studio is so important. Grounded in social, psychological, and scientific research, ENGAGE gives you leadership tools to inspire and guide your students — without stress or burnout.
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About the course
ENGAGE is a one-day CPD training designed to give dance and circus teachers practical strategies to create sessions where both students and teachers thrive.
📅 Sunday 28th September– In person- London
🕘 9:15am – 5:00pm
Through interactive sessions led by specialists in psychology and performing arts education, you’ll explore how to:
✨ Regulate — support performance and well-being for students and teachers ✨ Motivate — inspire and energise students in the studio
✨ Navigate — map learning journeys, understand where students are, and guide them from A to B with the right resources
What you’ll gain:
- Tools to motivate students without burnout
- Strategies for regulating classroom dynamics
- Insights on assessment, instruction and curriculum development
- Practical tips from experts in psychology, leadership, and performing arts education
Who is it for?
Dance and circus teachers in schools, colleges, community programmes, and freelance contexts looking to strengthen their practice with CPD.
Schedule
- 9:15 – 9:45am | Meet & Greet
- 9:45 – 11:15am | Regulate — Dance & sport psychology with Carrie Johnson: Optimising performance and well-being for students and teachers
- 11:15 – 11:30am | Break
- 11:30 – 1pm | Motivate — Leadership in the studio with Neus Gil Cortés
- 1 – 1:30pm | Facilitated social time
- 1:30 – 2:15pm | Lunch
- 2:15 – 4:15pm | Navigate — Panel discussion & Q&A with Tom English, Neus Gil Cortés, and Andrew Sanger: Curriculum, assessment & instruction
- 4:15 – 4:45pm | Social time (not facilitated)
- 5:00pm | End
At the end of the day, you’ll leave with clear, practical tools you can put into practice straight away — making teaching less stressful, more rewarding, and more impactful.
Meet the facilitators:
Neus Gil Cortes
Senior lecturer NCCA, choreographer and Founder Lead&Create
Neus is a choreographer, dramaturg and senior lecturer at the National Centre for Circus Arts, as well as the founder of Lead & Create.
Neus delivers leadership training for organisations such as Sadlers Wells, Dance Leaders Group and NCCA, as well as individual artists. She also facilitates conversations for choreographers and teachers across the dance sector.
Carrie Johnson
Dance & Sports Psychology lecturer
Carrie is a performance psychology lecturer and ex-professional dancer.
Carrie gained a first-class honours degree in Psychology and Sports Science and a Masters in Applied Sport Psychology (distinction) from St Mary’s University, Twickenham.
She provides psychological support for elite dancers and athletes.
Tom English
Course Leader MA Dance: Performance at The Place and choreographer
Tom is an established lecturer, dance scientist and artistic director working internationally at the intersection of movement, dance and the behavioural sciences.
Tom joined the LCDS faculty in 2022 to oversee the design, validation, and delivery of the MA Dance: Performance programme, taking up the Course Leader role upon launch of the programme in 2023.
Dr Andrew Sanger
Lecturer MA Dance: Performance at The Place and choreographer
Andrew is a lecturer, researcher, artist, and activist working across dance and anthropology.
His professional practice includes the delivery of workshops on enchantment, nature connection, and embodied practice in academic and artistic contexts combining ethnography, performance, queer theory, and ecology.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you offer any access support?
Unfortunately we can’t pay for access workers at the moment, but please let us know your access needs and we will do our best to accommodate them.
Do you offer any concessions?
This is a privately run programme, but we are committed to reach as many people as possible. If money is a barrier to attend, please get in touch and we will notify you if we can offer concessions once we have covered costs.
What’s your refund policy?
75% refund if cancelled before 15 September
50% refund if cancelled between 16-24 September.
No refunds will be issued from 25 September onwards.
Got more questions?
Send us an email admin@leadandcreate.uk