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Making Time

Workshops and Peer Support Sessions

All of our workshops are free to attend, but we ask that you register your interest.

Monday Morning Sessions

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Our weekly sessions happen most Mondays, intended for gentle co-working and connection. We chat for roughly half an hour, then body double for an hour, then regroup for half an hour at the end.

Join our mailing list to receive a reminder about these every week with the Zoom link to join.

Creative Workshop with Kasra Jalilipour

19 February 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Kasra Jalilipour is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator, based in Derbyshire, UK. 

Kasra will be leading a workshop exploring an element of his creative practice, and how it relates to neurodiversity.

Creative Workshop with Evan Ifekoya

9 March 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice mirrors their role as a spiritual practitioner, perceiving art as a platform for redistributing and renegotiating resources, challenging implicit rules and hierarchies in public and social spaces.

This workshop will focus on personal collections that hold stories, and how they can be anchors for meaning-making and creative practice.

It will take place in the week commencing 9th March. Exact date to be decided.

Mindful Drawing Workshop with Sofia Barton

23 March 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Sofia Barton is a multidisciplinary artist based in the North East of England whose practice is significantly shaped by her dual Pakistani and Indian heritage. Her work is an ongoing exploration of hybrid identities, delving into cultural artefacts, hidden histories, and South Asian folklore, exploring the interconnections between diverse cultures and their environments.

In this workshop Sofia will lead us in mindful drawing to explore themes of grounding, collaging, and connections to nature.

Writing Beyond Language with Ashok Mistry

22 April 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Ashokkumar (Ashok) Mistry is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator working in the UK and internationally.  Ashokkumar didn’t identify as neurodivergent until he was in his 40s, and it was a seminal moment for his artistic practice. Since then, he has been focused on researching and writing about disability and neurodiversity.

In this workshop Ashok will lead us in writing beyond language which is to say, writing outside the rules of language. This stems from Ashok’s Aphantasia which means he finds it difficult (almost impossible) to picture things in his mind’s eye. He has come to realise this may be why he often begins artistic projects with writing as a starting point, rather than design.

Past Workshops

Budgeting While Neurodivergent with Abby Nocon

21 January 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Long-time friend of Making Time Abby Nocon will take us through her systems for keeping on top of her finances.

First we will go through some basics, tips, tricks and spreadsheets, and then share a period of co-working on our own spreadsheets, with the option to ask questions and troubleshoot.

Abby Nocon (she/they) is an artist and writer based in London. She creates stories, worlds and systems that reimagine how we experience knowledge, spirituality and community. She works alongside non-linear time and ritual technologies to stimulate public imagination and create new solidarities. We are hopeful we can get her back to lead something connected to astrology and creative practice at some point, too..

Stimprovisation Workshop with Aby Watson

26 November 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Aby Watson is a neuroqueer artist, performer, choreographer and activist. She is proudly dyslexic, dyspraxic, autistic and has ADHD. She has been part of Making Time for 2 years. She is the 2024 Bruce Millar Graduate Fellow and founding director of the Scottish ND Performance Network.

In this playful workshop, neuroqueer choreographer Aby Watson shares her process of stimprovisation: sensory-seeking improvisation through practices of movement (stimdance), object (stimplements), and voice (sensinging), directed by the sensorial curiosity of the bodymind.

This workshop offers a practical introduction to stimprovising – you do not need performance experience to join us, only a willingness to play and explore!

Rash-Analogy Workshop with Daniel Oliver

20 November 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Daniel Oliver is a dyspraxic performance artist, lecturer, and researcher. He makes raucous, dyspraxic-led performance worlds with mysterious and complex back stories that audiences are drawn into and take roles in.

If you go to the doctor about a rash but on that day the rash disappears what do you do? Draw it own? Tickle the doctor in just the right way so they know what it felt like? Or create the conditions for the rash to arise again? 

This is a workshop about different ways of presenting, representing, and re-enacting neurodivergent experience in performance.