It’s Your Turn
Be the Strong Lady (or Strong Man) In your own personal circus.
Charmaine Childs: Inspirational Speaker & Workshop Facilitator.
Strong Lady Productions is excited to offer you speaking events & workshops for exploring physical and mental strength. These can be associated with a performance date or run independently, with content adaptable for your context.
Charmaine has been touring the world for over 15 years performing as a Strong Lady & partner acro base… basically she has made a career out of lifting people into the air as if they were feathers with her signature mix of comedy, strength and grace. Her primary work has been her solo Strong Lady show – an elegantly presented array of feats of strength, laden with comedy. She has also performed in a number of duo and ensemble circus shows as a Strong Lady, most notably the spectacular acrobatic show Leap.
All of Charmaine’s performances are characterised by a playful mix of strength, grace and comedy. She has built a career out of delighting in the things that make her different to other people, developing her physical and mental strength to allow her to uplift audiences around the globe…
Now she is sharing what she learned along the way, by speaking at events and facilitating workshops. It’s your turn to become the Strong Lady/Strong Man.
SPEAKING
Charmaine is a unique inspirational speaker for events, seminars, training days and retreats. She delivers powerful content and helps it to ‘stick’ by performing feats of strength to illustrate her point. She interacts with the audience: hoisting men into the air, breaking things and challenging a handful of people to a tug of war. Feedback from delighted event participants has been that this visual and comedic element allows the information to penetrate deeply and create real change.
Her speaking content is anchored in the experience of touring the world as a Strong Lady, complimented with exciting ‘hacks’ from neuroscientific research and the wisdom of philosophies of yoga and mindfulness. Playfully explore the mental ‘feats of strength’ that will help you to achieve the impossible… or the simple things in life. Simple and practical advice to make your life the best show on earth.
The focus can be adapted to suit your event and is enlivened by performing strong woman stunts as metaphors for proven methods of developing mental strength. Whether your focus is positive mindset, celebrating diversity, achieving goals and creating change, the power of habit and play, motivation and resilience or just finding a greater sense of strength – this strong lady has a trick for you.
Speaking events can be paired with workshops (either physical or more based in writing and contemplation exercises.Duration is flexible: from 20min to 90min.
WORKSHOPS
Journeying through life as a Strong Lady (combined with training as a vinyasa yoga teacher, a theatre actor, a school teacher and speaker for events) has lead her to craft a series of workshops in developing physical and mental strength.
Charmaine offers workshops as a stand alone, or linked to performance dates/speaking events. Bespoke workshop creation is possible, these are some workshops currently available for booking. Workshops can be quite static and contemplation based or more physical workshops based around circus skills bodyweight training and yoga practice, to link the development of physical strength with enhancing mental strength.
‘Creating Strength to Create Change’
This is a workshop for gaining clarity and momentum towards achieving goals, crafting your reality through crafting your habits of action and thought. Participants can take part in a process of enquiry to develop clarity, powerful habits and an action plan. This workshop includes a workbook, written tasks and discussion. There is usually a small physical element to the workshop, but no need for extra space, specific clothes or any level of fitness.
‘Grow Strong’
The Strong Lady is coming to town! Grow stronger and shine brighter as we play with ways to develop both physical and mental strength trough training with nothing more than your body. Building a strength that is both powerful and graceful.
This workshop (or series of workshops) incorporates: yoga, breath work, bodyweight training, and partner acro play. Explore exciting research about the brain, body and nervous system alongside the wisdom of yoga philosophy to reveal the power of physical and mental habits.
There is no final, static, permanent destination of ‘strong’ … our bodies and minds are in a constant state of change. When we release our attachment to ‘achieving’ strength and instead enjoy cultivating strength, we can shape powerful practices to grow strong.
These workshops are for any kind of body – Charmaine seeks to highlight that we don’t have to fit into anyone else’s idea of who we should be to feel proud, excited and to play
Also available for Yoga Studios…
‘Bringing the Mind to your Mat’:
incorporating the philosophy of yoga & mindfulness, breathwork and exciting ‘hacks’ from science onto the mat in your asana practice.
‘The Grow Strong Series’:
a selection of workshops to choose from that are expanded from the content of the Grow Strong workshop and can be booked as a series or separately. These include focus on: breaking down sun-salutations as a habit builder; playing with arm balances & handstands; or partner acro play.
