Penificent’s workshops are entirely bespoke and can be tailored to suit primary or secondary school ages.
They can range from short sessions, a one-day masterclass, or in-depth courses. Above all, we aim to help to educate and change young people’s attitudes towards difficult topics and aim to strengthen peer values.
While our workshops use our comic books as a primary resource, workshops can be linked into curriculum topics and learning outcomes, to ensure a valuable experience.
Contact us if you’d like to bring our workshops or comics to your school or organisation!
We offer Mental Health and Knife Crime workshops for up to 30 participants, using our bespoke comics as the primary tool to facilitate our classes. Young people work within a group tackling the social issues in our bespoke comics and individually completing various creative and social related fun work activities. Our Mental Health comic offers a two-hour session where young people can explore a different mental health comic story.
Lastly, all young people receive our bespoke comics and can continue working on tasks at home and enjoying their brand new comic.
Our All-day workshop offers five 1hour sessions where you can select topics, including Knife Crime, Honesty, Mental Health, Social Media, and Consequences of one’s action. Penificent will deliver multiple workshops to a whole year group. (5 form classes)
Our workshops are therapeutic; we offer a Creativity therapy Workshop, where our facilitators will run 1 hour sessions for six weeks. Subjects Covered are Honesty, Forgiveness, Knife-Crime, Mental Health, Social Media, Comic Creation. The premium version of the Creativity therapy Workshop will allow young people to plan their comic, which we will create for them and publish copies for the participants.
Penificent Workshops have worked in schools across the UK since 2019. Some of the organisations we have done workshops for, or have been funded by include:
An hour long workshop focusing on Mental health or Knife Crime. Facilitators begin with a talk about how mental health or knifecrime has affected them. Then with guidance, young people will read through the comic books and answer the discussion questions as a group. Lastly, young people will complete various tasks related to the comics topic eg create your own ending, what would you have done differently and much much more.
Stories used - State of mind #1 & Knifeboy.
A more elaborate mental health workshop using our State of Mind comic book but with the addition of its sequel stories.
Stories used - State of Mind #1, State of Mind #2, State of Mind #3
Full day workshop using multiple comic issues. Comic book topics can be chosen from an available selection. Hours can be split up however you like e.g five 1 hour sessions, two 2 and a half hour sessions.
6 weekly 1 hour workshops exploring various issues. Ending with young people creating their own comic strip presenting an issue they want to explore.
The premium version of our 6 week course where young people will create their own 10 - 15 page comic book at the end.