Hi, I’m Alice, and I remind adults how to be creative and childish because it’s good for us!
I am a silly billy!
I bring you joy, relaxation, and revelation by helping you create ‘art’ (yes, stick people count as art at Tea Breaks). I’m also a poet, creator, and experienced facilitator.
While I embrace my inner child and love creative play, I also have an emotionally deep connection to art. Poetry and drawing are my fun AND they see me through challenging times, like mourning my dad, a brief hospitalisation, coping with loneliness after emigrating, and much, much more.
These practices were my springboard into reading about NeuroArts and the impacts of creativity. While I bring play, I also highlight the healing powers of art so participants understand how creativity impacts us and can embrace its magic.
“But are you a professional?” The mob cries.
Indeed! I studied Creative Writing and Literature for my bachelors and Pedagogy as a masters. I have 10-years experience as a classroom teacher and 3-years facilitating creativity for adults with Tea Breaks. I have been writing and sharing poetry for over 10 years. And have very recently become a hardcore doodler and mandala painter.
My life plan? To be always growing and learning with art!
Creativity is fitness for the
imagination
The ‘Silly Billy’ Method
Do you remember how readily you created worlds and stories when you were a child? We’re gradually nudged away from this thinking, but it’s actually really important to stay connected with childish creativity because it provides insight, uncovers deep desires, and helps us connect as humans.
Most people feel they have too much to do and not enough time, and so they rush and rush, moving ever further into established routine.
SOOO, Tea Breaks invites you to put all that aside and be an unproductive silly billy, in a good way! To pause, get down with your inner child, stick your tongue out at your inner critic and chuck ideas around for the heck of it.
Being creative establishes new ways to express what we understand, feel, resonate with, and learn. With Tea Breaks, all this happens in a friendly atmosphere that makes us feel like children again: free from responsibility, open to possibility.
Tea Breaks are not only fun but also informed by hardcore scientific research around art and aesthetics in order to be the most impactful spaces for adults to flourish and grow.
Here are some titles I love that you might also enjoy reading: 64 Million Artists, Craftfulness, Your Brain on Art, Bird by Bird, How to Write It
In 2023, Me and my husband cycled unassisted from our home in Slovenia to Southampton Hospital in the UK, where my dad was treated for cancer and sadly passed away in 2013.
We got countless sponsors and cycled over 2000km in 31 days. We documented every day on the road, raised over £5000 for two UK charities and 12,000€ for a Slovene charity and Maribor Hospital.
It was the most beautiful and meaningful thing we have ever done.
This trip took a year to plan, oodles of problem solving and creativity, as well as organisation throughout. It was enlightening and taught me the nurturing power of regular creative practice!
Check it out! The whole story is documented on my personal Instagram
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A little creative practice for you 🪀
We normally introduce ourselves with nouns: teacher, banker, artist, lawyer.
But we’re so much more than this!
I’M ALICE: I grew up moving around the south of England. I was a professional pentathlete on Team GB until the age of 17. I settled in London at 19 and spread roots in literature and creative writing. I fell in love with a Slovene and emigrated to Slovenia in 2018. I write poetry about family, love, injustice, rooms, dreams, memory and water. I’m falling hard for mandalas and collage. I drink too much tea. Creativity is my meditation. My husband and I cycled from Slovenia to the UK. I enjoy stretching, walking in the woods, listening to music, drawing and painting. I’m learning Slovene and how to draw on ProCreate. I love slow conversations with my mum on the phone and the light in my kitchen at sunrise. My favourite flowers are sunflowers because of the film Harold and Maude and my dad.
Who are you?
Set a timer for 10 minutes. Describe yourself using verbs (all the things you do) and not nouns.
You could do this every day and the list will always be surprising and different.
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