• Juggling boosts brain development. Research indicates that learning to juggle accelerates the growth of neural connections related to memory, focus, movement, and vision.

• Juggling doesn’t discriminate by age, size, gender, neurodiversity or athletic ability.

• Juggling helps build hand-eye coordination in ways that improve reaction time, strategic thinking, and concentration.

• Juggling gets you moving enough to increase your oxygen intake, supporting good health.

• You learn from mistakes, noticing how laughter, persistence and communication deliver results creating a galvanised team.

• Juggling can be stimulating as well as calming, releasing endorphins to promote a happy mood.

• Juggling is ridiculously fun (that’s the real point of it all!)

Why Juggling?

WORKSHOPS FOR YOU

Community Engagement

For community and charitable groups, this workshop is great for bringing people together, whether breaking the ice amongst strangers or developing existing bonds. It can promote positive communication and celebrates the power of play in provoking positive change.  Play is such a useful way to bring generations together, with juggling being open to all ages - as well as being accessible to broad levels of ability and fitness and not requiring fluent English or use of language.

For work teams this workshop can create a sense of understanding and unity through play, and a shake up of the day-to-day. The components of the workshop create a willingness to approach problem solving with openness and positivity, using mistakes as a genuinely useful part of learning and reaching a shared goal. While juggling is the tool, the point is the opportunity to bring your team together in a novel way, allowing for new ideas, stronger friendships and to feel valued.

For athletes, a bespoke workshop can improve reaction times and focus, harnessing the calm confidence to make the most of your skills and creating new neural pathways that ingrain habitual actions relevant to your sport. Darryl has so far worked with footballers and mountain bikers.

We are especially interested to develop research in this area over the coming years - so do reach out if you are a researcher, neurologist or sportsperson who could contribute time and knowledge to this!

THE FORMAT

As a general starting point, workshops are 30 minutes in length for up to 20 people.

Darryl breaks down the How-To’s of juggling into digestible, interactive and playful exercises, so that by the end of the workshop everyone is able to juggle!

All equipment is provided, we just need a comfortable space to host the group.

But it is important to say that the workshops can be adapted to suit your group, your aims, and the bigger picture of what this workshop is part of.

For work teams it might look like the starting activity for an away-day or a lunchtime offering. For community groups it could be part of a summer fete, or part of a consultation discussing changes in the area. For athletes, this might become a regular part of your training, or a one-off workshop at the start of a new season. Sessions can be longer, include a performance, or include additional well-being elements such as meditation or yoga exercises led by a qualified practitioner. We’re here to discuss your wants and needs and shape these workshops (based on what we’re actually able to offer - let’s be realistic!) to work with you and your group! We can’t wait to work with you!

In other words - what’s the cost?

Costs are negotiable depending on the nature of the booking, your needs and budget. So do get in touch to talk more.

Bookings can be made for a standalone workshop, or as a package including a performance.

Discounts can be discussed for charities, CICs or community groups.

For every 5 corporate workshops that Darryl leads, he offers a free workshop for community groups, CICs or charities. Please contact us to apply for a free workshop if you think your group may be eligible.

As an approximate starting point, the price for a standard workshop package delivered to a corporate working group, which includes a 45 minute session for up to 20 people in your own workplace, is £400. (Plus travel costs if based outside of Bristol or Newport - Wales).

Darryl J Carrington is a juggling clown with over 20 years’ experience within the circus arts industry. He has been creating, producing, and performing his unique comedy juggling shows all over the world, in festivals, events, theatres, cabarets and galas, reaching audiences of up to 20,000 people. 

Darryl learnt to juggle when he was 19 years old, and within 6 months he was juggling 5 balls. Darryl felt his Dyxlesia and ADHD used to hold back his potential, but learning to juggle helped him to concentrate and focus for the first time; this new focus led to his achievements in performing, as well as inspiring him to share this skill with others.

In wanting to pass on his knowledge, Darryl became the head of juggling on the BTEC Course at Circomedia - one of the UK’s premiere circus schools. Here he developed a workshop to teach anyone to juggle in 30 minutes. (He can even be challenged to teach someone who’s never juggled before to learn in just 3 minutes in a one-on-one setting!)

He would do this session as part of the entrance audition at Circomedia, so that his prospective students would already know how to juggle on day one of the course should they be accepted. During his 8 years leading the course he wrote and developed a 2-year syllabus to take people from any background to become professional circus performers and learnt that circus was a great tool to help break the ice with new groups of people.

He was later head hunted by Apple and worked with them for 6 years, learning in depth the importance of helping teams feel valued in the workplace and how one of the most successful companies in the world operates. He used his juggling workshop to galvanise and energise management teams on the morning of away days, preparing them for a productive day.

Now he uses his workshops for Team Building, Athletes’ Reaction Times, and Community Engagement. All whilst continuing to perform!