Theme: Empathy, Education and Evolution

An evening event with 6 thought provoking speakers. Topics ranging from Dealing with Autism to Recycling like you've never known it. An evening not be missed. It will open your mind, your soul and your conceptions. Refreshments at half time included. Come and visit the beautiful town of Malvern, home of the Victorian Water Cure, the stunning Malvern Hills and the birthplace of Elgar...?

Coach House Theatre
Grange Road
Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3HA
United Kingdom

Anna Perkins

Articulate Teenager

Anna is the youngest of our speakers and joins us to share her experience with an eating disorder. She opens up about what it took

Becky Barker

Medical & Traditional Tattooist

A TATTOOIST from Malvern is helping people recover from breast cancer and surgery by covering up scars and redrawing nipple pigment. Her work includes re-drawing areolae for women who have had mastectomies following breast cancer, and scar camouflage micro-pigmentation, which makes surgical scars less visible. Mrs Barker, 34, said: “When people have been through the trauma from being treated for cancer they want to feel normal again and so being able to help restore their body confidence is really important. “For women who have had breast cancer, having an areola again helps them feel normal again. “At the moment they can get the work on the NHS, but that tends to just be a coloured circle, whereas these are more realistic and look more natural.

Cate Cody

Enviromentalist

Cate Cody is a passionate life-long environmentalist and advocate of green living and much of her time is spent helping to achieve change and a more sustainable society. Cate has lived in Gloucestershire for twenty-five years and is famous for not putting her landfill bin out (nearly three years, hopefully longer). She has been elected onto Tewkesbury Borough as their first Green Councillor. Cate is also a musician and enjoys researching the Golden Age of Jazz in order to relay the full and rich history of the era when performing. She is lucky enough to be accompanied by some of the UKs finest musicians. She also enjoys Lindy Hop dancing and exploring our beautiful countryside on long walks.

Dani Grieveson

Individual & Team Coach

Having enjoyed a career with Top Gear, Coca-Cola, The Olympic Games, and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, my experience of leadership and successful organisations provides knowledge and understanding to enhance individuals and teams. I am trained and certified in the science of strengths psychology for leading performance. This means I help teams and individuals discover their star performance without sacrificing health, family and personal interests. Working in an automotive retail business, I spent 5 years coaching successful sales and marketing performance. Developing executives and teams, I lift performance, productivity and culture. In spare time, I enjoy stand-up comedy, love the Malvern Hills and support a mental health trust. In 2018, I was guest on a panel of Women in the Automotive Industry to attract and support more women into industry. I am, as of 2019 a guest lecturer of the military in leadership at Cranfield University based at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

Kevin Bennison

Communication & Culture Developer

For me, life is about synergising – taking all of the different elements, people and places, and putting them together to create something that is immeasurably more fulfilling and wonderful than it would be if focusing on the individual parts. I am an entrepreneur, professional coach and trainer, Tae Kwon Do practitioner, family man, music fan, constant seeker of a better self, and crane operator. Born and raised in Arbroath, a small fishing town on the East coast of Scotland, I left school at 16 with little to show for it. After spending two years as an apprentice joiner, and realising that dovetail joints and I were not really compatible, I joined the British Army as an 18-year-old. Once my initial eighteen months of basic and trade training were out of the way, I successfully completed P Company to become an Airborne soldier with 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers.

Sam Warner

Autistic Interpreter

Sam helps people to find their voice, increasing their confidence and encouraging them to actively look for opportunities to speak in the future. Whether they are a novice or stepping up onto a bigger stage she takes them from terrified to terrific! Sam also works with Autistic adults, their friends, their family and their co-workers to leverage their talents by providing an interpreter service and training courses to enhance communication and behaviours. She regularly speaks to local groups to increase awareness and education for both Autistic and non-Autistic adults. Sam Warner: “Becoming self-aware is the key that opens the door to enlightenment (Knowledge, Freedom and Happiness). Most people don’t understand the impact they have on the world. When they open their mouth without thinking, when they react instinctively instead of consciously and when they feel they are waiting for something good to happen to them; they are existing, not living”