Sync développe le leadership chez les personnes handicapées dans le domaine de arts, du patrimoine culturel et des médias à travers le monde entier.de
Sync Leadership – développement mondial et local de leadership chez les personnes en situation de handicap dans les arts, le patrimoine culturel et les médias
Sync Leadership a toujours été un petit projet avec de grandes idées.
Nous travaillons à l'échelle mondiale en partageant les dernières pratiques de réflexion et de coaching en matière de leadership pour aider les leaders sourds, handicapés, neurodivergents et ceux atteints de maladies chroniques à aller au-delà de ce qu'ils pensaient possible dans les arts et la culture.
Sync Leadership was founded in 2008 by (Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent – link to current Founders and Facilitators Page ) with a goal to develop leadership and coaching resources for Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse leaders working in arts, culture, heritage and media.
Since then it has worked across the globe, inspiring our leaders to find new ways and means to thrive and survive within their different societies. With its kicking ‘y’, its disabled-led ethos and exemplary accessibility, it has changed the lives and aspirations of many and continues to do so.
In 2023 we had our best and most brilliant year working with 60 Sync leaders, both face to face and online, some of whom were and still are experiencing the most challenging life situations and circumstances.
We ran our first face to face intensive – Sync Arabi -working with leaders from Jordan and Palestine in English and Arabic.
We developed Sync Twilight, a group coaching programme with our alumni in Australia and Canada, and further developed Sync Shorts for learning-disabled and autistic leaders in both English and French.
We met up with our Sync alumni across Canada in person, sharing our thinking and practice. We’re so thankful for the last 15 years. Here’s to making the future Sync.
Les personnes que j'ai rencontrées grâce à Sync ont confirmé et renforcé une fois pour toutes que je ne suis pas seul – que je ne serai jamais seul.
La partie leadership de Sync est la façon dont nous prenons la pensée et la pratique actuelles du leadership et les rendons accessibles et pertinentes dans nos vies.
C'est aussi là que les leaders Sync affinent leurs propres idées et réflexions sur le leadership et ce dont nous avons besoin. En savoir plus sur notre résidence de leadership Sensing Sync.
Le coaching est au cœur de tous nos programmes Sync, du coaching 1:1 au coaching de groupe en face à face et en ligne avec de petits et grands groupes.
Le coaching est l'art de questionnement puissant pour libérer le potentiel de leadership. Lisez quelques réflexions personnelles sur Sync Twilight.
Sync gère des programmes de différentes manières en ligne, en face à face et de manière hybride, explorant différents thèmes et idées que les leaders Sync peuvent explorer pour percer dans leur vie professionnelle.
Sync est axé sur le monde entier. Il s'intéresse à la famille élargie des dirigeants sourds, handicapés et neurodivergents et à ce à quoi nos leaders Sync sont confrontés dans leurs communautés et sociétés.
#ThompsonHall and @sarahpickthall were so chuffed to welcome audiences in to the Syncing Space lounge for the UK/Singapore launch alongside 30 guests celebrating 4 wonderful artists from Singapore and the UK pulling out all the stops to shape work that is learning disabled and autistic leadership, reflection and provocation in action. Oh yes!
Congratulations to @abstractwill @gracecurrieart @abrahamkohxin @maddilingard who have all explored their place as artists in an international framework in this fourth residency over 8 weeks with #SyncingSpace. Check out their work and the exhibition, now live at www.syncingspace.org
Thanks to our brill partners @venturearts_ @art.dis.singapore @rocket_artists @actionspace @dashdisabilityarts and @tanyasartstudios and our other creative supporters and associates @coldharvcash @sheep_films who keep us steady and of course @aceagrams in the south east who have supported Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.
Introducing William Thomas @abstractwill the fourth of our four current #SyncingSpace @SyncThinking UK/Singapore residents who has studio space at home and also with @RocketArts in Brighton.
Will joined Syncing Space sharing his determination to be part of this residency on equitable terms with flair and fun but also serious reflection and dedication to exploring arts leadership on his terms. Through this residency, we’ve seen Will enhance his way of expressing the vital change in attitudes needed in the ‘arts world’ slapping away unwanted interference working alongside animator, Dave Packer @sheep_films
Go to syncingspace.org and see more of Will’s journey.
With thanks to our other partners and supporters for this residency @tanyasartstudios @venturearts, @art.dis.singapore @rocket_artists @dashdisabilityarts @actionspace and ours and William’s creative supporters who make it all possible.
Thanks @aceagrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.
Image Description - A montage photograph of Will smiling at the camera surrounded by his artworks and a still from William’s final artwork animation that we’ll be sharing at our launch along with the other artists final exhibition pieces on Intl ‘Day of Colour
Introducing @gracecurrieart - the third of our four current #SyncingSpace @SyncThinking residents who has studio space at home.
She joins Syncing Space with generous support from @dashdisabilityarts and is a bit of a firework with ‘bursts of energy but also ‘fizzling out’.
She reminds us that highs and lows of being a disabled artist and that is ‘just how it is’. Grace you are brill, you light up our skies!
Over the past few weeks, Grace has hosted an open studio and this way of influencing sits at the heart of her practice that longs for connection and joy.
Go to syncingspace.org and check out her studio
With thanks to our other partners and supporters for this residency @VentureArts @RocketArtists @DASH @actionspace and our creative supporters who make it all possible and @acegrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.
Introducing @abrahamkohxin Abraham Koh one of our current #SyncingSpace residents @SyncThinking who has studio space and support from our partners @art.dis.singapore and dazzles us every week with his natural dedication to and love of art.
Over the past few weeks Abraham has explored his leadership throwing new light on his talents and all the while studying at college and collaborating and launching artwork in the public realm to bring audiences into a new sense of place, space, history and more. Go to syncingspace.org and look in his studio. He really is taking flight and finding wings!
Go to syncingspace.org and check it out. With thanks to our other partners and supporters for this residency @VentureArts @RocketArtists @DASH @actionspace and our creative supporters who make it all possible and @acegrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.
Introducing Maddi Lingard @maddilingard - one of our current #SyncingSpace residents @SyncThinking who has studio space and support @venturearts in Manchester.
Over the past few weeks Maddi has let us into her world and the joy she finds in capturing her memories of family and friends and her interest in fashion. She’s currently exploring the moon as metaphor, less fierce than the sun, gentle in its ebb and flow. Sometimes shining bright and sometimes hardly there for us to see. Kindness is a value that Maddi aspires to which is evident in the work she makes and her gentle reflection in her studio postings.
Go to syncingspace.org and check it out. With thanks to our partners and supporters for this residency @art.dis.singapore @VentureArts @RocketArtists @DASH @actionspace and our creative supporters who make it all possible and @acegrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant with something (as Maddi would say) ‘to ‘show the world’.
We’re deep into our 4th online #SyncingSpace international residency @syncthinking for artists with learning disability and autism to find and define their arts leadership.
This week and next we’re going to focus on our 4 brilliant artists in residence but firstly throwing light on our first ‘in studio’ session exploring choice of colour as it relates to who we are as artists and how we lead, facilitated by co-programme leader, the wonderful, Thompson Hall and @tanyasartstudios. Go to www.syncingspace.org and if you have a life in colour and a learning disability or autism you can upload your colour experiments too.
@aceagrams funded, this residency is made all the better working with our brilliant team @annilim @coldharvcash @sheep_films and Oli Pyle.
Big shout out to our partners and supporters: @art.dis.singapore @venturearts @actionspace @rocket_artists @dashdisabilityarts and our creative supporters who make it all happen.
Sync is delighted to be working with @shubbakfestival again following our leadership programme SyncArabi in 2023.
63 Days of Sit-In, from Basta Theatre Collective (@basta.theatre ), is based on the 63-day sit-in staged by Palestinian disability rights activists inside the Palestinian Legislative Council during the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding the implementation of disability rights legislation and equal access to healthcare and public services.
4th September we have access for blind and visually impaired audiences across all performances and film with an additional touch tour at 7pm.
7pm touch tour 7.30pm 40-minute performance followed by 35 minute documentary film screening
📅 4 September 2026 📍 Theatro Technis, London 🎟️ https://www.theatrotechnis.com/whatson/63-days-of-sit-in-%7C--يومًا-من-الاعتصام-63 Age guidance: 13+
Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible, with guide and hearing dogs welcome, a loop system in the main hall. Please get in touch with [email protected] if you require a companion ticket and [email protected] for more info re:AD - please share with anyone this may be a delight to experience @extantltd @sallyboothartist @liz.porter.5855 @rachelgadsden @vocaleyesaudiodescription @kelsieacton1 @sarahpickthall
63 Days of Sit-In was developed with the support of the Disability Under Siege (DUS) Network, University of Birmingham and British Council Palestine through the Jerusalem Creative Spaces programme. The London presentation is supported by British Council, Wijhat (an initiative of Al Mawred Al Thaqafy – Culture Resource), Sync Leadership and Dais Hale. ID a montage in grey and dark shades, a man lies across a set of boxes covered in projections - the words 63 Days Sit-In with partner logos
It’s World Autism Awareness Day, and myself and co-helmer, Thompson Hall and the Sync team are celebrating the end of our @acegrams 3rd Syncing Space UK/Korea residency, launching an exhibition of works and reflections from our four participating artists: Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim, Eliph Hadert, Victoria Bowman and Lucy. @pixel.kim @eliphhadert
We couldn’t be more in awe of the journeys our artists have taken in understanding what leadership means. All on their terms, with a new sense of where they can have an impact in the future.
We are all feeling a refreshed sense of self and confidence for the road ahead; that’s what a Sync Leadership programme does.
For those of us who are neurodivergent (and we are many), it isn’t just a day, it’s an ongoing marginalised way of being. One that should be accepted, counted and counted upon with all its untapped potential and vibrancy. ✨
Visit www.syncingspace.org (link in bio 🔗) and press the exhibition button, where we’ve gone live!
With thanks to: @sheep_films @coldharvcash @annilim and Oli Pyle
@projectartworks @actionspace @figmentarts and Community Art Project, Darlington.
Wonny Kim, Azin Lim, Laurence Ward, Patricia Finnegan, Elias Blacklock and Lisa Brown.
Image Descriptions: Image 1: The exhibition page on our syncingspace.org website showing the click-through artwork images for each artist Image 2: Eliph Hadert`s artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece `Palace of Bees` Image 3: Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim`s artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece `Melody of Chaos` Image 4: Victoria Bowman`s artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece `Wonderland` Image 5: Lucy`s artwork page on the Sync website with an image of her in her Beagle in Blue and Yellow costume
We`re excited to focus the spotlight on our final artist resident, Lucy, who is based at @projectartworks in Hastings. She joins our third Syncing Space residency that comes to fruition this week, funded by @aceagrams, working with artists in the UK and South Korea.
Lucy`s practice explores the characters which she makes and inhabits, and smaller characters that she crafts and more besides.
When Lucy joined the programme, she didn’t really feel like a leader (but we knew she was). What she does know instinctively is the ideal environments and attitudes that help her to be the artist she wants to be and knows it’s different for others.
She has scripted an animation called `Transformation Exploring Environments’ working with our SyncingSpace animator, Dave Packer.
Watch Lucy`s `Welcome to my studio` video via the link in bio 🔗
Image descriptions Slide 1: A picture of Lucy in her Beagle in Blue and Yellow costume Slide 2: A screen grab of one of her comic strips Slide 3: A screen grab from Spectrum the Autistic Wolf being relaxing in a Hastings garden, part of the new animation.
We want to shift our focus to Sync Shorts Syncing Space co-helmer, Thompson Hall, an artist based at the brilliant @actionspace in London, who has partnered with Syncing Space since it began.
Thompson has a deeply reflective practice that explores society and injustice. He was part of the first @my_british funded Syncing Space residency between the UK and Malaysia in spring 2025, and took such an interest in leadership learning that we asked him to lead some more. Our programme wouldn’t be the same now without him!
Image Descriptions: Thompson sharing himself through work and actions, talking about leadership through making his own art pieces and in that last image, in conversation with @pixel.kim in our residency.
Time to meet our third SyncingSpace resident artist based in Brighton, @eliphhadert
Eliph is active in the community and an artist who was introduced to us by @figmentarts
Their practice sensitively weaves their ways of being into a gentle, eco-aware exploration of memory and meaning, with a natural focus on those who are often left out.
Eliph is all about their life in connection with others through collaboration, inspiration and thoughtfulness. They make us buzz with the bees!
Check out their studio video over on our website - link in our bio 🔗
With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing Eliph in their studio.
Next up we`re so delighted to have Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim with us in the @acegrams Sync Shorts - SyncingSpace.org joining us every Thursday from Seoul. Pixel`s work is known and loved globally and since meeting him in Jamsil Studios in Seoul with Sync Korea in 2018, we`ve wanted to work with him and now we have that great pleasure. @pixel.kim @pixel.kim95
Check out Pixel`s studio for what drives his practice. Link to watch is in our bio 🔗
With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing the video.
Our artists will be showcasing their leadership thinking in April!
We’re halfway through our @aceagrams funded UK/South Korea arts leadership residency. This week and next, we`ll be focusing on our `Sync Shorts` - SyncingSpace.org residents in turn.
Meet Victoria Bowman, an artist at The Community Art Project in Darlington through @darlingtonbc
This piece is called Tree.
Check out Victoria`s studio and watch her `Welcome to my Studio video!` It`s a flutter of loveliness, that`s for sure! Link to watch is in our bio 📽
With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing Victoria in her studio so beautifully 😍
Our final focus this Winter Solstice is the light dark and bark of artist leader Carlisle Robinson, constantly striving and enquiring, with such curiosity and championing others always with notable humility around their own brilliant artistry. Their blend of past and present and harnessing the leadership metaphor of silver birch loveliness sits at the heart of their #SyncRe-Ignite leadership exhibition.
And to all our Sync Re-Ignite artists, wishing you the happiest of new beginnings, it has been our joy to walk alongside. You’ll always be part of our Sync family for the venture you came on board with us this year.
With gratitude to:
@carodoodles @olivetreeonthemount @41essia @missdeesaccount @faliansgrnddtr and www.carolinesjlee.com.
And happy call-out to @olipyle @rachaelwalker01 @coldharvcash @seanleelee1 and our brilliant team: @louiefermor @papalia_carmen @shivanyara_artist @picturesalima @thealexbulmer @vibrafusionlab for helping shape something more than was this year #DeafLeadership #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership
The Hero’s journey or monomyth is a well known leadership pattern and none so beautifully explored in the research and exhibition of @faliansgrnddtr and her painting in progress.
Suritah Wignall’s application to be one of our 6 Sync Re-Ignite artists was impossible for us to ignore. Her inherent life-long love for Gladiolus and her harnessing of imphepho “for communicating with ancestors, cleansing negative energy, inducing spiritual or dream-like states” was so joyful to be alongside. That and the courage to forge on through the many mires of life and living. Listen to all that she found and see the work emerging. It’s metaphorical fuel and fodder for our own journeys.
The desire and drive to serve and the delightful sensory enquiry offered up is so much ‘More Than Words Can Say’ for @olivetreeonthemount
The gentle ask of her audiences to feel, touch, watch and be moved to understand more, sits at the heart of Olivia Brouwer’s practice.
“The creation of sounds and vibration will activate senses beyond vision to challenge the engager to form their own language beyond speaking or signing.”
We have felt so lucky that she was one of our 6 artists on the new SyncReIignite Sync Canada program of leadership, coaching, comradie and accessible curation.
With thanks to @tangled_arts @vibrafusionlab @canada.council @my_british for #SyncingSpace @sarahpickthall
Stop the clocks and take time to drop into our Sync Re-Ignite exhibition pages this Monday and listen read and reckon with the beautiful reflections of @41essia
‘Notes on Crip Time and Chronodissidence’ - a creative non-fiction personal essay by Alessia Canteros
“The phrase “I have no time” was an abdication of responsibility, a scapegoat to avoid saying ‘no’ directly. It positioned time as external, uncontrollable, when really it was about choices and power.” . With thanks to @41essia @tangled_arts @Vibrafusionlab @canadacouncil @britishcouncil for #SyncingSpace & shared @sarahpickthall
Our second foray into the exhibition pages of our new extended #SyncLeadership program, spotlighting today, multidisciplinary artist Michele Dickson one of our 6 Sync Re-ignite residents who lives life and makes work from bed in such a generous and playful way and with such grace, honesty and artistry.
“Attitude is everything. You can change your perception. It just takes perseverance, compassion, and wisdom, along with an understanding that it does take time.” Michele Dickson.
Michele you are a leader extraordinaire!
With thanks to @whitefawn64 @tangled @Vibrafusionlab @canadacouncil @britishcouncil for #SyncingSpace
This Autumn Sync Canada & SyncingSpace.org hosted a brand new online residency as part of a new extended #SyncLeadership program, the first of its kind.
Working with 6 visual and media artists over 3 months This week and next, we’re focusing on what each of the artist’s taking part explored and shared through an exhibition reflecting on their leadership journeys and the different accessible ways of their practice.
Caroline So Jung Lee’s achingly beautiful film centres on the artist’s grief, through a beautiful wintering landscape and haunting narrative & audio description - a letter to her mother, somewhere far away.
With thanks to @tangled_arts @vibrafusionlab & the #SyncReIgnite artist facilitator team alongside @sarahpickthall @canada.council @my_british for #SyncingSpace
