Sync Shorts takes the best of Sync working alongside creative leaders with learning disabilities and autism* shaping a way to be together in coaching conversations about leading and leadership in the UK and Canada.
Sync Shorts is proud to work with Charlene Salter and Emma Selwyn from Access All Areas Productions and Sync Ontario’s Kelsie Acton.
In 2022, we developed the programme in English with dancers from Propeller Dance in Ottawa, alongside Ben Clement from Ontario.
In 2023 we developed the programme in English and French. We worked with JoeJacketJohn in Montreal, and Sol Express in Toronto and Riki Entz from Inside Out Theatre, Alberta.
In 2024 we brought a coaching and leadership seminar programme in person to Toronto and Calgary, we called ‘Ignite your Leadership Fire’ -with our UK/Canada team meeting in person as well as online. We worked with artists from Sol Express in Toronto and Inside Out Theatre and the National accessArts Centre in Calgary.
In 2025, we’re developing Sync Shorts with visual artists through www.syncingspace.org with Nakseni in Malaysia and Project Art Works and Action Space in the UK
Together we have found restful, gentle and fun ways to develop and learn together in our own way.
Charlene Salter – Sync Shorts Associate, Access All Areas Productions, UK
Taking part in Sync Shorts, participants:
- express positive feelings of ‘joy’, ‘feeling inspired’ and ‘full of energy.’
- identify their leadership style(s) and choose a leadership metaphor for themselves
- develop skills in open questioning, supporting others in their leadership journeys
- begin to see and feel like leaders with new confidence to influence others
*Sync understands that language is used differently in different societies. We use the UK definitions and understand that in Canada, people with learning disabilities or autism are often labelled as having developmental delay and/or autism.
