Live, artist-led encounters for teams, leaders, and institutions

I’m With You is an interdisciplinary creative collective designing live, artist-led encounters for organisations, teams and institutions. We create the conditions for deeper attention, sharper thinking and more honest collaboration held with honesty, imagination and care.

Drawing on over 20 years of live, participatory practice, we create thoughtful, memorable experiences for offsites, conferences and team development.

What we offer

Shared immersive experiences where creative exploration enables alignment, cohesion, and momentum

Gorge

Our flagship shared-table encounter for teams, offsites and conferences

Gorge is IWY’s signature table-based format: a live, facilitated encounter that uses conversation, prompts, objects and structured participation to help groups slow down, pay attention and engage one another differently. It is not a standard meal but a space to gather, share, and create. 

Gorge uses the table as a live frame for thought, relation and exchange, creating a memorable shared experience that can deepen trust, sharpen conversation and open up more honest, intelligent collaboration. Inspired by IWY’s long-running participatory practice, Gorge works especially well for leadership groups, team gatherings, conferences and organisations that want more than networking or surface-level discussion. 

Formats & Fees

  • 4 hour event maximum

    Prices start at £3,500

  • 7 hour event maximum

    Prices start at £7,500

  • Available for offsites, leadership programmes, conferences and custom commissions.

    Prices negotiated with partner.

Forecast

A live format for uncertainty, transition, and future-facing work

Forecast is IWY’s format for moments of change: when a team, organisation or leadership group needs to reflect, imagine, plan or reorient under uncertain conditions. Combining artistic facilitation, structured reflection and collective sense-making, Forecast helps participants move beyond habitual scripts and generate new language, perspective and possibility. It works especially well at the start of major projects, during strategic resets, leadership transitions, periods of rapid change, or anywhere an individual or group needs a more thoughtful way to approach what comes next.

Participants leave with:

Organisations & teams gain:

Bespoke encounters

Custom-designed formats for your people, space and moment

For clients with a specific brief, IWY creates bespoke artist-led encounters tailored to the needs of the room. These may include conference interventions, alternative networking formats, leadership sessions, collaborative workshops or immersive experiences designed around a particular theme, challenge or transition. Each commission draws on IWY’s combined practices in live art, dramaturgy, facilitation, coaching, writing and image-making to create something intelligent, memorable and specific to the organisation. See past actions here.


deeper listening, stronger presence, greater confidence in communication, lateral and imaginative thinking, and a shared experience they can refer back to together

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deeper listening, stronger presence, greater confidence in communication, lateral and imaginative thinking, and a shared experience they can refer back to together 〰️

stronger collaboration, greater psychological safety, fresh frameworks for problem-solving, and an experience that feels genuinely different from standard away days or development formats

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stronger collaboration, greater psychological safety, fresh frameworks for problem-solving, and an experience that feels genuinely different from standard away days or development formats 〰️

The Team

  • Season Butler is a novelist, artist and dramaturg working at the intersection of narrative, performance and live experience. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing, has taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Syracuse University, was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, and her debut novel, Cygnet, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel.

  • Christa Holka is a portrait and performance photographer based in London. Christa regularly photographs artists, authors, academics, musicians, curators and art world leaders. Christa's work engages with intersectionality, marginalisation and the ethics of inclusivity. Their main motivation is to promote, elevate and showcase the communities, organisations, events, art, artists they photograph, with the intention of creating images in which people feel seen. Their work has appeared in ArtForum, Art Review, British Vogue, Frieze, Financial Times, Ocado Life Magazine, Vogue Mexico, The Guardian, The Stage and Time Magazine.

  • Justin Hunt is an artist, educator, coach, and researcher based in London. He is a Research Fellow in the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, a Cultural Advocacy Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, and Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Ithaca College London. Justin is creative director of Queer Extension and Naked Boys Reading, and co-producer of I’m With You. Justin has performed extensively in New York City, London, Brighton, Bristol, and Berlin.

  • Johanna Linsley is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, text, and sound. Her book Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Art and Performance documents a decade-long investigation into the artistic possibilities of eavesdropping. Her album Stolen Voices001 is an experiment in expanded listening and was shortlisted for a New Music Scotland award. Johanna is a co-founder of UnionDocs, a centre for documentary art in New York City. She is currently based at the University of Dundee in Scotland where she leads the English, Creative Writing & Film programme.