Durham Fridge Festival. Burn-out - A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it
2025-07-27 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Fabios Bar, 66 Saddler St, Durham, DH1 3NP
Durham Fringe Festival returns

Wednesday 23 July to Sunday 27 July 2025

We’re all feeling some level of emotional exhaustion with everything going on. In this show, Becky Walsh brings you into her comedy kitchen to cook up some vibrant life force.
Explaining how you can create spoonfuls of energy, avoid the stress juice cocktail and how to know when the spinning plates need smashing.

Video Editing with Canva
2025-07-29 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Create engaging, professional-looking videos. This webinar will show you how to use Canva’s powerful video editing tools to enhance your council’s communications.
Edited brand videos for social media & websites
Add text, music & animations to make content more dynamic
Create engaging video updates for your community

Make Your Writing Grab Attention
2025-08-05 10:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-27 10:00 - 23:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Ever get frustrated and feel that your councillors don’t even look at your papers? You’re not the only one. Professionally researched documents take time to prepare and what’s more important, decisions balance on the accuracy of those documents. Little point if they are not being read. When life is busy and time is divided in so many ways, how can you grab the attention of your councillors? This webinar gives you tips in ‘psychology for communications’ to grab the attention of any reader.

Advanced Prompt Writing for AI – A 30-Minute Webinar
2025-08-05 14:00 - 14:30 | SLCC Members webinar
Want to get the most out of AI tools like ChatGPT? In just 30 minutes, this webinar will show you how to craft better prompts for clearer, smarter, and more effective AI-generated content.
Write prompts that get accurate, useful responses
Save time on council communications & admin
Boost accuracy with AI-powered content creation

Creating a Strategic Vision for Shaping the Future
2025-08-07 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-27 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
A Parish, Town, or Community Council strategy should be aspirational, but it can be inspirational too.
When a team and a town understand the values of the council we can make powerful collaborations.
The Council strategy is key to this, it needs to be a developing living document. In addition it needs to have feelings, in the form of values.
Finding out what people care about and how those values can become pillars that pin the strategy together, build teamwork plans and form the council’s unique brand.
A strategy isn’t a document that sits on a shelf gathering dust whilst you get on with other things. It is the backbone of the organisation that focuses all projects and staff’s way of thinking, creating the council’s voice in every conversation. Pulling councillors and officers together as one and who knows, maybe the whole town can have a mission to get behind.
In this webinar, Becky will provide you with information and ideas to help you write your own council strategy.

How to use Graphic Design Software – Canva
2025-08-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-23 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-09 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Without an in-house graphic designer, creating presentations, eye-catching social media posts, posters, flyers, business cards and even online videos feels impossible, unless you have discovered Canva.com. Canva makes creating eye-catching, engaging marketing easy.
In this webinar, Becky will share her screen and teach you how to use Canva from the basics to advanced tips. Perfect for anyone who doesn’t have a dedicated communication and marketing officer.

Dynamic Public Speaking
2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
How you deliver your words and the words you use, can make you a person of influence and positive change. Becky Walsh is a senior speaker curator and speaker coach for the second largest TEDx conference in Europe. Creating dynamic talk scripts and presentation skills for stage and camera. Not the normal ‘get over your nerves’ speaker coaching. This is ‘standing ovation,’ powerful impact.

How to use ChatGPT: Use AI to do Council Tasks Faster
2025-09-02 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-07 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-11 10:00 - 10:30 | SLCC Members webinar
You might have heard about ChatGPT and thought it sounds scary and isn’t for you.
The truth is this new technology is here to stay and can be a very useful tool. The chatbot AI can do a surprising amount of tasks, and Becky Walsh has been exploring what it can do for the kinds of tasks we do as councils.
Don’t worry, it’s not about to take away your job, but it could make your working day a whole lot easier. Come along to this short webinar to learn how to use it and what it can be used for.

Civility and respect – Uncovering the issues for public sector
2025-09-09 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Condescending comments, demeaning emails, disrupting meetings, reprimanding someone publicly, talking behind someone’s back, giving someone the silent treatment, not giving credit where credit is due, rolling eyes, and being yelled at, is a regular occurrence for many councils. In this webinar, we talk about the issues we face in our council roles. We will then talk about the impact this has on the individuals involved and the organisation as a whole.
Each of the webinars will give real situation scenarios and what to do in each of them, including:

Meetings
Councillors with Councillors
Dealing with members of the public who may be vexatious
Staff having issues with other staff

How to Market Your Parish / Town / Community to Attract Visitors
2025-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn how to market something you’re not selling!
Becky will discuss how to make your parish, town or community an attractive destination choice for visitors.
This will be a practical session so you may wish to have a pen and paper at the ready!

Civility and respect – Personal resilience and self-protection
2025-09-18 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Having a good understanding of yourself means you’ll know what to do when someone tries to push your buttons. In this webinar, we discuss emotional resilience and emotional intelligence and how this applies to specific council situations.
Each of the webinars will give real situation scenarios and what to do in each of them, including:

Meetings
Councillors with Councillors
Dealing with members of the public who may be vexatious
Staff having issues with other staff

Implementing Professional Boundaries When Pushed
2025-09-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-12-02 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In the workplace, maintaining professionalism can sometimes be challenging—especially when faced with inappropriate jokes, sexist comments, or uncomfortable situations. This webinar is here to help.
Join us for a dynamic session focused on practical strategies for recognising and asserting professional boundaries when they’re being tested, ensuring you can respond confidently and maintain your self-respect and authority.
What You’ll Learn:

Spotting the Signs: Identifying behaviours that cross professional boundaries.
Immediate Responses: Practical techniques to address uncomfortable comments or jokes in the moment.
The Power of Assertive Communication: Setting boundaries clearly and respectfully while maintaining professionalism.
Managing Emotional Impact: Staying calm and composed under pressure.
Building a Resilient Workplace Culture: Encouraging respect and accountability in your team.

Civility and respect – What makes people become challenging?
2025-09-30 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In this webinar, we dive into human psychology, neuroscience and power dynamics. What triggers people to behave from the worst of themselves?
How as leaders can we create environments with fewer trigger situations and more safety?
We will discuss real-life situations and how to turn them around when they start to get out of hand.
Each of the webinars will give real situation scenarios and what to do in each of them, including:

Meetings
Councillors with Councillors
Dealing with members of the public who may be vexatious
Staff having issues with other staff

Powerful Confidence – How people with big hearts can stop playing small
2025-10-07 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
If you’ve ever had the stuffing knocked out of you by circumstance, other people or traumatic events, you may wonder when you’ll get back to ‘being yourself’.
When you’re feeling in a low mental state, you know those days when your brain says ‘you’ll never amount to much’, self-doubt creeps in uninvited and gets right in the way of being productive. What’s needed is a shift in perception. This webinar gives you skills in self-reflection that comes from a basis of positive psychology, without the need for unauthentic ‘positive thinking’.
Learn how to make an authentic, self-caring, confident inner voice that is louder than your doubt.

Civility and respect – Understanding psychopathic and narcissistic behaviour
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Both psychopathic and narcissistic people generally lack empathy and tend to have unrealistically high opinions of themselves. They often exploit and manipulate others, and can be hard to spot as they can also be superficially charming. They are also attracted to roles of power and are often found in high leadership positions such as company CEOs and in political roles.
In this webinar, we learn how to spot them and also how to monitor your own behaviour to lessen their impact on you and your organisation.
Each of the webinars will give real situation scenarios and what to do in each of them, including:

Meetings
Councillors with Councillors
Dealing with members of the public who may be vexatious
Staff having issues with other staff

The Psychology of community engagement
2025-10-21 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In councils we talk about hard-to-reach communities, however, often councils feel hard to reach for community members. In this webinar, we look into the human psychology of how we can best get the community to care about something they don’t see to be inclusive of them.

How to Create a Listening Communications Plan
2025-10-28 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
We are often concerned with the messages we send out and how they land.
However, these messages need the influence of the voice of the people you are communicating with.
This 1-hour webinar is about how to create a listening strategy for your community and teams.

How to bring fresh air to toxic situations
2025-10-30 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Humans are hardwired to connect to each other. And sometimes the desire for connection can lead to drama as our fears create defences. It’s an art form to be able to not have your own fears triggered in toxic situations. This talk leans into human psychology and some spiritual (not religious) principles to support how we change toxic spaces and group dynamics.

DNA Dad
2026-01-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Front Room, 13 central walk, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1FF
DNA Dad is a darkly funny and deeply personal new, one-woman play by Becky Walsh.
Directed by Gemma Reynolds
When Rebecca discovers the man she thought was her father isn’t her biological dad, the truth cracks open a whole new family story. On stage, different parts of her psyche come to life as characters, each battling to make sense of identity, belonging and love.
Mixing sharp comedy with raw honesty, the play explores family secrets, intergenerational stories, and what it means to discover who you really are. Inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy, DNA Dad uses inner voices as live characters, weaving humour and heartbreak into a theatrical search for truth.
Based on a true story… or is it?

SOLD OUT Brightlife Isle of Man retreat weekend
2026-10-02 17:00 - 2026-10-04 16:30 | Bright Life, Ballalheaney House, Andreas, Isle of Man, IM7 4EN, United Kingdom
Brightlife – a truly unique Mind Body Spirit Centre in the Isle of Man and a world away from the everyday. Offering a diverse array of workshops, suppers, indulgent holistic spa treatments and unrivalled spa facilities…
https://www.brightlife.com/
Burnout – A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it - Dinner and evening show
Becky Walsh brings you into her comedy kitchen to cook up some vibrant life force.
Explaining how you can create spoonfuls of energy, avoid the stress juice cocktail and how to know when the spinning plates need smashing.
Somatic Wisdom Weekend – The Body Knows
After Burnout on Friday evening, we explore intuitive and somatic approaches to understanding stress, overwhelm, and old patterns or trauma that linger in the body.
You learn to:
• Notice subtle shifts in breath, tone, posture, and attention
• Recognise signs of collapse, freeze, or protective activation
• Understand how your body signals emotional and cognitive load
• Strengthen the relationship between your thinking mind and your sensing body
The work is grounded in contemporary neuroscience. It is gentle, practical, and human. You learn to track what is happening in your body and to trust your intuitive signals, instead of overriding them.
Across the weekend you begin to understand:
• Where your reactions live in your body
• How your system protects you
• How breath, attention, and tiny movements can create big change
• How your intuitive knowing becomes clearer when your body is regulated
• How to listen to yourself with more compassion and accuracy
Your weekend invites you to slow down, notice what is happening inside you, and reconnect with the wisdom your body already holds.
Becky Walsh is a comedian, counsellor, coach, author, and speaker who mixes humour with psychology, trauma awareness, and intuition. She creates work that feels human, relatable, and grounded in lived experience.
She has hosted a phone-in show on LBC Radio, presented for BBC Radio, and fronted her own TV series, Anything Goes with Becky Walsh. She’s the author of four books, including You Do Know – learning to act on Intuition Instantly, published by Hay House.
Becky has been a senior curator, speaker coach, and script editor for TEDx Bristol. She has spoken at major wellbeing events and has spent over five years training local government professionals through her company, Council Culture.
She is a qualified counsellor and is completing the CPCAB Accredited Level 5 Certificate, Working Somatically with Trauma. Her therapeutic work draws on neuroscience, intuitive awareness, and body-based approaches to stress and emotional overwhelm.
Becky also runs a private practice as an intuitive catalyst, supporting clients online around the world. Her creative portfolio includes comedy, theatre, teaching, and retreats that blend somatic understanding with practical personal development.
You can find her at www.beckywalsh.com, www.mydnadiscovery.com, www.beckywalsh.live and www.councilculture.uk.

Burnout – A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it
2027-03-27 19:30 - 20:30 | Front Room, 13 central walk, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1FF
Becky Walsh brings you into her comedy kitchen to cook up some vibrant life force.
Explaining how you can create spoonfuls of energy, avoid the stress juice cocktail and how to know when the spinning plates need smashing.
Tickets – https://www.ticketsource.com/frontroomwsm/t-rzqdeqk

Spun-out - A comedy show about a nervous system with trust issues
2027-04-03 19:30 - 20:00 | Front Room, 13 central walk, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1FF
Becky Walsh’s new show.
This is a comedy show about anxiety, trauma, and the nervous system that thinks everything is a threat.
Ever replayed a conversation for three days?
Felt exhausted doing absolutely nothing?
Walked into a room and instantly scanned for danger?
Welcome. You’re among friends.
In Spun-out, Becky Walsh takes you inside the human stress response.
Fight. Flight. Freeze. Fawn. On a rave loop.
Expect sharp humour, uncomfortable truths, and those moments where you laugh before realising… oh, that’s actually me.
This is not therapy.
But it might explain why you need it.
You’ll leave laughing.
You’ll leave seen.
You might even leave slightly less on edge.
Tickets – https://www.ticketsource.com/frontroomwsm/t-mjekgrk
