A Truefitt Collective

13/03/2025

📣 CALL OUT FOR DANCE ARTISTS

As our team continues to grow, we have some new positions available for Dancing Mindfulness facilitators to join our team for North London Primary Schools (paid training provided)

⭐️ Do you have experience delivering dance / movement / drama?
⭐️Are you interested in working with primary school aged children?
⭐️Are you looking for freelance teaching work to fit around other projects / training?
⭐️ Do you have a passion for providing better mental health for young people through creativity, dance and mindfulness?

Must have an Enhanced DBS or willing to get one.
Please email us your CV and Expression of interest:

Megan (Administrator) ✉️ [email protected]

Deadline: 28th March
Interviews: W/C 31st March

We would love to hear from you!

28/02/2025

📢 Welcome Kasia (another Kasia!) who joined our team this month

KASIA KUZKA

Kasia Kuzka is a London-based dancer and choreographer. She graduated from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she developed a strong foundation in ballet and contemporary techniques. As a versatile performer, she has worked with a range of artists and across Europe, including Andrew Winghart, Maud Le Pladec, Marina Abramović, Jordan James Bridge and many others.

Kasia continues to expand her artistic practice through performance, choreography, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Welcome to the team, we’re excited to have you teach with us!

26/02/2025

Limited-Time Offer for Primary Schools in London & Hertfordshire!

🚨 Attention Primary Schools 🚨
We’re offering FREE taster sessions for a limited time 🎉

Are you a primary school leader or teacher looking for innovative ways to boost emotional resilience, confidence, and wellbeing for your students? Our Dancing Mindfulness afterschool workshops and early intervention projects combine movement, mindfulness, and creativity to help children express emotions, manage stress, and build self-esteem—all while having fun✨

💡 What we offer:
✅ Afterschool clubs to support physical & mental wellbeing
✅ Workshops designed to reduce anxiety & build resilience
✅ Fun, engaging sessions that boost focus & self-expression

🌟 Experience the magic of mindful dance and movement in your school!
📅 Free taster slots are filling fast – DM or email us to book now!

📧 [email protected]

24/02/2025

I read something very sad today..

There has been a significant rise in young children between the ages of 8-16 with a mental health disorder. 78% of children surveyed by Mind, stated that school had made their mental wellbeing worse. 270,300 children and young people are on the waiting list for mental health support in the UK.

This is heartbreaking. This isn’t good enough and unfortunately as a small organisation working directly with children in their school environments, we see a lot of this to be true.

Someone asked me recently what it is we are aiming to do with our work in schools. Instead of the usual spiel I would recite about building emotional resilience and providing intervention through creativity to provide strategies where children can begin to self-regulate and better understand their emotions… I simply said, we want to bring back some joy.

These photos are taken from a recent intervention project we have completed with a primary school and what I love about them is the joy, don’t we all need more joy right now.

Thank you for your support and funding – Watford Borough Council
Dancing Mindfulness Artist – Maya Waghorn

03/02/2025

This week is children’s mental health week! We wanted to share some data we’ve collected from a recent project with a primary school which shares thoughts from staff about the project and also records the children’s check in and check out emotions 🫧

Our early intervention work involves Dance and Mindfulness workshops for small groups of children referred for needing extra emotional support, struggling with anxiety, low self esteem and/or are school refusers.

We are so proud of the work we do and will continue to do in primary schools to support and advocate for children to have provision to better mental health ✨

Project management:
Producer: .harding

31/01/2025

📢 Welcome Trinity who has recently joined our team teaching Dancing Mindfulness in Primary Schools

TRINITY MAGUIRE-TOOMBS

Trinity grew up with a passion for dancing and playing the piano, before going on to pursue Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She then decided to further her training in Dance Theatre, so she joined the Professional Development Programme with Jasmin Vardimon Company.

Trinity has since been working as a freelance Artist and Teacher in various styles of Dance, Creative Practices and Performing Arts. Being a facilitator has broadened her understanding of the immense impact of dance on the physical and mental wellbeing’s of young people.

Through Truefitt, Trinity hopes to share her joy of dance through mindful practice, while nurturing the creativity and self-expression of young people.

29/01/2025

📣📣 FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT

Thank you to St Albans District Council for your generous funding support which allows us to work with local primary schools and continue delivering our Dancing Mindfulness workshops for children who are most in need of extra emotional support 🫧

28/01/2025

📢 Welcome Sophie who joined our team this month as a Dancing Mindfulness facilitator!!

SOPHIE AUSTIN

Sophie is a 22-year-old dance artist from Surrey, currently based in East London. Having graduated from Trinity Laban with a BA Hons (1st Class) in Contemporary Dance in 2023, Sophie then experienced the JV2 professional development programme.

Sophie now works as a freelance contemporary dancer, creator and teacher working across London, pursing environments and work that mixes the highly physical, and narrative aspects of
dance.

For as long as she has been dancing, Sophie has been fascinated by the relationship between dance and well-being. In awe of how it can bring joy, connection, resilience, and solace.

“I am so excited to join the team, and help young people bring more mindful movement into their lives, allowing them to learn whilst growing up what a
valuable tool that can be”.

23/01/2025

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ✨

Yes, we are late with this post but blame baby Wren and the juggle of getting things up and running for the year which wouldn’t be possible without the superstar

⭐️ All of our dance and dancing mindfulness classes are now up and running for the spring term and we have some lovely new team members working with us

We’re almost at the end of January, a month I personally love because of the slower pace and the general lower expectations we have of each other and ourselves which can open up space to breath and reflect. It can however be an anxious time as we move into some uncertainty but I am doing my best this year to reframe my mindset so let me leave you with this when the days are still short, dark and cold..

what’s the best that can happen ? ✨✨

Kasia x

09/01/2025

09/12/2024

Magical Minds Autumn Tour 2024 and our Teacher in Residency project have now come to an end and we think the final week’s theme of gratitude is a perfect way to end the year 🤍

We are so grateful to NCEL CAMHS Provider (North London) for giving us the funding to visit 5 new schools in Enfield and Barnet this term, and we are extremely grateful to our creative team and school contacts for all their work and support.

In the photos you will see some things that the children this week were grateful for, one of the themes that artist Kitty shared with the children, alongside other important ideas such as non-judgement.

⭐️ We have reached over 2000 children and 100 teachers during this project, hopefully giving them tools to understand their emotions and look after their wellbeing

⭐️We have successfully collaborated with a Dance Movement Psychotherapist to develop a monitoring system for schools to analyse the progress of children participating in dancing mindfulness workshops (it’s always hard to prove that creative interventions can be beneficial for wellbeing so this is a huge step for us)!!!!

⭐️100% of teachers reported they would recommend us to other schools, so we can’t wait to bring our work to more schools in 2025!

Artistic Director:
Producer: .harding
Dance Artists: florriverti .j.watson
Intern: .sj_