Working at the meeting point of play, care, performance and embodied attention.

I am Sean Gittins, a multidisciplinary practitioner. My work moves between clowning — both in hospital wards and on stage — acting and music, play therapy and child counselling, supervision, teaching and Alexander Technique-influenced embodied work.

These look like separate disciplines on paper. In practice they share a single question: how do we stay present with another person, and with ourselves, while something unrehearsed is happening?

I am trained in therapeutic and performance traditions that take play seriously as a way of knowing. Whether the room is a paediatric ward, a clinic, a rehearsal space or a classroom, I try to offer attention that is warm, unhurried and grounded in the body.

A note on approach

I don't think the work I do is mysterious. It is, however, slow. It asks me to keep noticing my own habits, to keep returning to what is actually in the room, and to trust the small moves that play, presence and embodied attention make possible.