For Organisations
Burnout is your most expensive invisible cost.
We design therapy-adjacent, sensory creative programmes that
measurably reduce it - and give your teams the presence, creative
capacity, and psychological safety that retention, performance, and
innovation actually depend on. Every programme is co-created with
you, grounded in our research-backed, therapy-adjacent
methodology.
We've partnered with
ERGS, corporate teams, universities, cultural institutions, healthcare settings, and creative industries
Meta
Royal Holloway
Imperial Health Charity
Science Gallery London
Royal College of Nurses
Hackney Empire
Peckham Platform
Chisenhale Gallery
ADHB Babes
Afri-Co-Lab
Pembroke House
Rosetta Arts
Makerere Institute of Social Research
Black Women's Kindness Initiative
The Process
How co-creation works
01
Discovery Conversation
01 Discovery Conversation
We listen to your team's needs, challenges, and aspirations. Understanding context before designing anyting
02
C0-Created Design
02 C0-Created Design
Birungi designs a programme specific to your team - choosing materials, rituals, and practices that meet your people where they are.
03
Immersive Delivery
03 Immersive Delivery
A sensory-rich experience: art-making, reflective writing, cultural storytelling, Psychological safety through play.
04
Inegration & Impact
04 Inegration & Impact
Reflection, exhibition of works, and insights your team carries forward. Optional ongoing partnership for sustained wellbeing.
In Action
Our programmes in practice
PROGRAMME FORMATS
Types of programmes we deliver
3 hours
Protecting Play™ Workshop
Shield-making inspired by East African designs. Explore wellbeing, set intentions, and build resilience rituals.
6 sessions
Mindfulness Through the Senses
Multi-session sensory journey through African materials. Deep engagement with touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound.
8 sessions
Past, Present & Future Selves
Self-portraiture and reflective writing to build connection, hopefulness, and self-belief across your team.
90 min - 3 hours
Embroidery Doodles
Free-form textile art for corporate spaces. Emergent creativity that builds self-trust. Can form a collaborative quilt.
2-3 days
Reinterpreting African Storytelling
A multi-day immersive experience exploring African narratives through art-making, oral tradition, and creative reinterpretation. Rest, ritual, and collective imagination.
Custom
Collaborative Quilting
Multi-session programme where teams create a collective artwork. A lasting symbol of shared values and connection.
What organisations experience
Measurable improvements in employee and team cohesion.
Deeper team connection beyond performative wellbeing activities.
Reduced burnout indicators through embodied, sensory-led practices.
Tangible artworks as lasting symbols of shared experience and investment.
Enhanced psychological safety and permission to be present.
A wellbeing intervention your people will actually remember and talk about.
Past Collaborations
Selected case studies
Meta (Black@Meta ERG)
Guided future-self portraiture to build connection across geographies.
Royal Holloway / UN PRiME
Engaged marginalised business students in future-self portraiture and writing.
Imperial Health Charity
13 playshops with elders, inspiring a permanent artwork at Charing Cross Hospital.
Science Gallery London
Artist talk exploring liberatory rest with curator Lison-Sabrina Musset.
Let's design something meaningful together
Every programme begins with a conversation. Tell us about your team, and we'll co-create an experience that goes deeper than diversity programming.
Birungi Kawooya
Wellbeing and liberation artist-researcher, facilitator and cultural custodian. Translating healing, ancestry, and imagination into creative rituals.
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"Rest is my right"