Consultancy

Welcome to Omidaze’s Consultancy page

Consultancy areas we specialise in are:

  • Co-creation
  • Facilitation including Open Space and training
  • Cultural and democratic education and participation
  • Business Development including Vision, Mission & Values, Business Structures, Business Plans & Strategic Planning
  • Bid writing
  • Creative methods to widen and increase public engagement, participation and involvement
  • Inclusive creative spaces and environments 
  • Producing & event management
  • Communication strategies
  • Data collection and evaluation methods using creative methods
  • Working with young people as key stakeholders & co-creators
  • Collaboration and partnership working
  • Creative Learning

Our Creative Learning work has included:

    1. Creative Classrooms, Environments & Spaces
    2. Creative Learning Approaches, Methods & Strategies
    3. Creative process, practice & thinking including the Creative Habits of  Mind
    4. Teacher Training INSETs & CPD Design & Delivery

Get in touch omidaze@outlook.com

Testimonials

“We’ve worked with Yvonne as facilitator of a number of Open Space events at NDCWales over the past few years. She’s a phenomenal communicator – clear, engaging and always thought-provoking. In both the planning stages and in the delivery she’s shown a strong commitment to equity and inclusion, by working with us to ensure that many voices have been given space to share their experience and be heard. She’s an insightful and highly valued collaborator.’”      Paul Kaynes, Chief Executive, National Dance Company Wales

“Yvonne was amazing – she kept us on task, made what could have been a very dry tick box-ing and paper-chasing exercise engaging, thought provoking, and fun, but more importantly we achieved a tangible result – an impressively comprehensive business plan in just a few weeks! ”  Cathryn McShane  Director Successors of the Mandingue

“Yvonne was a joy to work with on our India Wales project, she was insightful about international engagement  and connecting artists and creative organisations across continents. She also has a great knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning and the new curriculum in Wales; she was therefore a brilliant consultant on our Cerdd Iaith platform for teachers.”  Rebecca Gould Head of Arts (Wales) British Council

“We were delighted to work with Yvonne to host an Open Space at the Wellbeing Economy Cymru Festival of Ideas.  Yvonne helped so much with the planning and preparation, and then held the space so wonderfully on the day.  Our participants really engaged with the process and enjoyed the session, and we had lots of positive feedback afterwards.  We would thoroughly recommend Yvonne to any organisations looking to create more meaningful participation and involvement.” – Dawn Lyle, WE Cymru/4theRegion

“Brilliant! Yvonne gently took us through what previously felt like daunting concepts, using play and conversation. Amazed at what we achieved in 3 sessions. Beautiful energy and a lot of important work done!” – Dr Adéọlá Dewis – Director of Teulu Dawns

“With Arts Active, Yvonne has facilitated and devised professional development sessions for teachers in drama and these have empowered and inspired all that attended whatever their level of experience. Also in leading large and small discussion and focus groups I have found that Yvonne is always insightful, stimulating and has the ability to bring people together and share often differing opinions and perspectives. ” Bryony Harris Director Arts Active Trust

Omidaze (Oh My Days!) began as a partnership organisation run by two freelance creatives and produced and managed by the lead partner Yvonne Murphy. Omidaze transferred to a social enterprise not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025. Yvonne is the CEO and Artistic Director. Yvonne is a critically acclaimed freelance theatre director, producer & consultant busy creating everything from  productions to prototypes, creative learning strategies to creative classrooms and frameworks to forums for conversation.

Motivated by collaboration, co-creation, creative thinking & problem solving and supporting others to become the individuals and organisations they have the potential to be.

Yvonne uses theatre, the arts and creativity to empower, inform, challenge  and inspire positive social change and believes creativity should be at the very core of how we all learn and work every single day.

We are currently creating The Talking Shop and  The Democracy Box . You can read about the research behind this work and the prototyping of potential solutions to our democratic deficit in The Democracy Box Report – Beyond the Ballot Box. In 2020 Yvonne Murphy created and curated the pilot The World Has Changed Programme A shared learning, development and thinking programme for Freelancers & organisations working in the Live Performance Sector in Wales. The programme was project funded by The Arts Council of Wales Stabilisation Funding.

Our consultancy clients have included include: Aberystwyth University Law Department, Arts Active Trust, BBC (Archives Development Report for the Archives Commissioner), British Council, Butetown Arts & Culture Association, National Dance Company Wales (NDCW), Novartis Leadership Programme (Paris & Rome), Pobl Housing, Re:Cognition, Taking Flight Theatre Company, Teulu Dawns, Theatr Iolo, The Successors of the Mandingue and Wellbeing Economy Cymru.

To contact us regarding public speaking engagements, presentations, facilitation and consultancy work please email omidaze@outlook.com

 

Photo Kirsten McTernan Henry VI Rehearsal Room Director Yvonne Murphy